Business and Management and Criminology BA/BSc (Hons)
Bath Spa University
Key Information
Campus location
Bath, United Kingdom
Languages
English
Study format
On-Campus
Duration
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Pace
Full time
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Introduction
Business and Management and Criminology BA/BSc (Hons)
Business and Management
Well help you develop as a person to achieve your potential through teaching you about business and how it works. You'll graduate with potential for employment in different businesses; this could be an organisation, the private or public sector, a charity or possibly your own business. We aim to give you the skills to apply your knowledge in a wide range of situations in any sector.
You'll have flexibility to choose modules that are of particular interest to you. You can also bring in modules from areas outside your course if you want to explore issues around a particular ‘theme, such as sustainability or global affairs.
Criminology
Criminologists study crime from a variety of approaches, making this a diverse field of study. You'll study crime from a variety of angles and perspectives. Core modules focus on the main theories, debates, issues and research problems in criminology and criminal justice, while optional modules enable you to develop your particular interests.
Well support and encourage you to gain practical experience in relevant fields through voluntary work and placements. You'll develop practical and analytical skills as well as subject knowledge in crime and criminal justice.
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Scholarships and Funding
Several scholarship options are available. Please check the university website for more information.
Curriculum
Business and Management
Year one (Level 4) modules
- The Business Environment
- Organisational Behaviour and Management
- Economics and Globalisation
- Managing Data
- Design Thinking for Enterprise
- Professional Practice
Year two (Level 5) modules
- Creativity for Business
- Innovation Management
- The Marketing Business
- Human Resource Management
- Financial Accounting
- Operations and Project Management
- Destination Management
- International Business
- Entrepreneurship
- Applying Economics
- Festival and Events Management
- Law for Business Enterprise
- Fashion Marketing and Management
- Work Placement
- Professional Placement Year
- Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages
Year three (Level 6) modules
- Managing Sustainability
- Business and Management Project
- International Marketing
- Management Accounting
- Strategic Human Resource Management
- Enterprise: Creating your Business
- Organisational Strategy
- New Trends in Management
- Cross Cultural Management in International Business
- Business Placement
- Tourism: Contemporary Issues
- Creating and Hosting Festivals and Events
- Exploring Law in Business
- Business and Academic Skills
- Fashion Marketing Visualisation
- Successful Freelancing
- Leadership and Management
Criminology
Year one (Level 4) modules
- Crime and Disorder in Everyday Life
- Crime, Violence and Harm
- Crime: Representation and Reality
- Sociology of Deviance and Social Control
- Questioning Society
- Power / Resistance
Year two (Level 5) modules
- Policing, Crime Control and Prevention
- Criminal Justice: Theory, Policy and Practice
- Social Science Research Methods
- Crime, Law and Society
- The Criminological Mind
- Exploring Violence
- Forensic and Investigative Psychology
- Geotechnologies for Society and Environment
- Migration: Identity, Belonging, Citizenship and Security
- Youth in Society: Power, Politics and Participation
- Crime Fiction
- The Life Course: Ageing and Generation
- Social Problems, Social Divisions, Social Justice
- Law for Business Enterprise
- Work Placement
- Professional Placement Year
Year three (Level 6) modules
- Dissertation in Criminology
- Media, Sociality and Everyday Life
- Victims and Victimisation
- Terrorism Studies
- Punishment and Penology in Global Context
- Young People, Identities and Subcultures
- Gender in Society: Critical Perspectives
- Community Engagement
- Narratives of Crime
- Unlocking Criminology
- Exploring Law in Business
- Culture, Risk and Environmental Justice
- Ethnicity and Society
- Cyber Security
Program Outcome
Program Intended Learning Outcomes
Business and Management
The Business Environment: to critically analyse the interrelated nature of the global forces (economic, social, ethical, political, ecological, technological and regulatory) that shape contemporary organisations.
Organisations: to systematically and critically review how organisations work; the design and development of organisations including cross cultural issues, change, diversity and values and how it feels to manage in different sectors.
Strategy: to evaluate how business policy and strategy impacts on the development of appropriate change management, stakeholder interest, continuity planning and objective setting.Innovation and Enterprise: to apply business innovation and enterprise development models, to use concept assessment tools and to assess intellectual property regulations.
Finance: to identify appropriate sources, uses and management of finance and the use of accounting and other information systems for planning and control and the use of this information for decision making and managing financial risk.
Criminology
Systematic knowledge and understanding of the central disciplinary concepts and issues relating to crime, deviance, justice, punishment and victimisation and how these are constituted in social, political, legal, cultural, economic, technological and spatial contexts
Systematic knowledge of theoretical perspectives and debates in criminology and how their development over time has shaped criminology as a multidisciplinary enterprise
Systematic understanding of methods used in criminological research, challenges in measuring crime and the social and political frameworks in which knowledge about crime is produced
Program Tuition Fee
English Language Requirements
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