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BA (Hons) Global Business and Entrepreneurship with Foundation Year

Our BA Global Business and Entrepreneurship with Foundation Year course is designed to infuse you with the essential elements to maximise your entrepreneurial potential.

Overview


Leading businesses all rely on the incisiveness of their people — benefiting from their enterprise, vision and innovation for ideas that take them forward. The combination of industry insights, real-world learning and stimulating course modules on this course ensures that you are prepared for success in your future career — having gained a degree from one of the UK's most innovative universities.

Curriculum


This course includes the following modules during the first three years of study. The final year of study has six unique pathways that each explore contemporary issues in today’s business and entrepreneurship landscape. You will undertake the specialist module relevant to your chosen pathway. This course uses an authentic assessment strategy to ensure that each module takes you into realistic real-life situations, providing a formative pathway for assessing the learning goals of both specific modules and the overall programme. The assessments in the majority of the modules allow you to use your own business ideas, therefore allowing you to receive detailed feedback and time to reflect and develop your proposals further.
Assessment on the course is designed to provide suitable opportunities for you to demonstrate a full range of knowledge, skills and competencies that are key in the business environment. Assessment methods include essays, reports, real-life simulations, presentations, projects and group debates.
You will be required to work in your own time to complete research, homework tasks or group work. Self-study is vital to your success in this course and lecturers will give you guidance on how best to approach this throughout the study period.
Assessment methods at GBS are reviewed annually and may be updated based on student feedback, to suit content or based upon feedback from an External Examiner. An External Examiner is an independent academic expert from an external Higher Education Institution that acts as a safeguard to academic assessment standards.

Entry Requirement


Applicants Must be Aged 18+ and:

Applicants Aged 21+:
1)We welcome applications from students 21+ who do not match the standard entry requirements but
who can demonstrate willingness and commitment to studying this subject, and who can evidence academic, professional
or vocational experience in a related field.
2)Be assessed via an interview for listening, speaking, and writing (more details shown in ‘Next steps’ section).

Next Steps:

Specialised pathways


Our BA Global Business and Entrepreneurship course offers you a selection of specialised pathways in the final year. The first three years of study are designed to give you a structured trajectory of learning, gradually building your business acumen and entrepreneurial abilities before embarking on intensive studies in the final year towards your intended career path.

The balance of foundation, intermediate and advanced learning makes this course a worthwhile investment, with targeted career development to ensure that you are prepared to start your future career with confidence. Business ideas are being devised every day, but the ones that succeed have people with the right skills and understanding at their core.

This course provides the building blocks to be successful across a wide range of business ventures with the understanding of strategy, tactics and innovation needed for you to realise your ambitions. The global perspective gained in this course is also highly regarded by leading employers who are searching for graduates with the right balance of skills, business insights and entrepreneurial talents to take their businesses to the next level.

Our BA Global Business and Entrepreneurship course provides pathways designed to build graduates that can make a big impact wherever their careers may take them.
The specialised pathways for this course are:

Foundation Year

  • Academic Writing and Research Skills (20 credits)
  • Business Environment (20 credits)
  • Entrepreneurial People and Processes (20 credits)
  • Fundamentals of Finance (20 credits)
  • Introduction to Business (20 credits)
  • IT Essentials (20 credits)

Year 1

  • Entrepreneurial Organisations (20 credits)
  • Entrepreneurial Recognition, Ideas and Opportunities (20 credits)
  • Introduction to Marketing (20 credits)
  • Introduction to Strategic Management (20 credits)
  • Managerial Finance (20 credits)
  • Project Management (20 credits)

Year 2-3

  • Business Ideas and Opportunities Generation (20 credits)
  • Business Planning and Pitching (20 credits)
  • Digital Marketing and Social Media in Business (20 credits)
  • Financing a Business Venture and Legal Aspects (20 credits)
  • Intrapreneurial Development (20 credits)
  • Social Entrepreneurship (20 credits)
  • Global Strategies (20 credits)
  • Market Research (20 credits)
  • Project (60 credits)

Depending on your pathway of choice, you will also complete one of the modules below:

  • Contemporary Issues in Entrepreneurship (20 credits)
  • Contemporary Issues in Events and Hospitality (20 credits)
  • Contemporary Issues in IT and Communications (20 credits)
  • Contemporary Issues in Professional Business Services (20 credits)
  • Contemporary Issues in Retail (20 credits)
  • Contemporary Issues in Supply Chain (20 credits)

Fees and Funding

You can apply for financial help to support your studies by visiting gov.uk/student finance. This could take the form of a Tuition Fee Loan to cover the cost of your tuition fees, and/or a Maintenance Loan to support you with living costs whilst studying.

  • If you are eligible, you can apply for a Tuition Fee Loan which will be paid directly to your university or learning provider and is used to settle your tuition fees on your behalf. You will be required to start repaying the loan when you have finished your studies, and your income is above the required threshold set out by the UK Government.

  • If you are eligible, you can also apply for a Maintenance Loan, these funds are paid directly into your bank account in accordance with your course of study and pre-set intervals. The maintenance loan repayment operates in the same way as it does for tuition fee loans.

  • All students need to meet the eligibility criteria to apply such as eligibility checks on your nationality, residency status and any previous study that you have been funded for.

For full details, more information or advice on how to apply, please visit gov.uk/student finance.