Course overview
Do you have plans to create your own business or work in an SME? Have you completed a Foundation Degree or BTEC HND in a vocational discipline and want to develop your business, management and leadership skills, whilst gaining a valuable degree qualification? Are you looking to study with like-minded entrepreneurial and career-focused students and be taught by academic and practitioner based tutors in small classes and via one to one tutorials? Then this could be the programme for you.
Campus locations
Recognition
Study method
- In-class
- Blended
- Online
Locations
- England
- London
Duration study load
- 1 year
Entry requirements
- An HND /Foundation Degree or equivalent
- GCSE Maths and English language at grade C or above
Assessment
You are assessed via a range of practical tasks aimed at developing your understanding of, and competence in, key areas of Business Planning, Strategic Management, HRM, Marketing, Creativity, Entrepreneurship and Financial Management. All assessment is coursework and project-based rather than examinations.
Delivery
Teaching on this programme is delivered through lectures, seminars and practicals, totalling 18 hours per week. You will also be expected to engage in independent study involving directed and self-directed learning, around 32 hours per week.
Technology Enhanced Learning (TEL) is embedded throughout the course with tools such as the ‘Blackboard’ eLearning Portal and electronic reading lists that will guide your preparation for seminars and independent research.
Subjects
In this component you will be made familiar with the course modules and your fellow classmates, this will include some minor tasks to introduce the programme area to you in detail.
In this module you will study areas of academic skills which have been identified as useful to you, this includes academic English writing but also includes computer skills. This module will develop your skills in critical thinking and reflection, develop your ability to undertake a critical review of existing literature on a contemporary issue within the business and management disciplines as well as be able to write a critical literature review.
In this the first of our formal taught module, you will be introduced to research and the reason why it is carried out. This will include critical literature review as applied to a research framework. It will also allow you to fully understand how as a student you prefer to learn and how this can be of use to you in the future.
This module prepares students to develop their leadership style against the backdrop of academic leadership theories. Modern management and Entrepreneurship require a high level of leadership understanding to get the best from oneself and others.
This module will develop your creative process but in an applied way. Working in a group you will identify an innovative product or service and create a sales pitch to be delivered to a panel. This is consolidated by marketing theory and practise.
This module is a report upon a given situation of business often the students own business, to allow the full range of skills developed while studying the programme to be used and a comprehensive report generated.
About Northumbria University London
QA Higher Education works in partnership with Northumbria University to deliver courses at the Northumbria University London Campus. The London Campus offers industry-focused Business, Computing, IT and Project Management courses amid the buzz of London’s business and financial district.
Our academic experts and professional support staff are committed to giving students an educational experience that will set them up for life. We offer cutting-edge courses that are at the forefront of current knowledge and practice and are informed by global perspectives.
