Business

This module will help you to develop your academic, research and communication skills in preparation for your undergraduate degree. English language and academic skills cover reading, writing, speaking and listening and will give you an understanding of the culture, practices, norms and expectations of higher education. You will develop transferable skills such as effective communication to support ongoing study, career, and professional development. You will have both lectures and seminars where you will be asked to prepare and communicate with your peers each week to help you become more confident both inside and outside the classroom.

This module aims to enable you to participate in and practice independent learning tasks for deeper thought and investigation as needed for university study. You will learn how to effectively source check and participate in a range of discussions to encourage best practice research, presentation and debating skills. You will also be encouraged to invest in strategies that will deepen your understanding and interpretation of processes, motives, argument, rationale and credibility of information. This will help you to be more critical and precise in your academic arguments throughout your studies and working life.

Core Maths has been designed to ensure that you will have the necessary basic numeracy skills needed for your first year at university. Within this module, you will practice various mathematical manipulations and apply these concepts to real-life situations, to indicate the importance and applicability of mathematics to your future degrees. You will study a wide range of core mathematics including arithmetic skills, algebra, solving equations, probability and basic statistics. The module will help you consolidate existing knowledge and gain further confidence in working with numbers, including using the calculator.

This module provides you with an introduction to both business and management concepts to allow you to appreciate the different contexts and processes in which businesses function. The curriculum includes the internal and external operating processes, inclusive of planning and strategy, growth, marketing, human resource management (finance and accounting systems) and the importance of the management and development of human resources within organisations.

Ethics is a system of moral principles that affects your decisions, based on what you consider to be ‘right’ and ‘wrong’. In this module, you will be encouraged to critically examine and discuss everyday questions and ethical problems. In doing so, you will be looking at a variety of applications to understand the interdependence and intersection between behaving ethically in fields such as technology, business and creative industries.

Once you have completed your first semester of the German language and culture module, you will be able to continue practicing your German with your peers and with the guidance of a tutor the following semester. The emphasis of this module is on guided but informal conversation practice and a chance to continue to learn about key topics about living and studying in Germany.

This module will provide you with a foundation of the German language, enabling you to communicate effectively in everyday situations and on a variety of general topics. It will also give you an important introduction to the customs, culture and society and help you develop your awareness of the general social and cultural background of your study destination. Teaching methods are based on interactive language development tasks, such as group work and role playing. It will also include the study of texts, oral development work and listening comprehension exercises.