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Bachelor of Arts (with Honours) - BA (Hons)
Treforest Campus
Full Time
Sep 2026
3 Year
The business environment is changing all the time. While you can’t predict the future, you can certainly be prepared for it. Organisations need flexible employees with a range of skills, who understand the different areas of business and how they work together. This business management degree will give you a well-rounded business education to make you a versatile and employable graduate.
By studying this business management degree at USW, you will get a full overview of how businesses perform, meaning you can adapt and succeed in a competitive jobs market. There are compulsory modules that cover essential topics such as marketing, how to manage people, purchasing and logistics. As you progress, you can choose specialist modules in areas that match your interests and career aims. There are also many opportunities to gain practical experience of the business world, including work placements and hands-on challenges.
You'll gain experience of working with industry, either through a year-long sandwich placement, an internship or a Professional Practice and Employability module. This module has input from employers and is an example of the way that employability informs this course and provides a strong base for your future career. You will also benefit from gaining the Chartered Management Institute (CMI) alongside their studies on the course.
This degree can be studied in either our Treforest or Newport campuses.
This skills-based module will introduce critical thinking and crucial research skills which provide the foundation for the next 3 years of study.
Students will evaluate the key traits and skills required to manage a new enterprise and will self-reflect on their own entrepreneurial competencies.
This module supports you with both the academic and professional skills you will need to succeed in both your degree and your future career.
The module helps students consider the internal and external environment and how it impacts on the current decision making and future direction of business.
This module teaches you how to understand and market to your customer. These are fundamental skills in the diverse and fast paced marketing industry.
The module looks at historical and modern approaches to management in the workplace, including the advent of technologies which are reshaping the workplace, and the skills people require.
Understand the importance of managing and recognising the supply chain as being a key constituent of any organisations' ability to deliver value to its customers and stakeholders.
Through the analysis of financial and statistical data and information, students will be guided through the interpretation of figures to make sense of data and inform decision making.
This module supports you with both the academic and professional skills you will need to succeed in both your degree and your future career.
These modules are delivered simultaneously and allow students to engage with a real business with the option of completing a 10-week internship or a live business case through the Business Clinic.
Having difficult conversations, negotiation skills, recruitment and managing performance are just some of the areas which the module will concentrate on to develop key employability skills.
Understand, explore, and apply key project management techniques and principles and assess the impact that they have on operations and business processes.
Appreciate the capabilities of digital technologies, but also the organisational contexts in which they will be embedded.
This module develops a critical understanding of the current ethical considerations for business which drive them towards being more socially responsible and sustainable bodies.
This module supports you with both the academic and professional skills you will need to succeed in both your degree and your future career.
This module will provide any student who aspires towards management in any industry with a critical insight into contemporary discourses on leadership in a global context.
or Consultancy Project Throughout the final year of study, students have the option to undertake a critical enquiry (dissertation) project or a consultancy-based project.
The module facilitates a systematic, critical understanding of global business environment and enhances students? ability to critically analyse emerging themes in international business.
This module allows students to reflect on their learnings throughout the course before taking part in a simulation exercise that allows students to put theory into practice.
The University normally requires Mathematics/Numeracy and English at Grade C/4 or above, or their equivalent, but consideration is given to individual circumstances. Grades/points required
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