BSc Economics and Management

Year 3

(Award available for year: Bachelor of Science)

Learning outcomes

On completion of the year/programme students should have provided evidence of being able to:

- understand and demonstrate coherent and detailed subject knowledge and professional competencies some of which will be informed by recent research/scholarship in the disciplines;
- deploy accurately standard techniques of analysis and enquiry within the disciplines;
- demonstrate a conceptual understanding which enables the development and sustaining of an argument;
- describe and comment on particular aspects of recent research and/or scholarship;
- appreciate the uncertainty, ambiguity and limitations of knowledge in the disciplines;
- apply their knowledge and understanding in order to initiate and carry out an extended piece of work or project;
- describe and comment on particular aspects of recent research and/or scholarship;
- collect and analyse data derived from a range of sources, making use of scholarly reviews and primary sources;
- show a capacity for critical thinking and an ability to evaluate the value and relevance of data within the framework provided by available theory and practice;
- demonstrate knowledge and understanding in chosen advanced specialist areas in Economics.
- demonstrate understanding of business policy, and strategic management concepts, research and theories;
- demonstrate understanding of employment law or of the changing context and process of personnel management, selection, training and development within contemporary work organisations;
- appreciate the wide context in which business and management operate;
- demonstrate relevant knowledge of technical procedures and systems which enable organisations to function;
- understand how organisations are managed and how people react and respond within an organisational context;
- demonstrate knowledge of the external environment in which the organisation operates; and
- appreciate the inter-relationships among and the integration between these areas.

Transferable (key) skills

Students will have had the opportunity to acquire, as defined in the modules specified for the programme:

- the generic skills necessary for employment related to the areas studied;
- the exercise of initiative and personal responsibility;
- information synthesis skills;
- the deployment of decision making skills in complex and unpredictable situations;
- the communication of information, ideas, problems and solutions in a variety of ways to a variety of audiences;
- the skills necessary to support future independent learning; and
- lifelong learning skills such as time-management, group working, communication, planning and leadership.

Assessment

Achievement will be assessed by a variety of methods in accordance with the learning outcomes of the modules specified for the year/programme and will include:

- demonstrating the ability top apply a broad range of aspects of the disciplines;
- work that draws on a wide variety of material;
- the ability to evaluate and criticise received opinion;
- evidence of an ability to conduct independent, in depth enquiry within the disciplines;
- work that is typically both evaluative and analytical.