If your first language is not English, you will need an IELTS of 6.0 overall, with 5.5 in each component.
Career-focused, our degree incorporates general business management as well as the tools, techniques and specialist knowledge to manage human resources (HR) effectively. You will put theory into practice coaching other students, designing assessments, conducting interviews and more. This provides valuable experience and a genuine appreciation of how HR fits within the broader business landscape, preparing you to make a positive impact for your employer from the get-go.
How an organisation manages its people has a direct impact on both their mindset and productivity, making HR Management (HRM) a core function in every business. This course will equip you with the breadth of knowledge, skills and capabilities to develop positive working cultures and respond proactively and creatively to contemporary business issues and challenges, such as change management.
Our emphasis is very much on experiential learning. You will be taught by staff who are or have been HR professionals, bringing their real-life case work into the classroom, showing you how the HR theories, tools and techniques you are learning can be put into practice. You will also hear direct from industry practitioners, such as experienced HR Directors, Heads of HR and HR Consultants. Where possible, we also take you on field trips to see HR strategy in action at a range of different organisations.
Your learning is fully informed by current professional practice and you will be encouraged to act as an HR professional from day one. We will introduce contemporary tools and techniques and give you the chance to gain the practical experience you would in work – sometimes several years into a career – while you study. For example, you will experiment with psychometric tests such as Myers Briggs Type Indicator, participate in mock disciplinary hearings, interview panels, act as a mentor and receive mentoring yourself. In doing so, you also develop valuable transferable skills, such as communicating effectively, team-working and problem-solving skills, thereby enhancing your employability.
Past graduates have found successful employment as an HR advisor, HR operations assistant, career consultant, professional development and training advisor and employee service advisor. They work for major employers including Accenture, Hilton Hotels and Resorts, Trainline, The Body Shop, Waitrose, the Metropolitan Police and the NHS.
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Year 1
Subjects of study include:
Accounting and Finance Fundamentals
Analysing and Managing Information
Global Business Environment
Marketing Principles
People and Organisations
You will also have the opportunity to take an option module that broadens your skills or helps you gain more in-depth knowledge of your specialist area. Your option module may be a foreign language.
Credit Level 4
Year 2
Subjects of study include:
Operations and Digital Business
Managing People
Business Decision Making
HRM Essentials
You can also choose two options from: Work and Organisational Psychology within the HR context, Sociology of Work and Industry, or other areas of business. You will also have the opportunity to study a module from other parts of the University, including a foreign language.
Credit Level 5
Placement year
Optional work placement/study abroad year
Between Years 2 and 3, you can take an optional work placement or study year abroad. The work placement year is a one-year full-time business work placement.
Past students have completed placements in a variety of small to medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) and prestigious organisations, including Barclays Bank, British Airways, Disney UK, IBM and the NHS.
The study abroad year allows you to follow a programme of study at one of our partner institutions, giving you an opportunity to experiment life in another country and learn Business from a different cultural viewpoint.
You can also choose to split your year abroad into a first semester exchange and a second semester work placement, both conducted overseas.
Year 3
Subjects of study include:
Global Strategic Management
Sustainable Business
Employment Law
Current themes in Human Resource Management
You can also choose two options from Assessing and Development, Cultural differences and People Management, Coaching and Mentoring in the Workplace, or other areas of business. You have the opportunity to study one module from across the University, including a foreign language.
Credit Level 6
Job roles
The course will prepare you for a wide variety of roles in business. Examples of these from our recent graduates are:
Human resources officer
Management consultant
Office manager
Recruitment consultant
Training and development officer
Graduate employers
Graduates from this course have found employment at organisations including:
AXA Insurance
Bucks (Buckinghamshire) Healthcare
EY
H&M
Hilton Hotels & Resorts
Hitachi Rail Europe
Martin McColl’s
Metropolitan Police
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NHS
Primark
Sports Direct
Toys R Us
Tui Group
University of Law
Insurance – Single: 300 GBP per year
