First Cycle - Business

Definition
Mostly 180 and in a few instances 240 credit bachelor degrees.

Bachelor degrees in business administration tend to give a general overview of the main aspects of organisational missions, structures and processes Learners develop knowledge and skills through a mix of core (subject–specific) and generic–skills (subject independent) courses. Core knowledge topics include operations management, logistics; sales and marketing; logistics and distribution.

Support functions such as organisation, human resource management, finance and accounting, and general management are covered. Added to these business–specific courses, modules in complementary subjects such as economics (micro and macro) and law are widely found.

Instrumental skills courses, including quantitative methods (mathematics, statistics, market research) and Information Technology (IT) also feature prominently, though these are increasingly integrated into other courses. Additional courses in developing competences in personal organisation and communication skills – such as courses in language (separate or integrated into other courses) and courses in presentation / communication / teamwork (separate or integrated into other courses) – are also offered.

At the end of first cycle; systemic (transferable) skills are documented by a bachelor thesis, internship or other activities demonstrating and documenting ability to integrate theory and practice and solve problems across different business subject areas. There is a wide variety of bachelor degree programmes with some degree of specialisation in one or other of the business– specific areas noted above.

Sub skills
Students should be able to:


 * Demonstrate basic knowledge of the study field and of the profession
 * Use and evaluate tools for analysing a company in its environment
 * Work in a subject specific field / function of a company, and be a specialist to some extent
 * Interface with other functions
 * Be able to identify criteria and argue for the principles to be used in finding solutions to problems, mainly of a structured nature and mainly at an operational or tactical level.
 * Evaluate proposed solutions and contribute to decision making at mainly operational and tactical levels

Assessment
Current methods used to assess ability in the skill.

Benchmarks
Statements that could serve as comparators for ability.

Relevant Higher Order Skills
Business