BA Geography and Business Management

Year 2

(Award available for year: Diploma of Higher Education)

Learning outcomes

Geography
On completion of the programme students should have provided evidence of having:
- an understanding of human social, economic, political and cultural systems from a spatial perspective;
- an understanding of geography's intellectual development
- an appreciation of the practical contributions made by geographers to debates and policy on societal and environmental issues, and an understanding of their potential for continuing such contributions;
- the skills necessary to engage with ideas in the social sciences and humanities;
- skills in the use of geographical information systems, and/or the application of qualitative and quantitative analysis to geographical study;
- skills in teamwork, investigation, presentation and communication.

Management
On completion of the year/programme students should have provided evidence of being able to:
- demonstrate a broad understanding of the marketing and financial accounting functions performed within organisations;
- apply generic and subject specific intellectual qualities to standard situations outside the context in which they were originally studied;
- effectively communicate information, arguments and analysis in a variety of forms;
- understand how financial statements are produced and how to interpret financial information produced for publication and for planning, decision-making and control within the organisation;
- understand and apply basic marketing principles; and
- demonstrate the knowledge and understanding required for more advanced, specialist study in Programme Year 3.

Transferable (key) skills

Geography
Students will have had the opportunity to acquire, as defined in the modules specified for the programme:
- qualities and transferable skills necessary for employment related to human geography;
- skills necessary for the exercising of personal responsibility;
- decision making.

Management
Students will have had the opportunity to acquire, as defined in the modules specified for the programme:
- qualities and transferable skills necessary for employment related to the subject area(s) studied;
- skills necessary for the exercising of personal responsibility; and
- IT, numeric and modelling skills.

Assessment

Geography
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 to apply a broad range of aspects/competencies of human geography to complex, albeit standard, situations and simple, albeit novel or atypical, instances;
- work that is often descriptive in nature but drawing on a wide variety of material;
- demonstrating basic professional competencies relevant to human geography;
- the ability to evaluate and criticise received opinion.

Management
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 to apply a range of aspects of the discipline to complex, albeit standard, situations and simple, albeit novel or atypical, instances;
- work that is often descriptive in nature but drawing on a wide variety of material;
- demonstrating basic professional competencies relevant to the discipline; and
- the ability to evaluate and critically analyse received opinion.