COURSE FINDER

BUSINESS AND MANAGMENT

Students who wish to study this programme may come from a wide variety of subject backgrounds, including, but not necessarily business management. This programme suits those who prefer to learn a broad repertoire of business skills, rather than focusing on one specialism. This involves learning core business skills relating to, for example, marketing, human resources, information systems/e-Business, accounting and finance. Students would undertake a range of tasks associated with business organisations, and would enjoy developing sophisticated solutions to business problems and opportunities. Given the broad range of skills learned, graduates would have many career opportunities in a diverse range of business roles (e.g. marketing, HR, project management, etc.) in a wide range of sectors. This programme is also suitable as a stepping stone for those who wish to develop a specialism after a general business education, for those who wish to become business teachers or as a route to self-employment. The BA Business Management programme is a three year full time course designed to provide students with all the necessary business skills to excel in their chosen field or carry on with postgraduate studies.

MODULES

Year 1 : Level 4
Applied Personal & Professional Development
Accounting Fundamentals
Marketing Essentials
The Global Business Environment
Introducing the Modern Workplace
Community Engagement

Year 2: Level 5
Entrepreneurship
Management Accounting
Managing People
Data Handling & Business Intelligence
Management Economics
Project Management

Year 3: Level 6
Strategic Management & Sustainability
International Financial Management
Leadership and Management Theory and Practice
International Business Communications
Dissertation

CLOUD COMPUTING

Cloud Computing is a specialisation of computer networking that is concerned with the management of large data in data centres, virtualisation and the provision of cloud services. Applicants to this programme would typically be technically minded, and they may have previously studied engineering, computing or the sciences. This programme is designed for students interested in computer networks but specialising in areas such as virtualisation and the computer systems used in data centre that support cloud based services. They would also be interested in databases and developing an understanding of managing and analysing big data, and implementing cloud services. Applicants for this programme will be interested in computer networking and networked application development, and are likely to have some web programming experience. Students will study a balance of modules around the themes of data storage technologies and cloud based services including both the provision and consumption of those services. Large scale data is stored in data centres and with networked services provided using virtualisation technologies, while “big data” requires a number of different application specific approaches for storage and analysis. Graduates will also be able to implement services to provide this data for manipulation and analysis by a variety of applications they will also be able to develop. Graduates of this programme would be expected to seek employment as data analysts, application developers, data centre engineers, etc.

MODULES

Year 1 : Level 4
Academic and Employability Skills
Computational Thinking
Computer Architecture
Information Engineering
Internet Protocols
IP Internetworking
Network Principles
Software Development

Year 2: Level 5
Cloud Computing Technologies
Database Management Systems
Local Area Networks
Network Operating Systems and Security
Web Development
Project Management
Research Methods

Year 3: Level 6
Major Project
Data Centre Technologies
Data Centre Virtualisation
Wide Area Networks
Big Data

FINANCE

This programme provides the academic and practical skills necessary to develop and reflect on high level bank and financial management issues which will be applicable across a wide range of financial situations, financial markets and financial organizations.

MODULES

Year 1 : Level 4
Compulsory modules:

Financial Management
Human Resource Management
Marketing Management
Strategic Management
Specialist modules:

Bank Financial Management and Financial Markets
Corporate Finance

Year 2: Level 5
Dissertation, OR
Integrated Case Study, OR
Business Development Proposal