BA Business Studies

Comments about BA Business Studies - At the institution - Huddersfield - West Yorkshire

• Objectives
  Our Business Studies degree has been a successful programme for over 30 years. Building on this history it now forms the core of a suite of degrees which make up the business programmes within the Department of Business Studies. This degree aims to provide you with a good grounding in the knowledge and skills required in today's fast changing business and management arena. It also allows you to choose whether to specialise in a particular field in your second and/or final year.
• Practical experience
  We highly recommend that you undertake a work placement in the UK or abroad and enhance your academic and career potential.
• Entry requirements
  Entry Requirements Normally 240 points which must include two 6-unit awards or one 12-unit award (which must not include in the same subject as an AS A2 plus GCSE Mathematics and English at grade C or above. Students with a relevant HND from other colleges are usually eligible to join in Year 2 of the full-time programme.
• Academic title
  BA Business Studies
• Course description
  Course Structure
  
  Year 1
  
  Markets and Government
  Introduction to Business
  Business Operations
  Accounting for Managers
  Managing Information for Business
  Plus one elective module
  
  Year 2
  
  Markets and Europe
  Introductory Marketing
  Organisational Behaviour
  Small Business Enterprise and Planning
  Management and Research Methods (including management training residential)
  Plus one elective module
  
  Final Year
  
  Dissertation (40 credits)
  Strategy module
  Plus three elective modules
  
  There is a personnel route from Year 2 with options in personnel related modules.