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Studying our Business Management with International Business BSc (Hons) course will equip you with in-depth skills and knowledge in the combined areas of business management and digital marketing. Embedded within the course design is an opportunity for you to develop research skills, employability skills, analytical and problem-solving skills, professional and responsible behaviours, and be transformed into knowledgeable and effective managers in any working environment. In your first year, you will receive support in our Beginning Your Professional Business Journey unit, which will help ease your transition into university and provide insight into professional business environments. In Evolution and Revolution of Business, you will explore how businesses operate, develop, progress and impact society while examining how certain business trends have evolved over time. At the same time, Applied Numeracy for Business will give you the confidence to develop the mathematical and numerical skills used for decision making and problem solving for businesses. To diversify your learning, you will also be provided with a range of skills for leadership, entrepreneurship, marketing, management analysis, strategy setting and finance in our Management in Practice unit.

In your second year, Data and Research Methods for Business will provide you with the knowledge and skills to conduct research and analyse data in a business context. It is also important that you are adaptable to change in business environments, and this is where our Strategic Business Planning unit will allow you to understand how business growth and productivity is affected by change as well as how strategic planning can be used to maximise company growth. In terms of career development, our Employability and the Future Workplace unit will support you in developing the skills needed to prepare for interviews, psychometric tests and assessment centres. In addition, when working in business, it is also important that you build on your employability skills such as teamwork, time management, presentation and communication. This is where our Managing Business Complexity unit will support your development of these skills while exposing you to real-life, complex business issues and how to create viable solutions for clients based on this. Intercultural Management in Business will then allow you to explore the application of intercultural communication theories in an international business environment.

Emphasis is placed on developing intercultural interactive competence and introducing key aspects of managing behaviour and expectations across cultures. Another crucial skill in the business world is risk management, and this is where our Risk and Responsibility unit will develop your understanding of business challenges, responsible management and business ethics in a global context. Here, you will learn to apply risk management frameworks and risk mitigation strategies across systemic, financial, operational and strategic risks. In your final year, Innovation and Entrepreneurship will teach you to design innovative business models, discover how to start a new business and build your understanding on concepts of entrepreneurship. Whereas in Business Continuity and the Planet, you will tackle environmental issues that will allow you to investigate the strategic risks and challenges posed towards business operations including climate change, cybersecurity and supply chain risks.

Applied Numeracy For Business

This unit is part of a core spine of units that all Business students will encounter as part of their learning journey. This journey takes you through the begin stage at Level 4, to the thrive stage at level 5, to succeed stage at level 6.  
This unit is designed to support your Begin stage at level 4, it develops the numeracy skills and abilities you need to succeed in your studies and in the business world. The unit is designed to support you and develop your confidence in essential mathematics and statistics techniques, it applies these techniques in business context to give you an understanding of how they are used to solve problems and make decision in business organisations.

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The unit aims to achieve 

• provide students with the fundamental knowledge and understanding of numeracy in business.   
• develop student confidence in a range of numerical and statistical techniques.
• enable students apply a range of numerical and statistical techniques to practical business problems.   

Beginning Your Professional Business Journey

This unit is part of a core spine of units that all Business students will encounter as part of their learning journey. This journey takes you from the Begin stage at Level 4, to the Thrive stage at Level 5 through to the Succeed stage at Level 6. This unit is designed to support the Begin/Thrive/Succeed stage by introducing you to the skills that you will require in order to develop your professional practice.

The connected core spine of units also enables you to network with peers from across the faculty just as you will be expected to work with colleagues throughout the organisation in the world of business.  

This unit will help you to begin your journey in Business and provide you with the support you will need to develop your professional practice.

In this unit you will be presented with Business challenges which will allow you to collaborate with peers, and provide an insight in to a professional Business environment. 

International New Ventures And Innovation

With the advent of globalization and integration of global markets, sourcing, and production activities, smaller companies are seeking international investment opportunities.  This unit provides an opportunity to explore INVs; a popular mode of entry (MoE) into foreign markets. In this unit the students will examine several approaches to internationalisation comparing and contrasting traditional/gradual approaches to the INV approach which characterises start-ups rapid entry into international markets.

