Management (Sustainable and Ethical Business) with Industrial/Professional Experience (4 years) [BSc]

Course description

Our flexible Management degrees share a common first year before allowing you to focus on your chosen specialism to enhance your career prospects. With over 90 course units to choose from, you really can shape your own degree.

Sustainable and Ethical Business is about new ways of thinking on modern business and society, and be particularly attractive for those wishing to make careers in (corporate) social responsibility or the third sector of NGOs and charities.

Since the Management and Management (Specialism) degrees are identical in the first year, transfer between them is straightforward,  so you should apply for only one of them.

Aims

This course aims to promote critical awareness of the merits and complexities of management and to instill an appreciation of the association between theory and practice. It aims to introduce you to important new developments in the field of management and to enable you to develop appropriate practical and transferable skills.

Special features

• Study a broad-based management degree whilst specialising in sustainable and ethical business
• Your chosen specialism will be reflected in your final degree title - BSc (Hons) Management (Sustainable and Ethical Business)
• Don't want to specialise? Graduate with BSc (Hons) Management

Teaching and learning

You will normally study four or five course units per semester. Each week there are usually two hours of lectures for each course unit and a one hour workshop in alternate weeks, although this varies slightly. You are expected to double this in private study. Group work and group or individual presentations will form a regular part of your assignments.

Coursework and assessment

Essays, multiple choice tests, project reports and presentations, in-class tests and weekly assignments constitute the coursework component of assessment, although the nature and proportion of coursework varies across course units. The remainder of assessment is by unseen examination. Depending on the degree course, in your final year you can choose to do a research-based dissertation or project. We aim to strike a balance between examinations and assessed coursework as well as providing opportunities for feedback on progress through non-assessed work.

Course unit details

You take courses totalling 360 credits over the duration of your studies in order to graduate with Honours; 120 credits in each year of study. Generally, one semester courses are worth 10 credits and full year courses are worth 20 credits. As your studies progress you have increasing flexibility in choosing courses which suit your personal interests and career aspirations.

Course content for year 1

You will study a set of core course units to provide a broad introduction to a range of topics across our management portfolio; this will ensure that you benefit from more choice in later years.

Following feedback from both current students and employers, we have recently enhanced our first year programme structure. Due to popular demand, we have introduced a first-year marketing course unit to allow new first-year students to benefit from an early insight into this area. We have also created a new course unit for semester two which uses case studies to give you a more practical understanding of the theories you have learned during the first semester.

You will study Analysing Organisations 1 and 2, Business and Management Skills, Case Studies in Management, Economic Principles: Microeconomics, Financial Decision Making, Fundamentals of Financial Reporting, Fundamentals of Management Accounting, Introduction to Work Psychology, Marketing Foundations and Quantitative Methods for Business and Management 1 and 2.

Course units for year 1

The course unit details given below are subject to change, and are the latest example of the curriculum available on this course of study.

Title Code Credit rating Mandatory/optional Economic Principles : Microeconomics BMAN10001 10 Mandatory Marketing Foundations BMAN10101 10 Mandatory Financial Decision Making M BMAN10522M 10 Mandatory Fundamentals of Financial Reporting BMAN10621M 10 Mandatory Fundamentals of Management Accounting M BMAN10632M 10 Mandatory Quantitative Methods for Business & Management 2 BMAN10732 10 Mandatory Academic and Career Development BMAN10780 10 Mandatory Quantitative Methods for Business and Management 1 BMAN10821 10 Mandatory Case Studies in Management BMAN10862 10 Mandatory Introduction to Work Psychology BMAN10872 10 Mandatory Analysing Organizations 1 : Sociological Foundations BMAN10881 10 Mandatory Analysing Organizations 2 : The Evolution of Management Thought BMAN10892 10 Mandatory Course content for year 2

BSc (Hons) Management (Sustainable and Ethical Business) students will study a minimum of 50 credits from their specialist subject area. You will study three core course units and one optional unit.

You can choose your remaining course units from accounting and finance, economics, employment studies/law, marketing, operations management, psychology, sociology or statistics. You need to consider what you want to study in your final year, as some final-year options require you to have completed related second-year course units.

Course units for year 2

The course unit details given below are subject to change, and are the latest example of the curriculum available on this course of study.

