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Semester 2

Thinking about Business (BUST08045)

Subject

Business Studies

College

CAHSS

Credits

20

Normal Year Taken

1

Delivery Session Year

2023/2024

Pre-requisites

Course Summary

The course will address contemporary issues facing business, through the lenses of different disciplines (ways of thinking). The menu of disciplines may include popular culture, literature, evolutionary biology, psychology, anthropology, politics, history, religion and statistics. Students will leave the course with an understanding of how to think creatively about business and how to think critically about propositions within it.

Course Description

This course brings different ways of thinking to bear on contemporary business questions. Success in the workplace will increasingly depend on the capacity to consider challenges from multiple perspectives by drawing on many lenses and ways of thinking. Each week, a discipline will explore business challenges from its particular perspective, drawing on specific knowledge and tools to how business issues are identified and conceptualised. The tutorials are student-centred, and provide them with guidance and support while they solve business challenges with their peers. Tutorials address the applicability and validity of these perspectives to solve contemporary business problems chosen by students. Outline content: The course will draw upon a range of disciplines (or lenses) and these may vary according to student demand and academic expert supply. The course will draw upon a range of disciplines (or lenses) and these may vary according to student demand and academic expert supply. Typically, each discipline would be explored for 2 lectures, and the course would seek to understand how we can apply the discipline to different aspects of business using illustrative examples - either a work or a body of work, or a business case study viewed through the lens in question. Lenses are likely to include: Cultural Studies - business as understood and represented in popular culture Geopolitics - how political ideas shape business and the business environment Humanism and Religion - how religious belief shapes business practice and business ethics Philosophy - how philosophical concepts help us understand business practices today Sociology and Psychology - sociological and psychological interpretations and explanations of business online practices Student learning experience: This course is designed to allow you to question business behaviour from many perspectives. A key requirement is to debate and interrogate the artefacts presented within the disciplines and evaluate their validity in contemporary business problem solving. You need to be confident in wishing to identify different sources of material from within the disciplines and to engage in group discussions on a weekly basis. You will be expected to undertake prescribed reading and both digital and live lecture materials, and engage in weekly tutorials.

Assessment Information

Written Exam 0%, Coursework 100%, Practical Exam 0%

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