Business and Human Resource Management - BA(Hons)

In your first year, you will study modules which are common across a number of Business and Management courses. This offers you the flexibility to switch between courses at the end of the first year as your interests develop and change.

Year 1

The first year provides a foundation for the development of the knowledge, skills and attributes necessary for future success.

• Meeting the Management Challenge (Business, International and Management)
• Understanding Business and Financial Information (Business, International and Management)
• Understanding the Business and Economic Environment
• Understanding Organisations and People (Business, International and Management)
• Understanding the Market Process (Business, International and Management)
• Engaging in Critical Business Enquiry (Business, International and Management)

Year 2

In the second year, you will study modules relating to the main functional areas of business, alongside specialist HRM modules, and you will develop your research and enquiry skills.

• Managing People (Business, International and Management)
• Accounting Information for Business (Business, International and Management)
• Law and Equality at Work
• Methods of Enquiry
• Managing Business Processes (Business, International and Management)
• Employment Relations

All students are encouraged to spend their third year on placement and the curriculum in the second year provides support in securing this placement.

Final year

• Work-based Enquiry Project or Critical Business Enquiry Project
• Managing Organisational and Individual Change (Business, International and Management)
• Strategic Management (Business, International and Management)
• International HRM
• Strategic HRM
• Human Resource Development and Knowledge Management

The University continually enhances our offer by responding to feedback from our students and other stakeholders, ensuring the curriculum is kept up to date and our graduates are equipped with the knowledge and skills they need for the real world. This may result in changes to the course. If changes to your course are approved we will inform you.

The course is taught through a blend of learning activities - some tutor-led and face-to-face, some student-led and independent, some online, some in groups and some which require students to support each others' learning.

Lectures, workshops and seminars group project working and tutoring account for 12 hours of contact per week. However you will be expected to spend at least as much time again in essential independent study, for example, in preparing for workshops and seminars, reviewing lectures, online working through the university's 'virtual learning environment', reading, conducting research, preparing assessed work and revising for end of module exams.

For more details see our full glossary of learning and teaching terms.

Our approach to learning and teaching are student-focused with the emphasis on helping you to actively find out things for yourself. You will be expected to work with a mix of theory and practice, balancing academic rigour and a practical approach to your work, so that you can appreciate the relevance and application of concepts learnt. To help in doing this, all students are expected to gain high quality work experience, ideally through the 40-week placement but if not then through short term internships, paid work as a Student Ambassador, a Peer-Assisted Learning Leader or through volunteering.

You will be assessed through a mix of coursework and examinations, all of which aim to assess not only what you know and can do, but also to develop the graduate attributes that are valued by employers. These attributes include communication and presentation skills, IT and numeracy skills, team work, project and time management skills as well as the intellectual skills of problem solving, critical thinking, analysis and evaluation, creativity and innovation.

Coursework comes in many different forms: essays and reports; business plans and applied research projects; portfolios and weekly notes; assessed group and individual presentations and posters. You will also be required to reflect and comment on your own learning and personal development.

For more details see our full glossary of assessment terms.