Business Studies (General Route) BA (Hons)

This course combines practical and applied education with general business knowledge. It will particularly appeal to students who like practical real life projects. Your course builds up over three years to ensure that you have a sound academic base over a wide range of business subjects and that you have the experience to apply this knowledge to a wide range of businesses. You will enjoy a strong practical educational experience which combines academic theory with real world business projects. The course will develop your understanding of how to tackle business problems, and the kind of roles you might take up in the future in an organisation. Together these areas of learning and self-development will help you become a rounded and capable potential manager.

• Learn in Business Pods, designed to simulate a modern office environment and introduce you to what it’s like in employment
• Study a general business pathway, or if a particular aspect of business excites you, choose to specialise in your final year
• Develop an understanding of how to tackle business problems and the self-awareness to fit into a future employer’s organisation
• Gain practical experience on an optional placement (sandwich) year – which gives you both experience in an organisation and academic credit, taking the pressure off in your final year
• Explore opportunities for further postgraduate and professional study
• Benefit from a degree that gives you the academic theory, practice-based experience and opportunity to work on real-world business projects to help you become a rounded and capable future manager

First Year

• Business Pod
• Management and Economics
• Financial Accounting for Business

Second Year

• Strategic Thinking
• Practice Weeks: Career Planning
• Marketing
• Management and Development of People
• Management Accounting for Business
• Research Skills
• Business Systems and Operations Management
• Project Management

Third Year

• Strategy and Creativity
• Business Dissertation
• Business Practice Portfolio
• Specialist Business Project
• Practice weeks: The future you

Practice weeks are periods of intense activity where you work on a major project for a real organisation and develop your employability skills. We have worked on projects for charities, industrial companies and a local authority. These projects are open ended and deliver real value to the organisations we work for.