Business

This module will help you to deepen your academic, communication and literacy skills in preparation for your postgraduate degree. An intensive programme of English language and academic skills will allow you to become familiar with common academic styles, referencing systems and report writiing. You will have a chance to improve your 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.

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.

In this Module you will study the different aspects of business and management theory to provide you with a solid underpinning grounding for the more advanced content and comprehension required in postgraduate study. In particular, the module will cover key business and management areas including strategy, finance, marketing, human resource management and organisational culture. Lectures are designed to allow you to fully appreciate the inter-disciplinary nature of contemporary business and management and how it fits in with global business environments and sustainability challenges.

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.

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.

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.