Course content
You will examine the behaviour of financial institutions, such as banks, hedge funds and portfolio managers, their instruments and how they interact in markets. Key themes of this programme are the behaviour of households and businesses, and organisational behaviour and strategy. You will learn analytical and statistical methods and techniques for addressing real world problems, data and policy-related issues. With access to professional software tools such as Bloomberg to analyse and interpret financial and business data, you will become confident in communicating complex information to a range of audiences. These skills and varied knowledge could open up highly sought-after career opportunities in businesses and the financial sector.
You will have the option to undertake a placement year, entrepreneurship year, international year or a semester abroad, and there are opportunities to work on a live project with a real organisation as part of this programme.
Course structure
Our degree courses are organised into modules. Each module is usually a self-contained unit of study and each is usually assessed separately with the award of credits on the basis of 1 credit = 10 hours of student effort. An outline of the structure of the programme is provided in the tables below.
There are three types of module delivered as part of this programme. They are:
- Compulsory modules: a module that you are required to study on this course;
- Optional modules: these allow you some limited choice of what to study from a list of modules;
- Elective modules: a free choice of modules that count towards the overall credit requirement but not the number of subject-related credits.
A summary of the credit requirements per year is as follows, with a minimum of 90 subject credits (compulsory plus optional) required for each year.
| Year |
Compulsory |
Optional Min
|
Optional Max |
Electives Min |
Electives Max |
| 1 |
60 |
30 |
60 |
0 |
30 |
| 2 |
60 |
30 |
60 |
0 |
30 |
| 3 |
30 |
60 |
90 |
0 |
30 |
Year 1 (Level 4)
Notes: (1) This module is compulsory for anyone who does not have A Level Maths (or equivalent). The module cannot be taken by anyone who already had A Level Maths (or equivalent) (2) Open only to non-native speakers of English and successful completion of ENL-10031 (EAP 1) with a score of over 60%, or ENL-90006 (EAP 2), or equivalent or by recommendation of the Language Centre. Cannot be taken with other ENL- module (English Language module) in the same academic year (3) Live company project, recommended for those wishing to take a Placement Year.
Year 2 (Level 5)
Notes
(1) Required if wishing to take Introduction to Econometrics (ECO-20042)
(2) Recommended for those wishing to take a Placement Year (3) Open only to non-native speakers of English and successful completion of ENL-10031 (EAP 1) with a score of over 60%, or ENL-90006 (EAP 2), or equivalent or by recommendation of the Language Centre. Cannot be taken with other ENL- module (English Language module) in the same academic year. (4) Open only to NON-NATIVE SPEAKERS OF ENGLISH after successful completion of AEB1 (Academic English for Business 1) with a score of under 60% or equivalent. Cannot be taken with other ENL- module (English Language module) in the same academic year
(5) Prerequisite Statistics with Bloomberg (ECO-20049). Required if wishing to take Data Analysis - ISP (ECO-30051) and/or Applied Econometrics (ECO-30050) at level 6.
Year 3 (Level 6)
Notes (1) Prerequisite Introduction to Econometrics (ECO-20042) (2) Open only to NON-NATIVE SPEAKERS OF ENGLISH after successful completion of AEB1 (Academic English for Business 1) with a score of under 60% or equivalent. Cannot be taken with other ENL- module (English Language module) in the same academic year. (3) Open only to THIRD-YEAR NON-NATIVE SPEAKERS OF ENGLISH on successful completion of AEB2 or EAP4; or AEB1 or EAP3 with a score of over 60%; or equivalent. Cannot be taken with other ENL- module (English Language module) in the same academic year.
(4) Prerequisite Introduction to Econometrics (ECO-20042)
Students may choose to study elective modules which are offered as part of other programmes in the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences and across the University. These include:
- Modules in other subjects closely related to Business Management and Finance.
- Modules in other subjects in which they may have a particular interest.
- Modules designed to help students for whom it is not their first language to improve their use of English for Academic Purposes.
- Modern foreign languages modules at different levels in French, German, Spanish, Russian, Japanese and Chinese (Mandarin).
- Modules related to the development of graduate attributes, student volunteering, and studying abroad as part of the University’s exchange programme.
For further information on the content of modules currently offered, including the list of elective modules, please visit: www.keele.ac.uk/recordsandexams/az
The module details given above are indicative and will give you a good idea of the range of subjects that we teach. We regularly review our teaching to ensure that the modules we offer are up-to-date; therefore, the modules available to study are liable to change.
