During your foundation year, you will engage with business challenges in a stimulating environment, while boosting your confidence and acquiring crucial academic skills. This acts as excellent preparation for your subsequent three years of study, which will allow you to specialise in more specific and advanced areas of business. Once you have completed the foundation year you will study a range of modules including the Business Environment, Business Decision Making, Leadership and Management, Strategic Management as well as the chance to develop a business plan and complete a research project (dissertation). In addition, you will undertake personal and academic skills development. In the Personal and Academic Development module, you will have an opportunity to record your development in a Personal Development Planner (PDP). You will be asked to monitor those times when you use specific skills and the context in which they are experienced: study, work or personal, and you will be asked to consider the transferability of the skills developed in one context to other situations, which is what reflection is all about. 

The overall aim of the course is to deliver a contemporary and dynamic programme of study which provides you with the knowledge and skills inherent in the subject to prepare you for a career in business management by increasing your understanding of organisations, their management, the economy, and the business environment.