Project Management (with Foundation Year) BA (Hons)

Course overview

If you want to support businesses to deliver on their corporate strategies, then this project management course is for you. You apply project management strategies to live business-related projects – initiating, developing and expanding client briefs to develop effective solutions to business challenges and opportunities.

You gain practical experience of the full consultancy cycle, gaining a comprehensive understanding of business concepts and models, and managing a client project from the start to completion using industry-standard methodologies, such as PRINCE2.

You are encouraged to develop a questioning, creative and innovative approach to project management and to develop your ability to engage in pro-active and self- directed study.

This programme is of interest to those seeking to pursue careers in business with a particular emphasis on project leadership, development and management. Whether you want to strike out in business on your own, or work with international companies, start-ups or not-for-profit organizations, this course gives you the skills and expertise to accelerate your career. An optional work placement year is included, at no extra cost.

Course details

Year 0 (the foundation year) allows you to develop key discipline knowledge in business and management, and develops your confidence and creative thinking skills, as well as financial competence and numeracy skills. The content of the remaining years of the course is identical to the content of the BA (Hons) Business with Project Management degree.

Year 1 is mainly tutor led and focuses on providing you with the necessary underpinning in terms of broad business knowledge and skills. You explore key business and management concepts and are introduced to your specialist area of project management.

Year 2 takes a more student-led approach with an emphasis on exploring your own interests and deepening your insights as well as having more responsibility for your own learning. During this year you develop a broader international perspective to the study of business. As well as studying four core business modules, including a module where you gain practical work experience via self-identified project, you also study two modules in the area of project management.

The final year explores more advanced topics within business and management and you develop your awareness of your own responsibility as a future leader of business. You consider the strategic and applied aspects of project management and have the opportunity to put your knowledge into action by undertaking a self-managed independent project via the Dissertation module.