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BA (Hons)

Business & Human Resource Management (Foundation Entry)

Attendance

Campus

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Duration

4 Years

Start

September 2023

UCAS Code

NN67

Delivery

Campus Taught

Develop core business skills on our Business & Human Resource Management Foundation Entry. This course prepares you to become an effective line manager in your chosen business. It will also help your career as an emerging HR professional.

The Foundation Entry degree course is ideal if you don’t have the necessary qualifications but have the desire to study. The course is structured in a way that enables you to progress to the Honours degree level.

You’ll study how organisations operate and the importance of effective Human Resource Management. You'll become an independent learner with the skills, knowledge, and experience to make informed decisions about your future career.

Why study with us

The Complete University Guide: subject ranking 2022, places our Business Management and Marketing courses 1st for student satisfaction in the North West.
The course content is dynamic, and evolves as business issues change - you’ll gain the skills to succeed in a changing world.
Put theory into practice with the option of taking a one-year paid placement, a short-term internship or some volunteering.

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What you'll do

Interactive workshop sessions will develop you as an independent student. You'll complete a specific research project through survey design and analysis.
Learn from industry-experienced lecturers through a combination of seminar sessions. Helping to develop you as a highly employable individual.
Hearing from regular guest speakers will give you a perspective from some of today’s leading business minds.

A day in the life of a Business and Management student

Module overview

Every effort has been made to ensure the accuracy of our published course information. However, our programmes are subject to ongoing review and development. Changing circumstances may cause alteration to, or the cancellation of, courses. Changes may be necessary to comply with the requirements of accrediting bodies or revisions to subject benchmarks statements. As well as to keep courses updated and contemporary, or as a result of student feedback. We reserve the right to make variations if we consider such action to be necessary or in the best interests of students.

Join us on campus

Book a place at our Undergraduate Open Day on Saturday 17 June. Here you'll be able to explore our campus and facilities, meet academic staff & chat to students.

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Future Careers

Foundation Entry programmes have an equal focus on business and management. So our graduates are highly employable, in a wide range of business areas including industry, commerce and the public sector.

Want to be an entrepreneur or are you more interested in a management position? Earning a business and human resource management degree can help you develop the skills required for either role. You'll gain hard skills, such as how to effectively negotiate and how to develop a formal business plan. As well as teaching you the skills on how to analyse data to help you form better financial or marketing strategies.

A degree in business and human resource management can give you the knowledge that could otherwise take years of work experience to gain. Providing detailed insights into different industries, market trends and industry reports.

Fees and funding

2023/24

First year£6,500 for the first year

Full-time£9,250 per year

International

First year£11,000 for the first year

Full-time£14,900 per year

Scholarships and bursaries

We have a wide range of scholarships, bursaries and funds available to help support you whilst studying with us.

Select your country and see eligibility information and how to apply by selecting more info on the cards below.

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BMC002 (Managing Business Information)

Teaching and learning is supported via different approaches; involving individual and group work, in sessions that are interactive. Tutor support on preparation for assessments is incorporated in the delivery.

Lectures will be used to introduce the ideas and practices of managing business information. In class tests will take place in these sessions to test knowledge and understanding of these concepts. The first of these will be formative in nature.

The workshops will be used in preparation for the research, numeracy and IT skills essential for the research assessment. Students are encouraged to communicate with each other to discuss the material. Tutors will provide advice in these sessions on the best way to approach the problems set.

Students are encouraged to form ‘module support’ groups to aid their learning, in preparation for the module assessments.

Coursework will be centred around student-led data collection and the production of a business report. In-class tests will be used to assess competence in numeracy with a formative test being offered to develop students’ ability to perform well under time-constrained conditions.

BMC006 (Contemporary Business in Context)

The development and awareness of business-related news, based around the U.K. economy, through a programme of lectures and seminars. Over the Semester, students will be required to study (provided) articles and compile their own collections of business-related materials from newspapers, magazines and other relevant publications, in order to involve themselves in discussion and debate during the seminar time.

Assessment will be by appraisal of these workshop discussions. Students will maintain a workbook/diary to support and document their progress in the workshop discussions through the collation of a portfolio. There will be two, one-to-one feedback sessions within the workshop schedule to discuss individual progress in the workshop assessment. Students will be encouraged to devise and agree the marking criteria for both assessments.

The other assessment will be a large-group debate on a contemporary business-related topic, again with students' involvement in the setting of the assessment criteria.

BMC001 (Enterprise and the Entrepreneur)

A series of workshops will provide essential module information. These will enable students to understand key concepts and theories, evaluate the appropriateness of different approaches to enterprising and creative problem solving and communicate the outcomes clearly using commercial evidence. A virtual learning environment (Blackboard) will also provide a range of additional lecture notes, relevant literature, self‑assessment activities, and links to online resources.

Assessment will take the form of a small-group poster presentation based around a business product or idea as well as an essay for the students to reflect on the groupwork and product/idea development.

BMC005 (Study Skills for Success)

This module will be delivered by a combination of support and self-directed study. Students will be involved in case based and problem-based learning delivered through a combination of lectures, tutorials, seminars and workshops. Students are further supported by academic tutors and via the interactive learning environments of Blackboard e-learn and Microsoft Teams. Study materials will be both paper and e-learn based. It is expected that the student will engage regularly with their allocated tutor during the semester. Initially, non-assessed pieces of work for diagnostic purposes will be undertaken in the first few weeks of the module. Tutorials will allow further development of key themes embedded within the taught element of the module, allied to formative review of work completed thus far. Assessment 1- Portfolio. Assessment 2 – Presentation.