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Overview

Our Business Studies and Law course prepares students for business careers that have a legal dimension. Law has an increasing influence on many aspects of business. It governs, for example, contractual arrangements, employment protection, consumer protection and many aspects of accounting and finance. The degree will give you a clear understanding of the interface between business activity and the legal framework within which it operates.

Among the organisations recently to have employed our Business Studies and Law graduates are Bradford Council, Halifax Magistrates' Court and the University of Bradford.

The course offers the possibility of partial exemption from the academic stage of training if you want to qualify as a solicitor or barrister.

You may take the course over three or four years. The four-year course includes a minimum of nine months gaining practical experience outside the university, usually working on a placement in industry or commerce. There is also the option to combine your subject with a language to make yourself more attractive to employers or to study abroad at one of our partner institutions for Semester 2 of your 2nd year.

+Course details

In the first year of the programme you will study foundation modules in both business studies and law. In the second and final year, you go on to combine compulsory business and law-themed modules with the choice of a list of optional specialist modules which allows you to design a programme of study to suit your needs and interests.

Every module will assess students differently, and there is a wide variety of assessment methods available in both business studies and law. Common methods of assessment include exams, assignments (case study or essay), portfolio, presentation (single or group), report, poster, etc. Assessment methods are especially tailored to assess particular learning outcomes, including knowledge, understanding and application of relevant theories and principles.

+Module details

Compulsory modules in the first year

Business Economics
Introduction to Accounting and Finance
Foundation of Marketing
Organisational Behaviour
Organisational Information Systems
Contract Law
Public Law
English Legal Systems

Compulsory modules in the second year

Practice of Management Skills
Financial Management
Foundations of Production/Operations Management
Marketing Management and Strategy
The Substantive Law of the European Union
Law of Tort

Compulsory modules in the final year

Human Resource Management
Taxation and Personal Finance
Marketing and Entrepreneurship
Company Law
Employment Law

Elective modules , choose four in the second year and four in the final year, from a list of 50 covering the specialist areas of

Law
Accounting
Financial Management
Marketing
Psychology
Production and Operations Management
Human Resource Management
Information Management and Business Information Systems

There are also multidisciplinary modules on subjects such as International Business and Strategic Management.

+Student Placements

All our 4 year programmes offer you the opportunity to take a year's work placement in industry during the third year of the course, and this is assessed as 20 credits of your degree. Placements are real, paid jobs in a wide variety of organisations in the private, public and not-for-profit sectors and offer you a valuable opportunity to experience firsthand how business and management concepts are applied in practice and to give you direct exposure to real issues in the workplace.

The placement year is a vital part of your learning and will add significantly to your personal development, self confidence, planning, communication and business acumen skills. Statistics show that students who have undertaken a placement year benefit from a better graduate job, higher graduate starting salary and a better degree outcome.

In a competitive graduate market, valuable experience and employability skills gained from a year’s work placement will differentiate you from the thousands of other graduates seeking work. We find that students return from their placement year with their confidence and personal skills enhanced and ready to implement their focused plan for the future.

The School has an excellent network of organisations that offer placements including IBM, Vauxhall, NHS, GE Money, Pace, Enterprise Rent A Car, Cummins and Peugeot. Together we ensure your placement is appropriately challenging and that you can make a real and positive impact on the business.

Your experience will be monitored and assessed through a credit bearing work based learning module that will count towards your final degree. This module is portfolio based and will develop your ability to reflect on professional work related experiences and recognise the impact on your career development planning.

Placements are not guaranteed, and students will have to invest considerable time and effort in their 2^nd year in securing one, with the support of the dedicated Careers team.