CHEY0001: Introductory chemistry
Semester 1
Credits: 6
Level: Level 2
Assessment: EX80 CW20
Requisites: Ex CHEY0008
Aims & Learning Objectives: To provide an introduction
or `appetize' to descriptive chemistry and to establish the need
to have access to theories which explain bonding and the periodic
table.
Content: Atomic structure, orbitals, Periodic classification,
covalent bonding, hybridization, organic functional groups and
stereochemistry, structure and reactivity of the carbon-carbon
double bond, aromatic compounds, introduction to coordination
chemistry including stereochemistry and VSEPR, chemistry of the
alkali metals and the halogens, a comparison of the left and right
of the Periodic Table.
CHEY0002: Kinetics & mechanism 1
Semester 1
Credits: 6
Level: Level 2
Assessment: EX80 CW20
Requisites: Ex CHEY0008
Aims & Learning Objectives: To introduce the concept
of reaction mechanism in the context of key reactions of organic
and inorganic chemistry. To provide a grounding in measurement
and analysis of chemical reaction rates. Students should be able
to interpret rate data from kinetic studies in the gas phase and
in solution and relate this information to reaction mechanisms.
Students should recognize the fundamental unity brought by a mechanistic
approach in preparation for future study of diverse reactions
in organic and inorganic chemistry.
Content: Kinds of organic reaction and how they occur:
polar and radical reactions; influence of solvation. Electrophilic
addition to an alkene to introduce rates and equilibria, bond
dissociation energy, energy diagrams, transition states and intermediates.
Definition of rate law, order and molecularity. Determination
of order, rate constant and half life. Temperature dependence
of reaction rates; activation energy and frequency factor. Nucleophilic
substitutions and eliminations in organic and inorganic chemistry.
Electrophilic substitution. Collision theory. Kinetic approach
to equilibrium. Activation and diffusion control. Kinetic vs.
thermodynamic control of reactions.
CHEY0003: Functional group transformations
Semester 1
Credits: 6
Level: Level 2
Assessment: EX80 CW20
Requisites: Ex CHEY0008
Aims & Learning Objectives: To describe the general
properties, reactions and methods of synthesis for monofunctionalized
aliphatic compounds. To explain the electronic structure and shape
of the various functional groups (FG's) and describe the origins
of reactivity of these groups. To extend the above discussion
to encompass aromatic counterparts.
To understand the special stability of aromatic compounds and
how this affects reactivity.
Content: Properties, isomerision, synthesis and reactions
of alkanes, alkenes and alkynes, Interconversion of alkanes, alkenes
and alkynes. Other monofunctionalized aliphatic compounds (properties,
synthesis reactions) including haloalkenes, alcohols, ethers,
ketones, aldehydes, acids esters. Aromatic FG's: bezene, anti-aromatics
and their properties.
CHEY0004: Equilibria in chemical systems
Semester 2
Credits: 6
Level: Level 2
Assessment: EX80 CW20
Requisites: Ex CHEY0008
Aims & Learning Objectives: To introduce the basic
principles governing chemical reactions and processes in terms
of thermodynamic properties and to describe some features of solids,
liquids and gases. Students should be able to interpret phase
diagrams, make predictions about the feasibility of chemical processes
and appreciate the factors which influence phase behaviour.
Content: Thermodynamics of chemical systems in terms of
free energy and equilibrium constants with examples drawn from
chemical reactions, redox and electrochemical processes. Acids
and bases. Phase behaviour of solids, liquids and gases. Intermolecular
forces in liquids and gases. Ideal and non-ideal gases and solutions.
A number of reactions will be used as case-studies to illustrate
the principles.
CHEY0005: Introduction to main group chemistry
Semester 2
Credits: 6
Level: Level 2
Assessment: EX80 CW20
Requisites:
Aims & Learning Objectives: To describe modern ideas
about chemical bonding . To describe the basic principles of s-
and p- block chemistry so that predictions and rationalisations
of fundamental reaction and structural chemistry can be made.
Content: Chemical bonding theory, shapes of molecules.
The s-block elements, reactivity and size; solid state structures,
radius ratio rule, cell projections for common structural types;
chemistry in aqueous and non-aqueous media. Oxidation states of
the p-block elements, stability, lone pair effect, free energy
(Frost) diagrams; p-bonding, role of d-orbials in p-block chemistry;
chemistry of the halogens and noble gas and their inter-relationship;
basic organometallic chemistry of (-bonded species.
CHEY0006: Spectroscopy
Semester 2
Credits: 6
Level: Level 2
Assessment: EX80 CW20
Requisites:
Aims & Learning Objectives: Introduction to the principles
of molecular spectroscopy. The students will be capable of interpreting
experimental spectra and analysing their results to obtain spectroscopic
constants. Application of spectroscopic methods to solve structural
methods in organic chemistry.
Content: Introduction to electromagnetic radiation. Rotational
spectroscopy; rigid rotor model. Vibrational spectroscopy. Linear
ditomics and polyatomic molecules. Vibration-rotation spectroscopy
. Electronic spectra of conjugated compounds. IR spectra of functional
group containing compounds. Origins and applications of proton
and carbon NMR spectra. Introduction to mass spectrometry.
Natural science students must have undertaken CHEY0008 and CHEY0007
in the previous year.
CHEY0009: Basic chemistry laboratory
Semester 1
Credits: 3
Level: Level 2
Assessment: PR100
Requisites: Ex CHEY0008
Aims & Learning Objectives: Laboratory work is an essential
part of a chemistry course. This foundation course is designed
to impart essential basic techniques in practical chemistry that
will be important throughout the degree course. Interpretation
of results obtained in the light of theories and concepts developed
in other units will also be an aim. Students will be expected
to develop reporting skills and to consider rational conclusions
arising from experimental observations. The use of PC's to analyse
numerical data will be introduced.
Content: Experiments designed to illustrate basic principles
of volumetric acid-base, redox and complexometric analytical chemistry.
Titrations, Analytical calculations, Precision and accuracy in
unit operations. Basic manipulative techniques such as assembly
of glassware, crystallisation and purification of compounds. Preparation
of standard solutions and assembly of basic apparatus. Introduction
to using PC's and spreadsheets for analysing results.
CHEY0010: Inorganic chemistry laboratory 1
Semester 1
Credits: 3
Level: Level 2
Assessment: PR100
Requisites: Ex CHEY0008
Aims & Learning Objectives: To introduce students to
the basic techniques of synthetic and analytical inorganic chemistry.
To foster a good scientific style in the presentation of data
and to develop students' ability to manipulate and interpret scientific
data.
Content: Analysis by titration, gravimetry, flame photometry
and spectrophotometry; preparation of compounds selected from
Group 14 - 17 elements and their reaction chemistry.
CHEY0010: Inorganic chemistry laboratory 1
Semester 2
Credits: 3
Level: Level 2
Assessment: PR100
Requisites:
Aims & Learning Objectives: To introduce students to
the basic techniques of synthetic and analytical inorganic chemistry.
To foster a good scientific style in the presentation of data
and to develop students' ability to manipulate and interpret scientific
data.
Content: Analysis by titration, gravimetry, flame photometry
and spectrophotometry; preparation of compounds selected from
Group 14 - 17 elements and their reaction chemistry.
CHEY0011: Organic chemistry laboratory 1
Semester 1
Credits: 3
Level: Level 2
Assessment: PR100
Requisites: Ex CHEY0008
Aims & Learning Objectives: To provide an introduction
to the basic techniques of experimental organic chemistry. The
student should be able to incorporate the mechanistic organic
chemistry that is presented in lectures with the appropriate laboratory
experiment.
Content: Separation and identification techniques. Reactions
of double bonds, to include dehydration and electrophilic addition.
Reactions involving the carbonyl group, to include; the aldol
reaction, synthesis of esters and amides, the reduction of a ketone
. Electrophilic aromatic substitution.
CHEY0011: Organic chemistry laboratory 1
Semester 2
Credits: 3
Level: Level 2
Assessment: PR100
Requisites:
Aims & Learning Objectives: To provide an introduction
to the basic techniques of experimental organic chemistry. The
student should be able to incorporate the mechanistic organic
chemistry that is presented in lectures with the appropriate laboratory
experiment.
Content: Separation and identification techniques. Reactions
of double bonds, to include dehydration and electrophilic addition.
Reactions involving the carbonyl group, to include; the aldol
reaction, synthesis of esters and amides, the reduction of a ketone
. Electrophilic aromatic substitution.
CHEY0012: Physical chemistry laboratory 1
Semester 1
Credits: 3
Level: Level 2
Assessment: PR100
Requisites: Ex CHEY0008
Aims & Learning Objectives: To provide a basic training
in laboratory skills for Physical Chemistry. To relate experimental
work to the scientific theory behind the experiment and thus give
a fuller understanding of the theory. The student should be able
to use scientific apparatus with care and confidence, make observations
accurately, estimate the possible errors, produce a satisfactory
written report and, above all, to have a critical appreciation
of the purpose, significance and limitations of any experimental
study.
