Business and Human Resource Management with Foundation Year

This BSc Business and Human Resource Management is designed to develop your knowledge and understanding of how businesses and their workforce operate and succeed, while providing you with a range of practical skills needed in today's world of business.

You will learn:

• the analytical skills to critically appraise and challenge existing managerial and business practices in the area of human resource management

• how organisations are managed and the environment in which they operate

• how decisions are made in organisations

• how to manage organisational behaviour and change.

If you opt for the Foundation Year route, this will fully prepare you for undergraduate study. It is ideal if you are returning to study after a gap, or if you have not previously studied the relevant subjects, or if you didn't achieve the grades you need for a place on your chosen undergraduate degree.

This course has an evening timetable with lectures, seminars and classes taking place in the evening.

Highlights

• Birkbeck is an internationally recognised centre of excellence in teaching, research and consultancy in the broad field of management.

• Our academic staff are active researchers, as well as enthusiastic teachers, and regularly publish cutting-edge articles in the world's leading journals.

• We have particular research strengths in international business and strategy, the management of innovation and entrepreneurship, human resource management, corporate governance, sport management and marketing, as well as financial management and accounting.

• We engage in significant collaborative research and have excellent contacts with many public and private sector organisations, professional bodies and researchers at other academic institutions.

Careers and employability

Our graduates begin new careers or accelerate along their current career path because what we teach in the evening can be applied almost instantly. For this reason, our alumni include chief executives, senior business leaders, notable academics and public figures.

Graduates can pursue career paths in business, management, accounting or human resource management. Possible professions include:

• human resources officer

• management consultant

• corporate investment banker

• marketing executive.

We offer a comprehensive careers service - Careers and Enterprise - your career partner during your time at Birkbeck and beyond. At every stage of your career journey, we empower you to take ownership of your future, helping you to make the connection between your experience, education and future ambitions.