BSc (Hons)Business Management

Core modules

Positive Psychology for Success

Lay strong foundations for study and employment success. Build your academic, employability and independent learning skills, and put together a personal professional development (PPD) plan to stay agile, adaptable and future ready.

Contemporary Management Theory

Expand your understanding of key managerial concepts, including organisational purpose and structure, leadership, corporate culture, ethics, strategic decision-making, diversity and employment law - through case studies from today’s business environment.

Data Analysis, Tools and Application

Explore how digital technology has fundamentally reshaped traditional business, and how businesses try to keep up. Learn to collect, analyse, and interpret data, and to present your findings effectively.

Marketing, Sales and Negotiation Skills

Discover the critical role of marketing in business, from understanding customers’ motivations to engagement to measuring effectiveness. Learn key marketing concepts and terminology, explore digital and content marketing, and more.

Business Finance for Managers

Get to grips with finance and accounting, an essential part of any management role – exploring financial controls, budgeting, profit and loss, financial statements and more – through practical problem-based interactive sessions.

Creative Enterprise and Innovation

Explore strategies and cultures that promote creativity, enterprise and innovation, and examine leading individuals and organisations – developing your own entrepreneurial capacity, and learning to be creative, enterprising and innovative for others.

Optional modules

Please note: Not all optional modules are guaranteed to run each year.

Real-World Skills: Kick Start Your Journey

Employment embedded into your degree through this module will help you to explore key elements of business within your current part-time role that is directly linked to your career aspirations and area of specific interest. To gain the credit for this module you will need to undertake a minimum of 40 hours of employment or work experience across the semester. This can be achieved by utilising your existing part-time job role. The experience gained should enhance your knowledge, skills and professional behaviours to support personal growth that meets industry standards set by employers.

Core modules

Operations Management

This module examines processes, tools and techniques used in operations management to ensure customer satisfaction and analyse delivery issues, and provides opportunities to apply your knowledge in practice.

Project Management in Business

Informed by Association for Project Management (APM) standards, this module will teach you best practice including stakeholder engagement, communications and leadership – as well as exploring contemporary challenges in project management. You’ll also have the opportunity to undertake the Project Fundamentals qualification for an additional cost.

Values Driven Leadership

To manage others, you need to reflect on self-management too. This module explores your self-management, personal values and journey, interweaving the essential management and leadership skills to successfully manage teams.

Social Enterprise

This module will explore the role, legal status and challenges of social and community enterprise – letting you show employers you are values motivated and socially responsible, and understand ethical business.

Optional modules

Please note: Not all optional modules are guaranteed to run each year.

Integrated Marketing Communications

Exploring the complexities of integrated marketing communications theory, you will research, plan and develop an integrated campaign from brief to execution, understanding consumers and appropriate media channels, and developing messages to help position a product or service.

Analytics and Business Intelligence

Modern organisations use data to help them review, plan, and forecast, as well as for fraud detection, risk management, marketing and more. This module incorporates advanced analytical and modelling techniques – as well as their practical applications.

Global Challenges for Sustainable Growth

Explore some of the most important contemporary business issues as a future manager, including urbanisation, demographic and social change, global economic shifts, technological advances, resource scarcity and climate change.

The UK Financial System

This module is concerned with the analysis of financial institutions and markets in the UK, which are crucially important for the operation of a successful modern economy.

Capital Market Trading

Understand money and the markets in our globalised economy. Explore the language of finance; test and observe diverse investment strategies; and learn how key information can dramatically affect share prices.

Customer Experience

This module introduces models and concepts including the Pillars of Customer Experience and the experience economy, teaches you to evaluate the customer experience and journey using data, and explores modern tactics such as sensory and experiential marketing.

Human Computer Interaction

Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) requires a great deal of thought into the design, implementation and intended use. This module draws upon demographic, accessibility, cognitive science and social and ethical principles, providing essential skills for analysis and design of efficient, easy-to-use systems.

Study Abroad/Placement

The opportunity to study abroad broadens your horizons by adding an international dimension to your CV - essential to achieving success in today's fast-changing, global business environment. An international placement boosts your employability and lets you ‘test drive’ a career to see if it’s right for you. Enhance your professional skills, get practical experience, and build your network.

Real-World Skills in Action: Elevate Your Expertise

This module is crucial as it elevates your professional knowledge, skills, and behaviours through real-world employment. It enhances your CV by integrating practical experience, supports self-awareness, and aligns with professional standards. Flexible to accommodate existing part-time jobs, it ensures valuable, credit-earning work experience.

Placement year

Work experience is an essential part of the degree, and a key part of what employers want from graduates. That’s why we offer options to undertake a short-term placement in the second year, or for a full year between the second and third years. While students are expected to source their own work placements, support is provided as tailored to your aspirations. You can undertake work placement anywhere in the UK or even study abroad, in any business-related role. Previous work placements include roles in France, Cyprus, Australia, South Africa and the USA. Many of our student receive graduate job offers or further part time work as a result of their placements.

Core modules

Sustainable Strategic Management

Learn how senior managers and chief executive officers identify, select and manage strategy. Critically evaluate a wide range of strategic management theories and models, and learn how to apply and implement them.

Developing the Professional Manager

Evaluate your aspirations and create a career development plan to start your own business or secure a graduate position – exploring digital profiles, job hunting, how to stand out, and more.

Research Methods

Develop your research and analytical skills, designing research in a way that is valid, and reliable, and apply it in business – impacting product development, customer service, strategy and more.

Final Major Project

Apply research and analytical skills to your chosen topics of business. Carry out primary research, interpret your findings using relevant tools and techniques, formulate options and draw conclusions and recommendations.

Ecological Economics

Business needs to change – fast. As a future manager and leader, you will consider climate change and the underlying economics, critically evaluating proposed solutions and their ecological and economic impacts.

Optional modules

Please note: Not all optional modules are guaranteed to run each year.

Business Start Up

Develop the knowledge to overcome barriers to entrepreneurism, from lack of capital to fear of failure; explore planning, development and management techniques to take your business from aspiration to reality.

International Financial Reporting and Analysis

Keep up to date with financial reporting practices in an ever-changing global environment. Explore contrasts between regional accounting styles, and investigate challenges in business performance analysis across national boundaries.

International Marketing

This module explores how key concepts and theories of marketing can be applied to new markets and countries. You will analyse international markets, learn to understand cultural differences, and examine how businesses adapt marketing strategies for new markets.

Global People and Inclusive Management

Businesses need to be agile to adapt and thrive. On this module you will develop your emotional intelligence (EQ), intercultural competence (ICC), and understanding of people management to embrace diversity and inclusivity, and co-create productivity in an age of digital transformation.

Real World Skills in Action: Mastery Unleashed

This module is crucial for aspiring leaders and managers, offering the chance to manage complex activities and gain significant responsibilities. It enhances management and leadership skills, supports professional growth, and provides valuable work experience. By utilising your part-time job, you can balance work and study effectively, adding real value to your CV. To gain the credit for this module you will need to undertake 40 hours of employment across the semester.