Title Code Credit rating Mandatory/optional Business, Ethics and Society BMAN20211 10 Mandatory Sustainable Innovation Management BMAN20932 10 Mandatory Law in a Management Context BMAN10901 10 Optional Operations Management BMAN20031 10 Optional Investment Analysis BMAN20072 10 Optional Financial Statement Analysis BMAN20081 10 Optional Business Intelligence and Big Data Analytics BMAN20162 10 Optional Business, Ethics and Society BMAN20211 10 Optional Globalisation and Employment BMAN20262 10 Optional Consumer Behaviour BMAN20271 10 Optional Sustainable Business BMAN20310 20 Optional Managerial Economics BMAN20320 20 Optional Macroeconomics BMAN20340 20 Optional Influence & Change in Organisations BMAN20352 10 Optional Marketing Research BMAN20362 10 Optional Marketing Applications and Communications BMAN20390 20 Optional e-Business and e-Marketing BMAN20471 10 Optional Innovation in Product Markets BMAN20481 10 Optional American Society and Economy BMAN20610 20 Optional Decision Modelling for Resource Management BMAN20822 10 Optional Research Methodology BMAN20851 10 Optional Introduction to Non-profit and Social Marketing BMAN20872 10 Optional Social Media & Social Network BMAN20892 10 Optional Global Team Working BMAN20901 10 Optional Critical Management and Organisation Studies BMAN20920 20 Optional Sustainable Innovation Management BMAN20932 10 Optional Financial Markets and Institutions BMAN21011 10 Optional Financial Reporting and Accountability BMAN21020 20 Optional Intermediate Management Accounting BMAN21040 20 Optional Introduction to Business Information Systems BMAN21061 10 Optional The Management of Projects BMAN22061 10 Optional Foundations of Finance B BMAN23000B 20 Optional Enabling Creativity and Managing Creative Organisations BMAN24001 10 Optional The Modern Corporation: control, critique, change BMAN24011 10 Optional Business Law 1: Law, Business Liabilities and the Consumer BMAN24042 10 Optional Business Law 2: Law and the Modern Corporation in an International Context BMAN24052 10 Optional Statistics for Management BMAN24061 10 Optional Personnel Selection and Assessment BMAN24081 10 Optional Mergers & Acquisitions: Financial Perspectives BMAN24102 10 Optional International Business BMAN24121 10 Optional International Business Strategy BMAN24132 10 Optional Strategic Management BMAN24151 10 Optional Business Analysis BMAN24161 10 Optional Case Studies in Business Analysis BMAN24172 10 Optional Employment Relations BMAN24181 10 Optional Social Diversity and Employment Inequality BMAN24192 10 Optional Business Intrapreneurship Skills MCEL20032 10 Optional Leadership in Action Unit UCOL20021 10 Optional Leadership in Action Unit UCOL20022 10 Optional Leadership in Action Online Unit UCOL20031 10 Optional Leadership in Action Online Unit UCOL20032 10 Optional Further Business French ULFR20360 20 Optional Course content for year 3

If successful, you will spend your third year on a paid work placement. Completing a placement will enable you to put theory into practice, further develop important transferable skills and gain a real insight into your chosen profession.

Course content for year 4

In the final year, you will choose at least 60 credits (half) of final-year options from your chosen specialist area. Course units currently available include: Critical Consumption and Ethics in Marketing, Cases in Sustainable Development and Leadership and Success at Work.

Additional course fee information Tuition fees for home/EU students commencing their studies in September 2016 will be £9,000 per annum. Tuition fees for international students will be £20,000 per annum. For general information please see the  undergraduate fees  pages. Scholarships and bursaries

The Manchester Bursary is available to any student who is registered on an eligible first undergraduate degree course at Manchester and who has had a full financial assessment carried out by Student Finance. Visit our   student finance pages   for more detailed information.

In addition to this support, Alliance Manchester Business School will be awarding five Undergraduate Scholarships for Social Responsibility worth £2,000 p.a. across three years of study to UK students achieving AAA at A-level (or equivalent) who are able to demonstrate a significant contribution and commitment to social responsibility. We will also be awarding this scholarship to an international student. Find out more about our Undergraduate Scholarships for Social Responsibility .

What our students say

'I particularly enjoyed Foundations and Applications of Marketing and Retail Marketing. Our lecturer came up with practical projects, exploring the retail industry while observing shoppers or comparing outlets - we observed the theory we had learned in action. She took seminar groups around the city and showed how different parts of Manchester are marketed, backing up the tour with theory.'

- Daria Savilova, Management student

'The theoretical underpinning of the course prepared me to face real-life challenges at work. Within the marketing industry, particularly its digital aspects, it is a constant education. Nobody - despite their seniority or experience - stops learning. The industry is continually progressing and it is a constant battle to stay ahead of the game.'

- Sarah-Jane Edwards graduated from BSc (Hons) Management (Marketing) in 2010 and gained a place on the prestigious Manchester Masters graduate programme

More current students share their experience of studying BSc (Hons) Management on our  YouTube channel

Facilities

John Rylands University Library is renowned as one of the most extensive libraries in the world. This is complemented by our specialist business and management Precinct Library which provides a dedicated service to Alliance Manchester Business School undergraduates. There is increasing provision of information via various web-based services and much of your reading material will be available through e-journals. These and other standard computing services, such as access to the internet and word processing, are available through computer clusters across campus in departmental buildings, libraries and halls of residence. Many buildings in and around the campus are also equipped with free wifi access.

Personal development plans

PDPs are aimed at helping you develop awareness of generic transferable and subject-specific skills, improve independent learning and provide a record of your academic learning and achievement.

Academic advisors

All new Alliance Manchester Business School students are allocated an academic advisor who you will meet in regular sessions as part of a first-year course unit. Where possible, you will keep the same academic advisor throughout your time here. Your advisor will support you throughout your studies on matters of an academic nature, from providing feedback on a practice essay in preparation for your `formal' assessment at the end of each semester to discussing your PDP or writing you a reference. We also have a dedicated undergraduate assessment and student support centre within the...