Content: A series of experiments based on principles introduced
during lecture units which may include: Determination of thermodynamic
properties of chemical reactions using thermochemical and electrochemical
approaches. Spectroscopic analysis of compounds to measure physical
properties. Study of the rates of chemical reactions by a number
of methods.
CHEY0012: Physical chemistry laboratory 1
Semester 2
Credits: 3
Level: Level 2
Assessment: PR100
Requisites:
Aims & Learning Objectives: To provide a basic training
in laboratory skills for Physical Chemistry. To relate experimental
work to the scientific theory behind the experiment and thus give
a fuller understanding of the theory. The student should be able
to use scientific apparatus with care and confidence, make observations
accurately, estimate the possible errors, produce a satisfactory
written report and, above all, to have a critical appreciation
of the purpose, significance and limitations of any experimental
study.
Content: A series of experiments based on principles introduced
during lecture units which may include: Determination of thermodynamic
properties of chemical reactions using thermochemical and electrochemical
approaches. Spectroscopic analysis of compounds to measure physical
properties. Study of the rates of chemical reactions by a number
of methods.
CHEY0013: Characterization methods
Semester 1
Credits: 6
Level: Level 2
Assessment: EX80 CW20
Requisites: Pre CHEY0006
Aims & Learning Objectives: To provide an introduction
to a number of techniques for characterisation of chemical compounds
including X-ray diffraction, and the origins and applications
of NMR and ESR spectroscopy, To describe chromatographic and photometric
methods of chemical analysis. Students should understand the principles
of the techniques and be able to apply them in interpreting straightforward
example of results. Selection of particular techniques to solve
particular problems will be a feature of the unit.
Content: Overview of X-ray generation and use of filters.
Crystal classes, lattices and unit cells. Bragg's law. Uses of
powder diffraction. General principles of NMR-Magnetic properties
of nuclei, sensitivity and abundance. Spectra of I = 1/2 nuclei.
Chemical shifts and coupling constants. Problems with I > 1/2
nuclei. More advanced NMR techniques. Magnetic properties of the
electron and origin and interpretation of ESR spectra. Gas and
liquid chromatographic methods of analysis and applications. Origins
of fluorescence, phosphorescence and analytical applications.
Electroanalytical methods of chemical analysis.
CHEY0014: Synthesis of organic molecules
Semester 1
Credits: 6
Level: Level 2
Assessment: EX80 CW20
Requisites:
Aims & Learning Objectives: To provide the student
with a working knowledge of important classes of organic transformations,
including mechanisms. To give an overview of retrosynthetic analysis
as a valuable method for the design of an organic molecule. To
enable the student to design syntheses of heterocyclic and alicyclic
compounds.
Content: The principles of retrosynthesis. The use of carbon
nucleophiles in retrosynthesis. Malonate ester synthesis and applications.
Umpolung reagents. Alkene synthesis, including Wittig reaction.
Oxidation reactions of alkenes and alcohols. Reduction reactions
of ketones and other carbonyl compounds. Protecting groups and
strategy in organic synthesis. The synthesis of ring systems including
discussion of pericyclic reactions and stereoelectronic effects.
Synthesis of large rings, spirocyclic and bicyclic compounds.
The chemistry of alicyclic systems. Description and synthesis
of heterocycles. Routes to pyrroles, farron, thiphene, pyridine
and indoles and their reactivity. Synthesis and reactivity of
pyridines, quinolines and isoquinolines. Synthesis and reactivity
of 3- and 4-membered ring heterocycles.
Natural science students must have undertaken CHEY0008 and CHEY0007.
CHEY0015: Transition metal chemistry
Semester 1
Credits: 6
Level: Level 2
Assessment: EX80 CW20
Requisites:
Aims & Learning Objectives: To develop bonding models
that can be applied to a consideration of the properties of transition
metal compounds. To present the general chemical features of d-block
elements in their normal oxidation states. To describe the basic
features of low oxidation state compounds involving (-acceptor
ligands particularly carbon monoxide, nitric oxide and dinitrogen.
To introduce the chemistry of transition metal compounds containing
metal-carbon (- and (-bonds.
Content: Review of earlier material on coordination numbers,
geometries, isomerism. Bonding theories e.g. Crystal Field Theory
and its limitations, elementary MO theory. Explanation of structural
and chemical properties of transition metal- ligand complexes.
including metal carbonyls, metal nitrosyls and dinitrogen complexes.
Organometallics - nomenclature, electron counting, hapticities.
Metal-carbon (- and (-bonding and examples of each. Applications
and uses of organometallics.
Natural science students must have undertaken CHEY0008 and CHEY0007.
CHEY0016: Interfacial chemistry
Semester 2
Credits: 6
Level: Level 2
Assessment: EX80 CW20
Requisites:
Aims & Learning Objectives: To provide an introduction
to the physical chemistry of interfaces of various types and to
illustrate its significance in catalysis, colloids and electrochemistry.
At the end of the module the student should be able to describe
how and why the molecular structure of an interface controls macroscopic
properties of surfaces; explain how the structure of an interface
can be probed; explain the quantitative basis of heteregeneous
catalysis; explain the reasons for the stability of colloidal
dispersions. and explain the basis of electron transfer at interfaces.
Content: Introduction to surfaces and interfaces. Molecular
origin of surface tension. Consequences of surface tension - wetting,
Laplace pressure, capillary rise. Gas-solid adsorption - Langmuir
and BET isotherms. Kinetics of catalysis. Solid-liquid adsorption.
Gibb's equation. Monolayers. Micellisation. Colloid stability.
Interfacial catalysed reactions. Electrode reactions. Electron
transfer at interfaces. Surface spectroscopy. Phase equilibrium
at interfaces.
Natural science students must have undertaken CHEY0008 and CHEY0007.
CHEY0017: Kinetics & mechanism 2
Semester 2
Credits: 6
Level: Level 2
Assessment: EX80 CW20
Requisites:
Aims & Learning Objectives: To summarize the main factors
which determine the mechanism of a reaction and how these affect
the reaction rate. To illustrate some experimental methods for
studying reaction rates and elucidating reaction mechanisms with
reference to examples from organic and inorganic chemistry. To
introduce the chemistry of some important reactive intermediates.
Content: Evidence for mechanisms and intermediates; principles
for acceptability;. Solvent and substituent effects on equilibria.
Rates for reactions of various kinetic orders, and kinetic treatment
of more complex mechanisms. Theoretical treatments of reaction
kinetics and examples of their application.. Reactions in solution.
Catalysis by acids and bases.; Nucleophilic catalysis. Stereochemistry
and mechanism. Aspects of the chemistry of carbocations, carbanions,
radicals, carbenes, nitrenes, and arynes. Experimental methods
for fast reactions: Basic photochemical processes. Applications
of photochemistry. New methods of studying reactions: molecular
beams; infra-red chemiluminescence.
Natural science students must have undertaken CHEY0008 and CHEY0007.
CHEY0018: Environmental chemistry
Semester 2
Credits: 6
Level: Level 2
Assessment: EX80 CW20
Requisites:
Aims & Learning Objectives: To provide an introduction
to various aspects of chemistry which have an impact on the environment.
To promote an understanding of the major chemical processes contributing
to the structure and stability of the biosphere and the effects
of human activities theron.
Content: The nature, properties and applications of radioactivity
and radioactive elements. Production and recycling of nuclear
fuels. Uses of radioactivity and its effects on the environment.
General features determining the composition of the biosphere.
Major chemical cycles and dynamic versus thermodynamic control.
Atmospheric chemistry and the roles of N, O and halogens in relation
to ozone producing cycles and organic radicals. Acid rain and
the Greenhouse effect.
Analytical chemistry of elements and compounds found in the environment
and speciation studies. Some case studies will be featured to
illustrate the principles..
CHEY0019: Structure & bonding in chemical systems
Semester 2
Credits: 6
Level: Level 2
Assessment: EX80 CW20
Requisites: Pre CHEY0007
Aims & Learning Objectives: To provide an introduction
to a range of tools that enable us to investigate a range of chemical
properties and relate them to molecular structure and bonding.
The student should will learn to use knowledge of molecular structure
to characterise vibrational spectra and chemical bonding and at
a more fundamental level use quantum mechanics to generate and
rationalise the structure and bonding in organic molecules.
Content: The concept of symmetry and symmetry operations
and their use to generate point groups for molecular species.
Group theory and spectroscopy. Solving the Schrodinger equation
and the calculation of energy levels. Development of the variation
method applied to diatomics and hydrocarbons. Calculation of electronic
and bonding energies, the relationship between molecular orbitals,
electron density and reactivity. Extensions to perocyclic reactions.
