BSc (Hons) Business and Sociology with Placement Year
Course Overview
The BSc (Hons) Business and Sociology at Aston University equips you with a powerful dual perspective, merging core business and management principles with a deep understanding of societal structures. You will learn to analyze how social factors like class, race, and gender influence inequality and connect to broader business challenges. This unique combination prepares you to think critically and act strategically in a complex global environment.
Key Program Highlights
- Gain a unique, marketable skillset by combining practical business acumen with critical sociological theory.
- Learn from research-active experts on pressing contemporary issues like inequality, migration, and health.
- Analyze real-world business models and social issues to understand their interconnected impact on society.
- Boost your career prospects with an integrated placement year, gaining invaluable professional experience.
- Develop critical thinking skills to understand the broader implications of individual and corporate actions.
Course Overview
The BSc (Hons) Business and Sociology at Aston University equips you with a powerful dual perspective, merging core business and management principles with a deep understanding of societal structures. You will learn to analyze how social factors like class, race, and gender influence inequality and connect to broader business challenges. This unique combination prepares you to think critically and act strategically in a complex global environment.
Key Program Highlights
- Gain a unique, marketable skillset by combining practical business acumen with critical sociological theory.
- Learn from research-active experts on pressing contemporary issues like inequality, migration, and health.
- Analyze real-world business models and social issues to understand their interconnected impact on society.
- Boost your career prospects with an integrated placement year, gaining invaluable professional experience.
- Develop critical thinking skills to understand the broader implications of individual and corporate actions.
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 Research Methods
- Research Methods
- Strategic Finance
- Operations Management
- Fundamental Strategy
- Virtual Business Manager
- Social Theory for a Changing World
- Global Society
- Embodiment, Deviance and Feminist Theory
- Media and Society
- Material Worlds: Culture, Objects and Practices
- Racisms
- Welfare
- 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
- Pregnancy and Politics
- Education for the 21st Century
- Religion and Society
- Migration, Borders and Belonging
- Elites
- Ecocide: Environmental Harms and Social Justice
- International Marketing
- Sustainable Operations Management
- Learning and Development
- Strategic Human Resource Management
- Innovation
