Business and Management Degree Course

Program Overview

The Business & Management (BA Hons) program from UCLan equips students with the knowledge, skills, and experience needed to succeed in today's dynamic business world. It emphasizes effective management techniques, global business trends, and hands-on industry engagement, fostering critical thinking, leadership, and entrepreneurialism. The program offers flexible options for specialization through optional modules, providing tailored career preparation in various business sectors.

Program Outline

It emphasizes the ever-changing global business environment and the need for graduates to understand how organizations function, outperform competition, and demonstrate effective leadership. The program is industry-relevant, practical, and contemporary, with close links to business and enterprise, offering opportunities for vital work experience. It focuses on developing core business and management skills such as problem-solving, decision-making, leadership, and collaboration. Students will learn about key ideas, models, and theories that underpin contemporary management and put their skills into practice through live projects, short-term internships, and volunteering. A 48-week industry placement option is available in year 3. Optional modules allow students to shape their studies and specialize to suit their career aspirations.

Outline:

The program is delivered over three years, with an accelerated model for January intake students.

Year 1:

• Compulsory Modules:
• Creativity, Enterprise and Scholarship (BM1001):
Develops key skills in scholarship, research, and learning technology to aid academic studies. Focuses on oral, presentation, debating, academic writing, and research skills. Introduces key management processes and practices.
• Project Essentials (BM1004): Equips students with the capability to understand and deal with typical projects faced by managers.
Builds understanding of task planning, problem-solving, and improvement techniques within specific subject disciplines.
• Business Landscape (BM1005): Develops understanding of the contemporary landscape of business.
Examines the internal and external environment of business and defines key issues impacting businesses currently.

Year 2:

• Compulsory Modules:
• Operations and Research (BM2001):
Provides a comprehensive understanding of the key principles and objectives of operations management and supply chain management. Encourages applying relevant research methods to the operational environment.
• Business Futures (BM2003): Explores key issues related to the future of business and how organizations can manage them.
Enables students to understand key issues businesses are likely to face in the future and apply management theories to demonstrate how organizations can deal with these issues.
• The Business Professional (BM2047): Enhances awareness of the value of skills, attributes, and management frameworks in gaining employment.
Supports students in enhancing employability skills, making informed career choices using graduate labor market research, reflecting on and learning from experience, and planning effectively for the future.
• Optional Modules:
• Developing Business Ideas (BM2004):
Allows students to develop and demonstrate enterprise capability through creative thinking and problem-solving.
• Digital Marketing (BM2005): Provides insights into the core aspects of digital marketing.
Students will appreciate the multiple platforms and digital communication methods available to modern marketers and consider the influences of digital marketing communication on consumer behavior and organizational decision making. The module aims to prepare students for future digital marketing careers and provide opportunities to apply knowledge and skills in workplace environments.

Year 3:

• Compulsory Modules:
• Business Strategy (BM3001):
Provides an introduction to strategy and a range of models and theories to understand their use in different contexts. Focuses on the development of strategy and strategic concerns given that strategy is inextricably linked to the nature, structure, and success of business.
• Leading and Learning Through Change (BM3002): Addresses the role of professionals as change agents in organizations.
Students will understand the drivers for change, the process of change, and the impact of change on all stakeholders, especially those internal to the organization.
• Business and Management Project (BM3035): Encourages students to evaluate management processes and contexts by researching live organizational issues, problems, challenges, and opportunities.
• Optional Modules:
• Dissertation (BM3005):
Enables students to develop further their discipline-based knowledge and skills by undertaking research on a topic relevant to their course. Provides the opportunity to plan and manage their own piece of research, integrating and applying knowledge from their studies.
• Running Your Enterprise (BM3006): For those considering starting their own business or working with a small business to help it grow.
Students gain a thorough understanding of the small business sector and its impacts. It enables practical application of academic theories to business and understanding of how small business owners make decisions and plans. Engagement with business is a key feature of this module through case study, test trading through pop-ups, or working with an existing business in the profit or non-profit sector.
• Contemporary Digital and Media Markets (BM3025): Equips students with a critical appreciation of contemporary frameworks, tools, and approaches available to digital marketers and media creators.
Students will be equipped to formulate appropriate campaign and media strategies, either in business-to-business or business to consumer markets.
• Talent Management and Workforce Planning (BM3026): Students will critically analyze key employment markets, examine and apply different talent management philosophies, and evaluate the use of sophisticated methods and tools for global resourcing.

Assessment:

The program is assessed through coursework, with no exams. Assessment methods include essays, reports, projects, oral presentations, and collaborative work. Supportive technologies are used to help students complete assessments.

Teaching:

The program utilizes a mix of lectures, workshops, seminars, and tutorials, supplemented by independent study.

Careers:

Graduates are highly employable and possess strong entrepreneurial skills. The program equips them to succeed in a range of business degree jobs across industry, commerce, the public sector, and non-profit making organizations. Potential career paths include:

• Accountancy and finance
• Project management
• Franchising
• Retail
• Buying
• Business analytics
• Students can participate in study exchanges throughout the world at partner institutions.
• The program provides enterprise support through Propeller, an enterprise and innovation hub that supports students in setting up their own businesses.
• UCLan is the top university in the north of England for producing start-up businesses (Tide, 2021).
• The program enjoys guest speaker events organized in conjunction with the Chartered Management Institute (CMI) and Chartered Institute of Marketing (CIM).
• Students have excellent opportunities for paid work experience and placements with industry-leading companies.

| Fees | Cost | | --- | --- | | Full-time | £9,250 per year | | Sandwich year | £1,500 for the sandwich year | | Part-time | £1,540 per 20 credits | | International | £16,500 per year |