Importance of frontier molecular orbitals (FMO) to cycloaddition
reactions, endo selectivity of Diels-Alder reaction and FMO analysis
of sigmatropic rearrangements. Stereochemical considerations in
complex molecules.
Natural science students must have undertaken CHEY0008 & CHEY0007.
CHEY0024: Inorganic & computational chemistry laboratory
Semester 1
Credits: 3
Level: Level 2
Assessment: PR100
Requisites:
Aims & Learning Objectives: To complement some of the
material presented in Year 2 units. To provide experience in synthetic
chemistry and to introduce a range of experimental techniques.
To improve familiarity with spectroscopic and physical methods
of structure elucidation. To improve interpretive skills and report
writing. Practical introduction to the use of computational packages
for molecular modelling and database searching as tools for the
solution of chemical problems.
Content: Experiments designed to illustrate the important
features of metal d-block chemistry coordination chemistry, organometallics
and metal-metal bonded compounds.
Computation techniques to be introduced may include Molecular
mechanics, energy minimization and geometry optimization. Databases
for chemical structures and chemical synthesis design.
CHEY0025: Physical & organic chemistry laboratory
Semester 2
Credits: 3
Level: Level 2
Assessment: PR100
Requisites:
Aims & Learning Objectives: To build on existing physical
chemistry techniques and reinforce lecture material by introducing
advanced experimental and techniques. Topics will be selected
from appropriate lecture units and experiments used to demonstrate
their significance. Students will become grounded in PC analysis
of data sets, experimental design and safe working with modern
physical chemistry apparatus. To provide experience in synthetic
chemistry and to introduce a range of experimental techniques.
To improve familiarity with spectroscopic and physical methods
of structure elucidation.
Content: Practical experiments requiring computer based
analysis of results and input from the student into the way the
experiment is performed. Experiments likely to be included involve
surface analysis, colloid science, and gas-chromatography.
Experiments designed to illustrate the wide diversity of organic
chemistry. Information will be obtained from physical methods
e.g. vibrational spectroscopy, NMR, visible and ultraviolet spectroscopy,
X-ray crystallography, mass spectrometry, thermal analysis. Interpretation
of spectroscopic and other experimental data.
CHEY0026: Organic chemistry
Semester 1
Credits: 6
Level: Level 3
Assessment: EX100
Requisites: Pre CHEY0013, Pre CHEY0014, Pre CHEY0015
Aims & Learning Objectives: To revise the basic principles
of organic chemistry taught in previous units and to consider
two areas of advanced organic chemistry in detail: New synthetic
methodologies and Other elements in organic chemistry
To introduce the idea that organic chemistry extends to atoms
other than carbon. To reflect the importance of transition metal
catalysed reactions to modern organic synthesis. To describe some
important organic transformations based on the chemistry of main
group elements. Students should be able to demonstrate an understanding
of how these strategies are employed to overcome synthetic problems.
To provide a revision of retrosynthetic analysis and to build
up an understanding of selectivity in organic synthesis. Students
should develop a familiarity with fundamental synthetic strategies.
To provide an overview of the use of the Aldol and Diels Alder
reactions in complex organic synthesis.
Content: Transition metal organometallics. Catalytic coupling
reactions. Carbonylation reactions. Catalysed reactions involving
alkenes. Hydrocarbonylation. Metal carbenes in catalysis. Allyl
and arene complexes in organic synthesis. General aspects of organosilicon
chemistry. Silicon protecting groups. Silyl enol ethers. Synthesis
and reactivity of allyl silanes and boranes. Sulphur chemistry,
oxidation levels and ease of deprotonation. Swern reaction. Sulphurylides.
Methods of alkene formation
Revision of retrosynthetic analysis (synthons, disconnections
and real reagents). Regiocontrol and stereocontrol in the formation
of enolates and in the reactions which they undergo. A discussion
of the aldol reaction (E/Z enolates, enantioselectivity and diastereoselectivity.
Zimmerman Traxler transition states). The factors which affect
regioselectivity in addition reactions. Oxidation reactions of
alkenes and alcohols and issues of chemoselectivity. Reduction
reaction. Selectivity of Diels Alder reactions in synthesis. Other
electrocyclic reactions and applications to the control of stereochemistry.
Synthetic strategies will be discussed in the synthesis of selected
target molecules.
CHEY0027: Chemistry topics
Semester 1
Credits: 6
Level: Level 3
Assessment: EX100
Requisites: Pre CHEY0013, Pre CHEY0016, Pre CHEY0017
Aims & Learning Objectives: This core course will comprise
three a detailed discussion of three distinct topics.
Polymer Chemistry: To provide an introduction to the synthesis,
characterisation and applications of polymeric materials. Students
should be able to demonstrate an understanding of how polymer
structure can be influenced by the methods of synthesis and how
this affects material properties.
Physical Organic Chemistry: To extend the study of physical aspects
of organic chemistry initiated in previous units. To provide a
working knowledge of experimental tools for investigation of reaction
mechanisms and transition-state structure, through application
of rate-equilibrium relationships and isotope effects.
Structural Methods in Inorganic Chemistry: To introduce the technique
of single crystal X-ray crystallography as a tool for molecular
structure determination. To provide an understanding of the physical
basis, limitations and information available from NMR, NQR and
Mossbaurer Spectroscopics. Students should understand simple space
group assignments and the steps involved in solving a single crystal
structure. and be able to interpret a wide range of spectra.
Content: Polymer chemistry: Classification and types of
polymers. Synthesis of polymers with examples taken from several
different classes (addition, step-growth, ring opening, organometallic)
with the emphasis on how physicochemical considerations influence
the polymer structure. Characterisation of polymers (molecular
weight and chain length, spectroscopy, thermal methods). Structure
and morphology of polymers and how this influences properties.
Polymer solutions and thermodynamics of polymer mixtures. A survey
of recent applications taken from current research and industrial
topics.
Physical Organic Chemistry: Energy changes in equilibria and reactivity.
Transition states and saddle points. Activation parameters. Analysis
of reaction coordinates. Principle of Least Nuclear Motion. Hammond
Postulate. More OFerrall - Jencks diagrams. Rate - equilibrium
correlations. Hammett equation as an example of a linear free-energy
relationship. Significance of s and r for reactivity and mechanism.
Complex Hammett plots : change in mechanism vs change in rate-determining
step. Equilibrium and kinetic isotope effects. Primary and secondary
effects and their significance. Heavy-atom effects.
Structural Methods in Inorganic Chemistry: Brief introduction
to crystallography. Crystal classes and lattices. Unit cells.
Periodicity in lattices and space group diagrams. Photographic
techniques for single crystals. Data collection procedures and
collecting data. Low temperature data. Neutron and electron diffraction.
Nuclear spins and abundances. Spectra at molecules with a dilute
spin nucleus. Variable temperature NMR. Solid state NMR spectroscopy.
Quadrupolar nuclei, relaxation and linewidths. Origin of NQR spectra.
Mossbauer spectroscopy - origins and problems. Isomer shift and
quadupole splitting.
CHEY0028: Inorganic chemistry
Semester 2
Credits: 6
Level: Level 3
Assessment: EX100
Requisites: Pre CHEY0013, Pre CHEY0015, Pre CHEY0019
Aims & Learning Objectives: To revise the basic principles
of inorganic chemistry taught in previous units and to consider
two areas of advanced inorganic chemistry in detail: Inorganic
reaction mechanisms and Chemistry of p-block elements.
To outline areas of current interest in p-block chemistry, highlighting
the industrial application of p-block compounds in the electronics
industry. The unit will also reinforce the use of spectroscopic
methods in structural analysis. To give an understanding the mechanisms
of reactions at main group and transition metal centres - a key
component in designing synthetic methods, developing industrial
catalysts and investigating metalloenzymes.
Content: Synthetic and structural trends in the organometallic
compounds of the common oxidation states; low oxidation state
chemistry; multiple bonding, aromoticity in main group chemistry;
MOCVD and the microelectronics industry. Mechanistic detail on
examples of substitution reactions, electron transfer and ligand-based
reactions.
CHEY0029: Physical chemistry
Semester 2
Credits: 6
Level: Level 3
Assessment: EX100
Requisites: Pre CHEY0016, Pre CHEY0017
Aims & Learning Objectives: To revise the basic principles
of physical chemistry taught in previous units and to consider
two areas of advanced physical chemistry in detail: Statistical
Thermodynamics and Spectroscopy/photochemistry. To show the relationship
between the study of bulk properties and the study of individual
molecules using theory and spectroscopy. To give an overview of
the extensions required to study reaction kinetics and to treat
solids. The student should understand how to use the numerical
tools for calculating thermodynamic properties from spectroscopy
and be able to assess the reliability of this approach under different
conditions. To illustrate the main physical processes associated
with the formation and decay of electronically excited states
and to illustrate up-to-date views of the instrumentation involved
in modern photochemistry. Students should gain a fundamental understanding
of a range of photophysical and photochemical processes.
