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ECN3013A International Trade and International Finance
This module explores the economic implications of globalisation by investigating current trends in international trade and international financial markets.
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ECN3023 Markets and Industries
This module analyses the structural characteristics of markets and industries and discusses the conduct-related strategies of the firms within them. The previously taught concepts will be linked to real world practices followed in various markets and industries such as advertising, financial services, utilities, tourism, maritime, and health.
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ENT300 Enterprise Creation
The module offers the opportunity to develop the skills and understanding necessary to write a professional business plan and bid for venture capital funding.
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HRL310 Equality and Diversity in the Workplace
The module provides a broad understanding of equality and diversity in the workplace. The module considers the paradigms underpinning regulation and voluntarism, organisational equality and diversity at the levels of strategy and operational practice, and how group and individual identities are constructed in the workplace.
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LAW3222 Dissertation
The production of a substantial dissertation (12,000-15,000 words) on a legal or legally related area with content and form determined by the student. For the LLB with CCJS or Business the dissertation will be set in context.
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LAW3223 Work-based Action Research
A module in which BSc Law with Business or CCJS students apply legal skills (including research) and knowledge by undertaking practical legal research as part of their work-based learning.
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LAW3226 Company Law
The module considers the key legal concepts, principles and policies relating to business organisation and corporate governance.
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LAW3229 Environmental Law
The module provides an examination of key themes in environmental law, with a focus on the generation, application and enforcement of this law within a critical and applied context.
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LAW3230 Family Law
This module will examine the principles of family law from both theoretical and practical perspectives.
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LAW3233 Commercial Law
In outline this module covers elements of commercial law, trading, commercial relations and practice. It includes aspects of commercial transactions, agency, regulation enforcement and remedies.
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LAW3235 Immigration, Nationality and Refugee Law
This module focuses on the key and topical issues in Immigration, Nationality and Refugee law in the UK. The UK¿s system of immigration control is fully considered and there is some emphasis on the application of decision making to those entering the UK both for immigration purposes and as refugees. There is consideration of the global and European context and of the influence of policy, politics and the media in the field.
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LAW3238 Sex, Power and Legal Control
This module examines how law and society controls and regulates sexual behaviour and conduct and why and how it criminalises and punishes certain activities and sexual expression. In particular it will focus on the enactment and implementation of laws relating to sexual autonomy and sex crime and examine how these are practically operationalized within the criminal justice process. Within this context the impact upon those affected by such legal regulation is also examined.
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LAW3239 Cybercrime: Issues and Regulation
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LAW3242 Criminal law
"This module provides in depth examination of basic principles and concepts of criminal law, an introduction to modes of participation, and detailed analysis of selected offences and defences. The module fulfils the professional requirements of the Law Society and Bar Council.
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LAW3244 Jurisprudence: law, society and justice
This module follows jurisprudential inquiries into themes and topics relating to the concept of law and the intersection between law and society. It analyses key ideas and theories on the development of legal concepts and regulatory frameworks. It adopts a broad range of theoretical perspectives from sociology, cultural studies and economics to examine the phenomenon of law, providing a platform for developing rich interdisciplinary discussion and reflection.
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LAW3248 Law, Literature and the Screen
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MAR321 Carriage of Goods by Sea
The study of the law relating to charterparties and bill of lading contracts, and liability for pollution.
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MAR329 Marine Insurance and Admiralty Law
The study of the law relating to Marine Insurance, including General Average and Admiralty Law.
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MAR330 Procurement Management Processes
This module explores the concept of strategy from theories of strategy to models of the strategic process, relating these models to strategy in the procurement function through the use of SCM relevant strategy analysis tools such as PESTLE, SWOT, Portfolio Analysis. As procurement is an important element of an institutions corporate strategy plans the relevance will be examined.
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SOC3538 Philosophy of Social Science
A critical introduction to the philosophical foundations of social scientific research, with an emphasis on the development of analytic skills through which students explore the philosophical and methodological possibilities and limits of knowing the social world. Critical reflexivity toward future research practice is sought.
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STO301 Operations Management for Competitive Advantage
This module brings a strategic and problem-focused view to operations management, concentrating on spheres key to operations based competitive advantage, both in goods and service based industries. Particular consideration is given to operations strategy, supply chain management, lean thinking, performance measurement, quality management, project management and topical developments.
