Program Overview

BA (Hons) in Business - Global Business

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.

Aims & Objectives

The programme's specific objectives are as follows:

1. Provide learners with a strong base of contemporary business knowledge through theory, concepts and methods constituting an in‐depth academic grounding in the core disciplines and skills, and related areas, required for a career in general business.
2. Imbue learners with appropriate expertise in the major aspects of the essential business disciplines and an awareness of the means by which the frontiers of the disciplines can be expanded and new knowledge appraised.
3. Develop in learners a methodical and rational approach to business problem solving and decision making, with the capability to apply acquired knowledge and skills to practical business situations.
4. Develop in learners a range of intellectual skills, encompassing reasoning and evaluative skills and communication skills that develop as fully as possible their interpersonal abilities.
5. Develop learner capacity to organise information, argue, negotiate and defend conclusions and to present them in a clear and coherent fashion.
6. Encourage learners to deal with knowledge in a critical and analytical way, with the capacity and confidence to evaluate ideas and opinions underpinned by qualitative and quantitative research findings.
7. Provide learners with the opportunity to also specialise in a sub‐field of business learning and to increase their knowledge and skills in this specialised area of Management, Project Management, Human Resource Management, Information Systems, Cloud Computing, Psychology, Global Business or Law. This specialism is in addition to the objectives outlined previously.

Course Content

• Maths and Stats for Business
• Business Context and Organisation
• Marketing Essentials
• IT Essentials
• Economic Perspectives
• Learning to Learn
• Introduction to Business Finance
• Management
• Financial Management
• Business Information Systems
• Business Ethics and Research Practice
• Advanced Economic Perspectives
• Politics in the Modern World
• Global Finance
• Intercultural Management
• Strategic Management
• Global Business
• Human Resource Management
• Environment and Society
• Global Issues
• International Marketing
• Capstone Project

Teaching and Assessment

DBS is committed to providing a flexible, active, peer-led, experiential and reflective learning environment for learners. As a result, throughout this programme, learners will experience a varied range of teaching and learning strategies, which have been selectively chosen and based on module content and suitability to assessment. While modules will be delivered through a mix of workshops, practical sessions, tutorials and lectures, teaching and learning will focus on the learner applying problem-solving skills and undertaking critical reflection and critique of case studies. The material will be presented during lectures and workshops with supporting material available via Moodle, DBS’s virtual learning environment. Learning, teaching and assessment for this programme, therefore, encourages learners to develop critical thinking, creative problem solving and analytical and evaluative skills relating to real-world scenarios.

Structure

• Stage 1 will provide learners with knowledge of relevant disciplines such as management and organisation, marketing essentials and an introduction to Business Finance, Information Technology and Economics. Learners will also learn skills relevant to professional practice such as business frameworks, context, etc.
• Stage 2 will build on the knowledge developed at Stage 1 in advanced economics perspectives, financial management, business ethics, business information systems, social psychology, project planning and control, innovation and selling and sales management, programming for business and database design and cloud technologies. In addition, learners will gain an understanding of principles of professional practice, specifically through politics in the modern world, global finance, and intercultural management.
• Stage 3 will complete learners’ instruction in global business, strategic management, human resource management and development, organisational psychology, performance management, creativity, innovation and entrepreneurship, corporate law and governance, and business systems analysis and business intelligence and visualisation, cloud networking, security and cloud platform development, environment and society, global issues, and international marketing. Learners will complete their award stage with a capstone project.

Career Opportunities

The proposed programme looks at the use of strategy and business acumen so that regardless of the industry or sector the programme offers valuable knowledge, theory and practical applications to enable the graduates to apply their new knowledge in context and for the improvement of the organisation. This programme is, therefore, designed for managers, business innovators and leaders or those who aspire to enter these roles.

In a market-driven economy where competitive advantage is key, it is intended that graduates of this programme will meet the needs of organisations that wish to remain competitive through the strategic management and analysis of strategic decision making within a variety of business functions such as Marketing, ICT and Business Finance. Some examples of potential roles for graduates are:

• Sales Executive
• Business Consultant

Graduates of this programme may also want to pursue further studies to specialise in a particular area such as Human Resources or Accounting.

Fees

The fees for part-time BA (Hons) in Business - Global Business Elective are €5,995 per annum for EU students.

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You can also contact our admissions team who will also be able to advise on the payment options available to you.

Fees quoted cover the annual cost of tuition, registration and examinations and are EU fees only. Non-EU students please refer to the International section of the website. Please note also that tax relief is available on fees for Irish income tax payers at the standard rate of 20% on all fees exceeding €3,000 and up to €7,000.

All QQI accredited programmes of education and training of 3 months or longer duration offered by Dublin Business School (DBS) are covered by arrangements under section 65 (4) (b) of the Qualifications and Quality Assurance (Education and Training) Act 2012 whereby in the event that DBS ceases to provide the programme, for any reason, after learners have started on that programme, Kaplan Inc., as guarantor, will refund the moneys most recently paid by or for the learner. More details are included in the terms and conditions of learner admission to DBS (www.dbs.ie/terms-and-conditions) and on programme handbooks provided at induction.