Content and teaching | Assessment | Availability

Module content and teaching

Principal aims

Together with the complementary module IB313 Business Studies 1, this module offers non-WBS students an introduction to key concepts in business studies.

Principal learning outcomes

By the end of the module you should be able to: understand the language and central concepts of management and business; understand the analytical frameworks and skills used by managers in solving business and other related problems; analyse and solve business and management problems; understand the variety of schools of thinking about management and their historical development.

Timetabled teaching activities

1 x 3 hour session per week

Departmental link

http://www.wbs.ac.uk/students/undergraduate/

Module assessment

Assessment group	Assessment name	Percentage
15 CATS (Module code: IB314-15)
D (Assessed/examined work)	1st Assessment	50%
	2nd Assessment	50%

Module availability

This module is available on the following courses:

Core

N/A

Optional Core

• Undergraduate Biochemistry with Industrial Placement (MBio) (C1A6) - Year 3

Optional

• Undergraduate Biological Sciences (C100) - Year 3
• Undergraduate Biological Sciences (with Intercalated Year) (C101) - Year 4
• Undergraduate Biological Sciences (C102) - Year 3
• Undergraduate Biological Sciences (C103) - Year 3
• Undergraduate Biological Sciences (C104) - Year 3
• Undergraduate Biological Sciences (C105) - Year 3
• Undergraduate Biological Sciences (C107) - Year 3
• Undergraduate Biological Sciences (with Intercalated Year) (C108) - Year 4
• Undergraduate Biological Sciences (with Intercalated Year) (C109) - Year 4
• Undergraduate Biological Sciences (with Intercalated Year) (C110) - Year 4
• Undergraduate Biological Sciences (with Intercalated Year) (C111) - Year 4
• Undergraduate Environmental Biology (C150) - Year 3
• Undergraduate Biological Sciences (MBio) (C1A1) - Year 3
• Undergraduate Biochemistry (MBio) (C1A2) - Year 3
• Undergraduate Biomedical Science (MBio) (C1A3) - Year 3
• Undergraduate Medical Microbiology and Virology (MBio) (C1A4) - Year 3
• Undergraduate Biological Sciences with Industrial Placement (MBio) (C1A5) - Year 3
• Undergraduate Biomedical Science with Industrial Placement (MBio) (C1A7) - Year 3
• Undergraduate Biomedical Science (C1B9) - Year 3
• Undergraduate Biological Sciences (with Intercalated Year) (C521) - Year 4
• Undergraduate Biological Sciences (with Intercalated Year) (C523) - Year 4
• Undergraduate Medical Microbiology and Virology (C526) - Year 3
• Undergraduate Medical Microbiology and Virology with Intercalated Year (C527) - Year 4
• Undergraduate Biochemistry (C700) - Year 3
• Undergraduate Biochemistry (with Intercalated Year) (C701) - Year 4
• Undergraduate Biomedical Science with Intercalated Year (CB19) - Year 4
• Undergraduate Mathematics (MMath) (G103) - Year 3
• Undergraduate Mathematics (MMath) (G103) - Year 4
• Undergraduate Mathematics (MMath) with Study in Europe (G106) - Year 4
• Undergraduate Computer Systems Engineering (G406) - Year 3
• Undergraduate Computer Systems Engineering (with Intercalated Year) (G407) - Year 4
• Undergraduate Computer Systems Engineering (G408) - Year 3
• Undergraduate Computer Systems Engineering (with Intercalated Year) (G409) - Year 4
• Undergraduate Discrete Mathematics (G4G1) - Year 3
• Undergraduate Discrete Mathematics with Intercalated Year (G4G2) - Year 4
• Undergraduate Discrete Mathematics (G4G3) - Year 3
• Undergraduate Computer Science (G500) - Year 3
• Undergraduate Computer Science (with Intercalated Year) (G502) - Year 4
• Undergraduate Computer Science MEng (G503) - Year 3
• MEng Computer Science (with intercalated year) (G504) - Year 4
• Undergraduate Mathematics and Economics (with Intercalated Year) (GL12) - Year 4
• Undergraduate Economics 4 Year Variants (L114) - Year 4
• Undergraduate Philosophy, Politics and Economics (V7ML) - Year 2
• Undergraduate Philosophy, Politics and Economics (with Intercalated year) (V7MQ) - Year 4