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Bachelor of Science (with Honours) - BSc (Hons)
Main Campus
Full Time
Sep 2026
3 Year
Our International Business BSc will provide you with the skills and experience to work in an international business. You’ll graduate a confident, independent thinker, with the skills to adapt rapidly to change, and a detailed knowledge of international business and cross-cultural management. This degree will give you in-depth knowledge of organisations and their environments, including their relationships to society. Specialising in international business, you will focus on the ways businesses operate differently in home and overseas markets. Developing an understanding of areas such as managing people, operations, logistics, marketing and finance, you will also learn about what businesses need to do to operate ethically and effectively in a culturally diverse environment.
This module is designed to introduce you to the essential concepts and skills used in business problem solving. Excel is used to identify and interpret quantitative data to solve a range of problems, including customer satisfaction, personal finance issues, business modelling, quality assurance, recruitment issues and supply chain problems. The emphasis is on case studies drawn from a bank of case studies relating to real business situations.
This module aims to provide students with an introduction to different types of business organisations and the environments that they operate within. The module will mainly focus on the factors affecting businesses that are located in advanced economies. Therefore, much of the analysis and discussion will centre around issues that relate to industrial structure, international trade and technological change. Although factors affecting businesses in developing countries/emerging economies will be covered to a certain extent, there will be less of a focus on businesses operating in such environments. Similarly, economic, financial and technological influences on organisations will be emphasized, although political, social, cultural, legal and environmental factors will also be covered through an introduction to PESTLE analysis.
This module will help you to develop your understanding of self and is your first stepping stone to the personal and professional development required of all students who wish to study business and management. The module has been designed to enable you to identify your personal strengths and weaknesses through a process of self-assessment and reflection. You will be able to identify your personal values, preferred learning styles, develop your understanding of issues such as cultural and emotional intelligence and be supported to enhance your interpersonal skills. This process of self-assessment and reflection will in turn develop your independent thinking, build your confidence in your own potential, and increase your drive to achieve your management potential.
A key aspect of your employability will be your Undergraduate BSc business degree from Roehampton Business School. Throughout your career you will refer back to your undergraduate business degree and discuss with future employers the knowledge and skills you have successfully developed during your degree. It is important for your employability that you are able to recognise your own ?business readiness?(employability and added value) from the beginning of your degree programme.
This module will introduce you to the essential knowledge and skills in Accounting and Finance that you will need as a practicing manager. We assume that you are new to the subject and that you are a general business learner ? not an accounting specialist. The module will develop your learning in stages. We?ll start from familiar ideas about money and business, move through internal Accounting issues like budgets then show you the key ideas in financial statements. Finally we will give you an overview of the sources and uses of Finance required for a sustainable organisation. These will cover for-profit and not-for-profit as well as public service contexts. Along the way, you will meet important ideas around information systems for planning, controlling and making financial decisions as well as understanding the basics of risk. A grasp of these matters financial is essential to your employability in the modern world whether in a company or starting your own business. And as you learn, the module will demystify Accounting and Finance, improve your confidence in these areas and equip you with knowledge and skills to increase your ability to understand business.
This module provides the study skills and personal tutoring support to enable your transition to university education. It also provides academic skills development which underpins the first year modules. The module encourages you to reflect on your approaches to academic study and learning; to identify your existing patterns, techniques and habits and examine how to adapt, adjust and adopt skills and techniques in order to become members of the academic community in the Business School. The module provides an introduction to the Roehampton Business Graduate, Business Readiness and covers essential skills such as writing for different audiences, accessing academic material via the library, approaching, understanding and criticising contemporary academic ideas and discussions, and citing and referencing sources.
This module is designed to introduce you to the essential concepts and skills used in modern marketing management. An organisation?s customers represent one of its most important assets and marketing is about identifying and satisfying customers? needs and wants and responding by providing appropriate products and services.
A key aspect of your employability will be your Undergraduate BSc business degree from Roehampton Business School. Throughout your career you will refer back to your undergraduate business degree and discuss with future employers the knowledge and skills you have successfully developed during your degree. It is important for your employability that you are able to recognise your own 'business readiness'(employability and added value) from the beginning of your degree programme. Through this module you will be able to communicate your business readiness positively in your Curriculum Vitae (CV), on-line profile and during employment selection processes and be able to outline the value of your business degree at Roehampton Business School.
Module learning outcomes: 1. Knowledge outcome - You will be able to develop understandings of the nature and impact of cultural differences at a personal and a business level; 2. Intellectual/transferable skills outcome - You will be able to apply cross-cultural management techniques to a diverse range of issues and develop mindfulness of yourself and others in order to operate effectively and sensitively within cross-cultural teams.
