(Award available for year: Bachelor of Arts)
On completion of the year/programme students should be able to:
- understand and demonstrate coherent and detailed knowledge of a range of complex business-environment issues, and related professional competencies, some of which will be informed by recent research/scholarship in the discipline;
- select and justify appropriate interventions for improved business-environmental practice;
- critically evaluate the role of institutions in a range of different business-environment arenas;
- critically evaluate to the prospects for sustainable environmental business, and contribute to the realisation of improved business-environment practice;
- appreciate the uncertainty, ambiguity and limitations of knowledge available for improved environment-business practice.
Competence Standards
1. Demonstrate knowledge and understanding of concepts, theories and practices of sustainable business, including both environmental and social dimensions.
2. Explain complex sustainability problems and develop and evaluate potential solutions using systems approaches, a critical synthesis of available information, and a variety of stakeholder perspectives.
3. Synthesise and explain controversies on sustainable business issues and effectively communicate them to a variety of audiences using a range of formats and media.
4. Plan, conduct and communicate a sustainability project for research, policy or practice.
If the chosen pathway includes an industrial placement –
5. Demonstrate ability to direct, monitor and evaluate their work, by seeking/accepting feedback, within a workplace context, using appropriate support as necessary.
6. Demonstrate an awareness of own strengths and development needs and the need for ongoing learning and proactive continuing professional development.
If the chosen pathway includes an international placement
7. Collaborate effectively with other people in a new environment and successfully completes a period of work or study in another country.
8. Demonstrate self-awareness relating to personal and academic/professional development through successfully completing a period of work or study in another country.
Students will have had the opportunity to acquire, as defined in the compulsory and optional modules, the transferable/key/generic skills necessary for employment in environmental and other careers, including:
- intellectual skills (for example, demonstrating a conceptual understanding which enables the development and sustaining of an argument, and evaluating aspects of recent research and/or scholarship, making appropriate use of scholarly reviews and primary sources);
- practical skills (for example, the deployment of decision making skills in complex and unpredictable situations, and the execution of standard techniques of analysis and enquiry in an extended piece of work or project);
- communication skills (for example, communicating ideas, problems and solutions in a variety of ways to a variety of audiences);
- numeracy and C&IT skills (for example, analysing and original data set, or critically interpreting complicated information);
- interpersonal/team working (for example, engaging meaningfully in critical group discussion);
- personal and professional development (for example, the exercise of initiative and personal responsibility)
Students will have the ability to undertake appropriate further training of a professional or equivalent nature.
Achievement will be assessed by a variety of methods in accordance with the learning outcomes of each module:
- demonstrating the ability to apply a broad range of aspects of the discipline;
- work that draws on a wide variety of material;
- the ability to evaluate and criticise received opinion;
- evidence of an ability to conduct independent, in depth enquiry within the discipline;
- work that is typically both evaluative and creative.
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