Bachelor of Business (Honours) (Add-on)

Program Overview

The Bachelor of Business Honours program provides an academic pathway for graduates with business degrees or relevant experience. It equips students with the knowledge, skills, and critical thinking abilities necessary for leadership and management roles in business. The program utilizes authentic assessment methods and a curriculum focused on specific business disciplines, preparing graduates for employment or further academic study. Graduates have secured positions in various industries, including social media, finance, and retail.

Program Outline

Degree Overview:

The Bachelor of Business Honours, add-on, is designed to provide an academic progression route for graduates of level 7 degrees in business or a route to an honours degree via RP(E)L for applicants with relevant experience and or professional qualifications. The programme produces graduates with the academic, intellectual and transversal skills to enhance their employability, ensure their capacity to remain competitive in an ever-advancing sector, and equip them for further study. The programme will provide graduates with the knowledge, skills and competence to operate effectively in the business environment, equipping them to question, analyse, synthesise and critically evaluate situation and context in seeking solutions to business problems.

Outline:

The programme comprises of 60 ECTS of modules which reflect the essential curriculum to prepare students for employment in leadership or management roles in a commercial enterprise. The programme utilises a carefully designed curriculum structure with modules focussed on specific disciplinary areas of significance to business practice and operations. These modules facilitate the acquisition of discipline specific knowledge, skill and competence along with the development of transversal skills. The programme will produce graduates equipped to enter organisations in graduate level positions or progress to further academic study at Masters level.

Assessment:

The programme employs an authentic assessment approach to provide learners with an insight into real work tasks which require them to evidence their disciplinary knowledge and skills as well as their transversal skills. The assessment tools and the nature of the assessments are selected to facilitate learners to demonstrate their knowledge, skill and competence in the specific module area. Where applicable, opportunities for integrated assessment are maximised to better reflect authentic work-based problems and scenarios. The programme uses a combination of continuous assessment and examination assessment methodologies. The programme is predominantly assessed by continuous assessment which will take place during modules and as terminal assessments on completing the modules. Assessments may include both group and individual assessments, essays, reports, research projects, in-class tests, portfolios, posters and presentations. The Corporate Finance module is also assessed via an examination.

Careers:

Upon successful completion of the programme students may progress to further study at level 8, including Higher Diploma conversion programmes in another discipline, or to advanced study at level 9, including Postgraduate Diploma and Masters programme in the business discipline. They will also be qualified to secure graduate positions in business. The Monitoring Ireland’s Skills Supply 2020 report published by Solas and the National Skills Council highlights the increased employment potential of graduates with a level 8 award, and specifically references business graduates. The report states: “In quarter 2, 2020, 64% of the 469,700 recent graduates were in employment, representing 299,000 persons. The higher the NFQ level, the higher the share in employment… the highest shares were observed for those with level 8 qualifications (77%) or postgraduate qualifications (83%).” The report further highlights that “At 80%, the highest share in employment was for recent graduates in health, vet & agriculture. This was followed by STEM and social science, business and law graduates at 76% and 73% respectively.” These statistics indicate strong employment opportunities for graduates of level 8 business programmes. Graduates of the CCT Bachelor of Business Honours programme have secured roles including: Social Media Agent, QA Analyst, Buyer, Tax Technician, Assistant Store Manager, Production Team Leader and Customer Sales Advisor, Social Media Manager, Events and Speakers Coordinator, Cash Clearing Account Manager, Regional Manager, Process Executive, Assistant Manager and Executive Assistant.