School of Management, Unit Catalogue 2011/12 |
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 Credits:
| 12 |
| Level:
| Honours (FHEQ level 6) |
| Period: |
Academic Year |
| Assessment:
| CW 70%, OR 30% |
| Supplementary Assessment: | Like-for-like reassessment (where allowed by programme regulations) |
| Requisites:
| Before taking this unit you must take MN20414. This unit is only available to final year students on the BSc (hons) Business Administration. |
| Description:
| Aims: The overall aim of the final Year Project is to create an opportunity to apply the concepts, techniques and skills acquired during the taught programme in solving a practical business problem. Specific objectives are to: develop the skills of planning and executing an original investigation into a business problem in a team; allow an evaluation of the practical worth of management theories and the ability to further develop existing theories; integrate the various components of the degree programme and create the opportunity for business sponsors to challenge student ideas. Learning Outcomes: By the end of this unit, the student should be able to: * to practice and develop personal skills, especially those of analysis and synthesis; develop experience in handling group co-ordination and conflict. Skills: Intellectual skills: * Develop skills to handle complex data sets, and allow existing theories and concepts to be applied and critically evaluated. Professional Practical skills: * Develop skills in designing and carrying out a field-based 'action research' investigation Transferable/ Key skills: * Develop skills of working collaboratively in teams, and exposing ideas to practitioners and academics as well as writing up a fairly large-scale project. Content: Evaluation of progress; on-going updating of formal log of activities; further data collection; further examination of literature and relevant theory; Project Workshop; further analysis of collected data; production of final written report and oral presentation of findings. |
| Programme availability: |
MN30068 is Compulsory on the following programmes:School of Management
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