BA (Hons) Management (Events)

This programme will top-up your foundation degree in a business related area to a degree. It will give you the skills to succeed in the highly competitive business environment and provide you with an excellent foundation for a wide range of business and management careers. In addition to core business and management modules, you can choose from a diverse range of modules in events to tailor your studies to your career goals.

Aims

The underpinning aims of the programme are to:

• Enable learners to acquire and develop a range of higher level skills appropriate to the work of managers at middle level.
• Facilitate learners to develop a deeper knowledge and understanding of the principles and practice of management and demonstrate the ability to apply such principles in a range of specific contexts.
• Enable students to analyse and evaluate their own learning, and undertake independent self-development.
• Provide a stimulating, rigorous and challenging academic experience that fosters a commitment to lifelong learning within the student.

Modules

• Events & Marketing Management - Events are extensively used by the public and trade sector as vehicles to promote brands, products and services. This module explores the event marketing process and addresses how it is used to engage stakeholders and gain competitive advantage within a legal framework.
• Strategy & Change - This module will explore how an organisation moves through key stages in its development, whilst trying to achieve a competitive advantage and delivering innovation. It has been designed to provide you with an understanding of the core business areas of strategy and change.
• Managing Organisational Performance - This module brings together elements of performance management which are crucial for organisational effectiveness, drawing upon the disciplines of Human Resource Management, Quality Management and Financial Management. It will enable students to appreciate all three perspectives and apply appropriate techniques to enhance operational performance.
• Management Project - In undertaking the Management Project students will be required to display the knowledge, understanding and skills identified with desk-based and action-based research investigating a self-determined hypothesis or research question; they will also need to demonstrate transferable higher order skills, including the capacity to problem solve, analyse, synthesise, research and communicate fluently both verbally and in writing.
• Research skills will be enhanced through a series of workshops. Throughout this period students will be supported by their Personal Tutor/Project Supervisor through regular tutorials.
• Health, Safety and Security Management for Events.

Teaching & assessment

A variety of learning and teaching methods are employed throughout the programme, including lectures, seminars, academic tutorials, group work, individual guided learning, project supervision, case studies, role plays, workshops, computer simulations and the use of information technology. Assessments are varied and include a role-play boardroom exercise, case study analysis, management project proposal, written business reports. There will be one 3 hour examination during the course.

Entry Criteria

You will hold 240 CATs (Credit Accumulation and Transfer) points; 120 of them at Level 4 and 120 at Level 5, acquired in the fields of business, management or public administration. European applicants should hold 60 European Credit Transfer and Accumulation System credits. If English is not your first language, you will be required to hold IELTs Level 6 or above (or equivalent). Suitable alternative qualifications in an appropriate field of study may also be considered to access the study programme. Accreditation of Prior Learning (APL), If you have previously studied on a similar award and have gained higher education credit at an equivalent level, it may be possible to take this into account to gain exemptions from one or more modules.

Interview Instructions

You will be invited to attend an interview (or Skype interview for international students), where you will be offered information, advice and guidance as to which BA Management programme is best suited to your career goals. Your suitability to the course will be assessed on the basis of your management and professional knowledge and skills.