
BA (Hons) in Business and Management (Law)
DURATION
3 up to 4 Years
LANGUAGES
English
PACE
Full time, Part time
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EARLIEST START DATE
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TUITION FEES
GBP 15,750 / per year *
STUDY FORMAT
On-Campus
* international full time | UK part time: £4,625 | UK full time: £9,250 | professional placement year full time for UK: £1,850 international: £3,150
Key Summary
Introduction
Our BA (Hons) Business and Management (Law) degree offers a diverse program that will equip you with the business skills to work in a range of sectors. You’ll gain a thorough grounding in core business skills as well as specialist knowledge about how law is integrated into business functions and job roles.
Engage with fascinating subjects such as contract law, negligence, crime, and the law governing business structures, and demonstrate your understanding through interesting problem-solving exercises with real-life case studies. We make the law accessible and help you build your confidence in engaging with the law in different contexts, allowing you to deepen your understanding in this rigorous and thought-provoking course.
Your chosen pathway in Law will enable you to specialize in areas of business with significant legal regulation such as Human Resources, or even work in the legal industries in a variety of roles. You’ll learn in a supportive environment with hands-on and dynamic staff and interact with fellow students across the Bath Business School.
Professional placement year
Overview
This optional placement year provides you with the opportunity to identify, apply for, and secure professional experience, normally comprising one to three placements over a minimum of nine months. Successful completion of this module will demonstrate your ability to secure and sustain graduate-level employment.
By completing the module, you'll be entitled to the addition of 'with Professional Placement Year' to your degree title.
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Curriculum
This course enables you to develop your learning pathway, depending on your interests. There is a selection of core and optional modules each year. Core modules will depend on your chosen pathway and you can choose optional modules to complement or diversify your core skill-set each year.
Year one (Level 4) modules
- The Business Environment
- Organizational Behaviour and Management
- Economics and Globalisation
- Managing Data
- Design Thinking for Enterprise
- Professional Practice
Year two (Level 5) modules
- Creativity for Business
- Innovation Management
- Accounting in Practice
- Entrepreneurship in Practice
- Festivals and Events in Practice
- Human Resource Management in Practice
- International Business in Practice
- Economics in Practice
- Law in Practice
- Marketing in Practice
- Tourism Management in Practice
- Fashion in Practice
- Operations and Project Management
- The Marketing Business
- Human Resource Management
- Financial Accounting
- Destination Management
- International Business
- Entrepreneurship
- Festival and Events Management
- Law for Business Enterprise
- Fashion Marketing and Management
- Applying Economics
- Work Placement
- Professional Placement Year
- Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages
Year three (Level 6) modules
- Business and Management Project
- Accounting Project
- Entrepreneurship Project
- Festival and Events Project
- Human Resource Management Project
- International Business Project
- Marketing Project
- Tourism Management Project
- Law Project
- Economics Project
- Fashion Project
- International Marketing
- Management Accounting
- Strategic Human Resource Management
- Enterprise: Creating Your Business
- Organisational Strategy
- Managing Sustainability
- Cross Cultural Management in International Business
- Summer Placement
- Tourism: Contemporary Issues
- Creating and Hosting Festivals and Events
- Advanced Economics Issues
- Exploring Law in Business
- Business and Academic Skills
- Fashion Marketing Visualisation
- New Trends in Management
- Successful Freelancing
- Leadership and Management
Program Outcome
What you'll learn
Overview
Following our law pathway on the Business and Management degree, you'll develop specialist skills in the legal area of business. You'll also develop an understanding of:
- Contract, Tort, Consumer Protection and Employment Law
- White-collar crimes such as fraud, insider trading, money laundering, and identity theft
- Business property including Intellectual Property.
We'll help you develop as a person to achieve your potential through teaching you about the law. We aim to give you the skills to apply your knowledge in a wide range of situations in any sector.
You'll also gain a toolkit of key business skills that will enable you to work in different business settings and give you a solid grounding to achieve your potential, whatever your aims.
Course structure
Year one
Year one ensures that you have a broad and grounded knowledge of business today, giving you a platform to develop specialized knowledge as you progress through the course. You'll explore how organizations work, how they’re managed, and how they interact with the business environment. You'll gain an understanding of economic thinking, and develop management skills alongside skills in gathering and assessing information and data, in making and communicating decisions, and in evaluating their effect.
Year two
In year two you'll specialize in law as well as learn about the functions of a business and how these interrelate. You’ll start to form opinions about how businesses manage the challenges that are presented to them daily. You'll have the opportunity to work on projects and to use business techniques to solve problems, and you’ll start to develop your employability skills before seeking a placement at the end of this study year.
At the end of Year Two, you have the option to choose a ten-month placement or a shorter ten-week placement in a business. This is an invaluable chance to apply your legal knowledge and business skills in the real world, making you even more attractive to employers.
Year three
In your final year, when you finish your placement, you'll practice, develop, challenge, and explore all your business learning, and examine management as an integrating activity. In your law-related dissertation, you'll explore in depth a topic related to law or regulation that interests you. You’ll also have the opportunity to work individually or with colleagues to develop and set up a business, and you’ll study a specialist law option.
How will I be assessed?
You'll be assessed in a wide range of ways that will test your business knowledge and management skills. These could include presentations, work-related projects, group work, computer-based simulations, podcasts, examinations, essays, videos, and business reports.
Program Tuition Fee
Career Opportunities
Employers such as Logica, NHS, Liberty, Ocado, IBM, Marks and Spencer, American Express, Sky, and Numatic International have recruited graduates from this course. As a graduate of Business and Management (Law), you’ll be well-equipped for roles and areas such as:
- Health and Safety
- Intellectual property
- HR/employment law
- Criminal justice system
- Contract law
- Law conversion courses
- Banking
- Financial regulation.
Facilities
Program delivery
How will I be taught?
We offer variety in the way we teach: sometimes we’ll set your problems so that you can find the answers for yourself; sometimes we’ll lecture. Most modules use a mix of lectures and small-group seminars. There’s a good blend of online activities using our Virtual Learning Environment. We invite business leaders to Bath Spa to talk about their experience and we arrange visits to local businesses. All of our teaching methods facilitate your development as a self-directed learner.
You’ll be given personal support in your study – we’re a friendly team of academics who are committed to helping you achieve your goals.
Course length
Three years full-time, or four years full-time with a professional placement year. Part-time available.
Program Admission Requirements
Show your commitment and readiness for Grad school by taking the GRE - the most broadly accepted exam for graduate programs internationally.