Business (Law)

The BA (Hons) Business Studies is taught mainly through lectures and tutorials, with students taking responsibility for a significant amount of study outside scheduled class contact times. Assessment takes a variety of forms, including essays and reports, individual and group assignments and formal examinations. The majority of subjects are assessed through a combination of coursework and examination.

This law pathway provides a focus on business law and governance. This specialism focuses on ensuring business is conducted in a way which is compliant with all legal requirements and this specialism is delivered within two modules at Level 7 (Principles of Business Law; Employee Relations and the Law) and two at Level 8 (Corporate Law and Governance; Advanced Business and Commercial Law).

The aim of the Law pathway of the programme is to help graduates to develop critical thinking, problem solving and communication skills that will allow them to analyse the legal issues that arise in the course of many common business activities in order to ensure compliance and prevent problems from arising.

Graduates from this programme will also be well-placed to pursue a business career in areas where legal knowledge is highly relevant – for example:

• human resource management
• finance
• purchasing
• compliance and contracts

The programme will also suitably equip graduates who wish to advance their studies in more specialised areas of law.