Content: Description of energy partition, the Boltzmann
Distribution Law. and quantum statistics. Derivation of partition
functions, their use to calculate properties and comparison with
experimental techniques. Evaluation of equilibrium and rate constants.
Statistical thermodynamics of solids. Introduction to lattice
dynamics, definitions of phonons and phonon dispersion curves.
Comparison of real materials with Debye and Einstein models. Absorption
and emission of light. Jablonskii scheme. Excited state kinetics
and quenching. Experimental methods. Properties and reactions
of excited states. Examples of photochemical processes including
photosynthesis, photography, solar energy conversion and atmospheric
photochemistry.
CHEY0051: Chemical research project 1
Semester 1
Credits: 6
Level: Level 3
Assessment: DS60 OR40
Requisites:
Aims & Learning Objectives: To allow students to experience
an extended practical research project typical of research in
an academic environment. To further develop and reinforce the
skills necessary for research work.
Content: A research topic will be selected in conjunction
with a supervising member of staff and a program of experimental
work planned. In addition to the experimental aspects, appropriate
library work will be conducted. Aspects of project planning, safety,
report writing skills and oral presentations will be introduced
as appropriate.
CHEY0054: Industrial placement (BSc hons)
Academic Year
Credits: 60
Level: Level 2
Assessment: RT100
Requisites:
Aims & Learning Objectives: To provide students with
an opportunity to gain a years experience of working in a chemical
company or related organisation.
Content: A research project and/or training programme will
be conducted in a company or organisation approved by the School
of Chemistry. The content will depend on the precise requirements
of the placement
CHEY0058: Study year abroad
Academic Year
Credits: 60
Level: Level 2
Assessment:
Requisites:
Aims & Learning Objectives: Please see the Director
Studies for detailed information about the Study Year Abroad.
CHEY0059: Chemical research project 2
Semester 2
Credits: 6
Level: Level 3
Assessment: DS60 OR40
Requisites:
Aims & Learning Objectives: Continuation of Chemical
Research Project 1 (CHEY0051).
MANG0023: Business forecasting
Semester 1
Credits: 5
Level: Level 3
Assessment: EX60 CW40
Requisites:
Aims & Learning Objectives: Almost all organisations
use forecasts as necessary ingredients for decision making. The
main objective of this course is to introduce students to the
various forecasting techniques most commonly used in a business
context and methods by which these techniques can be evaluated.
Content: The primary focus is on univariate (time series)
forecasting methods but the course will also deal with causal
modelling and diffusion models for technological forecasting.
MANG0024: Commercial contracts
Semester 1
Credits: 5
Level: Level 3
Assessment: EX60 ES40
Requisites:
Aims & Learning Objectives: This course sets out to
equip students to understand the realities of commercial contracts,
and to be aware of the consequences of their terms. Students will
be able to see, from genuine commercial standard contracts used,
what the parties have undertaken to do, where there are any weaknesses
in the agreement, how performance will be monitored, and what
the implications will be on other ancillary contractual relationships.
Other areas involve competition law, arbitration and intellectual
property rules and practice.
Content: Standard commercial contracts are examined to
identify common standard terms and their relevance within each
contracting party's business and outside it.
The network of connecting contracts: associated contracts; independent
contractors; banking, insurance, carriage; agency. Outside factors:
competition law; intellectual property; arbitration and mediation.
MANG0025: Company accounts & reports
Semester 1
Credits: 5
Level: Level 3
Assessment: EX50 ES50
Requisites: Pre MANG0018
Aims & Learning Objectives: This course will build
upon financial accounting elements of previous courses to provide
a knowledge of the special requirements for financial accounting
for companies. The course will have a heavy emphasis on legal
aspects of company reporting.
Content: Forms of business organisation and types of companies
Liabilities and responsibilities of directors, company secretaries,
auditors and rules about insolvent trading
The influence of law and standards on accounts. The concept of
a true and fair view.
The financial and legal distinction between loan and share capital
The issue and redemption of shares and debentures
Share capital and reserves: Capital and revenue reserves including
the share premium account, capital redemption reserve, retained
profits and payment of dividends.
The form and content of published Profit and Loss Accounts , Balance
Sheets and Cash Flow Statements
Introduction to Group Accounts
Treatment of taxation in published accounts: corporation tax,
taxation of dividends, overseas tax and VAT accounts.
Statute law, case law and their impact upon auditing
MANG0026: Economic analysis of financial decisions
Semester 1
Credits: 5
Level: Level 3
Assessment: EX50 ES50
Requisites:
Aims & Learning Objectives: The course aims to demonstrate
the close links between economic analysis on the one hand and
management accounting and financial management on the other. It
explores the use of optimisation approaches and considers , in
depth, problems faced in investment decision-making. The course
will include some computer based analysis of cost functions and
investment modelling
Content: The relationship of accounting cost concepts to
those in economics (e.g. by-product analysis and marginal costs)
Short-run and long-run cost functions and their relevance to choice
of accounting models
Cost behaviour analysis and the analysis of cost functions through
regression analysis
using appropriate software to generate scatter diagrams and graphical
presentations
Learning curves - theory and practice
Optimisation, Opportunity costs and constraints
Costs, prices, profits and different rates of return
Productivity concepts and measurement
The concept of economic value
Financial appraisal of investments, including analysis of different
appraisal techniques,
risk analysis, expected values, decision-trees and simulations
Different types of investment decisions
Making investment decisions where benefits are difficult to quantify
( e.g intangibles,
strategic investments, investments to retain options, investments
associated with
mergers and acquisitions)
Errors often made in investment appraisal
MANG0027: Economics of strategy 2
Semester 1
Credits: 5
Level: Level 3
Assessment: EX60 ES40
Requisites: Pre MANG0012
Aims & Learning Objectives: This course builds on Economics
of Strategy 1 to develop a fuller understanding of the economic
aspects of strategic decisions. Particular attention is given
to the analysis of strategic choices concerning the boundaries
of the firm - in terms of processes carried out, product scope
and the geographical area of operations. The introduction of new
products and processes through technical advance is examined as
is the network of relationships with other firms.
Content: Vertical integration and other types of relationships
with buyers and suppliers. Diversification and conglomerate firms.
Internal growth, acquisitions and mergers. Divestment and corporate
refocusing. New product and process introduction. Joint ventures
and strategic alliances. The internationalisation of business.
MANG0028: Emerging patterns of thought belief & action
Semester 1
Credits: 5
Level: Level 3
Assessment: ES50 CW50
Requisites:
Aims & Learning Objectives: To invite students to understand,
engage with and evaluate sources which suggest that the dominant
paradigm or world view of Western civilisation is undergoing a
major transformation, with associated changes in social values
and practices.
Content: A series of focused explorations looking at: notions
of paradigms and change; the Gaia hypothesis; ecological thinking;
economics and new economics; systems thinking; gender and diversity;
spirituality; the self; and other associated issues.
MANG0029: Employee relations 2
Semester 1
Credits: 5
Level: Level 3
Assessment: EX60 ES40
Requisites:
Aims & Learning Objectives: The course examines developments
in the management of the Employment Relationship in the UK and
makes comparisons with changes in other countries. Particular
attention is given to changes in the institutions of Employee
Relations.
Content: Key changes in the Management of the Employment
Relationship; Employers and Managers; Trade Unions; Industrial
Conflict; Role of the State in Employee Relations; Legal intervention.
MANG0030: Financial control & performance evaluation
Semester 1
Credits: 5
Level: Level 3
Assessment: EX50 ES50
Requisites:
Aims & Learning Objectives: Students will acquire a
understanding of how organisations use financial information to
evaluate managers, operatives and business segments
Content: Different types of budgets and their purposes
- feedback and feed-forward controls, flexible budgets,
engineered, committed and discretionary costs
Short-term and long-term budget construction - with computer simulations
Analysis of variances from budgets, variance analysis in standard
costing systems
Essential concepts in responsibility accounting (controllable
and non-controllable costs, etc. ) and performance evaluation
of managers and operational units
Behavioural issues in budgeting and control by variance analysis
Centralised and decentralised organisations and financial control
implications
Strengths and weaknesses of aggregated financial measures of performance
such as ROI and Residual Income and their impact on investment
decision- making
Shareholder Value Analysis for SBU / divisional performance goal
setting and appraisal.
Behavioural implications of divisional control and the internal
control function in large divisionalised organisations
Transfer pricing
Operative and manager bonus / incentive schemes
Development of balanced scorecards
MANG0031: Human resource management
Semester 1
Credits: 5
Level: Level 3
Assessment: EX60 ES40
Requisites:
Aims & Learning Objectives: The course aims to give
a broad overview of major features of human resource management.
It examines issues from the contrasting perspectives of management,
employees and public policy.
Content: Perspectives on managing human resources.
Human resource planning, recruitment and selection.
