Business Management with Placement Year

The BSc (Hons) Business Management with Placement Years is aimed at students who have an interest in developing knowledge and understanding of the key aspects of business and management, and in particular, who are looking to pursue a career in business management.

It seeks to give students a learning experience that allows them to develop proficiencies that create effective managerial behaviour in different organisations in today’s changing business environment. The curriculum and learning and teaching strategy are complemented by guest lectures and ‘live’ workshops to promote independent learning and increasing their employability skills for the future.

Year 1 covers the foundation elements of business management. Years 2 and 3 cover the area in more depth and in particular develops your employability skills. The programme provides the intellectual underpinnings required for a career in a rapidly changing work environment, a rigorous approach to self-awareness and personal development and a significant exposure to the world of work and its current demands through work experience opportunities.

This degree is ideal for those interested in a future professional career in business and management, through the learning experiences offered, many of the skills and competences enabled, thus have effective managerial behaviour developed in today’s complex organizations and turbulent business environments. Students will have an opportunity to qualify for the CMI Level 5 Diploma in Management and Leadership (5D1V2) or the Level 5 Certificate in Leadership and Management (5C1V2) dependent on successful completion of modules which are mapped to one of these CMI awards.. This is a good opportunity to develop the skills that are required to become ready for the workplace, while gaining a formal qualification and building a skills portfolio that you can show to future employers.

Year One:
• Essentials of Management
• Academic and Employability Skills
• Principles of Marketing
• Accounting and Finance
• Quantitative Methods for Business
• Managing and Leading People

Year Two:
Three Compulsory Modules in Semester 1:
• Ethics and Law in the Gig Economy
• Corporate Governance and Social Responsibility
• Economics for Business

Three elective modules from the list below in Semester 2:
• Strategic Brand Management and Social Media
• International Human Resources Management
• Marketing and Sales in a Digital World
• Consumer Psychology and Behaviour
• Introduction to Digital Marketing
• Project Management
• Business Law 1
• Data and Intellectual Property Protection
• Introduction to Taxation
• Financial Markets and Instruments
• Research Methods

Year Three:
Three Compulsory Modules in Semester 1:
• Global Leadership and Change Management
• International Strategic Management
• Creativity Innovation and Entrepreneurship

Two or three elective modules in Semester 2 from the list below:
• Sector Specific Project or Dissertation
• Cases in International Strategy
• International Business and Global Trade
• Digital Marketing Strategies
• Market Research and Digital Marketing Analytics
• Digital Sales Management
• Personal Finance
• Business Law 2
• Advanced Taxation
• Audit
• Introduction to FinTech
• Mergers and Acquisition
• Trading

Students who select to undertake a placement year in industry will spend the penultimate year of their BSc programme working for an organisation under academic supervision. This supervised work placement will connect them with the employment market. Students will gain job-related skills, awareness of the structure of an organisation, practical problem-solving, responsibility, interpersonal skills in professional settings, and understanding of the unwritten rules of workplaces. They will have the opportunity to reflect on their learning, supervised by an academic supervisor. They will also enrich their CVs with important practical experience.