In this module, the learning outcomes are: Knowledge outcome - You will be able to develop your understandings of global and international business and how this contributes to organisational success; Intellectual/transferable skills outcome - You will be able to consider a complex international business scenario and apply quantitative or qualitative techniques to contribute to its solution.
In this module, learning outcomes are: Knowledge outcome - You will be able to develop your understandings of emerging markets and the implications for international business; Intellectual/transferable skills outcome - You will be able to consider a complex issue relating to emerging markets and propose feasible alternative options for consideration.
Module learning outcomes: 1. Knowledge outcome - You will be able to develop your understandings of international economics and how these influence society and organisations, strategies and decision-making; 2. Intellectual/transferable skills outcome - You will be able to consider a complex international economics context, theorise and apply the international economics concepts with the aim of analysing the trade performance of a specific context.
In this module, the learning outcomes are: Knowledge outcome - You will be able to develop understandings of how to effectively manage people as well as your own employability and career in organisations; Intellectual/transferable skills outcome - You will be able to: analyse own strengths and weaknesses in relation to organisational employment opportunities and becoming business ready; apply mindfulness of yourself and others in order to operate effectively and sensitively within cross-cultural teams and to present the findings of an investigation in a professional manner through a variety of media in an acceptable format.
Module learning outcomes: 1. Knowledge outcome - You will be able to develop understanding of the concepts and techniques of project management and how they relate to personal and 2. Intellectual/transferable skills outcome - You will be able to apply the principles of project management to the planned development and delivery of business initiatives (e.g. new products, services or event).
In this module, the learning outcomes are: Knowledge outcome - You will be able to develop an in depth knowledge of corporate strategy within the context of the organisation?s markets and commercial sustainability; Intellectual/transferable skills outcome - You will be able to utilise a wide range of frameworks and techniques to the analysis of complex business situations to inform corporate strategy; and demonstrate criticality (independent thinking) in the evaluation and synthesis of information. You will be able to present the findings of your analysis in an academic style.
In this module, the learning outcomes are: Knowledge outcome ? You will be able to understand the importance of individual and organisational ethical and social responsibility. Intellectual/transferable skills outcome ? You will be able to apply ethical decision making and responsible management to a range of situations and demonstrate criticality (independent thinking) in the evaluation and synthesis of information relating to the discipline or its practice. You will be able to present the findings of your analysis in a professional or academic style. How the module develops Business Readiness. I can use my curiosity, am an independent thinker and have confidence in my own values and ability to express and communicate my views sensitively and effectively. I am self-aware and understand what I am thinking and why. I can draw upon my in-depth knowledge of ethics and responsible management to professionally challenge current orthodoxy and present realistic alternatives. I can demonstrate my determination in acting with ethical awareness in decision making and problem solving.
This three-year long module works by drawing together the learning across modules in each level/year to facilitate the development of your evidence of: your graduate attributes and skills, the added value you can offer organisations and how you meet the programme level 6 outcomes. Personal tutors at each year will work with you on this learning. Through this module you will be able to communicate your business readiness positively in your Curriculum Vitae (CV), on-line profile and during employment selection processes and be able to outline the value of your business degree at Roehampton Business School. Throughout your career you will refer back to your undergraduate business degree and discuss with future employers the knowledge and skills you have successfully developed during your degree.
In this module, the learning outcomes are: Knowledge outcome - You will be able to develop an in depth knowledge of marketing in an increasingly globalised economy. You will be able to understand international operations within the context of the organisation?s strategy for growth and commercial sustainability; Intellectual/transferable skills outcome - You will be able to utilise a wide range of frameworks and techniques to the analysis of complex business situations in global marketing; and demonstrate criticality (independent thinking) in the evaluation and synthesis of information. You will be able to present the findings of your analysis in a professional business report.
In this module, the learning outcomes are: Knowledge outcome - You will be able to understand the nature and impact of cultural differences at a personal and a business level and develop an in depth knowledge of international HRM as part of an overall strategy and its strategic value to the wider organisation and commercial sustainability; Intellectual/transferable skills outcome - You will be able to utilise a wide range of sources of information to apply international HRM concepts and theories into case study scenarios to inform business strategy; apply mindfulness of yourself and others in order to operate effectively and sensitively within cross-cultural teams and demonstrate criticality (independent thinking) in the evaluation and synthesis of information You will be able to present the findings of your analysis in a professional or academic style.
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