Licenciatura (con matrícula de honor) en Gestión Empresarial (Economía)

Knowledge and understanding

On completion of this degree, you will be able to demonstrate:

• Knowledge and critical understanding of the main concepts, theories and principles associated with business management
• Systematic knowledge and understanding in one or more of the following specialisms, and the role they play in enhancing knowledge and practical skills in business management: accounting, economics, innovation and enterprise, leadership practice, and marketing.

Cognitive skills

On completion of this degree, you will be able to:

• Synthesise, critically evaluate and challenge information, arguments and assumptions from different sources, including current research and scholarship, by the theories, concepts and principles of business management
• Select and apply your knowledge and understanding to a wide range of the principal professional skills, techniques, practices and/or materials associated with business management, including in contexts with a degree of unpredictability and/or specialism
• Appreciate the potential uncertainty, ambiguity and limits of knowledge in business management
• Select and use accurately established techniques of analysis and enquiry outside the context in which they were first studied and be aware of their limitations.

Practical and/or professional skills

On completion of this degree, you will be able to:

• Critically engage, as appropriate, with practical and professional skills and demonstrate an awareness of relevant responsible and ethical issues in business management.
• Regularly review the current situation and future personal development, career and work options, and develop strategies to address factors that may limit choices
• Recognise the importance of developing both technical and non-technical skills and of learning from feedback and self-reflection
• Plan, monitor and evaluate your learning and seek ways to improve your performance, and potentially, your career prospects.

Key skills

On completion of this degree, you will be able to:

• Identify, interpret and solve complex problems appropriate to business management.
• Reflexionar sobre la idoneidad y eficacia de los procesos de resolución de problemas utilizados e identificar algunos principios clave que pueden ser relevantes en situaciones futuras.
• Utilizar una combinación de procesos de planificación formales y lógicos y una comprensión del contexto para identificar información y riesgos relevantes y ser capaz de identificar estrategias y recursos alternativos.
• Presentar o comunicar, formal o informalmente, información sobre temas especializados de una manera que sea apropiada para su propósito y audiencia y que fomente el intercambio de ideas y diferentes perspectivas.
• Comunicarse con pares, expertos y/o colegas de alto nivel a nivel académico/profesional.
• Colaborar con otros para lograr resultados conjuntos, desempeñar un papel activo para facilitar la interacción grupal efectiva, influir y/o liderar según corresponda.
• Crear, utilizar, compartir y reutilizar contenidos digitales según corresponda a la gestión empresarial adoptando un enfoque responsable y ético.
• Demostrar la capacidad de encontrar, evaluar críticamente y utilizar de forma independiente una amplia gama de información, datos o herramientas con precisión en contextos complejos.
• Adoptar una amplia gama de habilidades numéricas y prácticas digitales (incluido el uso de herramientas/recursos), según corresponda a la gestión empresarial.
• Demonstrate an understanding of academic language and literacy practices to effectively engage with the academic knowledge and skills of OU level 3 study.

This degree has three stages, each comprising 120 credits.

You’ll study a 60-credit introductory business and management module. Thereafter, for your remaining 300 credits, you'll combine the study of business and management with key economic theories and policies.

Stage 1 (120 credits)

You'll study the following:

• An introduction to business and management (B100)

You'll complete Stage 1 with 60 credits from:

• Communication skills for business and management (LB170)
• Design thinking: creativity for the 21st century (U101)
• Descubriendo las Matemáticas (MU123)
• Economics in Context (DD126)
• Fundamentals of Accounting (B124)
• Introducing statistics (M140)
• Making your learning count (YXM130)
• You and your money (DB125)
• Business data analytics and decision making (B126)

Stage 2 (120 credits)

You'll study both of the following:

• Shaping business opportunities (B207)
• Essential economics: macro and micro perspectives (D217)

Stage 3 (120 credits)

You'll study both of the following:

• Strategic management (B302)
• Doing economics: people, markets and policy (DD309)

Assessment

Our assessments are all designed to reinforce your learning and help you show your understanding of the topics. The mix of assessment methods will vary between modules.

Computer-Marked Assignments

• Usually, a series of online, multiple-choice questions

Tutor-Marked Assignments

• You’ll have a number of these throughout each module, each with a submission deadline
• They can be made up of essays, questions, experiments or something else to test your understanding of what you have learned
• Your tutor will mark and return them to you with detailed feedback

End-of-Module Assessments

• The final, marked piece of work on most modules
• Modules with an end-of-module assessment won’t usually have an exam

Exams

• Some modules end with an exam. You’ll be given time to revise and prepare
• You’ll be given your exam date at least 5 months in advance
• Most exams take place remotely, and you will complete them at home or an alternative location
• If a module requires you to take a face-to-face exam, this will be made clear in the module description, and you will be required to take your exam in person at one of our exam centres.