The unit aims:

• To deepen students’ theoretical and practical knowledge of both traditional and rapid approaches to internationalisation.

• To promote students’ ability to identify, research and explore the nature of an opportunity in the context of a dynamic global market place.

• To become familiar with creative and innovative business opportunities. 

• To provide the opportunity for students to investigate various aspects of setting up an International New Venture (INV).

• To prepare students to identify and appreciate the interplay of a complex set of interrelated factors and processes influencing the emergence and performance of INVs.

• To equip students with a solid theoretical foundation and practical knowledge of dealing with both “newness” and “foreignness” of starting an INV.

Cross-Cultural Management In Business

Aims: The aims of this unit are to :

To conceptualise intercultural interaction and produce frameworks for comparing cultures in international business and develop rapport management competencies in business interactions
To undertake a detailed investigation of the changing face of management across cultures
Relevance: In this unit you will explore the application of intercultural communication theories in an international business environment. Emphasis is placed on developing intercultural interactive competence and introducing key aspects of managing behaviour and expectations across cultures. You will explore working relationships and different communication preferences with people from different cultural backgrounds, preparing you to work in an increasingly global environment.

Data And Research Methods For Business

This unit is part of a core spine of units that all Business students will encounter as part of their learning journey. This journey takes you to the Thrive stage at Level 5 and the unit is designed to support the Begin/Thrive/Succeed stage by building on the academic study skills and numeracy skills acquired during your first year and introduces you to both theory and practice of research and prepares you for the final year Research Project. 
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The ability to conduct research and to interpret information is a key skill in both the academic and commercial worlds. Effective managerial decision-making is heavily dependent on high-quality data and information in a variety of forms and from a variety of sources.  Gaining an understanding of research and of the research process, and experiencing it as part of a research community will provide valuable transferrable skills for a career in business or further study.  
 
This unit aims to achieve: 
an understanding and appreciation of the central role of data in business. 
an ability to evaluate information sources appropriately to support arguments and to inform decision-making at all levels. 
an appreciation of the benefits and limitations of common research approaches and quantitative and qualitative research methods. 
an understanding of common qualitative and quantitative research techniques including sampling and data collection approaches as well as data analysis. 

International Economics

This unit builds upon the knowledge you have acquired in other economics in previous levels. It focuses on developing a systematic understanding of the key areas of the world economy, international trade policies, investment and finance and how they impact on each other. Theory will be applied to international economic events, issues and trends - as international economic environment is dynamic in nature and is impacted by real world developments in business, politics and finance- in conjunction with an in depth examination of varied economic environments and market conditions in which firms operate. 
 
The main aim of the unit is to 
• Develop student ability to understand and critically evaluate the interrelationship between the three main areas of international economic activity - trade, finance, and investment. 
• Provide students comprehensive knowledge of the international economic environment and recognize the linkages between political, diplomatic, and financial developments and their impact on international business. 
• To develop strong ability to apply the various theoretical aspects of the principles of finance and economics in an international context. 
• To gain comprehensive knowledge of the operations and key issues surrounding cross-border movements of labour and capital, the size and direction of trade flows, and the global economic institutions. 

Business Project

This unit is part of a core spine of units that all Business students will encounter as part of their learning journey. This journey takes you from the Thrive stage at Level 5 through to the Succeed stage at Level 6. This unit is designed to support the Succeed stage by enabling you to network with peers from across the faculty just as you will be expected to work with colleagues throughout the organisation in the world of business.   
 
This unit will help you consolidate your research journey with the aim of helping you thrive. It aims to bring research to life by addressing it from an application point of view.  
 
It aims to help you develop and deploy relevant research skills while engaging you in the process of making decisions based on quality research. Effective business decision and problem-solving involve many complex processes which depend not only on accessing high quality data but also processing, analyzing, deconstructing and extracting meaning from it.  
 
Hence, this unit aims to take students through these practical processes in order to develop cutting edge problem solving skills required in a fast business terrain. 
 