Performance, pay and rewards.
Control, discipline and dismissal.
MANG0032: IT & management
Semester 1
Credits: 5
Level: Level 3
Assessment: EX60 PR25 OT15
Requisites: Pre MANG0014
Aims & Learning Objectives: In the last few years,
the role of computers in business has changed radically:
1. Computers must now be seen in the context of Information Technology
(IT) which, as well as computers, includes software, telecommunications,
robotics and smart products.
2. IT is a strategic resource with the potential to affect competitive
advantage. IT can transform industries and products; it can be
a key element in determining the success or failure of an organization.
3. IT is no longer solely the concern of specialist computer departments.
Managing IT well is a core competence and an important part of
the task of general and functional managers.
4. Organisations have created new roles for managers to be interfaces
between IT and the business. They combine a general technical
competence with knowledge of the business.
This course addresses these issues and aims to equip students
with the IT-related management skills needed for careers as general
or functional managers in an information-based age.
Content: The course will develop skills and provide techniques
relating to the role of general and functional managers in the
management of IT. A business-oriented project will be used to
develop management skills such as: managing IT-induced transformation,
developing and aligning IT strategy, writing a business case,
managing a project, managing benefits, developing an implementation
plan and monitoring and auditing IT. The course will be based
on cases, lectures, videos, guest speakers and a site visit.
MANG0033: Management ideas & dilemmas
Semester 1
Credits: 5
Level: Level 3
Assessment: EX80 ES20
Requisites:
Aims & Learning Objectives: To examine the emergence,
popularity, application and dilemmas of central management ideas
in shaping employee behaviour. Using control as a central theme
of management, students will develop an understanding of the nature,
context and behavioural consequences of management practices and
be able to assess new ideas as they emerge.
Content: Subjects from: dimensions & dilemmas of control;
cooperation & conflict; technology; organisational structure
& 'fit'; culture; human nature and motivation; contexts of
adopting new ideas; management consultants.
MANG0034: Marketing 2
Semester 1
Credits: 5
Level: Level 3
Assessment: EX60 CW40
Requisites: Pre MANG0016
Aims & Learning Objectives: 1. To provide an understanding
of the practice of marketing management
2. To gain an insight into the job of a marketing manager, and
how marketing policy is implemented
3. To introduce students to a variety of issues facing marketing
today
Content: Marketing involves identifying and satisfying
customer needs and wants. It is concerned with providing appropriate
products, services, and sometimes ideas, at the right place and
price, and promoted in ways which are motivating to current and
future customers.. Marketing takes place in the context of the
market, and of competition.
The course is concerned with these activities, and includes:
product policy and new product development
advertising, selling, public relations and other forms of promotion
marketing channels, with particular reference to wholesaling and
retailing
MANG0035: Aspects of Japanese business
Semester 1
Credits: 5
Level: Level 3
Assessment: EX80 CW20
Requisites:
Aims & Learning Objectives: The aim of this course
is to critically examine and to provide an understanding of the
nature of Japanese business organization. After completing the
unit the student should be able to: identify the political, economic
and social forces underpinning the emergence of Japanese business
forms; understand the relationships between business, the state
and trade unions in contemporary Japan; describe the human resource
management practices characteristic of Japanese business; explain
the internationalization of Japanese business; assess the transferability
of Japanese business practice to alien environments.
Content: The political economy of Japan; Japan's institutional
environment; Japanese production systems; Organization and power
in Japanese organizations; Cross-national transfer of Japanese
production and management practices; Industrial relations in Japan
and Japanese subsidiaries in the West.
MANG0035: Aspects of Japanese business
Semester 2
Credits: 5
Level: Level 3
Assessment: EX80 CW20
Requisites:
Aims & Learning Objectives: The aim of this course
is to critically examine and to provide an understanding of the
nature of Japanese business organization. After completing the
unit the student should be able to: identify the political, economic
and social forces underpinning the emergence of Japanese business
forms; understand the relationships between business, the state
and trade unions in contemporary Japan; describe the human resource
management practices characteristic of Japanese business; explain
the internationalization of Japanese business; assess the transferability
of Japanese business practice to alien environments.
Content: The political economy of Japan; Japan's institutional
environment; Japanese production systems; Organization and power
in Japanese organizations; Cross-national transfer of Japanese
production and management practices; Industrial relations in Japan
and Japanese subsidiaries in the West.
MANG0036: Consumer research
Semester 1
Credits: 5
Level: Level 3
Assessment: EX60 ES40
Requisites: Pre MANG0016
Aims & Learning Objectives: To develop a critical evaluation
of the range of consumer research techniques. The student should
be able appreciate the value of consumer research in marketing
decision making, to be able to judge other person's research efforts,
and be able to plan their own research programmes.
Content: There is a strong emphasis on the rationales for
conducting consumer research, for qualitative and quantitative
methods and for particular techniques. There are no statistics
on this course though an appreciation of statistical methods would
be necessary to fully appreciate many of the themes developed.
There are set readings for each lecture session. Students are
expected to have prepared for each lecture by reading the set
article, preparing notes and developing issues to debate in class.
Each student will be expected to make a presentation and lead
a debate in class at least once throughout the course.
MANG0037: Cost management
Semester 1
Credits: 5
Level: Level 3
Assessment: EX50 CW50
Requisites:
Aims & Learning Objectives: To acquaint students with
topical issues in cost management and cost reduction and provide
practical insights. The course will be heavily based upon analyses
of case studies which address these issues and develop students'
abilities to critique the practical design of cost management
and management accounting systems. This course links cost management
directly to central strategic issues in managing the organisation.
Content: Issues will be selected each year depending upon
current issues of concern, but the following selection illustrates
the nature of the material addressed: A review of activity based
costing - where it has and has not strategic significance; The
role accounting can play in quality control and removing waste;
Implications of changing technology (e.g. flexible manufacturing)
and changing organisational forms (e.g. inter-organisational supply
chain relationships and other organisational networking) for cost
accounting and management; Target costing and kaizen costing and
its relationship to strategic analysis; The theory of constraints
and continual improvement - implications for accounting; The nature
of strategic management accounting; Whether there is a given best
cost management system or whether there are appropriate contexts
for the different recent developments; Implementation problems
in introducing new cost management systems.
MANG0038: Depth psychology of organisations
Semester 1
Credits: 5
Level: Level 3
Assessment: EX60 ES40
Requisites:
Aims & Learning Objectives: To introduce the concepts
and theories of depth psychology and develop the students' understanding
of organizational processes by using these concepts and theories.
Content: Core concepts and theories of depth psychology:
desire, repression and the unconscious, narcissism, symbolism
and sublimation. Mental personality. Interpretation and the use
of psychoanalytic interpretations on cultural phenomena. The analysis
of jokes, stories and myths. Leaders and followers, the personality
of leaders and transference. Organizational and individual pathologies,
authoritarianism and organizational decay. Gender construction
in organizations.
MANG0039: Employment law
Semester 1
Credits: 5
Level: Level 3
Assessment: EX60 OT40
Requisites:
Aims & Learning Objectives: This unit is designed to
give students a comprehensive and realistic insight into the legal
framework of the employer/employee relationship and its impact
on the parties directly involved in the wider social context.
Content: Legal framework; principles of contract law; implied
terms and duties in the contract of employment; safety at work;
discrimination; duties of ex-employees; termination of contract
of employment; redundancy; unfair dismissal.
MANG0040: European integration studies 1
Semester 1
Credits: 5
Level: Level 3
Assessment: EX50 ES50
Requisites:
Aims & Learning Objectives: To provide a basic grounding
in the theory, politics and economics of European integration.
Students will complete the course with a sound knowledge of European
Union institutions and key economic policies.
Content: Subjects covered will be: integration theory;
EU political institutions, their legitimacy and their accountability;
the EU decision-making process; EC finances and funds; the single
market and Europe's lost competitiveness; competition policy;
the EU, world trade and developing countries; regional policy;
economic and monetary union; the enlargement of the EU, the EEA
and Central and Eastern Europe.
Lectures will be supplemented by case study discussions, tutorial
sessions and a revision workshop.
MANG0041: Financial reporting & accounting standards
Semester 1
Credits: 5
Level: Level 3
Assessment: EX50 ES50
Requisites: Pre MANG0025
Aims & Learning Objectives: To introduce and discuss
topical issues in corporate financial reporting and to ensure
that students understand a number of key accounting standards,
the reasons they were adopted in favour of possible alternative
treatments and their implications for reporting and auditing practice.
Content: The nature of standards and the standard setting
process. Substance over form - FRS 4 and 5. The measurement of
profit and capital maintenance: historical cost, current cost
accounting and their relationship to economic profit. FRS3. Accounting
for corporate groups - mergers and acquisitions, balance sheets
and profit and loss accounts FRS2, 6 and 7. Goodwill and intangible
assets SSAP22 plus current debate. Special problems: a selection
from research and development (SSAP13), deferred tax (SSAP15),
investment properties (SSAP19), leases and hire purchase (SSAP21),
pensions (SSAP24), foreign currency (SSAP20).
