BA (Hons) Business and Management (with a year in industry)

In a dynamic and interconnected global economy, the role of management has never been more important. We’ll equip you to be a holistic, resourceful, innovative and reflective practitioner of management, able to independently identify and develop your own specialisms. You’ll be numerically and digitally literate, robust and ethically sound, sensitive to diversity and fully adaptable: a decision-maker able to cope with the demands of the 21st century workplace. You'll gain an understanding of cutting-edge management theory, and develop deeper insight by putting your learning into practice during your year in industry. With a more flexible structure than the equivalent BSc, you can choose from a wide range of specialised modules to meet your interests.Learning outcomes: Every course at York has been designed to provide clear and ambitious learning outcomes. These learning outcomes give you an understanding of what you will be able to do at the end of the course. We develop each course by designing modules that grow your abilities towards the learning outcomes and help you to explain what you can offer to employers. Learning outcomes for this courseChampion sustainable and ethical principles, engage in socially and internationally-aware approaches to complex business and management situations, and reflect upon their consequences.identify and diagnose problems in business and management by applying management theories, frameworks and experience to specific cases.manage business, management and organisational information by critically evaluating the quality of the evidence base, overcoming ambiguity by identifying gaps and inadequacies, and using suitable methods to collect and collate relevant data.make robust, creative and evidence-based managerial decisions by critically analysing textual and numerical information and data using appropriate qualitative and quantitative techniques.argue for specific management and business proposals and recommendations by presenting relevant and appropriately detailed information, coherently, articulately and confidently.act efficiently and professionally to put managerial decisions into practice taking into account the organisational context together with time and resource constraints.