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BA Environment and Business

University of Leeds, United Kingdom
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Course Overview

A degree from Leeds and the experience you'll gain here will give you the edge to find the career you want. Your course will give you the experience and knowledge that employers are looking for to help you secure a graduate job.

Environment and Business graduates are well placed to appreciate the fundamental advantages of a sustainability-oriented approach to business, and to help businesses deliver long-term solutions to environmental and social challenges.

Career options for Environment and Business graduates include environmental consultancy and management, corporate social responsibility. Work opportunities occur in private companies, non-governmental organisations or the public sector.

General Eligibility

A-level: ABB including two preferably from: Biology, Business Studies, Economics, English, Ethics, Geography, History, Law, Philosophy, Psychology, Politics, Sociology.

Where an A-Level Science subject is taken, we require a pass in the practical science element, alongside the achievement of the A-Level at the stated grade. Excludes A-Level General Studies or Critical Thinking.

Extended Project Qualification (EPQ): We recognise the value of this qualification and the effort and skills required to undertake it, where an applicant is taking the EPQ this may attract an alternative offer in addition to the standard offer. The EPQ taken with A-Levels, for example, could be BBB with an A in the EPQ.

GCSE: English and Mathematics at grade C (4) or above, or an equivalent English language or Mathematics qualification. We will accept Level 2 Functional Skills English in lieu of GCSE English.

Part Time Work Details

20 Hours of Work permit weekly for international students.

What You'll Study

1 Year 1

Compulsory modules

  • Economics for Management

  • Sustainable Development

  • Skills for Environmental Social Science

  • Introduction to Business, Environment and Corporate Responsibility

  • Environmental Science for Environmental Management

Optional modules (selection of typical options shown below)

  • An Introduction to Law: What is Law?

  • Introduction to Enterprise and Entrepreneurship

  • Understanding Social Enterprises

  • Introduction to Management

  • Introduction to Effective Decision Making

  • Organisational Behaviour

2 Year 2

Compulsory modules

  • Managing Innovation in Busines

  • Personal Development for Careers in the Environmental Sector

  • Tools and Techniques for Business, Environment and Corporate Responsibility

  • Research in the Environmental Social Sciences

  • Economics and Sustainability

Optional modules (selection of typical options shown below)

  • International Law

  • Leading and Managing Small Businesses

  • Anthropology for Business

  • Principles of Marketing

  • Principles of Corporate Strategy

  • Advanced Management Decision Making

  • Contaminated Environments

3 Year 3

Compulsory modules

  • International Business Management

  • Environmental Research Project

  • Change for Sustainable Development

Optional modules (selection of typical options shown below)

  • Geographers into Teaching: School Placements

  • Environmental Law

  • Enterprise Consultancy

  • Current Issues in Decision Making

  • Managing Innovation and Technology

  • Environmental Risk: Science, Policy and Management

  • Strategic Energy Issues

Language Requirement

  • IELTS6.0
  • TOEFL78
  • PTE58
  • Duolingo79

IELTS (International English Language Testing System) Academic or IELTS for UKVI (United Kingdom Visas and Immigration) (Academic) or IELTS Online at 6.0 overall with no less than 5.5 in each component skill. Please note that we cannot accept results from these tests that are over two years old at the start date of the course you intend to study.

TOEFL iBT (Test of English as a Foreign Language Internet-Based Test) or TOEFL iBT Home Edition at 80 overall with no less than 17 in listening, 18 in reading, 20 in speaking, and 19 in writing. Please note that we do not accept TOEFL My Best scores and we expect candidates to have met the relevant requirements from a single TOEFL test.

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