Compulsory modules

The aims of this module are for students to:

  • Develop a critical awareness of the intellectual diversity of geographical ideas and practice.
  • Enhance students' abilities across a range of subject-specific academic and professional skills.

The aims of this module are to:

  • Provide an introduction to core issues in corporate finance.
  • Provide an understanding of how corporate finance relates to other corporate managerial activities.
  • Develop relevant transferable skills.

The aims of this module are:

  • To introduce students to a sound foundation of behavioural and organisational concepts for subsequent management modules.
  • To develop a sensitive awareness and clear understanding of how people work individually, in groups and within organisations.
  • To encourage an openness to new ideas and an awareness that in many situations there is a range of alternatives which should be evaluated.

The aims of this module are to introduce students to key concepts and debates in economic and political geography, examine case studies of economic and political change in the global North and global South, familiarise students with writers and texts in economic and political geography.

The aim of this module is to introduce students to some key geographical themes and a range of practical techniques for collecting, analysing and interpreting data relevant to human and physical geographical research questions.

The student will gain a broad understanding of the basic characteristics and functions of physical and biogeographical Earth systems and the sensitivity of such environmental systems to perturbations, both natural and human-made, on a variety of time-scales ranging from seasonal to geological.

The aims of this module are to:

  • Provide an introduction to financial accounting, its key concepts and context.
  • Develop students' skills in preparing and interpreting financial statements.
  • Explore the subjective nature of financial reporting, its benefits and its limitations.
  • Develop students' analytical and written presentational skills.
  • Develop and enhance transferable skills.

The aims of this module are:

  • To build on the pre-requisite module.
  • To examine critically the role of the Human Resource Management (HRM) function within the contemporary organisation.
  • To develop a clear understanding of the role of the HRM function in maintaining an equitable relationship between employer and employee.

The aims of this module are to introduce students to key concepts in social and cultural geography, examine case studies of social and cultural change in the global North and global South, and familiarise students with writers and texts in social and cultural geography.

The module aims to provide you with an understanding of the diversity of environmental hazards across a range of spatial and temporal scales, examining their impacts on and interactions with society. Through an interdisciplinary approach, this module explores the causes, impacts and risks associated with different environmental hazards, to understand how to sustainably manage and mitigate the destructive power of nature.

Optional modules

The aims of this module are:

  • Introduce students to a variety of mathematical and statistical tools that are used in management and its professions.
  • Ensure that students have the requisite mathematical, statistical and modelling skills that will be necessary to study the quantitative business and management techniques presented in subsequent parts of their management education.
  • Develop confidence in, the use of industry standard packages for business and management purposes.
  • Develop relevant transferable skills.

The aims of this module are:

  • Introduce students to a variety of mathematical and statistical tools that are used in management and its professions.
  • Ensure that students have the requisite mathematical, statistical and modelling skills that will be necessary to study the quantitative business and management techniques presented in subsequent parts of their management education.
  • Develop confidence in, the use of industry standard packages for business and management purposes.
  • Develop relevant transferable skills.