Foundation Year in Social Sciences and Management
Master
In Bradford
Description
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Type
Master
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Location
Bradford
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Duration
1 Year
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Start date
Different dates available
The Foundation Year in Social Sciences and Management is a pre-degree access programme that will provide you with a solid basis for future study.
The programme will help prepare you to meet the demands of learning before you embark on a degree programme, including a number of degree programmes provided by the Faculty of Social Sciences and the Faculty of Management and Law.
This course is aimed at students who do not have the necessary academic qualifications for registration directly onto a degree course.
Successful completion at the required level enables you to go onto the first year of any of the following BA or BSc courses here at Bradford:
BSc (Hons) Accounting and Finance
BA (Hons) Applied Peace and Conflict Studies
BSc (Hons) Business and Management Studies
BA (Hons) Business Studies and Law
BA (Hons) Criminology and Criminal Behaviour
BSc (Hons) Economics (all BSc courses)
BSc (Hons) Financial Planning
BA (Hons) Global Politics and Development
BSc (Hons) Human Resource Management
BSc (Hons) International Business and Management
BA (Hons) International Relations
LLB Law
BSc (Hons) Marketing
BA (Hons) Politics and Security Studies
BSc (Hons) Psychology
BSc (Hons) Psychology with Counselling
BA (Hons) Sociology
BA (Hons) Working with Children, Young People and Families
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About this course
Typical offer: CDD / 80 UCAS points
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Subjects
- IT Law
- Criminology
- Politics
- Business and Management
- Psychology
- Sociology
- Marketing
- International
- Law
- Planning
Course programme
The modules for this course can be found in the latest programme specification.
- The Effective Learner. 20 credits, core
Identify and recognise your own learning strengths and needs, reflect on these and engage in action planning to increase learning effectiveness and success. - Western Philosophy and the History of Ideas. 20 credits, optional
Develop an understanding of the core philosophical concepts, methods and the historical contexts in which they developed. - Introduction to Psychology. 20 credits, optional
Discuss a number of key theories which aim to answer the question: 'What makes us the way we are?' - Principles of Marketing. 20 credits, optional
An introduction to the concepts and principles of marketing and their application. - Introduction to Understanding Organisations. 20 credits, optional
An introduction to the concept of a learning organisation, the strategies that can be deployed to help develop learning organisations, and how to build a culture that encourages learning for the benefit of the business. - The Sociological Imagination. 20 credits, optional
Develop an understanding of some of the key themes, concepts and perspectives within Sociology. - Introduction to Law. 20 credits, optional
- Politics and Me. 20 credits, optional
Develop an understanding of how the governmental framework within which social policy is made and administered. - Criminology. 20 credits, optional
Develop an understanding of criminology and the criminal justice system. - Literature and Society. 20 credits, optional
Explore the interplay between social theory and the more individualistic concerns of literary culture.
Any student who does not possess GCSE Mathematics at grade C or other level 2 numeracy qualification on entry must undertake the following module as an option choice:
- Numeracy and IT Skills. 20 credits, optional
Develop the skills and knowledge to enable you to use numbers and information technology for the learning processes associated with study in higher education.
Foundation Year in Social Sciences and Management