This module will equip you with essential academic, technical and language skills needed for success in university and beyond. Through interactive sessions, you will engage with vital topics such as effective email communication, document creation and formatting, presentation design, and online collaboration tools.

The curriculum emphasizes critical thinking and academic integrity, which will enhance your ability to articulate your ideas confidently through continuous feedback on presentations and written assignments. With a focus on employability, you will develop crucial skills in collaboration, problem-solving, and technology use, preparing you for diverse professional environments.

The module will finish with a comprehensive final project, where you will integrate your learning by producing a professional report, a presentation, and a formal email. This integrated approach ensures that you will be  well-prepared to navigate challenges in your future career and make meaningful contributions across various fields.

This module will provide a comprehensive review of key economic models that have shaped modern nations, businesses, public sector organizations, and entrepreneurial activity. You’ll take an international perspective to appreciate the dynamic and complex nature of contemporary organizations.

You’ll be introduced to business environment analysis models to understand the various elements and forces driving organizational change. You’ll also learn how to identify high-quality and reliable sources of business information and data to ensure your knowledge of the business environment is accurate, current, and relevant.

Additionally, you’ll review organizational structures, including functions and departments, and examine how these contribute to business success. You’ll explore management theories to evaluate different organizational settings. Overall, this module aims to equip you with a well-rounded understanding of economic models and their application in diverse organizational contexts.

This module provides you with an opportunity to practise and develop a range of core academic skills for success in future business undergraduate programmes. By the end of this module, you will have a sound understanding of the expectations of higher education learning. You will be supported to develop both academically and in relation to your personal wellbeing.

You will learn how to read texts more effectively, structure different types of written and oral responses including essays and presentations, refer to sources using quotations and paraphrasing in the appropriate style and understand assessments by analysing assessment briefs.

Alongside this academic focus, there is a wellbeing strand of this module which will introduce you to effective strategies to manage your time, cope with stress, work well with others and make a smooth transition to higher education. The focus will be to guide you to develop independence as a learner with the support of experienced and passionate professionals at the London campus.

In this module, you will gain a comprehensive understanding of the ethical dimensions of modern business practices. It starts with the foundations of business ethics and their influence on decision-making.

You’ll explore corporate governance and how ethics shape relationships with stakeholders, as well as Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) and the broader social and environmental responsibilities of businesses.

Additionally, you will examine ethical challenges and learn measures to prevent unethical practices. By the end, you’ll be equipped with tools and frameworks to apply ethical thinking in real-world scenarios, preparing you to navigate moral challenges in a dynamic business environment.

On this module, you will develop a strong foundation in key mathematical concepts which are essential for understanding and applying quantitative methods in business contexts. You will begin by exploring topics such as ratio, scale, and proportion, which are crucial for financial analysis and decision-making in areas like pricing, investments, and market trends.

Understanding fractions, decimals, and percentages will enhance your ability to work with data, particularly in calculating profit margins, interest rates, and tax implications.

As the module progresses, you will delve into equations and formulae, equipping you with the tools to solve real-world business problems, including cost-revenue analysis and break-even calculations. The module will also introduce probability to help you assess risks and make informed decisions based on uncertainty.

You will study how to work with data and information, focusing on key statistical techniques such as finding central tendency (mean, median, and mode) and measures of dispersion (range, variance, standard deviation) to interpret data sets. Concepts like correlation and regression will further allow you to understand relationships between variables, useful for market research and forecasting.

Finally, you will be introduced to forecasting techniques, including time series analysis and index numbers, providing valuable insights into predicting future trends and understanding economic data such as inflation rates.

By studying this module, you will have the opportunity to improve your English for your undergraduate degree. You will develop your skills (reading, writing, listening and speaking) in addition to both grammar and vocabulary. You will learn by various seminar activities, self-directed study and applying what you learn to assessments.

You will study this module over two terms, using a mixture of seminars and self-study. Tutor-guided and self-study activities are timetabled in a learning plan which shows the stages of your learning.

Students joining on Level 4 will study our International Year One. Visit the International Year One course page for detailed modular content.

Learn how to effectively manage yourself and your studies, how to find appropriate information and use this in your academic writing, develop your academic voice across different communication styles, as well as developing your critical and ethical skills in your studies.

• Develop your skills in effective communication, independent and critical thinking, and explore how these can be applied to independent research projects.
• Examine the process of recruitment and selection, and explore the production of CVs, cover letters and the use of psychometric tests.

Learn how to develop a research question, and linked to this, be able to choose an appropriate method of research, combining both learning experiences to the development of a critical assessment of the academic literature.

• Gain a basic understanding of research philosophy, ethics and how this underpins research of quality and integrity.
• Learn what role ethics play in study design, participant selection, data collection, data handling and storage and presentation of research findings.
• Explore how to apply quantitative and qualitative research methods.
• Use a range of appropriate software tools, including Excel and SPSS.
• Learn how to execute a critical and effective analysis of your research data.

