Extended International Year One in Business and Management

Academic English Skills aims to provide thorough training in the language and related academic skills which will enable international students to best achieve their academic potential at university. Our Academic English programme is validated by UK ENIC, the UK government agency responsible for providing information and expert opinion on qualifications and skills worldwide.

You will develop awareness and competency in a range of language-related academic skills, including the processes of academic writing, effective and extensive reading strategies, effective participation in seminars and delivery of presentations, and listening to and recording information effectively from lectures. You will also develop the accuracy and range of written and spoken language required to use language effectively and appropriately, with clarity and confidence in an academic context.

Alongside your classes, your studies will be supported by an online learning platform, providing you with a range of tasks and activities specifically designed to develop and extend your language and academic skills outside the classroom and to give you more control over your own learning.

This module is designed to provide you with greater awareness and skills to consider real-world businesses. You will develop an understanding of the importance of good record-keeping and managing finance to a business’s survival and success.

The aim of this module is to provide you with opportunities to develop, practice and demonstrate core mathematical skills relevant to a range of undergraduate degree courses at the University of Sussex. Through seminars and independent study, the module will enable you to apply these concepts and skills, including the use of spreadsheets, to real-life situations.

This module will provide you with an academic experience with a strong emphasis on the development of business knowledge, skills and capabilities appropriate to the rapidly changing global, cultural and technological business environment. 

This module will introduce you to the main theories and concepts of how businesses factor micro and macroeconomics into their strategic planning and key decision making. You will develop skills to analyse and correlate economic theory with current national and international affairs, and understand the importance it plays in the wider economy. 

This module provides you with an insight into the fundamentals of marketing and a foundation of knowledge to equip you to succeed in the commercial business environment.

This module develops your understanding of the role that media plays in shaping today’s social, cultural, business and political world. Throughout the module you will explore a range of contexts where media is used, whilst developing core transferable skills, which are useful in other modules, future study, career and beyond. In the final weeks of the module you will apply your knowledge and practise these skills for a final group assessment.

This module will provide you with an insight into organisational behaviour and human resource management. You will gain a foundation of understanding to be developed by further studies, enabling you to know and understand the fundamental aspects of managing staff.

Contemporary managers in business and organisations must be digital and data-savvy. They need to understand the role of digitalization and datafication, be able to solve problems using a variety of computer tools, and make data-driven decisions. This module offers you the opportunity to acquire such critical understandings and skills with a particular emphasis on learning through doing.

This module is designed to extend and develop skills, enjoyment, and confidence in reading academic and business-related texts. In this module, students will build their critical reading and thinking skills, familiarising themselves as they do so with a range of academic texts and business reports, and will develop skills needed to succeed in Business Management at the University of Sussex.

In this module you will study and explore a range of different perspectives on entrepreneurship/intrapreneurship and their activities. An entrepreneur creates a company and the process of creating is called entrepreneurship. Intrapreneurship involves people within a company acting like entrepreneurs while working for large organisations. Studying this module will help you develop a mind-set that supports entrepreneurship and intrapreneurship concepts. The aim of this module is to develop and reinforce skills that are essential to both University study and in the workplace and be particularly relevant to the students’ intended career choice. This course is designed to foster your ability to think differently and implement new ideas within a global business environment through experiential learning platform that we provide.

The aim of this module is to give a broad introduction into the fundamentals of financial and management accounting. This module begins by looking at a range of financial statements for different business entities and introduces techniques to analyse the statements to determine performance and manage working capital. It touches upon profitability at differing levels of production, as well as introducing simple investment appraisal techniques to distinguish between profitable and unprofitable projects.

This module will provide you with an introduction to business management and organisational issues to provide a foundation of understanding to be developed by further studies. In this module you will explore the relationship between stakeholders including entrepreneurs and the organisation in addition to the important issues relating to organisational processes, structures and strategies. You will be introduced to key influences affecting the business environment including business ethics, innovation, globalisation and economic and social trends.

This module aims to give you an understanding of basic concepts and terminology relevant to economic theory. You will learn how these concepts are used to explain and analyse business situations. By the end of the module you should be able to gather economic data from reliable sources, and interpret and communicate their understanding effectively.

This module aims to provide you with an introduction to the fundamental concepts and principles of the marketing process. It will explore the relationship between marketing and other corporate disciplines and their roles in contributing to business performance. You will investigate market research techniques and how consumer behaviour in a range of markets influences marketing strategies in a changing business environment. This module will provide you with a concise and contemporary overview of marketing and give you the knowledge and skills to underpin further study in this specialist field.