BSc Politics and Business (Cornwall)
About this course
BSc in Politics and Business (Cornwall), an undergraduate degree combining politics and international relations and business and management. Core topics include Data Analysis, Research Methods, Project Management, Financial Analysis, Accounting, Marketing, Policy Analysis, Historical Research, Ethics & Professional Practice, Human Behaviour, Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning, and Design & Creative Practice. Delivered at the Penryn campus in Cornwall, the curriculum addresses contemporary themes such as climate change, new technologies, geopolitical shifts, corporate governance, social inequalities, and the future of work. The first year establishes core competencies through mandatory modules covering management theory, workplace organisation, political communication, and the ethical dimensions of artificial intelligence. Students also select from a broad array of optional modules spanning economics, environmental humanities, accounting, operations management, and political concepts. The second year advances core learning with structured studies in project management, strategic concepts, political analysis, and the intersection of politics, policy, and economics. Optional study paths in the second year allow specialisation in areas including finance, marketing analytics, ecological economics, security studies, postcolonialism, and global authoritarianism. Throughout the programme, students can tailor their degree through diverse employability-focused modules addressing public policy, political economy, and marketing strategy.
Modules
- Theory and Practice of Management
- Understanding Work and Organisations
- Political Communication
- Generative AI and Sustainable Futures: Ethics, Society, and Scholarship
- British Government and Politics
- Key Concepts in Politics and International Relations
- Violence in World Politics
- Power, Inequality and Global Justice
- Work Placement
- Business and Society
- Operations Management: A Sustainable Perspective
- Marketing in a Digital Age
- Accounting
- Introduction to Economics
- Climate Emergency! Environmental Humanities Fieldschool
- Foundations of Environmental Humanities
- An Introduction to Histories of Science and Environment
- Global History: Twentieth Century Transformations
- Project Management
- Strategic Concepts for Business
- Political Analysis
- Politics, Policy and Economics
- Business Beyond Profit
- Finance for Business
- Research Inquiry for Practice
- Workplace Wellbeing
- Digital Technologies and the Future of Work
- Ecological Economics
- Understanding Financial Statements
- Marketing Analytics
- Circular Enterprise Economy
- Ecology and Empire
- American Politics
- National and Community Identity
- The Political Psychology of Elites
- Work Placement
- Imagining the Good Life: From Agora to the American Dream
- Security Studies
- Introduction to Postcolonialism
- Political Geographies: Local to Global
- Politics of the Middle East
- Global Authoritarianism
- Politics of Gender, Sex and Sexuality