BA (Hons) in Business Psychology

The BA (Hons) in Business programme is designed to give a clearly structured business education that provides a solid foundation for success in a business career. The course provides a strong grounding in fundamental business concepts, ideas, practices and methodologies. The broad philosophy of this ​programme is to provide students with an appropriate base of relevant business and management knowledge with particular emphasis on the development of a firm understanding of core issues addressed by organisational psychology. The aims and objectives are that upon completion of the programme students should be able to:

• Understand a range of business functions in the multi-disciplinary nature of business.
• Apply appropriate academic theories and concepts to range of business and management issues.
• Understand the international business environment.
• Develop an understanding of the complexity of human behaviour.
• Understand the role of psychology in organisational functioning.
• Develop learning skills to meet the demands of further study.

Students study common subjects in their first year. This honours degree course offers students considerable flexibility in their choice of second and third year subjects. This allows students to orientate their studies towards preferred subjects or to choose disciplines in which they have demonstrated strength in years one and two. As the course progresses, the emphasis shifts from foundation knowledge to in-depth study of particular areas of the major disciplines with a greater emphasis on independent work and on the development of a critical and analytical approach to the subject matter which gives students the confidence to critically evaluate information, ideas and opinions.

Students will have the opportunity to study many key areas and aspects of business complemented by specific insights into the psychological aspects of work and organisational behaviour.