Develop the knowledge and skills in change management essential for management and leadership careers success.

• Explore organisational change concepts, triggers (internal and external including digital technologies) of organisational change.
• Understand the nature of change in organisation and drivers of change and overcoming them.
• Gain knowledge on politics and culture in the change management, strategies to lead and manage a change and change management skills.

Develop your understanding of entrepreneurial cultures and the personal and professional attributes needed to operate successfully in a business environment.

• Gain skills in new venture development or entrepreneurial innovation, design and strategic thinking through demonstrating a Digital Entrepreneurial Mindset.
• Explore technology, using data driven decision making, leveraging cloud space, adopting an agile thinking approach.
• Develop a digital entrepreneurial mindset to augment your creative business mindset, professionalism, and networking skills.

Using a real world organisational issue, understand the context of consultancy project and how to lead a change in the complex business environment.

• Develop a creative way of leading teams, managing resources, demonstrate consultancy skills and convey messages to your clients efficiently.
• Gain the skills of a design led practitioner in order to deliver an innovative and sustainable business solution to a real world organisational issue.
• Gain a solid understanding of how businesses work in the real world and the context of complex decision making process during a consulting project.
• Develop crucial skills such as critical thinking, commercial awareness, leadership, cross-cultural understanding, and how to innovate within a project consultancy.

This module encompasses a multidisciplinary approach as it looks at innovation as an integrated approach to dealing with organisational change.

• Gain a comprehensive understanding of innovation, the current practices and management of innovation and apply this knowledge to current case studies.
• Explore different types of innovation through real world examples of companies in different sectors.
• Use creativity and innovation toolkits at different stages of innovation such as in the early stage to identify innovation opportunities and generate ideas.
• Demonstrate recognition and understanding of your own innovative skill set.

One of the most important stages in the development of an SME is to understand the nature of entrepreneurship, the need for creativity and the ability to analyse your market and plan effectively.

• Develop your understanding of entrepreneurship and the distinctive characteristics of a SME. critical appreciation of creativity and innovation and your ability to apply such concepts.
• Consider the importance of market analysis and marketing in order to advance toward the creation of a marketing plan.

This module will equip you with leadership knowledge and skills to maximise your future employability and career development.

• Enhance your academic writing and critical thinking skills and understand research processes and approaches in business and management.
• Develop your academic and research capabilities.
• Gain leadership knowledge and skills so that you fully maximise your future employability and career development opportunities.
• Attend a one day Leadership Development bootcamp where you will be involved in a range of practical activities and deal with complex scenarios.

Develop and cultivate a creative mind-set through design thinking and innovative practice, bringing together knowledge and creativity to construct a viable computer solution, service or a product.

• Take your design and innovation ideas, skills and talent to the wider user community of innovative practice.
• Explore the process of requirements capture, ideation, concept design, development and rapid prototyping to deliver a functional proof-of-concept.
• Learn design led innovation methods, techniques and processes that are required to develop a policy, system, service or product.

Draw on your range of knowledge and skills developed during your studies and/or work experience to review research literature and evaluate business and management responses to a contemporary issue.

• Undertake an individual investigation into an applied business problem related to your programme specialism.
• Explore relevant academic theories, concepts and frameworks and will result in a critical synthesis of business practice and academic theory.
• Develop an advanced understanding of a business topic of interest understand how to use research in evidence-based decision-making in a global business world.

Operations and finance management ensure competitive advantage for enterprises through integrated risk management approach using innovations, which transform labour, capital, materials, or information into products and services of greater value for customers.

• Connect the concepts of finance and operations in an enterprise context to identify the best investments for entrepreneurial ideas and appropriate sources of financing
• Gain knowledge and skills of innovation finance and operations management.
• Understand, design and apply innovative finance models for various entrepreneurial ventures, improving real investments and revenue management

Combine theory and practice to develop an in-depth understanding about core leadership and management principles and apply these concepts to a range of scenarios.

• Understand and apply your leadership and management capabilities through a one day leadership and management development bootcamp
• Explore the practical implementation of leadership concepts and enhance your interpersonal and intrapersonal capabilities through expert feedback and reflective practice
• Develop and enhance your leadership and management capability to deal with contemporary issues faced by organisations.

Extend your knowledge of SME and Business practice, particularly in the area of strategic thinking, and employ your intellectual and practical skills in an SME context.

• Gain awareness and critically evaluate strategic management, building on the strategic analysis.
• Build on the market intelligence you have gathered and build a realistic strategy using a range of appropriate strategic tools and frameworks
• Develop your methodological and synthesis skills in order to evaluate strategic choices