Business and Enterprise

Taught modules

Compulsory modules

• Research Methods

  This module helps to prepare you for completing high quality, systematic business and management research. You’ll also gain the skills and knowledge to be successful in your Final Research Project. 

  You’ll learn how to undertake effective research, and draw upon a range of secondary and primary data sources. You’ll be introduced to a range of research tools that will help you build a strong base for research including methodological issues, data collection techniques and study skills.

• Creativity to Insight to Action

  This is your integrative module which pulls material from other modules and includes new content in the areas of creativity, design thinking and the creation of value propositions. 

  This is the ‘core’ of your student journey throughout the programme. You’ll have the opportunity to develop yourself and your idea by reflecting on the linkages between your entrepreneurial self, your idea, and the material from this and your other modules.
   

• Developing Skills for Leadership and Employability

  You’ll develop self-awareness of your own strengths and weaknesses as an effective leader and team player. This module will help you develop and improve a range of definable skills which are pivotal to successful management practice and effective leadership. 

  You’ll progress essential skills such as the confidence and the ability to articulate your skills and attributes that are required for professional development, lifelong learning and employment. You’ll also have the opportunity to explore different leadership perspectives on:

  • ethics
  • Equality, Diversity and Inclusion
  • sustainability
  • technology 
  • and change.
     

• The Practice of Business and Management

  This is a first semester module and will help you build and develop your knowledge in the area of international business and management. 

  You’ll learn about four of the business functions:

  • Operations
  • Finance
  • Marketing
  • Human Resources 
  • Managing information systems. 

  You’ll build a base of knowledge and understanding of how the business functions contribute to the success of an organisation and give a competitive advantage.
   

• Innovation and Enterprise

  Enterprise and entrepreneurship is vital to the development of a modern economy, in terms of new business start-ups and as part of managing and growing existing organisations. This is your introduction to the conceptual underpinning necessary to understand the nature of enterprise and entrepreneurship. 

  You’ll focus on developing an understanding of factors relating to the development of the entrepreneur, the entrepreneurial idea, and the entrepreneurial organisation. By studying these areas you’ll bridge the potential gap between theory and practice regarding entrepreneurship in a range of contexts. 

  By the end of the module you’ll have developed entrepreneurial skills and techniques, such as idea generation and evaluation, communication, networking and the evaluation of risk.
   

• Entrepreneurship in Context

  You’ll study how an entrepreneurial mindset in its widest sense is key for success in a wide range of business and life contexts. You’ll explore and practise a full range of entrepreneurial tools and techniques associated with developing and understanding individual behaviours and practices associated with entrepreneurial success, creativity and innovation. 

  You’ll explore, apply, and develop these tools, techniques, behaviours and understandings. You’ll reflect on your own qualities across all areas of enterprise whether in start-up, large organisation or not-for-profit and social enterprise contexts.

  You’ll develop the knowledge and understanding as well as the related skills and capabilities associated with enterprise in its broadest sense.
   

Optional modules