Business (Psychology)

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 pathway provides students with a comprehensive grounding in business alongside specialist knowledge of psychology and its application to the workplace. The role of psychology in business and industry has long been understood to increase productivity, human development and employee satisfaction. The psychology pathway includes an additional focus on the human mind and how individual differences manifest within workforces.

This specialism contains four subject‐specific modules – two at Level 7 (Psychology; Social Psychology) and two at Level 8 (Organisational Psychology; Personality and Individual Differences). The pathway provides students with the platform to develop skills and competencies in the areas of psychological research, social psychology, personality and work psychology.

Graduates can test theories, apply concepts and undertake practical project work. Graduating students wishing to pursue further qualifications can proceed to postgraduate programmes up to Masters level or to programmes leading to professional qualifications.