Bachelor of Arts (Honours) Business Studies (Top-up)

Bachelor of Arts (Honours) Business Studies will help you to fulfil the needs of practitioners and employers in a fast-changing business environment. The programme dates back to approximately 30 years. As with all the University’s programmes, it is subject to periodic review and the current version of the degree programme.

The aims of the Business Studies degree are:

• Providing work-related learning and teaching.
• Advance study of organisations, business management and the changing external environment in which organisations operate.
• Preparing students for careers in business development and management by equipping them with a systematic, broad and integrated understanding of key aspects of the business.
• Development of professional skills and career management.
• application of knowledge and understanding of business and management with an emphasis on solving complex issues, both systematically and creatively, to improve business and management practice
• Enhancement of lifelong learning skills and personal development.

Summary of Skills Development for Students within the Programme

The graduates should:

• Be business-minded, i.e. have strong commercial awareness, and the ability to consistently apply their knowledge and subject-specific and wider intellectual skills in a multi-tasking, fast-paced environment.
• Be numerate, i.e. possess the numerical and analytical skills to setup benchmark processes and measure business performances.
• Be creative, i.e. be able to approach tasks from an analytical viewpoint and be able to interpret complex data sets, and therefore develop innovative business plans using creative thinking and judgment.
• Be people-oriented, i.e. have strong interpersonal and organizational skills, and therefore be able to liaise with different types of people both within and external to the organization.
• Be able to engage with all types of audiences and build relations with customers.
• Be able to work either individually or in a team and be able to inspire and influence others.
• Be technologically capable; i.e. be able to apply information technology to work, enhancing efficiency, effectiveness and accuracy.
• Have effective oral and written communication skills, and the confidence and ability to present complex ideas and argument.