Teaching and assessment
You’ll study and learn with academics who are active researchers, experts in their field and have a passion for their subjects. Our approach to teaching will provide you with the knowledge, opportunities, and support you need to grow and succeed in a global workplace. Find out more about our approach to teaching and learning.
Teaching format
We focus on teaching that equips you with the skills, knowledge and expertise that employers are looking for. These skills will allow you to succeed in the future worlds of work, while making a contribution to the public good. Your learning will be applied and problem-centred, combining theoretical rigour with practical relevance through case studies and hands-on examples. Our passionate tutors' research-led teaching puts you at the forefront of current issues in business, management and public policy.
We use a wide range of teaching methods to suit different learning styles, including:
- lectures
- small-group seminars
- activity-based workshops
- group projects
- individual projects.
We will support you to become responsible for your own learning and development. To ensure continuity of support beyond the modules you study, you will be allocated a personal supervisor who will guide you throughout your degree course.
In the UK, full-time students are expected to spend 1,200 hours a year learning. That's about 40 hours of classes and independent study each week during semesters. Everyone learns at a different rate, so the number of hours you spend on independent study will be different to other students on your course.
Teaching location
You will be based in the School for Business and Society on Campus West. Most of your teaching will take place in the Church Lane Building, with additional contact hours elsewhere on Campus East and Campus West.
About our campus
Our beautiful green campus offers a student-friendly setting in which to live and study, within easy reach of the action in the city centre. It's easy to get around - everything is within walking or pedalling distance, or you can use the fast and frequent bus service. Take a campus tour.
Assessment and feedback
You will be assessed using a mixture of assignments, many with an applied focus, such as reports, strategy documents, presentations, and essays.
In your final year you will have some scope to choose forms of assessment that you prefer through the selection of optional modules. To conclude your studies, you will explore a topic of your own choice in a dissertation - with an emphasis on questions of management, public policy, or their interplay.