Note: The Accounting Standards mentioned are those currently applied
at the time this syllabus was prepared. The course will keep up-to-date
and address any subsequent standards issued on these topics.
MANG0042: Managing conflict
Semester 1
Credits: 5
Level: Level 3
Assessment: EX60 ES40
Requisites:
Aims & Learning Objectives: The course examines the
sources, characteristics and possible methods of managing conflict.
Although the main focus will be on conflict within the employment
relationship other arenas will also be examined. Particular attention
will be given to negotiating and bargaining processes and conflict
resolution processes involving third parties.
Content:
How and why does conflict emerge? Its forms, features and dynamics.
Negotiating and Bargaining: concepts and models
Preparing for Negotiations: practical issues
Negotiating in practice: skills and techniques
Models of practice: analysis and re-evaluation
Negotiating in action: a practical case
Third Party Intervention: background and issues
Role of ACAS: institutions and practices
Third Party intervention in practice: skills and techniques
Third Parties: problems and issues
MANG0043: Operational research
Semester 1
Credits: 5
Level: Level 3
Assessment: EX60 CW40
Requisites:
Aims & Learning Objectives: The objective of this course
is to provide an understanding and appreciation of how quantitative,
analytical models can both inform managers and assist decision-making.
The emphasis is on the practical application of a variety of model-building
techniques.
Content: Approximately half of the course is devoted to
models for optimal resource allocation e.g. linear programming,
goal programming, integer programming and dynamic programming.
The other half deals with decision analysis, queuing models and
computer simulation.
MANG0044: Organisational change & design
Semester 1
Credits: 5
Level: Level 3
Assessment: EX60 ES40
Requisites:
Aims & Learning Objectives: To provide students with
a critical appreciation of the ideas of management gurus and how
these set and guide the practice of change. This popular view
is contrasted with more academic approaches and developed through
a consideration of the (re)design of organisational forms suitable
for an age that increasingly requires organizations to be global
and innovative.
Content: Topics will be drawn from the following:
Fashions and fads - the history of ideas in change management;
The role of business gurus in defining the practice of change;
Orders and types of change - 1st, 2nd and reframing; The politics
of organizational change; Organizational design and contingency
theory; Organizational forms for the future - innovative and global.
MANG0045: Pay & rewards
Semester 1
Credits: 5
Level: Level 3
Assessment: EX60 CW40
Requisites:
Aims & Learning Objectives: The course will enable
the student to provide informed advice on the major aspects of
pay, rewards and performance management, based on a sound understanding
of the relevant theories and research evidence.
Content: The role of reward strategy in an organisation.
Economic, sociological and psychological theories which have influenced
pay policies and practices.
Concepts of reward structure, reward system and reward levels.
Different perceptions of fairness which influence employees' satisfaction
with their rewards.
Government pay policies. Top people's pay.
Objectives and limitations of job evaluation.
Performance-related pay in principle and in practice.
Knowledge-based, skill-based and competence-based rewards.
Pay discrimination and equal pay.
Employee benefits.
MANG0046: Product policy
Semester 1
Credits: 5
Level: Level 3
Assessment: EX60 CW40
Requisites: Pre MANG0034
Aims & Learning Objectives: Decisions about the product
offering are central to a firm's marketing activities and ultimately
its long term survival and economic prosperity. This course is
concerned with theories, concepts and statistical techniques which
can be used to analyse product policies. It starts by exploring
subjects which relate to the various stages in the new product
development (NPD) process and those which represent important
issues that have emerged from research on NPD. The unit also recognising
that NPD is an important managerial activity which interfaces
with organisational, and brand and portfolio management activities.
Case studies will explore and develop issues, including the application
of various analytical models and techniques. In addition, coursework
of a market research nature will involve the collection and analysis
of quantitative data for the purposes of new product development
decision-making. Themes include: the new product development process,
exploring the what constitutes a successful new product development
process, idea generating and screening decisions, concept testing
and conjoint modelling and pre-test and test market models; issues
in brand management including brand extensions as a launch strategy,
the challenges posed by the rise of retailers' own-label products
to manufacturers, portfolio management and the product deletion
decision.
Students should be able to:
1. Understand the importance and risks associated with the new
product development process.
2. Critically evaluate the strengths and weaknesses associated
with various empirical techniques used in the development of new
products.
3. Develop a critical understanding of the theory, concepts and
techniques of product policy.
MANG0047: Specialist IT management
Semester 1
Credits: 5
Level: Level 3
Assessment: EX60 OR40
Requisites: Pre MANG0014
Aims & Learning Objectives: In the last few years,
the role of computers in business has changed radically:
1. Computers must now be seen in the context of Information Technology
(IT) which, as well as computers, includes software, telecommunications,
robotics and smart products.
2. IT is a strategic resource with the potential to affect competitive
advantage. IT can transform industries and products; it can be
a key element in determining the success or failure of an organization.
3. IT is no longer solely the concern of specialist computer departments.
Managing IT well is a core competence and an important part of
the task of general and functional managers.
4. Organisations have created new roles for managers to be interfaces
between IT and the business. They combine a general technical
competence with knowledge of the business.
This course addresses these issues, particularly the last and
aims to equip students with the IT-related management skills and
knowledge needed for careers as general managers with a specialist
information role.
Content: The course will develop advanced and contemporary
skills and knowledge relating to the management of IT. Topics
will include: organisational learning and IS, controlling IS (security,
maintenance), managing international IS, critical skills for IS
professionals, quality issues, outsourcing, social and ethical
issues. The course will be based on lectures, cases, student led
seminars, visiting speakers.
MANG0048: Strategic analysis
Semester 1
Credits: 5
Level: Level 3
Assessment: EX60 ES40
Requisites: Pre MANG0016
Aims & Learning Objectives: An understanding of how
strategists proactively shape the mission, objectives and strategies
of their organisations within prevailing environmental and organisational
constraints. Exposure to the theoretical insights and methodological
approaches available to interpret and develop the competitive
strategic position of the enterprise under complexity and uncertainty.
Students are expected to contribute actively to class discussions
and through careful preparation to become proficient at analysing
specific situations using appropriate conceptual models allied
to pragmatic, well-reasoned judgements with respect to the content
of strategies and feasibility of implementation.
Content: Topics include: the nature of corporate objectives
and mission statements; analysing operating performance; the competitive
market/industry environment; sources of rivalry; the value chain;
assessing opportunities and threats; the development and application
of core competencies; strategies in growth, maturity and in decline;
managing ambiguity and complexity in the multi-firm (global) corporate
environment. Case studies are used to explore and interpret issues.
MANG0049: Strategic marketing
Semester 1
Credits: 5
Level: Level 3
Assessment: EX60 ES40
Requisites: Pre MANG0016
Aims & Learning Objectives: An applied and thematic
approach to forming and implementing effective marketing strategies
for the business enterprise. The unit aims to help students interpret
competitive market positions and explore how they can be sustained
via product and market-oriented initiatives under conditions of
environmental uncertainty and competitive threat. Students are
expected to contribute actively to class discussions and through
careful preparation become proficient at analysing specific situations
using appropriate conceptual models allied to pragmatic, well-reasoned
judgements.
Content: Topics include: the meaning of marketing strategy
and generic strategies (and the form of the latter); interfaces
with shorter term marketing activities and longer term corporate
strategies; external trend analysis; strategies through the life
cycle; product/service innovation strategies; the strategic significance
of brands and reputation; portfolio development; international
strategies; issues in planning & implementing strategies.
Case examples are used to explore and interpret issues.
MANG0050: Supply management
Semester 1
Credits: 5
Level: Level 3
Assessment: EX60 CW40
Requisites:
Aims & Learning Objectives:
To develop in the student a broad understanding of the principles,
concepts and approaches employed in the management of supply between
industrial, commercial, and governmental organisations.
To differentiate between operational and strategic approaches
to management of supply
To provide the student with a practical framework, built from
research and experience, for understanding and analysing the development
of supply management.
Content: Introduction to supply management and the concepts
of purchasing, procurement, supply, value flow and inter-firm
relationships. Sourcing strategies and their implications for
corporate strategies. Information systems in supply management.
The concept of inter-organisational relationships. Supply chain
management. Negotiation as a technique and management challenge.
Lean principles and the concept of value flow. Outsourcing and
the management of associated relationships. Government procurement:
regulated markets. Logistics.
MANG0050: Supply management
Semester 2
Credits: 5
Level: Level 3
Assessment: EX60 CW40
Requisites:
Aims & Learning Objectives:
To develop in the student a broad understanding of the principles,
concepts and approaches employed in the management of supply between
industrial, commercial, and governmental organisations.
