If you are looking for a platform to develop your technical understanding of business, with a vocational structure that continually improves and develops your entrepreneurial mindset – this course is designed for you.

Our BA Global Business and Entrepreneurship with Foundation Year course provides a different pathway towards achieving your academic and professional aspirations – particularly if you need a course that can be structured around your work and family commitments.

The Foundation Year of this course helps you build the necessary skills and basic understanding needed to be successful during the following three years. The following years gradually increase the intensity of your learning – building your understanding of entrepreneurship and new venture management while also providing unique learning pathways to explore during the final year.

Our BA (Hons) Global Business and Entrepreneurship with Foundation Year prepares you to realise the potential of your own business ideas – from the awareness to spot lucrative opportunities to the skills needed to make them a reality. This course has an engaging structure that also takes you through dynamic organisations and how they gener employment opportunities, economic growth and social transformation.

You will constantly test your learning and ideas, practising entrepreneurship in real-world scenarios in the classroom – building business planning skills critical for entrepreneurial success. This course also explores the theory and practice of entrepreneurship in different contexts gaining a clear understanding of how strategy, tactics and innovation are valued in different business models.

Our industry experts will provide a clear understanding of how to launch and grow businesses and where to look for potential pitfalls along the journey. You will also benefit from personalised face-to-face academic, career, financial and well-being support from our welfare team.

This course includes the following

modules during the first three years of study. The final year of study has six unique pathways that each explore contemporary issues in today’s business and entrepreneurship landscape. You will undertake the specialist module relevant to your chosen pathway.

Foundation Year

•⁠ ⁠IT Essentials

•⁠ ⁠Academic Writing and Research Skills

•⁠ ⁠Introduction to Business and Entrepreneurship

•⁠ ⁠Entrepreneurial People and Processes

Business Environment

•⁠ ⁠Fundamentals of Finance

Year 1

•⁠ ⁠Entrepreneurial Recognition, Ideas and Opportunities

•⁠ ⁠Managerial Finance

Introduction to Marketing

Introduction to Strategic

Management

•⁠ ⁠Entrepreneurial Organisations

•⁠ ⁠Project Management

Year 2

•⁠ ⁠Business Ideas and Opportunities Generation

•⁠ ⁠Digital Marketing and Social Media in Business

•⁠ ⁠Financing a Business Venture and Legal Aspects

•⁠ ⁠Social Entrepreneurship

•⁠ ⁠Business Planning and Pitching

•⁠ Intrapreneurial Development

Year 3

•⁠ Market Research

•⁠ Global Strategies

•⁠ Project

•⁠ Contemporary Issues in Entrepreneurship

•⁠ Contemporary Issues in Events and Hospitality

•⁠ ⁠Contemporary Issues in IT and Communications

•⁠ Contemporary Issues in Professional Business Services Contemporary Issues in Supply Chain

•⁠ Contemporary Issues in Retail