Business Management BSc (Hons)

Course Content

Level 1- Level 1 modules provide a technical foundation for a career in business. You are introduced to the Fundamentals of Marketing, Accounting for Managers, Business Economics and the Global Business Environment. We also introduce you to Digital & Business Innovation. Our hugely popular "Step Up to Business" module gets you ready for the world of business and your University studies. Successful completion of these modules allows you the flexibility of transferring to other related courses should you choose to do so.
Level 2- You will continue to undertake broad-based and technically-oriented modules, further developing your knowledge and understanding. We continue to focus on digital and innovative technology, with a focus on Consumer Experience in a Digital World. In level 2, you also get the chance to select modules from a list of options. You can undertake a 30 hour Business Management Internship and/or you can experience our brand new “Doing in Business in Scotland”.
Level 3- You will develop your understanding in core module areas of Project, Operations and Human Resources Management. The digital theme continues with Big Data Analytics and we address real world challenges in our Business in Society: Responsibility, Diversity and Geopolitics module. The optional modules carry an entrepreneurial and innovative theme, including Managing Successful New Business Ventures, Doing Business in Europe or Managing Organisational Space.
Level 4– You will again have core modules covering the areas of change management, strategy and leadership and, you will study Sustainable Supply Chain Management and Questions in the Global Economy, Ecology and Ethics. You will also have a range of optional modules to select for the honours element of your degree. This choice includes both taught and more independent modules such as a Business Management Dissertation or Consultancy-based project. If the focus on innovation and / or entrepreneurship has been important for you, then you can develop your interests further in the optional Business Start-up module.

Modules

Level 1 - Compulsory modules

• BU11002 - International Business Environment
• BU11005 - Step-up to Business
• BU12003 - Accounting for non-specialists
• BU12004 - Foundations of Economic Analysis
• BU12006 - Fundamentals of Marketing
• BU12008 - Digital Business and Innovation

The first year of Business Management, Business Management (Accounting and Finance) and Bachelor in Accounting degrees are identical so students on either of the BSc Business Management degrees can, if they wish, transfer into another degree in the School after successful completion of Level 1.

Level 2 – Compulsory Modules

• AG22039 - Enterprise
• BU21003 - Managing People in Organisations
• BU22001 - Business Law
• BU99991 - Customer Experience in a Digital World

Level 2 optional modules

Plus any School of Social Sciences modules at level 7 or 8

• AG22001 - Business Management Internship
• BU21006 - Economics of an unequal world
• BU999911 - Emerging technologies - digital business environment

Level 3

• Performance in the first two levels helps determine whether students can study for the Honours version of the degree (awarded after four years) or the non-Honours version (awarded after three years). Students doing the non-Honours degree take 120 credits at Level 3, most of which build directly on those taken at earlier levels. Students choosing, and able, to progress to Honours Level take 240 credits over Levels 3 and 4.

Compulsory modules

• BU22007 - Project Management
• BU30010 - Research Methods and Consultancy Practices
• BU30015 - Principles of Human Resources Management
• BU32005 - Operations Management in SMEs
• BU99993 - Business in Society: Responsibility, Diversity and Geopolitics
• BU99995 - Big Data Analytics for Business Transformation

Plus 2 optional modules from the following:

• BU30018 - Marketing Theory
• BU999912 - Applied Human Resource Management
• BU99992- Doing Business in Scotland
• BU99996 - Doing Business in Europe

Level 4 - Compulsory Modules

• BU999913 - Creative Intervention for Change and Innovation
• BU999914 - Strategic Management in the 21st Century
• BU99997 - Rethinking Leadership
• BU99998 - Sustainable Supply Chain Management

Level 4 optional modules

• BU40011 - Business Management Dissertation
• BU40012 - Business Consultancy Project
• BU40014 - Understanding and Managing Organisational Space
• BU41005 - Accounting & Accountability in the Public Sector
• BU42008 - Branding and Marketing for Transitional Change
• BU999910 - Managing Teams and Individuals in a multicultural world