Bachelor of Science (BSc)

BSc Management

  • Duration: 3 years
  • Year of entry: 2025
  • UCAS course code: N201 / Institution code: M20
  • Key features:
  • Study with a language
  • Scholarships available

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Fees and funding

Fees

Tuition fees for home students commencing their studies in September 2025 will be £9,535 per annum (subject to Parliamentary approval). Tuition fees for international students will be £31,500 per annum. For general information please see the undergraduate finance pages.

Additional expenses

All students should normally be able to complete their programme of study without incurring additional study costs over and above the tuition fee for that programme.

Policy on additional costs

All students should normally be able to complete their programme of study without incurring additional study costs over and above the tuition fee for that programme. Any unavoidable additional compulsory costs totalling more than 1% of the annual home undergraduate fee per annum, regardless of whether the programme in question is undergraduate or postgraduate taught, will be made clear to you at the point of application. Further information can be found in the University's Policy on additional costs incurred by students on undergraduate and postgraduate taught programmes (PDF document, 91KB).

Scholarships/sponsorships

The Manchester Bursary is available to UK students registered on an undergraduate degree course at Alliance MBS who have had a full financial assessment carried out by Student Finance England. 

In addition, Alliance MBS will award a range of Social Responsibility Scholarships to UK and international/EU students.

These awards are worth £2,000 per year across three years of study. You must achieve AAA at A-level (or equivalent qualification) and be able to demonstrate a significant contribution and commitment to social responsibility.

The School will also award a number of International Stellar Scholarships to international students achieving AAA at A-level (or equivalent qualification). Applicants who exceed AAA and/or have supplementary qualifications (such as EPQ) will receive additional consideration.

Additional eligibility criteria apply - please see our scholarship pages for full details.

Course unit details:
Business Law 1: Common Law and Common Business Liabilities

Course unit fact file
Unit code BMAN24761
Credit rating 10
Unit level Level 2
Teaching period(s) Semester 1
Available as a free choice unit? No

Overview

An introduction to the fundamental importance of law in everyday commerce in the common law world. This will deal with the common law approach to law, its creation, dynamic development and practical application to business, focussing on two of the most important areas regulating business obligations : contract law and negligence. It will also deal with risk evaluation and the capacity to influence, develop and change the law itself. 

Aims

This course unit will examine how the law operates to ensure coherence, fairness and efficiency in the conduct of business.

This includes the common law method of creating, interpreting and progressing the law, through two particularly creative areas of business law – contract and negligence. The unit  aims  to demonstrate the commercial status of English law especially, and its important  place in the international business context.

The unit will focus on the practical application of rules to real and hypothetical case studies, and  the everyday relevance via current issues in the business world.

Learning outcomes

On completion of this course unit students should have:

  • A fundamental awareness and understanding of common law attitudes to business regulation and the importance for the international business world.
  • A fundamental awareness and understanding of the original common law system on which the others are modelled worldwide.
  • The ability to research existing law and to track new law as it develops, by locating and updating information from a variety of specialist sources in a fast moving legal area and  by analysing legal trends and assessing their importance for business strategy.
     

Teaching and learning methods

Lectures and Seminars

 

Virtual Learning Environment

Lecture slides and seminar materials will be provided on Blackboard

 

Total study hours: 100 hours split between lectures, classes, self study and preparation for classes and coursework.

Employability skills

Analytical skills
Key content enhancing these skills: Working with primary resources such as international databases and live case studies Practical exercises for confidence of application Contextual approach throughout
Problem solving
Skills highlighted include: Precision-based subject Group study & team work : allocation ; co-ordination; application & presentation Individual cold-start research Recognition & evaluation of new developments in the field Hands-on application of primary resources Practical case study analysis
Other
General skills included: Analysis, interpretation and critical thinking Communication Problem-solving Time management Organization IT and innovation Initiative Commercial awareness

Assessment methods

Coursework (100%)

Feedback methods

  • Informal advice and discussion during lectures and seminars
  • Specific course related feedback sessions
  • Written comments on assessed coursework

Recommended reading

These are suggested texts, other texts may be recommended during the first lecture. You are not obliged to purchase any of the texts on this list. If you do purchase a textbook, choose a style which suits you ; if you miss a lecture you will need to supplement your lecture slides.

!! n.b. always double check you have the latest edition !!

n.b. page numbers will not be given, you are expected to locate information within given texts as part of your skills development.

 

General Coverage

Adams, Caplan & Lockwood Law for Business Students  ( Pearson )

Jones, Introduction to Business Law  ( OUP )

Marson & Ferris, Business Law  ( OUP )

Macintyre, Business Law ( Pearson )

Riches,  Keenan & Riches Business Law ( Pearson )

Card & James, Business Law (OUP)  

 

Various websites, library & other electronic resources and further reading, as directed, including : www.westlaw.co.uk and www.lexisnexis.co.uk  and www.lexology.com  

 

Various consumer law programmes are available on TV, radio and podcasts (  the LBC ‘Consumer Hour’ is especially useful for you ).

 

Specialist Areas

Chen-Wishart,  Contract Law ( OUP )

Cheshire, Fifoot & Furmston Law of Contract ( OUP )

Richards  Law of Contract  ( Pearson )

Taylor & Taylor Contract Law - Directions Series ( OUP )

Cooke,  Law of Tort  ( Pearson )

Horsey & Rackley, Tort ( OUP )

Cheeseman Contemporary Business Law (Pearson )

Hanson , Learning Legal Skills & Reasoning ( Routledge )

Haigh, Legal English   ( Routledge  ) 

Study hours

Scheduled activity hours
Lectures 22
Seminars 10
Independent study hours
Independent study 68

Teaching staff

Staff member Role
Fiona King Unit coordinator

Additional notes

Programme Restrictions: Available only on the following programmes Level 2 BSc Management/Management (specialism), BSc International Management, BSc International Management with American Business Studies, BSc IBFE, BSc ITMB & BA (Econ); Option  for level 3 BA ( Econ)

 

Timetablehttps://ughandbook.portals.mbs.ac.uk/Myprogramme/Teachingtimetables.aspx

 

For Academic Year: 2024/25

Updated:  March 2024

Approved by:  UG Committee

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