(Award available for year: Bachelor of Science)
On completion of the year students should have provided evidence of being able to:
- understand and demonstrate coherent and detailed knowledge of international business studies and finance together with professional competencies, some of which will be informed by recent research/scholarship in the disciplines;
- demonstrate the understanding of more extensive knowledge in specialist areas of international business and finance;
- accurately and effectively deploy standard techniques of analysis and enquiry within the disciplines;
- demonstrate a conceptual understanding which enables the development and sustaining of an argument;
- describe and comment on particular aspects of recent research and/or scholarship;
- appreciate the uncertainty, ambiguity and limitations of knowledge in the disciplines;
- apply their knowledge and understanding in order to initiate and carry out a significant piece of work;
- collect and analyse quantitative and/or qualitative data derived from a range of sources, making use of scholarly reviews and primary sources;
- show a capacity for critical thinking and an ability to evaluate the value and relevance of data within the framework provided by available theory and practice;
- demonstrate strategic thinking through an understanding of strategic management concepts, theories and research, and how these inform decision-taking in an international context;
- analyse and criticise contemporary theories on how companies design, implement and manage international expansion strategies;
- understand how cross-cultural issues impact upon the management of business functions across national borders;
- understand the growth and spread of multinational enterprises in the context of the changing structure and organisation of the world economy, and their impact on host and home country economies
- demonstrate knowledge and understanding in chosen advanced specialist areas in financial management, auditing or corporate governance;
- appreciate the inter-relationships among and the integration between the disciplines and subject areas studied.
Students will have had the opportunity to acquire, as defined in the modules specified for the programme:
- the key transferable skills and professionalism appropriate for employment related to the subject areas studied;
- the exercise of initiative and personal responsibility;
- information synthesis skills;
- the deployment of decision making skills in complex and unpredictable situations;
- the communication of information, ideas, problems and solutions in a variety of ways to a variety of audiences;
- the ability to undertake appropriate further training of a professional or equivalent nature;
- the ability to undertake a research project in a chosen area relating to international business, making appropriate choices concerning research method and approach; and
- life-long learning skills such as time-management, group working, communication, planning, commercial awareness, creative problem solving, and leadership.
Achievement will be assessed by a variety of methods in accordance with the learning outcomes of the modules specified for the year/programme and will include:
- demonstrating the ability to apply a broad range of aspects of the disciplines;
- work that draws on a wide variety of material;
- the ability to evaluate and criticise received opinion;
- evidence of an ability to conduct an in-depth enquiry within the disciplines; and
- work that is typically both evaluative and analytical.
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