UNDERGRADUATE PROGRAMME SPECIFICATION Programme Titles: BSc (Hons) International Business Management BSc (Hons) International Business Management with Foundation Year BSc (Hons) International Business Management with Foundation Year and Placement Year BSc (Hons) International Business Management with Placement Year Awarding Body: Staffordshire University Teaching Institution: Staffordshire University APIIT Sri Lanka – BSc (Hons) International Business Management from October 2018 Disted Penang – BSc (Hons) International Business Management from September 2019 (subject to Malaysian Qualifications Agency authorisation) BUV Vietnam – BSc (Hons) International Business Management from September 2019 Final Awards: BSc (Hons) International Business Management Intermediate Awards: Certificate in Higher Education Diploma in Higher Education Mode of Study: Full-time UCAS Codes: N122 BSc (Hons) International Business Management QAA Subject Benchmarks: General Business and Management (2015) JACS Code: N120 Professional/Statutory Body: Entry Year: 2019/20 If you require this document in a larger text or a different medium, please contact us. EDUCATIONAL AIMS OF THE PROGRAMME The International Business Management degree aims to create a learner-centred success culture which will:
extend, devise and sustain arguments to complex organisation problems, scenarios and opportunities to demonstrate your capabilities as entrepreneurs and enterprising individuals. (QAA BMS 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 3.4, 3.5, 3.6, 3.7, 3.8, 3.9, 3.10, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 5.4, 5.5) Reflection Demonstrate a high of competence in personal development, showing initiative, responsibility, reflection and the transferable skills necessary for employability and understanding of your role in a globalised economy, through highly developed skills of personal awareness and critical review. (QAA BMS 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 3.4, 3.5, 3.6, 3.7, 3.8, 3.9, 3.10, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 5.4, 5.5)There is an expectation that degree programmes covered by this Subject Benchmark Statement should provide a broad, analytical and highly integrated study of business and management. 3.2 Graduates should be able to demonstrate relevant knowledge and understanding of o rganisations , the business environment in which they operate and their management . Programmes emphasise understanding, responding and shaping the dynamic and changing nature of business and the consi deration of the future of organisations within the global business environment, including the management of risk. 3.3 The interrelationships among and the integration between these areas are very important within the overall student learning experience, and sh ould be demonstrated in the capabilities of successful graduates from all modes of delivery. 3.4 Organisations: this encompasses the internal aspects, functions and processes of organisations including their diverse nature, purposes, structures, size/scale, go vernance,
, together with rational analysis and other processes of decision making within diff erent organisations. PROGRAMME OUTCOMES BY LEVEL The course specific learning outcomes below describe what the course will teach you to do. These outcomes are informed by the QAA benchmark statement for Business & Management, and therefore are representative of the attributes and capabilities that employers would expect you to demonstrate once you have achieved your qualification. 4 5 Level 6 Knowledge & Understanding Business Benchmark Statement (2.1; 2.3; 3.1; 3.2; 3.5; 3.7; 5.4) Demonstrate knowledge and understanding of the underlying concepts and principles associated with Business Management, together with professional requirements Demonstrate knowledge and critical understanding of the well-established concepts, principles and development in Business Management, emerging Digital Management, together with professional requirements. Demonstrate a systematic understanding and critical evaluation of key aspects of Management, to include how existing and emerging Management concepts inform decision making in the business professions response to contemporary and global developments. Learning Business Benchmark Statement (2.2; 3.9; 5.4) Develop lines of argument and make sound judgments in accordance with basic theories and concepts of Management. This will include skills associated with the management & digital business profession. Understand the limits of your knowledge and how this influences analysis and interpretations based on that knowledge, in Management, emerging Digital Business, together with professional leadership and management Carry out learning, critical analysis and evaluation, and creative thinking to provide opportunities and solutions for Management success. They will be able to engage in strategic thinking and development and apply ethical reasoning to Management issues facing contemporary organisations in management and leadership.
