BSc (Hons) Business and Sociology with Integrated Placement Year
Course Overview
This dynamic Business and Sociology degree equips you to understand and change the world, preparing you for a career in global business, entrepreneurship, or social enterprise. You'll integrate core management principles with a deep analysis of social structures, inequalities, and real-world challenges. The program culminates in a professional placement and an individual research project, providing invaluable practical experience.
Key Program Highlights
- Gain a unique, powerful blend of business strategy and sociological analysis of issues like inequality, race, and gender.
- Learn from expert researchers and apply knowledge through real-world case studies and your own final-year dissertation.
- Undertake an integrated professional placement year to develop key skills and improve graduate employability.
- Acquire highly desired analytical and data skills, including research design, data collection, and coding techniques.
- Join a diverse community with excellent support, including for international students eligible for the post-study work visa.
Course Overview
This dynamic Business and Sociology degree equips you to understand and change the world, preparing you for a career in global business, entrepreneurship, or social enterprise. You'll integrate core management principles with a deep analysis of social structures, inequalities, and real-world challenges. The program culminates in a professional placement and an individual research project, providing invaluable practical experience.
Key Program Highlights
- Gain a unique, powerful blend of business strategy and sociological analysis of issues like inequality, race, and gender.
- Learn from expert researchers and apply knowledge through real-world case studies and your own final-year dissertation.
- Undertake an integrated professional placement year to develop key skills and improve graduate employability.
- Acquire highly desired analytical and data skills, including research design, data collection, and coding techniques.
- Join a diverse community with excellent support, including for international students eligible for the post-study work visa.
Requirements
Modules
- Introduction to Social Theory
- Becoming a Social Scientist
- Introductory Accounting for Business
- Economic Environment of Business
- Introduction to Organisational Behaviour
- Introduction to Marketing Management
- Advanced Social Theory
- Research Methods
- Strategic Finance
- Operations Management
- Fundamental Strategy
- Virtual Business Simulation
- Advanced Research Methods
- Global Society
- Embodiment and Feminist Theory
- Media and Society
- Kith and Kin
- The Social Life of Stuff
- Racisms
- Digital Methods for Social Science and the Humanities
- Integrated Placement Year
- Dissertation (Sociology)
- Theories and Practice of Leadership
- Business Ethics
- Work, Organisations and Society
- Bodies, Power and Resistance
- Contemporary Social Movements
- Corporate Power
- Pregnancy and Politics
- Education for the 21st Century
- Religion and Society
- Migration, Borders and Belonging
- Health Policy
- The Challenges of Climate Change
- International Marketing
- Sustainable Operations Management
- Learning and Development
- Strategic Human Resource Management
- Innovation
- Consumer Research and the Customer Experience
