BSc Business Studies With Foundation Year

Year 1

Learning outcomes

Subject Specific Learning Outcomes.

Graduates of this programme will be able to:

1. Apply knowledge and understanding of the nature, purpose, function and structure of different types of organisations.
2. Demonstrate a critical understanding of the inter-relationships between organisational structure, culture and the wider organisational environment and the impact on organisations brought about by changes in the internal, external and global environment.
3. Apply a critical understanding of theories of business management across a range of organisational contexts in the areas such as innovation and enterprise, marketing, organisational behaviour, organisational environment, management, economics and accounting.
4. Demonstrate digital, academic and professional literacies within business related disciplines.

Skills Learning Outcomes

1. People management: communications, team building, resilience and well-being, leadership and motivating others, nurturing equality, diversity and inclusion.
2. Problem-solving and critical analysis: analysing facts and circumstances to determine the cause of a problem, decision-making and selecting appropriate, sustainable solutions.
3. Research: the ability to analyse and evaluate a range of data, sources of information and appropriate methodologies, which includes the need for strong digital literacy, and to use that research for evidence-based, responsible and ethical decision making.
4. Communication: the ability to use effective and appropriate verbal, non-verbal and digital communication.
5. Commercial acumen: based on an awareness of the key drivers for business success, causes of failure and the importance of providing customer satisfaction and building customer loyalty in sustainable ways.
6. Innovation, creativity and enterprise: the ability to act entrepreneurially to generate, develop and communicate ideas, manage and exploit intellectual property, gain support and deliver successful and sustainable outcomes.
7. Numeracy: the use of quantitative skills to manipulate data, evaluate, estimate and model business problems, functions and phenomena.
8. Networking: an awareness of the interpersonal skills of effective listening, negotiating, persuasion and presentation and their use in cultivating business contacts.
9. Leadership: boundary-spanning, influencing, relational and collaborative working, including ability to work in partnerships across organisation and sectors.

Competence Standards

1. Effectively apply academic concepts within the context of Business Studies.
2. Undertake research to engage with subject content and develop evidence-based arguments.
3. Examine and evaluate issues and perspectives within the context of Business Studies.
4. Demonstrate the application of foundation level skills to the study of Business Studies including effective and persuasive communication of key ideas and your own arguments and analysis.
5. Apply subject knowledge to evaluate real world examples.

Transferable (key) skills

Students will have had the opportunity to acquire, as defined in the modules specified for the programme:
-ability to analyse and critically evaluate basic issues in business management;
-academic skills required for basic enquiry along with the ability to communicate information, understanding, arguments and analysis in a variety of forms;
-ability to plan for their own personal and professional development .

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:
-opportunity to demonstrate understanding of relevant concepts and theoretical perspectives in business management;
-use of a range of formats for assessed work that develop skills of effective communication for an academic setting;
-encouragement to explore new ideas and to test and evaluate received opinion.