BSc (Hons)Business Management

Core modules

Innovation in Contemporary Management

This module takes a hands-on approach to understanding how innovation and effective management drive success in today’s business world. You'll actively explore how organisations function, examining leadership styles, communication, and decision-making through real-world scenarios and group activities. Ethical considerations and corporate social responsibility are embedded throughout, encouraging you to reflect on the broader impact of business decisions.

Data Analysis and Cyber Essentials

In this module, you'll gain the core knowledge and practical skills to collect, analyse, and visualise data alongside an introduction to essential cybersecurity techniques used to safeguard digital systems and data. You'll explore contemporary cyber threats and practical data mining methods, building a strong foundation for supporting secure, data-informed decision-making within business environments.

Marketing Principles with Financial Tools for Business

Develop a strong foundation in marketing and finance with this applied module. You’ll explore how businesses engage stakeholders, plan budgets, and manage costs, while gaining practical insights into marketing strategies, market research, and more. This module equips you with the skills to make informed, impact-driven decisions in current markets.

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.

Developing Professional Practice

This module empowers students to transition smoothly from academia to employment by developing essential professional and academic skills, fostering reflective practice, employability, and lifelong learning. It prepares students to confidently enter the job market, equipped with practical skills, career insights, and an effective professional mindset.

Core modules

Project and Operations Management

This module integrates project and operations management, equipping students with skills in planning, leadership, process optimisation, and risk management. Through real-world scenarios and industry cases, students learn to manage projects and streamline operations to deliver strategic value across diverse business environments.

Values Driven Talent Management and Workforce Planning

This module will equip you with strategic skills in values-driven talent management and workforce planning. Focusing on recruitment, retention, and development, it emphasises inclusive, sustainable practices. Through real-world case studies and interactive learning, you'll gain practical insights essential for future HR and business leadership in an evolving organisational landscape.

Optional modules

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

Digital Enterprise Management

During this module you'll examine the integration of technology within business operations, exploring digital transformation strategies, enterprise systems, and data-driven decision-making. You'll gain insights into managing digital ecosystems, fostering innovation, and addressing challenges in a rapidly evolving digital landscape. Ultimately, you will become equipped with the knowledge and skills required for leadership roles in tech-driven enterprises.

Cyber Resilience and Governance

Develop the leadership skills to build cyber-resilient organisations. This module empowers students to design governance frameworks and lead operational resilience strategies. Learn how to protect critical business functions, navigate regulations, and maintain stakeholder trust in a fast-changing digital environment.

Cyber Risk Management and Compliance

Explore how businesses identify, assess and mitigate cyber risks while ensuring regulatory compliance. This module explores industry frameworks, compliance strategies, and risk assessment tools - equipping you to create practical, business-aligned solutions to safeguard business operations and meet legal and ethical obligations.

Enterprise, Ideation and Market Trends

A successful entrepreneur or intrapreneur understands how customer problems are identified, discovers openings for new business solutions that match customer needs, and uses that information and inspiration to generate something real and meaningful. This module will unlock your creativity and give you tools to drive change and disrupt markets.

Innovation Management

This module offers a thorough and focussed exploration focus of innovation as a strategic and core operational activity in modern organisations. By recognising that innovation is a key driver of competitive advantage, resilience, and sustainable business growth, you will critically examine how innovation can be successfully implemented and managed across a range of business sectors and sizes of enterprise from local to global.

Consumer Behaviour

In this module, you'll explore the psychological, social, and cultural factors influencing consumer decisions; as well as analyse the buying patterns, decision-making processes, and the impact of marketing strategies. This module equips you with insights essential for crafting effective campaigns and understanding consumer needs, fostering skills for careers in marketing, advertising, and business strategy.

Marketing Analytics

Discover key marketing metrics, critically evaluate data-driven marketing strategies, apply analytical tools effectively, and develop evidence-based recommendations for marketing initiatives. You'll refine your skills in using analytical tools to interpret data, formulate data-driven marketing plans, and critically assess the success of marketing initiatives.

