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Management and Management Systems (Foundation Degree)
This Foundation Degree is a distinctive award with a strong vocational element, concentrating on the internal and external influences that affect the business and management environment.
The programme examines the role of information systems in the business environment, but places them in the organisational context. This allows the exploration of the interface between information technology and the key environmental factors, political, economic, and social, that constrain an organisation's activities. As a result, whilst technical aspects of management systems are emphasised, with modules offered in computer forensics, computer programming, multi-media planning, and management information systems, the core functions of business are also dealt with including business and management, numbers in business, accounting, and human resource management.
The course focuses on links with employers and work placements are an integral part of both Year 1 and Year 2.
Course Structure and Content
Year 1
- Computer Forensic and Digital Evidencing;
- Understanding the Business Environment;
- Introduction to Overall Management and Functions of an Organisation;
- Fundamentals of Computer Programming;
- Numbers in Business and Computing;
- Work Based Learning 1.
Year 2
- Human Resource Management;
- Accounting and Financial Management;
- Multimedia Application Development;
- Management Information Systems;
- Work Based Learning 2;
- Work Based Learning 3.
On successful completion of the Foundation Degree, students can apply for a third year to top up their qualification to an honours degree at Newton Park campus.
Teaching Methods and Resources
Although you will be classed as a full-time student, you will only attend college for one full day and one evening per week. Our partner college for delivering the FD in Management and Management Systems is Norton Radstock College so this is where you will be based for your taught modules (although you will be classed as a Bath Spa student and will have access to all the facilities of the Newton Park campus). Three of your modules will be work-based. You will be supported in this area by a tutor from Norton Radstock College, who will visit you in your workplace to monitor your progress and development.
Assessment Methods
Assessment is carried out in a variety of ways as follows:
- Written essays; practical workshops; critical reading/ literature reviews; seminar presentations; seminar reports and journals; investigative reports; multiple choice papers; end of module examinations; practice in the workplace; workplace journal;
- Practical assessment in the workplace will be assessed on a pass/ fail, rather than a percentage basis.
Typical Offers
160-200 UCAS Tariff points (eg BC; CD+AS c) from appropriate Level 3 qualifications (for example A-levels or vocational qualifications).