This unit aims to achieve: 

1) This unit will help students achieve a broader and deeper understanding and learning of the practical use of data in business and how this shapes critical business decisions. 
 
2) This unit will help students achieve the ability to critically evaluate the core knowledge at the forefront of their fields of study in informing their investigation, demonstrating an awareness of the provisional and evolving nature of knowledge. 
 
3) This unit will help students achieve the ability to take ownership of their own research journeys by independently selecting, planning, managing and executing an in-depth research investigation of a business problem with the aim of producing a research with potential for useful or unique outcomes. 
 
4) This unit will enable students achieve the ability to critically review evidence, including reliability, validity and significance, and interpret with reference to the core knowledge in the area, identifying contradictions and inconsistencies and exploring possible reasons, leading to reasoned conclusions and recommendations. 
 
5) This unit will enable students achieve an awareness of their personal responsibility and professional ethical codes of conduct, particularly in relation to confidentiality and informed consent. 

English Language Foundation

This unit focuses on your ability to understand and use the English language accurately when you read, speak, listen and write. We will concentrate on the English you need for undergraduate level study in your chosen subject area, covering grammar, subject area vocabulary and the four language skills of reading, writing, listening and speaking.

A key element of the unit is the grammar of the language, and particularly the verb tense system in English, because your ability to use the verb tense system accurately will be extremely important when you come to write essays and reports. This unit will focus in particular on the grammar of the language.

We will also focus on reading, listening and speaking skills in the context of your chosen subject area. Beginning with short texts, we will practise each skill and practise it again, so that gradually you will see, hear and feel that your command of the language is improving. 

A recurring focus of the unit will be your acquisition of 'learner autonomy'. This means your ability to acquire the language yourself, without needing a teacher's help. This is important because from next year you will not have an English teacher to help you. So we will consider and practise strategies to help you gain confidence in your own ability to increase your knowledge of and ability to use the language, including for instance guessing meaning of difficult words, deciding which words are important in a text, recognising differences between formal and informal language, and other strategies, so that as the first semester continues, you begin to feel more confident in your use and experience with the English Language.

Academic Skills Foundation

When you begin your undergraduate level studies, you will be expected to have knowledge of and ability to use a large range of 'study skills'. You will also be expected to have some knowledge of the subject area you will  be studying. This unit deals with both of these aspects of your preparation for undergraduate level study. 

All of the academic skills are practised in English, so you will use your developing acquisition of the language from the partner unit 'English Language Foundation' to practise and gain mastery of these skills. You will also use your language and study skills as you learn the foundation of your subject area, putting the skills into practice as you learn.

Developing English Language Skills

This unit builds on the progress you made during its partner semester 1 unit 'English Language Foundation' and increasing your level from that which you had achieved by the end of semester 1. 

We will recycle the tense system in English and other elements of the grammar system, but you will  now learn how to use other aspects of the grammar, including the passive voice, as well as linking words and phrases and devices which enable you to write longer sentences but retain grammatical accuracy. 

You will notice that we gradually introduce more specialist language that you need in preparation for your degree and we will expect you to use and develop the skills that you gained in the previous units so that you are able to work more independently.

Academic Skills Development

This unit builds on the skills learnt and practised in its partner semester 1 unit 'Foundation Academic Skills'. We will add more skills to the list, including summarizing and synthesising, argumentation, critical thinking and referencing and citation skills, as well as several others and practise and test them in the same way as with the semester 1 unit.

We will also investigate the research skill and you will learn how to prepare a research proposal and conduct a literature review, and how to plan a research project, learning about the research tools available and how they can be used to conduct research in your chosen field. 

You will continue to broaden your knowledge of key current issues and theory in your chosen subject area, and apply the critical thinking and argumentation skills you acquire in this unit to argue for and against propositions you have studied in the form of in both essays and presentations and in seminar situations, ensuring that you are ready to step up to your chosen undergraduate course with a base level of subject area knowledge from which to continue your academic development as you progress to level 4 study.