Anglia Ruskin University

Year one core modules

• Business English 1 and 2

  This module aims to give you an introduction to specialist vocabulary relating to business topics and to revise essential grammar in a business context. Other aims are to practise taking notes from lectures, to increase reading speed and comprehension of business texts, to develop listening and speaking skills by taking part in discussions and listening to contributions in seminars from fellow you.

• Introduction to Accounting and Finance

  The module firstly aims to give you a sound grasp of the basics of financial reporting and introduces the principal concepts of financial accounting. The preparation of principal financial statements will also be explored. This module is also designed to introduce you to key management accounting skills necessary to support decision-making. It will emphasise the acquisition and application of skills and knowledge necessary to inform managers responsible for planning, decision-making and control and will provide the underpinning skills and knowledge required for more advanced study.

• International Business In Focus

  The main aims of this module are to provide you with an insight into the factors which affect general business behaviour in a constantly changing global environment. The module will discuss the nature of structural change in an economy and the factors which have accelerated such change including reasons for the growth of firms and how such corporate growth often leads to Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) and multinational activity. The main objectives of firms will be investigated and the strategic importance of pricing, advertising and product development emphasised.

• Introduction to People, Organisations and Management

  This module allows you to explore the organisational context and will furnish you with tools to analyse the organisational environment and the degree of dynamism and complexity in which organisations operate. Approaches to management from scientific management to postmodern organisations will be evaluated and the way groups and teams are formed and structured. This module will also investigate the difference between leadership and management and critically evaluate classical and contemporary approaches to leadership theory and the role power and politics play in organisational life.

Year two core modules

• Business English 3 and 4

• International Business

• Enterprise and Entrepreneurial Management

Year three core modules

• Business English 5 and 6

• Strategic Management

• Dissertation

  (in a subject of your choice related to business)

Optional modules

• Introduction to Organizations and Management

• Marketing Essentials

• Analysis of Business

• Systems and Operations Management

• Effective Team Performance

• Language, Power and Identity

• Intercultural Competence and Graduate Mobility

• Migration, Communities and Diversity in Europe

• Organisation Transformation in Practice

• Sustainable Management Futures