BA (Hons) Global Business and Sustainability Management

Why should I choose this pathway?

Sustainability management is a contemporary subject with a steadily growing and diverse range of employment opportunities. This interdisciplinary business-based degree aims to provide you with the tools for engaging in sustainability research in order to innovate, identify new markets, and balance business considerations with environmental resource issues, including ever-changing laws and regulations. You will emerge as a true leader, effecting positive change while achieving tangible success in a quickly transitioning marketplace.

You will explore your own potential to address multi-faceted solutions to environmental, societal, and other cross-sector problems, with a main focus on its impact on global business practice.

Key Skills

This degree pathway will allow you to develop the following key skills:

• Analyse businesses and recognise ways in which sustainability can be embedded in the day-to-day operations of the organisation
• Examine the implications of sustainability on a local and global scale within current and future markets
• Apply sustainability as a valued strategy to promote competitive advantage for business when confronted with real-life scenarios in diverse socio-economic and cultural frameworks
• Knowledge of corporate social responsibility (CSR) and business ethics
• Understanding of environmental sustainability management techniques
• Ability to analyse sustainability management business models and the ability to critically evaluate these
• Synthesise your own argumentation in favour of sustainable practices as a way forward for future businesses

Future Opportunities 

This degree pathway is an excellent choice for those who wish to work in the following industries or to continue with postgraduate education:

• Government sector employment both ‘local’ and international, including consultancy on issues of sustainability and environmental policies, and consultancy in specific fields of expertise such as climate change, renewable resources, the impact of ‘green’ technologies, and innovations in national and global economies
• Private sector employment in areas such as Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR), micro-financing and entrepreneurial ventures; to include sustainability and environmentally focused positions such as Sustainability Director
• Consultancy and advisory roles within the private sector, to help businesses meet government targets and policies on sustainability
  Consultancy roles within technology and innovation focused industrial sectors addressing areas of sustainability
• Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) that focus on sustainability as a means of innovation
• As an Entrepreneur or as a Consultant for Entrepreneurship, particularly in the emerging fields of Social Business Entrepreneurship and Ecopreneurship

What will I study?

In Semesters 1-3 you will you will take the same core classes essential to the Global Business Management degree. In Semesters 4-6 you will study the core and specialist pathway modules listed here.

In Semesters 5 and 6, you will also choose six modules from the pool of elective modules. Of these, three have to be electives assigned to your pathway, while the remaining three can be chosen from any of the pathway electives.