Why study this course?
This Business Management and Human Resource Management degree course is perfect if you want to study business but you’re also a people person who wants to help others reach their full potential.
You’ll learn how to deal with issues and challenges facing the world of business while also developing the skills needed to attract and retain the right people, at the right time. If you want to, you’ll also have the opportunity to explore employment law.
More about this course
This Business Management and Human Resource Management bachelor’s (Hons) degree focuses on understanding businesses, the business environment and how to manage the people within them.
In your first year, you’ll develop a solid foundation of business and human resource management principles that you’ll build on in your second and third year. You’ll also learn how to apply business theory to practical scenarios and learn how to acquire, motivate, develop and retain talent.
As the business landscape has changed in recent years, more people are needed to work flexibly across roles. This course is designed to educate you on change management and how to embrace this, aiming to make you more employable when you graduate.
Accreditation of Prior Learning
Any university-level qualifications or relevant experience you gain prior to starting university could count towards your course.
Modular structure
The modules listed below are for the academic year 2022/23 and represent the course modules at this time. Modules and module details (including, but not limited to, location and time) are subject to change over time.
Year 1 modules include:
Digital Business Management and Emerging Technology (core, 15 credits)
Financial Accounting (core, 15 credits)
Learning Through Organisations (core, 15 credits)
Managing People in Organisations (core, 15 credits)
Principles of Management (core, 15 credits)
Principles of Marketing (core, 15 credits)
Understanding and Managing Data (core, 15 credits)
Understanding the Business and Economic Environment (core, 15 credits)
Year 2 modules include:
Developing Inclusive Organisations (core, 15 credits)
Fundamentals of Project Management (core, 15 credits)
Organisation Design and Management (core, 15 credits)
Theory & Practice of Selling (core, 15 credits)
Creating a Winning Business 1 (alternative core, 15 credits)
Learning through Work (alternative core, 15 credits)
Problem Solving: Methods and Analysis (alternative core, 15 credits)
The Practice of Consultancy (alternative core, 15 credits)
Artist Management (option, 15 credits)
Company and Business Law (option, 15 credits)
Field Trip (option, 15 credits)
International Selling and Negotiation (option, 15 credits)
Principles of Finance (option, 15 credits)
Risk and Crisis Management (option, 15 credits)
Sustainability, Business and Responsibility (option, 15 credits)
Year 3 modules include:
Issues in Labour Markets (core, 15 credits)
Organising and Managing Across Cultures (core, 15 credits)
Practising Business Strategy (with simulation) (core, 15 credits)
The Practice of Management (core, 15 credits)
Consultancy Project (alternative core, 30 credits)
Dissertation (alternative core, 30 credits)
Creative Media Practice and Music Business Models (option, 15 credits)
Leading Innovation (option, 15 credits)
Marketing Communications in Practice (Context Fashion) (option, 15 credits)
Personal Finance (option, 15 credits)
Service Excellence for Creative industries (option, 15 credits)
Social Media Management (option, 15 credits)
Strategy in Tourism and Travel (option, 15 credits)
Where this course can take you
This course is designed to help you develop skills so that you can thrive in management roles, with the added bonus of HRM expertise.
If you successfully complete the course, you could go on to pursue a managerial position in diverse sectors of industry such as consumer goods, financial services, manufacturing and management consultancy.
