Program Overview

The BA (Hons) in Business (NFQ Level 8, 180 ECTS) is a three year full-time or four-year part-time programme that aims to provide learners with the fundamental skills of business and create, in the learner, a diversity of cross-enterprise skills necessary in today’s competitive and evolving market. Learners will also acquire insight into sub?fields of business and increase their knowledge and skills in the specialised areas of Management, Project Management, Human Resource Management, Information Systems, Cloud Computing, Psychology, Global Business, or Law, depending on the electives they choose. In this way, the programme aims to provide an integrated, balanced and dynamic business education that enables the learner to develop the theoretical knowledge and practical skills they need to critically analyse, evaluate and implement strategic solutions for business opportunities and challenges in a diverse and dynamic field.

The Global Business elective provides a focus on global business. This pathway has been designed with the specific intention of equipping graduates for a career in today’s increasingly global and culturally diverse business environment. In today's global economy, it is essential for employees to be culturally agile. The best team players and leaders will possess the ability to accurately assess the cultural environment in which they operate in order to manage themselves and their teams appropriately. As businesses around the world have become increasingly interconnected, graduates are required to possess a global perspective in order to thrive. The global business elective aims to produce graduates who understand that globalisation has resulted in an increased interconnectedness of businesses, people, cultures, marketing economics, politics and sustainability and about sharing that information across countries and continents. At Level 7 the global business elective modules are Politics in the Modern World, Global Finance, and Intercultural Management. At Level 8 the elective modules include Environment and Society, Global Issues and International Marketing.