To differentiate between operational and strategic approaches
to management of supply
To provide the student with a practical framework, built from
research and experience, for understanding and analysing the development
of supply management.
Content: Introduction to supply management and the concepts
of purchasing, procurement, supply, value flow and inter-firm
relationships. Sourcing strategies and their implications for
corporate strategies. Information systems in supply management.
The concept of inter-organisational relationships. Supply chain
management. Negotiation as a technique and management challenge.
Lean principles and the concept of value flow. Outsourcing and
the management of associated relationships
Government procurement: regulated markets. Logistics.
MANG0051: Technology management
Semester 1
Credits: 5
Level: Level 3
Assessment: EX60 ES40
Requisites:
Aims & Learning Objectives: This unit is concerned
with the management of technology and technological innovation
from the firm's perspective. The aim is to introduce students
to some of the managerial issues raised by the creation, adoption
and diffusion of technology over time. The objectives are firstly,
to provide an appreciation of the need to manage technology beyond
any R & D department and secondly, to develop an understanding
of alternative approaches to the acquisition, organisation and
exploitation of technology and the factors influencing the relative
success of these in different environments.
Content: The course examines patterns of technological
change, how technology affects competition, the impact of technology
on individual firms' competitive advantage and the development
of strategies and managerial methods to meet the challenges of
the increasingly technology-driven environment.
Topics include patterns of R & D, technical trajectories,
sources of product and process innovation and the innovation environment.
Developing a strategic approach to technology. Technology as a
company asset and technical auditing. Technology forecasting and
foresight. The relationship between technological change, industry
structure and competitive advantage. Factors influencing success
in technological innovation.. Different technology strategies
and decisions concerning R&D, innovation and the commercialisation
of new products/ processes. The protection of industrial and intellectual
property. The diffusion of technology by contract, acquisition,
imitation and manpower flows.
MANG0053: Advanced supply management
Semester 2
Credits: 5
Level: Level 3
Assessment: EX60 CW40
Requisites: Pre MANG0050
Aims & Learning Objectives:
To develop in the student an advanced understanding of the principles,
concepts and approaches employed in the management of supply between
industrial, commercial, and governmental organisations.
To develop strategic and innovative approaches to management of
supply
To provide the student with a practical framework, built from
research and experience, for understanding and analysing the development
of strategic supply management.
Content: Recap on previous study in Supply Management.
Further exploration of sourcing strategies and their implications
for corporate strategies. Strategies based upon information systems
in supply management. The concept of inter-organisational relationships:
trust, power and dependencies. Inter-organisational networking.
Further depth on lean principles and the concept of value flow.
Outsourcing and the management of relational competence. Government
procurement: regulated markets. Logistics.
MANG0054: Business strategies & human resource management
Semester 2
Credits: 5
Level: Level 3
Assessment: EX60 CW40
Requisites:
Aims & Learning Objectives: The course will enable
to the student to study Human Resource Management at an advanced
level especially by critically examining contemporary theory and
practice on the link between HRM and business strategies. The
student will appreciate the effect of different types of HRM strategies
on firm performance and locate these within the context of the
role of the state and trade union organisation, membership and
strategy. The student will be able to evaluate the strategies
and policies of a wide variety of organisations in the public
and private sectors and be equipped to debate these issues with
senior HR and Personnel executives. The key topics covered include
HRM: Rhetoric and Reality; Strategy, structure and devolution/decentralisation;
the pursuit of flexibility in its various forms; the resource
view of strategy; the distinction between high commitment management
and the matching models of HRM; cost leadership models and the
fragmentation of the firm; management style in the context of
trade union behaviour and the role of the state in the UK and
Europe. Examples will be taken from numerous countries.
MANG0055: Corporate governance & regulation
Semester 2
Credits: 5
Level: Level 3
Assessment: EX50 ES50
Requisites:
Aims & Learning Objectives: The course will acquaint
students with a range of issues which come under the broad heading
of governance and regulation of corporate practices. This will
include the nature of the company and responsibilities of its
principal officers, concerns about the state of corporate governance
and the special regulatory issues associated with public control
over utilities. The latter part of the course will recognise the
growing phenomenon of globalisation and the need for regulation
by international accounting standards
Content: Issues selected each year from:
The nature of the corporation and the position of shareholders,
chairmen, CEOs, executive directors and non-executive directors;
The nature of corporate governance and development of a conceptual
framework for
governance - including the relationship between governance and
management; Examples of crises in governance; Governance as exercised
in different countries; Whistle-blowing as a means of governance;
The place of top executive compensation schemes in corporate governance
considerations; Regulation of MNCs and cross-border transfer pricing;
The regulation of public utilities; International standard setting
in accounting and relationship to national standards; Financial
reporting in the European Union; Comparative accounting practices
in selected countries.
Financial statement analysis using accounts of different countries
MANG0056: Corporate strategy in the European Union
Semester 2
Credits: 5
Level: Level 3
Assessment: CW75 OT25
Requisites: Pre MANG0027
Aims & Learning Objectives: To explore corporate strategies
in the context of the Single European Market.
To develop an understanding of the European business environment.
Content: The European business environment. European Union
competition and industrial policy. The Single Market Act. Non-tariff
barriers in the 'Single Market'. The competitive threat from the
US, Japan and the Pacific Rim. Competitive pressures in global,
mature and declining industries.
Corporate strategies in the European Market. Industrialisation
and integration; merger and acquisitions, joint ventures, alliance
strategies. Market entry in the European Union; national and continental
strategies. Foreign Direct Investment in the European Union. Corporate
integration; rationalisation and centralisation, managing across
borders.
MANG0057: Depth psychology of the consumer
Semester 2
Credits: 5
Level: Level 3
Assessment: EX60 ES40
Requisites:
Aims & Learning Objectives: To develop the students'
understanding of contemporary consumerism and of the behaviour
of different groups of consumers organizational by using the concepts
and theories from depth psychology.
Content: A summary of core concepts and theories of depth
psychology. Material culture and interpretation. Classical social
theories of consumption, status, fashion and display. The concept
of consumer choice. Gifts and communicative qualities of material
objects. Adolescence and life-style consumption. The Diderot effect.
Hedonism and aesthetic orientation to consumption. The influences
of social class. Postmodern theories of consumption and mass media.
Advertising, images and simulacra.
MANG0058: Ecological thinking & action in management
Semester 2
Credits: 5
Level: Level 3
Assessment: RP80 OR20
Requisites: Pre MANG0028
Aims & Learning Objectives: The aim of this unit is
to provide students with an opportunity to research in depth a
topic chosen by them in consultation in staff. Topics should be
related to the key areas covered in Emerging Patterns of Thought,
Action and Belief (MANG0028).
MANG0059: European integration studies 2
Semester 2
Credits: 5
Level: Level 3
Assessment: ES100
Requisites: Pre MANG0040
Aims & Learning Objectives: To provide an advanced
knowledge of the impact of European policies on individuals, managements
and work organisations in the European Union. Students will complete
the course unit with a detailed knowledge of social, environmental
and sectoral impacts of integration and how business interests
can influence the EU decision-making process.
Content: Subjects covered will be: Social and employment
policy issues and the firm; EU environment policy and its impact
upon business and communities; the harmonisation of company law;
sectoral impacts of the single market and business strategies;
lobbying the EU; transport policy and trans-European networks;
implementation of EC law; the future direction of the EU.
Lectures will be supplemented by case study discussions, a decision-making
game, and tutorial sessions.
MANG0060: European international business management
Semester 2
Credits: 5
Level: Level 3
Assessment: EX60 CW32 OT8
Requisites:
Aims & Learning Objectives: The course aims to introduce
and assess the forms, motivations and processes of establishing
and developing a multinational enterprise. It will explain the
magnitude and significance of international business, both in
manufacturing and service industries and discuss the terminology
used. The students should be able:
· to understand and assess the options available to companies
undergoing the internationalisation process
· to analyse the different issues that arise and problems
that need to be addressed when establishing and operating subsidiaries
and affiliates across national boundaries
· to identify and explain actual examples using theories
introduced in the course.
Content: The theories of international business, including
internalisation, the behavioural approach to internationalisation,
the eclectic theory and other theories of the multinational enterprise.
The motivations for multinational operation - economic globalisation,
competitive rivalry, resource or market seeking.
The different forms of multinational operation, including contractual
forms, equity arrangements, joint ventures, etc. An assessment
of the advantages and disadvantages of each.
The financing of international operations - international trade
finance, international equity markets, capital markets, foreign
exchange issues.
The risks of international operations - political, economic and
financial risk. The methods of mitigating risks.
Geographic studies -
a) foreign direct investment in Central and Eastern Europe, looking
at the different countries, levels of FDI, and examples. Discussion
of motivations and risks of operating in this area.
b) foreign direct investment in the European Union - intra-EU
and from outside the region. Assessments, motivations and the
options available.
