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BSc Management
The BSc Management degree in York is designed to develop your analytical problem solving and decision making skills that will enable you to work as a professional manager in business. Our Problem Based Learning modules will enable you to put classroom knowledge into practice.
Businesses have to constantly adapt to survive and compete in today’s global economy. Managers, therefore, have to make timely and highly informed decisions that are often constrained by time and resources. This programme will equip you with the broad business and management background and the analytical, technical and interpersonal skills required to understand, analyse and address the problems facing companies today.
The BSc Management degree from York really will give you a head start in your career. Employers from blue-chip organisations are involved in the delivery of the modules and you will work on real projects with a number of these businesses.
The degree can be studied as a three year degree programme or with an additional Student Placements
Course content
Year One
Year 1 is a core year common to all our degree programmes
- Understanding Arguments in Management
- Behaviour in Organisations
- Financial and Management Accounting
- Management and the Business Environment
- Qualitative Methods for Accounting and Management
- Quantitative Methods
Year Two
- Marketing
- Strategic Management
- Business Planning
- Knowledge Information Systems
- Project and Operations Management
- Advanced Quantitative Methods
Year Three
In year three a choice of pathways is available. There is a core pathway that you must study and you also select one options pathway:
Core Pathway
- Supply Chain Management
- Business Consultancy Project
- Decision and Information Analysis
Option Pathway: Human Resource Management
- Employment Relations - Here and Abroad
- Development of Human Resources
- Employee Ownership and Governance
Option Pathway: Organisational Behaviour
- Managing and Leading Change
- Management and Gender
- Current Management and Organisation Research
Option Pathway: Management & Strategy
- Public Services Management OR Corporate Social Responsibility and Governance
- Strategy in Context
- Managing Risk in a Global Context
Option Pathway: Dissertation
- Advanced Research Methods
- Dissertation
The modules above represent examples of what you can expect to learn in years 1, 2 and 3. We regularly update our course and therefore module descriptions are subject to change.
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