BA (Hons) Business Management with Project Management

During the course, you’ll get a chance to develop your skills in project initiation, change, organisation, and operational management. This course covers professional competencies, business economics, people and organisation, business logistics, portfolios and programmes, project risk and value quality management.

Year 1

• Concepts of Management
• Principles of marketing
• Accounting & Finance for Managers
• People and organisations
• Business economics
• Management and information systems

Year 2

Core modules:

• Fundamentals of project management
• Managing the principles of e-business
• Managing business and innovation
• Managing business logistics and negotiations
• Business ethics today: social and legal foundations

Optional modules:

• Business contracts
• Diagnostic analytics
• Emerging markets, and the Asia-pacific business environment
• Entrepreneurial mind-set – business discovery and development
• Environmental economics and sustainability
• Financial accounting and analysis
• Fundamentals of finance
• Marketing research
• Human resource management
• Retail operations
• Social media in a business context
• A foreign language and applied research report
• Creative and media planning
• The customer experience manager
• Luxury!
• The media relations manager

Year 3

• Strategic management and leadership
• Leading and managing SMEs
• Strategic P3: Portfolio, Programme & Project Management
• Project Risk, Value & Quality Management

Plus two options from:

• Management accounting for decision making
• Practical analytics
• Mobile applications – from idea to mass adoption
• Entrepreneurial finance
• Individual and organisational learning and development
• Legal protection of business creativity
• Brand management
• PRINCE2® – methodologies for project management
• Retail boutique and shopper behaviour
• Business research methods
• Professional placement module

Modules are assessed by a mix of coursework assignments, presentations and exams.

Employability

You’ll be prepared when you graduate for a career in business and project management. All the way through the course, employability skills are promoted – with guest speakers from industry, business insights, graduate start-up and entrepreneur schemes. Graduates have gone onto jobs such as:

• Local Business Development Manager at Audi
• Consultant at JCW
• Operations and Administration at The Rose Theatre
• Assistant Events Officer at Birkbeck, University of London
• Customer Service at Santander UK Corporate & Commercial
• Administration Assistant at Mars Capital
• National Manager at Elevation Networks