The course will draw heavily on examples and will use the students
assignments, to be presented orally to the class, to illustrate
and explain the theories of international business.
MANG0062: International business law
Semester 2
Credits: 5
Level: Level 3
Assessment: EX60 ES40
Requisites: Pre MANG0010, Pre MANG0024
Aims & Learning Objectives: To put international trade
contracts in their proper framework - in terms of the contracts
and their enforcement and enforceability, and in the wider context
of how businesses function in the international commercial field.
Students will consider the different regimes which are relevant
to making agreements in an international context, the problems
which can arise and how to deal with them. Common contract terms
and business relationships are examined so that students understand
the principles which can facilitate or hinder international contracts.
Content: Legal 'families' and their characteristics. Codified
commercial law. Treaties and conventions. ICC and other private
regimes. Principles of international trade and common principles
of law on commercial agents; business forms; business liability.
Commercial contracts; insurance; international banking; carriage;
patents, arbitration, dispute resolution and enforcement. European
Union law - competition, free movement.
MANG0063: International marketing
Semester 2
Credits: 5
Level: Level 3
Assessment: EX60 CW40
Requisites: Pre MANG0034
Aims & Learning Objectives: 1. To develop an understanding
of the concepts of international marketing, and of the international
environment in which companies operate.
2. To develop an understanding of international marketing management
and the process of strategy development
Content: International marketing is usually defined as
marketing goods or services across international boundaries, but
it usually also includes elements of comparative marketing, and
of co-ordination of marketing activities in several markets simultaneously,
i.e. multi-domestic marketing.
The course includes aspects of the international marketing environment,
market selection, market entry methods and channels, international
product policy decisions, promotion decisions, and a special focus
on exporting.
MANG0064: Managing change
Semester 2
Credits: 5
Level: Level 3
Assessment: EX60 CW40
Requisites:
Aims & Learning Objectives: To introduce students to
the theory and practice of change management in organizations
ranging from diagnosis to intervention, and from thinking frameworks
to frameworks for action.
Content: Topics will be drawn from the following:
Perspectives on the organizational situation; issue and problem
diagnosis; Analysing the change situation - interpretation, explanation
and feedback; the action learning framework; The basic tools and
techniques of the change manager; The nature of the change process
- models, theories and philosophies of change; Managing change
- approaches and methods; Cultural change - concepts and practices;
Leading change - strategies and styles.
MANG0066: Strategic management
Semester 2
Credits: 5
Level: Level 3
Assessment: EX60 ES40
Requisites: Pre MANG0048
Aims & Learning Objectives: To provide an understanding
of how strategy is developed within organisations, of the processes
involved, and of the structure and control systems exercised by
organisations in its implementation.
To examine how the concepts of strategy formulation and organisation
development interplay.
Students are expected to contribute to class discussion through
the preparation of case studies in order to develop their understanding
of complex situations.
Content: Processes of company diagnosis and recognition;
formulation of objectives and value systems; processes of agenda
building, scenario development and strategic decision making;
processes of organisational change in strategic direction.
MANG0067: Treasury management
Semester 2
Credits: 5
Level: Level 3
Assessment: EX50 ES50
Requisites:
Aims & Learning Objectives: To show how a large company
manages sources of capital, relations with financial markets and
shareholders and balances needs for finance with internationally
spread organisations.
Content: Issues selected from:
Reviewing sources of finance and their costs
Special sources of finance: convertibles and warrants and capital
structure re-visited, leasing, export finance
Balancing financing needs and sources
Relations with external parties
Bankruptcy prediction and avoidance
Mergers and acquisitions
International and domestic aspects of cash management
Foreign exchange markets and foreign exchange rate risks
Exposure management: hedging, swaps, options, interest rate risk,
etc.
Complications in investment appraisal in undertaking direct investment
abroad
International financing
MANG0070: Business economics (service unit)
Semester 1
Credits: 5
Level: Level 1
Assessment: EX60 CW40
Requisites:
Aims and Learning Objectives: To use the basic tools of
economics to introduce students to the nature of the variety of
competitive environments within which business firms have to operate.
At the end of the unit students should be able to identify the
cost and revenue curves of the firm, understand how the concept
of elasticity is useful and identify the fundamental characteristics
of the various forms of market structure. They should be able
to apply their knowledge to the real world and make predictions
about the likely outcome of various market interactions.
MANG0071: Organisational behaviour (service unit)
Semester 2
Credits: 5
Level: Level 1
Assessment: EX60 CW40
Requisites:
Aims & Learning Objectives: To develop the student's
understanding of people's behaviour within work organizations
Content: Topics of study will be drawn from the following:
The meaning of organising and organisation
Socialisation, organisational norms and organisational culture
Bureaucracy, organisational design and new organisational forms
Managing organisational change
Power and politics
Business ethics
Leadership and team work
Decision -making
Motivation
Innovation
Gender
The future of work
MANG0072: Managing human resources (service unit)
Semester 2
Credits: 5
Level: Level 2
Assessment: EX100
Requisites:
Aims & Learning Objectives: The course aims to give
a broad overview of major features of human resource management.
It examines issues from the contrasting perspectives of management,
employees and public policy.
Content: Perspectives on managing human resources.
Human resource planning, recruitment and selection.
Performance, pay and rewards.
Control, discipline and dismissal.
MANG0073: Marketing (service unit)
Semester 1
Credits: 5
Level: Level 2
Assessment: EX60 CW40
Requisites:
Aims & Learning Objectives: 1. To provide an introduction
to the concepts of Marketing.
2. To understand the principles and practice of marketing management.
3. To introduce students to a variety of environmental and other
issues facing marketing today.
Content: Marketing involves identifying and satisfying
customer needs and wants. It is concerned with providing appropriate
products, services, and sometimes ideas, at the right place and
price, and promoted in ways which are motivating to current and
future customers. Marketing activities take place in the context
of the market, and of competition.
The course is concerned with the above activities, and includes:
consumer and buyer behaviour
market segmentation, targetting and positioning
market research
product policy and new product development
advertising and promotion
marketing channels and pricing
MANG0074: Business information systems (service unit)
Semester 2
Credits: 5
Level: Level 2
Assessment: EX60 PR25 OT15
Requisites:
Aims & Learning Objectives: Information Technology
(IT) is rapidly achieving ubiquity in the workplace. All areas
of the business community are achieving expansion in IT and investing
huge sums of money in this area. Within this changing environment,
several key trends have defined a new role for computers:
a) New forms and applications of IT are constantly emerging. One
of the most important developments in recent years has been the
fact that IT has become a strategic resource with the potential
to affect competitive advantage: it transforms industries and
products and it can be a key element in determining the success
or failure of an organisation.
b) Computers have become decentralised within the workplace: PCs
sit on managers desks, not in the IT Department. The strategic
nature of technology also means that managing IT has become a
core competence for modern organisations and is therefore an important
part of the task of general and functional managers. Organisations
have created new roles for managers who can act as interfaces
between IT and the business, combining a general technical knowledge
with a knowledge of business.
This course addresses the above issues, and, in particular, aims
to equip students with IT management skills for the workplace.
By this, we refer to those attributes that they will need to make
appropriate use of IT as general or functional managers in an
information-based age. In dealing with management issues, our
aims are to provide practical as well as theoretical knowledge.
As such, the course integrates hands-on work in the computer lab,
dealing with management problems, and practical elements of IT
practice that managers are likely to encounter when they become
involved with IT in any organisation. Thus, in addition to providing
an appreciation of the business value and opportunities stemming
from new technology, the latter includes the various issues encountered
when devising, evaluating, and managing any IT project.
Content: The course is divided into two components, to
reflect the fact that is oriented to both theoretical and practical
aspects of IT.
Section one comprises the practical element of the course. It
is primarily focused on case studies, involving the application
of selected software to management problems. It involves hands-on
work in the computer laboratory.
Section two relates to the examination of IT in its business context.
Here the focus is upon examining the value of IT in terms of why
IT is strategic and how it can affect the competitive environment,
as well as how it should be managed within the business.
The sessions will be organised as follows: IT and Corporate Strategy;
IT-Induced Transformation; Strategic Alignment of IT and Business
Strategies; Evaluation of IT Investments; Project Development
and Management: Implementation of Technology
MANG0076: Business policy (service unit)
Semester 1
Credits: 5
Level: Level 3
Assessment: EX60 CW40
Requisites:
Aims & Learning Objectives: To provide an appreciation
of how organisations develop from their entrepreneurial beginnings
through maturity and decline .
To examine the interrelationship between concepts of policy and
strategy formulation with the behavioural aspects of business
To enable students to explore the theoretical notions behind corporate
strategy
Students are expected to develop skills of analysis and the ability
to interpret complex business situations.
Content: Business objectives , values and mission; industry
and market analysis ; competitive strategy and advantage ; corporate
life cycle; organisational structures and controls .
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