BA (Hons) Business Management and IT

Key Facts

• Part-time flexible delivery option allows you to combine study with work or other commitments
• Assignments based around real company projects give you the opportunity to explore solutions that can be of direct benefit to any existing employers
• Your professional experience can count towards entry requirements
• The university has excellent links with professional bodies and local businesses
• The University is home to CARDs, a renowned research centre for research into the digital society

Course Content

This business management element of the degree with allow you to develop a broad range of key personal and professional skills which will help you to formulate, evaluate and recommend solutions to business problems, take responsibility and initiative in projects and communicate effectively. The IT element of the degree will teach you the capabilities and limitations of IT systems.

You will learn everything from website and database design to emerging technologies and IT project management.

Typical course content

Business modules cover all of the main areas required to become a successful manager including finance, HR, marketing, leadership and management. A strong Human Resources theme runs throughout the course interlinked with professional issues and ethics. IT modules focus on developing your understanding of the IT world from a business point of view. This is while developing the skills to improve the efficiency and operation of business IT systems.

• Business context
• People management and organisational behaviour
• Managing financial and statistical data
• Database design and implementation
• Web development
• Informatics
• Marketing planning management and control
• Human resource management
• Managing finance and information Systems development tools and techniques
• Professional issues
• Human-computer interaction
• Strategic and operations management
• Managing workforce engagement and commitment
• Emerging technology
• IT project management

Career Opportunities

This degree is designed for those wishing to become IT practitioners in a business environment. It is a practical degree covering both technical and theoretical issues relating to the development, management and maintenance of information systems and applications. Successful graduates will have a combination of technical skills, business insight, interpersonal skills and project management skills that will help to ensure employers make the most of their technology while increasing their business’ success.