Enquiry Business Benchmark Statement : (2.2; 3.9; 5.4) Develop the ability to research, evaluate and interpret information relating to theory and practice within business management. Demonstrate knowledge of the main methods of enquiry through a range of research and practical activities associated with management and digital business. Develop investigative skills suitable for identifying opportunities for entrepreneurship. Justify and apply appropriate and ethical approaches to research and investigation in the fields of Management & Digital Management and apply skills and knowledge of enterprise in the pursuit of new business solutions and opportunity. Analysis Business Benchmark Statement : (2.2; 3.3; 3.6; 5.4) Evaluate and interpret concepts and principles associated with the Business Management. Use a range of established techniques to initiate and undertake critical analysis of information in Management. Recognise that skills developed in the Digital Industry are appropriate in the broader business professions. Critically evaluate international business and Management theories applied to decision making and in the judgement of business management decisions. To demonstrate entrepreneurial thinking in their approach to problem and opportunity analysis. Throughout they will demonstrate creative thinking, quantitative approaches to analytical decision making and innovation. Problem Solving Business Benchmark Statement : (3.5; 3.9; 4.2) Evaluate the appropriateness of different approaches to solve problems to respond to the demands of the business sector. Evaluate critically the appropriateness of different approaches to problems arising from analysis of diverse information and within professional constraints of the business management sector. Recognise the transferability of problem solving skills. Demonstrate a range of approaches to solving complex and interrelated international Management problems, displaying judgement of appropriate and different perspectives and the knowledge. Within this process demonstrate your
understanding of what is right and ethical. Communication Business Benchmark Statement : (3.9) Use a range of methods to convey the results of your study and /or work accurately, reliably and with structured and coherent arguments. Communicate effectively information and arguments in a variety of to specialist and audiences (such as when seeking funding from a financial source). Deploy key techniques of the discipline effectively for the purposes of promotion, discussion, information, explanation and presentation. Communicate complex information, ideas, problems and solutions through a variety of media and display confidence in their communication and presentation abilities and your ability to network and interact. Application Business Benchmark Statement : (2.4; 3.1; 3.3; 3.4; 3.5; 3.7; 3.9; 4.2; 5.4) Develop new skills and utilise appropriate resources and techniques to create successful business solutions in a structured and managed environment. Apply underlying concepts and principles outside the theoretical context by undertaking practical projects (such as designing a business strategy) that require independent planning and innovative thinking. Be able to use high level skills in fulfilment of industry standard requirements. Apply, with reasoned judgement, skills, problem-solving techniques, international business and Management knowledge to organisation problems, scenarios and opportunities to demonstrate your capabilities as entrepreneurs consistent with the marketing profession. Reflection Business Benchmark Statement : (2.3; 2.4; 3.2; 3.8; 3.9; 5.3) Demonstrate qualities and transferable skills necessary for employment and/or further study in the field of Management and exercise some personal responsibility for learning and development. Manage your own learning, exercise initiative, personal responsibility and demonstrate the learning ability, qualities and transferable skills necessary for employment or further training of a professional or equivalent nature in business management. Consider reflective tools when evaluating the options of Demonstrate a high level of competence in personal development, employability and understanding of their role in a globalised economy, through highly developed skills of personal awareness and critical review, comparable with the business management profession.
Optional Placement Year Level 6 TB1 International Business Strategy Authentic Leadership Business Ethics Knowledge Exchange Project TB2 Change and Transformation data for Financial Decision making BA (Hons) International Business (accelerated) Year 1 TB1 Business Agility Economics for Managers Management Accounting The Professional Toolkit TB2 Human Capital Management Entrepreneurial Marketing Law for Managers TB3 Digital Marketing Strategy and Planning Big Data Managing Across Cultures Work Placement Project Optional Placement Year Year 2 Semester 1 Work placement Project Business Creation and Innovation Global Supply Chain and Logistics Advanced Professional Toolkit Semester 2 Change and Transformation Authentic Leadership Business Ethics