This course allows you to top up your existing
qualifications to an honour’s degree in one year, whilst benefiting from all
that Northumbria University and the city of Newcastle has to offer.
This course has been designed to give you the ideal balance between a broad
understanding of business, whilst developing your specialist knowledge in contemporary business management
models and learning how to evaluate how businesses operate globally in an
increasingly competitive environment, with an emphasis on logistics and supply
chain management (LSCM).
The course includes
specialist modules in supply chain innovation, and global supply network
management. This degree is designed to be a steppingstone to jobs and promotion
in the vibrant sector of LSCM, which is having a profound impact on
organisational efficiencies. The UK’s top 10 food retailers have voted LCSM as
their most vital management area. There are exciting and rewarding jobs in
purchasing, logistics, planning, international trade, and imports/exports.
You will supported to develop your skills in critical thinking and writing
techniques during the course of the year with core modules which focus on
employability, and contemporary business issues. During these modules you will
develop personal applications, CVs and cover letters as part of overall career
planning to promote future employability. You will be asked to prepare an
independent review of the literature on a contemporary business issue of your
choice (discipline specific), which will develop independent thinking and
learning, whilst applying knowledge to specific business issues.
The relevance, rigour and internationalisation
of this course are set to meet some of the highest and most demanding levels of
accreditation. This course is covered by the prestigious AACSB accreditation
for Newcastle Business School, which was ‘Business School of the Year’ at the
Times Higher Education Awards 2015.
What’s more, when you study at Northumbria, you’ll be part of a leading,
business-focused university. Northumbria ranks within the sector as in top 30
for further study, sustained employment or both for Business and Management, 12
months after graduation (LEO 2020).
There’s plenty of support for you to develop the academic study skills that are
required. Whatever your background, we’ll help you take the more critical, deeper,
and research-informed approach that’s needed for an honour’s degree at a UK
university.