Module Catalogue 2024/25

Pre Requisite Comment

Students should have taken at least one of the pre-requisite modules listed

For incoming study abroad and exchange students: Students need to refresh their memory of previously learned material on how to develop their critical thinking to question assumptions, evaluate evidence, and consider different perspectives before drawing conclusions.

Co Requisite Comment

N/A

Aims

To develop:

• Students’ knowledge of key business topics, including topics in accounting, finance, ethics and corporate governance;

• Students’ skills of analysis and evaluation through the use of written essay-style questions.

Outline Of Syllabus

The students will be given an introduction to the method of learning using case studies.

The module will take a graduated approach, starting with relatively structured and detailed questions and progressing to more ‘open’ questions as the course moves on.

Intended Knowledge Outcomes

At the end of the module, students will have demonstrated:
• Conceptual understanding that enables them:
- to devise and sustain arguments, and/or to solve problems, using ideas and techniques, some of which are at the forefront of accounting, finance, and business studies more in general;
- to describe and comment upon particular aspects of current research, or equivalent advanced scholarship, in the same disciplines.
• An appreciation of the uncertainty, ambiguity and limits of knowledge.
• The ability to manage their own learning, and to make use of scholarly reviews and primary sources (for example, refereed research articles and/or case studies).

Intended Skill Outcomes

At the end of the module, students will be able to:
• Critically evaluate arguments, assumptions, abstract concepts and data (that may be incomplete), to make judgements, and to frame appropriate questions to achieve a solution - or identify a range of solutions - to a problem.
• Apply the methods and techniques that they have learnt to other case studies and/or real-life situations.

Teaching Rationale And Relationship

The teaching and learning methods used in this module will include:
- Lecture materials equating to 36 student hours, in which we will present students with existing theories and frameworks;
- Module talks, in which we will introduce the module and its topics;
- Small group teaching equating to 6 student hours, in which we will discuss case studies;
- Scheduled on-line contact time equating to 9 student hours;
- Reading activities equating to 36 student hours; and
- Guided independent study equating to 110 student hours.

Assessment Rationale And Relationship

ASSESSMENT IS BY WRITTEN EXAMINATION, WITH QUESTIONS STRUCTURED IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE CASE METHOD AS EMPLOYED IN MODULE TEACHING. THIS METHOD TESTS STUDENTS’ ABILITIES IN CASE ANALYSIS, THE PRESENTATION AND INTERPRETATION OF DATA AND IN REPORT WRITING.

General Notes

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