BA (Hons) in Business

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Programme Overview

CAO Code: NC009

The BA (Honours) in Business will give you comprehensive knowledge across all areas of business. The course will give you the skills and understanding of the vital roles played by marketing, finance, human resource management and other areas in all successful businesses. You will also understand how the political, legal, economic and social environment influences the business environment. The course offers you the advantage of an overview of the key business disciplines. This means you have a broad range of career opportunities and the possibility of later specialising in the areas you most enjoy.

As a graduate of this course you will:

• Understand the essentials of business and gain a broad understanding of all key areas.
• Learn how to critically analyse business problems and generate long-term solutions to problems.
• Benefit from a broad range of employment opportunities in areas such as management, law, industrial relations, economics and international trade.

Course Structure and Award

This course is a three year honours degree. The course is run over 6 semesters with continuous assessment held throughout the course and examinations at the end of each semester. The course has a common first year with all the BA (Honours) Degrees in the School of Business. On completion you will receive a HETAC BA (Honours) Degree in Business at level 8 on the National Framework of Qualifications.

Career Prospects

This course enables graduates to pursue a virtually endless range of career opportunities. The content of the course enables graduates to progress to a range of careers where a thorough knowledge of all areas of business is required.

Further Study Options

Upon successful completion of the BA (Honours) in Business, graduates can progress to postgraduate programmes at level 9 on the National Framework of Qualifications such as MSc and MBA programmes.

Who is the Programme for?

The course is for school leavers, mature students and graduates of FETAC level 5/6 programmes.

Entry Requirements

Minimum entry requirements are a grade C3 or above in two Higher level subjects, together with a D3 (Higher or Ordinary level) in four subjects. A minimum of grade D3 (Higher or Ordinary level) must be obtained in English. A minimum of grade D3 (Higher or Ordinary level) or a B2 or above in Foundation level must be obtained in Mathematics.

Mature applicants, applicants with a disability or those applying from Docklands or Area Based Partnership areas should consult additional information.

Programme Fee

All courses qualify under the Free Fees Initiative, Higher Education Grants Scheme and the VEC Scholarship Scheme.

Fact File

Location	Duration	NFQ Level	Assessment
IFSC, Dublin 1	Three years, full-time	Level 8	End of semester exams Continuous Assessments

* Please Note
A review of this programme, which is required under our quality assurance procedures every five years, is due to complete in December 2009 and is subject to HETAC approval. This may result in some changes to the programme as published.

Programme Modules

Year 1
Business Law	Financial Accounting
Human Resource Management	Macroeconomics
Marketing	Micro Economics
Organisational Behaviour	Quantitive and Qualitive Analysis

Year 2
Auditing	Enterprise
Entrepreneurship	Essentials of Employment Law
Financial Accounting 2	Health and Safety
International Business	International Finance
Introduction to Industrial Relations	Introduction to Reward Management
Introduction to Strategy	Management
Management Accounting	Management Information Systems
Service Learning	Service Learning: Community Based Project
Services Marketing Management	Taxation 1
Taxation 2

Year 3
Dissertation
Dissertation 2	eBusiness 1
eBusiness 2	Economic & Social Policy
Economic & Social Policy 2	Enterprise 1
Enterprise 2	Financial Management 1
Financial Managment 2	Strategic Management
Strategic Management 2

Start Date

Monday 13th September 2010

Programme Location

IFSC Campus

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