BA Environment and Business(For students entering from September 2024 onwards)

Year 3

(Award available for year: Bachelor of Arts)

Learning outcomes

On successful completion of the year, students will be able to:
1. Critically evaluate the prospects for sustainable (environmental and social) business, and propose strategies for improved practice that are informed by coherent and detailed understanding of concepts and theories of sustainable business concepts.
2. Critically compare and evaluate different strategies for organisational sustainability with consideration of the perspectives of, and impacts on, different stakeholders.
3. Take a systems-thinking approach to analysing sustainability strategies with an appreciation of the inherent uncertainty and complexity of sustainability challenges across different domains and scales.
4. Identify a sustainability problem and implement a project that addresses this, by synthesising current debates and knowledge from recent research/scholarship/practice.

Skills Learning Outcomes
On successful completion of the year, students will be able to:
1. Plan, manage and carry out an independent project, including substantive self-guided learning and research. Formulate a project plan with milestones and deliverables, proactively seek guidance, manage their own time effectively, and deliver a substantive output.
2. Work effectively in a team, understanding and adopting the different roles required for a team to function including taking leadership by recognising others’ strengths and motivating a team to complete a collaborative project. Follow good collaboration practice, respecting the needs and perspectives of others, and learning from them to facilitate participatory problem solving.
3. Communicate complex ideas and arguments effectively and professionally, in written and oral form and suited to particular audiences and delivery media.

Assessment

Assessment in this year challenges students to:
- demonstrating the ability to apply a broad range of aspects of the discipline;
- synthesise from extensive independent study of literature and practice;
- evaluate and criticise received opinion;
- evidence of an ability to conduct independent, in depth enquiry within the discipline;
- be both evaluative and creative.
Students complete a substantial, independent final year project in which they must demonstrate their capacity to be a sustainability practitioner.