This year-long Top-Up course offers students an opportunity to enhance their knowledge and understanding of business management, particularly the international dimensions of business, while completing the final year of their undergraduate degree. The course provides a broad, analytical and integrated programme for those wishing to study International Business Management. It reflects the QAA Subject Benchmark for Business and Management which sees the of purpose business and management programmes as threefold:

●Increasing understanding of organisations, their management, the economy and the business environment.
●preparation for and development of a career in business and management, and enhancement of a wide range of skills and attributes which equip graduates to become effective global citizens.

The central aim of the course is to build on the students’ existing knowledge of business and management. The core modules provide students with the advanced theoretical and practical knowledge and skills necessary to operate in a global business environment and to develop their understanding of the realities faced by international business managers. Along with a language module, the range of elective modules reflect the diversity of international business management and is intended to accommodate the wider learning background experiences of non-UK students.

Students develop their understanding of the governance, operations and management of the functions and processes of international business organisations, as well as the corporate behaviours and cultures that exist within and between different organisations. Students have opportunities to enhance their existing understanding of management theories, models, frameworks, tasks and roles, including the management of people and corporate social responsibility. They will explore the factors that influence business from an international perspective, with an emphasis not only on understanding but also on responding and shaping the dynamic and changing nature of business and the consideration of the future of organisations within the global business environment.

The course is designed to prepare students to deal with contemporary issues and challenges in the world of business. Contemporary case studies help to prepare students to deal with issues and challenges, such as change management and values, in cross-cultural environments, and with the management and development of people of ethnically diverse backgrounds. Throughout the course students are exposed to social, ethnic, and cultural issues inherent in the student body.

The degree has a central all encapsulating theme of employability with the aim of providing students with the transferable knowledge and skills required for their chosen careers, and which reflects the breadth and depth of opportunities for learning, practice, placement and employability.

Delivery patterns are flexible and will be reviewed on an on-going basis to allow, where required, blended learning and direct delivery. This is to allow for changes in the current pandemic situation and onwards. The course utilises a blended learning approach to teaching and learning through a mixture of interactive workshops, lectures including virtual lectures, seminars and a wide range of multimedia.

Students are provided with opportunities to analyse and discuss core principles and concepts and obtain peer and formative feedback. The course adopts a student-centred learning approach, which requires synthesis and critical analysis of key issues generated through their own research. Workshops, lectures and seminars are designed to convey broad principles, concepts and knowledge, as well as offering students the opportunity to analyse and apply knowledge through field work, and through case studies and business management scenarios.

The approach to teaching and learning on the course is to help students develop an inquisitive, critically analytical, and independent but supported level of scholarship in which they are able to set personal goals and targets. Experiential learning is fostered, whereby students are encouraged to learn from their own current or previous experiences of work. The course utilises industry expertise through the inclusion of business problems, current employers, and visiting professors.