Learning Outcomes
The BSc equips students with key transferable skills essential to a career as an international business professional. More specifically, this course aims to:
- Develop the managerial, intellectual and practical skills necessary for students to present solutions to complex problems faced by professionals within the international business and management field
- Provide students with in-depth knowledge and understanding of the contemporary frameworks which underpin the contemporary professions within the fields of international business and management
- Enable students to identify, analyse and make recommendations for a range of issues in business experienced in professional practice within the respective industries
- Develop an understanding and sensitivity to ethical considerations that arise in the practice of international business and management particularly around the UN Sustainable Development Goals
- Prepare students for graduate employment, research, further study and lifelong learning by developing their intellectual, practical and transferable skills
Knowledge
- Understand how the specific features of management work together with business administration in a global context
- Discuss and apply coherent and detailed knowledge of international business and management
- Debate current professional opinion and research about trends in business and management and changes which may affect its development in the near or mid-term future
Application to the Industry
- Use in-depth information to analyse complex problems and suggest creative (sometimes original) solutions appropriate to professional practice in international business and management
- Manage operations, innovations and people management to identify and respond to changing briefs in a range of business and management delivery contexts
- Evaluate critical arguments and information (that may be incomplete) to frame appropriate questions and make judgments regarding solutions to problems related to international business and management
- Apply a range of methods and techniques to review, consolidate, and extend their knowledge, skills and attitudes to support decision-making within the respective industries
Skills
- Initiate and carry out projects – exercising initiative and personal responsibility – related to international businesses and help them to formulate and achieve defined strategic goals
- Apply high-quality managerial and professional skills to create compelling, professional communications to both specialist and non-specialist audiences
- Plan and manage their own ongoing professional development making appropriate use of professional opportunities, networks, publications and research sources