AI Powered Innovation

This module introduces foundational concepts of artificial intelligence and its transformative role in driving innovation. You'll discover AI applications across industries, focusing on problem-solving, creativity, and ethical considerations. This module prepares you for dynamic careers by fostering critical thinking, technical proficiency, and innovative approaches to leveraging AI technologies.

Business Finance for Decision Making

Master the essentials of business finance for effective decision making. This module equips you with practical tools to analyse financial data, assess investment options, and make informed strategic choices. Ideal for future managers and entrepreneurs seeking to enhance financial literacy and drive business success through data-driven financial decisions.

Financial Technology for Business

The module will introduce you to the dynamic field of financial technology (FinTech) and artificial intelligence (AI), which is revolutionising the financial services industry. It covers the role of technology in transforming payments, lending, banking, investment, and financial infrastructure. The module will equip you with the knowledge and skills to analyse the challenges and opportunities of FinTech's rapid growth.

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.

Work Placement

Placement students are highly employable. Work placements supercharge your CV, making you stand out in the job market. They let you test-drive careers, gain invaluable experience, and develop professional skills. You'll be more competitive for graduate roles and ready to apply new concepts and knowledge to excel in your final year.

Study Abroad

Studying abroad gives business students a global perspective, cultural intelligence, and adaptability - qualities highly valued by employers. It builds confidence, expands professional networks, and enhances communication skills. Exposure to international markets and diverse business practices prepares graduates to thrive in global roles and stand out in a competitive job market.

Core modules

Strategic Management

Experience real-world strategy development in this Strategic Management module. Collaborate on a live client brief (previous employers include Boots, Marlands, Paultons Park), engage directly with industry experts, and present innovative solutions in a dynamic, feedback-driven environment. This module empowers you to apply cutting-edge strategy, sustainability, and CSR insights - perfect for future leaders ready to make impactful business decisions.

Global Supply Chain Management

This module will provide you with an in-depth understanding of supply chain structures and processes within the context of global business. Through this module, you'll learn how to manage and optimise global supply chains through an understanding of the roles, activities, inter-connected processes, and relationships of global supply chain actors.

Consultancy Project

The consultancy project lets you lead your own research into a real world business issue of personal or professional interest. Develop critical thinking, problem solving, and consultancy skills while showcasing your initiative and creativity. Tackle real challenges and boost your employability with a project that sets you apart.

Optional modules

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

Campaign Management

Learning how marketing metrics and analytics drive marketing tactics, you'll develop the skills to interpret and leverage data in marketing decision-making. Covering topics like customer segmentation, predictive modeling, and campaign performance evaluation, while mastering tools and techniques for data-driven strategies, this module prepares you for impactful roles in marketing, analytics, and business intelligence.

Applied Corporate Finance

This module explores how financial information supports strategic business decisions. You will assess investment options, analyse financial performance, and consider the impact of funding choices, applying financial tools to real-world scenarios to build practical skills for roles in management, consultancy, and finance.

Navigating Ethics for Organisational Success

This inspiring module will equip you to navigate global management challenges through critical exploration of leadership, culture, power, diversity, and ethics, all through a cross-cultural lens. You'll gain valuable intercultural insight and digital fluency, developing the ethical understanding and practical skills essential for leading virtual, diverse teams. By engaging with real-world scenarios and reflective practice, you are empowered to adapt and lead effectively in today’s fast-changing, constantly evolving, and interconnected global environments.

Cyber Security Incident Response

Be prepared for the unexpected. This module will equip you with the skills to detect, manage, and recover from cyber attacks. Learn how to lead incident response teams, protect business assets, and ensure business continuity in an increasingly digital world.

Business Start-Up

Utilising everything learned on this degree, students who've chosen this pathway are now ready and driven to create an enterprise that provides genuine value to potential customers. During this module, you'll sharpen your skills, hone your knowledge and build a professional-standard investable business plan that could change your future.

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.