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With Foundation Year
Ravensbourne University London
This course will enable students to grasp the academic integrity and practice to gain a solid foundation in business and management applied to creative industries and to not only explore functions of business enterprise but to develop an understanding of how organisations evolve for future sustainable growth and how you can be part of that.
BSc (Hons) Business Management with Foundation Year is an integrated 4-year program in partnership with Ravensbourne University London. The highlights of the course are:
1. Industry-focused: work to live project briefs and discover opportunities within the creative industries even before you graduate.
2. You will be provided with the skills needed to help future-proof the creative industries by promoting sustainable business practices.
3. Develop strong communication skills: you will learn to communicate visually, verbally and creatively through multiple forms of digital creative media.
4. Industry-linked assessment methods: to prepare you for the industry, assessment methods such as pitches and presentations will mimic the industry and help prepare you for the industry.
5. Business planning: students are encouraged to bring their unique entrepreneurial ideas to the course and create business proposals for development.
The Year 0 in Business Management is a foundation course which will introduce students to all the fundamental principles of academic practice through writing and skillsets for research and development which is aligned to Business management and its application within the Creative Industries. The course covers practical writing, critical thinking, and research skills alongside inquiry-based learning which provides a framework and underpinning for enabling students to progress to advanced learning.
While the course is primarily academic and theory-based, creative thinking and visual as well as verbal presentation are practised and fully integrated to provide vital transferable skills to progress to the undergraduate degree programme.
The units are designed to enable students to build their academic practice incrementally throughout the programme. The programme allows students to focus heavily on the development of the hard and soft skills needed in the foundation of business and management with a particular focus on Academic writing, innovative thinking, Communication skills and research practice.
In semester one, you will be introduced to academic development across two units. One for Critical thinking and research which will underpin your entire programme through the rigour and integrity of academic practice and the latter is in writing and communication where you get to choose your output of assessment tasks in written form. Alongside your two fundamental units,
you will be introduced to Business Management. Identifying with basic finance to HR and marketing teams all of which add value to management, you get to learn about the competitive global landscape and how businesses function.
By semester two students’ exposure to business and academic practice will be thoroughly explored and your foundation units will be developing professional skills involving your entrepreneurial mindset and working on an inquiry-based learning project, which will focus on resolution for a business management foundation project for final execution.
Module Code | Module Title | Shared Module | Mandatory / Elective | Credits |
Level 3 |
| |||
XXX | Academic Development – Critical Thinking and Research | X | Mandatory | 20 |
XXX | Academic Development – Writing and Communication | X | Mandatory | 20 |
XXX | Introduction to Business Management | X | Mandatory | 20 |
XXX | Developing Professional Skills | X | Mandatory | 20 |
XXX | Marketing Fundamentals | X | Mandatory | 20 |
XXX | Business Management Foundation Project | X | Mandatory | 20 |
| Total | 120 |
The New College Durham Academic Regulations for the awards of Foundation Degree (Academic Regulations), stipulate that for successful completion of this award a student will need to accumulate 240 credits, of which 120 credits will be at Level 4 and 120 credits will be at Level 5.
Credits are awarded for the achievement of the specified learning outcomes of the module. Credit is accumulated sequentially, by level. No additional credit can be awarded for achievement above the threshold level although such achievement is recognised through the award of marks.
Where a student is unable to complete the full award and they have accumulated at least 120 credits at level 4 and may have achieved some but not all credits at level 5, they will be they will be eligible to receive a Certificate of Higher Education contained award.
The key objectives of New College Durham Technology Enhanced Learning Strategy are to:
New College Durham’s approach to teaching and learning provides a framework to develop a culture of continuous improvement, reflection, and high-quality delivery for all students. The framework recognises that investment in staff and their continuous professional development is integral to the progress, experience and achievements of our students and highlights the importance of staff maintaining “dual professional” status through developing both the subject specific knowledge and experiences and combining that with evidence-based practice in the classroom with a focus on acquisition of skills and long-term retention of knowledge. This will be achieved through Industry updating and Work Project facilitation working closely with stakeholders. The nature of the programme is directly applicable to work situations and theory is related to practical work-based situations, where possible. Each individual module will use different teaching and learning strategies depending upon the nature of the subject. The teaching and learning methods will include a combination of different approaches including but not limited to:
| Learning Hours (per 20 credit module excluding the Work Placement) | |||
| Staff – Student Contact Hours | Independent Study Hours | ||
| Taught hours | 48 | Independent study, self-directed study and assessment | 152 |
| Total | 200 | ||
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Foundation course
One A-level (minimum 32 Tariff points) and a GCSE or equivalent in Mathematics and English Language at grade 4/C or higher for all applicants at the point of enrolment.
Accreditation of Prior Learning (if applicable)
Applications are welcomed from those who may not possess formal entry qualifications, mature students, those with work experience or with qualifications other than those listed above. Such applicants should demonstrate sufficient aptitude and potential to complete the course successfully. Applicants will be assessed at interview in accordance with Ravensbourne’s Accreditation of Prior Learning Policy and Procedure and Student Transfer Plan.
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