BSc (Hons) Business Economics (Full Time)

This course will develop your knowledge of how businesses address emerging problems, seek new insights to resolve issues and position themselves to take advantage of change. Key elements include:

• Understanding the business world from an economist’s perspective
• Developing sought-after skills in numeracy, research, team working, problem solving and decision making
• Expert tutor team with vast teaching and research experience
• Friendly and supportive academic approach
• University guest speaker programme from business experts – recent speakers include Dragon’s Den favourite Theo Paphitis
• Regular contact with industry experts who offer insight and guidance.

Industrial focus

This course is focused on preparing you for the work place, building on the University’s strengths in designing courses for employment.

Through our Solent Enterprise Centre, which offers bespoke courses in training and management, the University has many links with local and national businesses. All students are encouraged to gain experience through work placements.

By the time you graduate, you’ll have the skills needed by businesses, nationally and internationally. And you’ll be able to deal effectively with business problems, taking into account the economic and political environments your business is working in.

Course content

Year 1

Four core units:

• Business Economics
• The UK Economy: Mathematics and Statistics for Economist (A)
• Personal and Professional Development
• Managerial Accounting and Organisation and Resource Management (Including Legal Issues).

Year 2

Five core units, plus one option:

• Managerial Economics
• Monetary and Financial Systems
• Global Business Environment
• Mathematics and Statistics for Economics (B)
• International Business Economics

One option from a selection of Business and Economics units, such as:

• Entrepreneurship and Business
• Business Law
• Financial Analysis in Business
• Languages
• Curriculum Plus.

Year 3

Four core units, plus two options:

• Contemporary Economic Issues
• Project Management in Business
• Project
• Quantitative Techniques

Two options from a selection of Business and Economics units, such as:

• Developing the Entrepreneurial Venture
• International Financial Systems
• Personal Finance
• Managing for Results
• International Marketing
• Business Finance
• Languages
• Curriculum Plus.

Why choose Solent?

Southampton Solent University is a friendly place to learn and excel. Our approachable and supportive expert team will help you acquire business skills in a modern campus setting, and you’ll be encouraged to take on work experience placements that set you ahead of the competition. All of our courses combine theory and practice – to help give you the best possible start to your career.

Assessment

Teaching will consist of tutorials, lectures, workshops and seminars, as well as group work and individual study sessions. The Course will typically comprise of end-of-year examinations, in-course assessments (ie essays, reports, etc), group and/or individual presentations. There will also be an opportunity for you to gain feedback on work submitted allowing you to practice mock assessments – all helping you to enhance your final summative assessment mark.

Key career skills

Team working, business and customer awareness, problem solving, communication, numeracy, IT, research skills, project management.

Project/Work experience

The course provides the opportunity to work on company projects. The final year project, for example, enables students to work on research projects for organisations such as Southampton City Council, Hampshire Constabulary and BT, as well as smaller, local businesses.

This course is subject to validation