Business and Management Undergraduate Certificate

Leading to degrees in subjects including:

• Accountancy
• Business Law
• Economics
• Finance
• Management
• Marketing
• Urban Studies

See a full list of degrees to which Undergraduate Certificate students can progress.

Academic Structure

Core modules

Academic English Skills 1

Develop your ability to read academic texts, write extended texts, write subjective notes, listen effectively and participate in classroom discourse.

Academic English Skills 2

Improve all your abilities developed in AES1 with greater accuracy, speed, coherence, organisation and presentation.

Study skills in the British Environment

Use your study time more effectively, improve your use of, and range of, information sources and develop your research skills in preparation for producing an extended, referenced, academic essay.

Project study

Complete a self-study project on a topic that you will take, in consultation with your tutor, from the academic discipline that you will subsequently study at degree level. This will also include computer (word processing) skills.

Core Mathematics

This module contains both algebra and statistics. You will develop your knowledge and understanding of mathematical terms and techniques and apply these to solving problems, frequently drawn from practical and real-life situations.

Route modules

Principles of Economics 1

Understand economic systems, types of goods, allocation of resources, elasticity, price controls, types of markets, cost and revenue, economies of scale and market failure.

Principles of Economics 2

Learn about aggregate demand and aggregate supply, economic policies, inflation, unemployment, international trade and development economics.

Introduction to Business Studies 1

Focus on a wide range of issues, such as management styles, human resource practice and marketing.

Introduction to Business Studies 2

Develop your understanding of the operational and strategic problems and ethical issues facing business people in the modern market economy. 

Introduction to Management Accounting

An introduction to the role of management accounting in providing managers with the information for decision-making, planning and control.

Introduction to Financial Accounting*

Learn about double entry book-keeping, preparation of trial balances, profit and loss statements, depreciation, limited companies, manufacturing accounts and interpretation of accounts.

* Additional module for students wishing to study Accountancy and Finance.