MN32194: Hot topics in business economics
[Page last updated: 23 May 2025]
| Academic Year: | 2025/26 |
| Owning Department/School: | School of Management |
| Credits: | 10 [equivalent to 20 CATS credits] |
| Notional Study Hours: | 200 |
| Level: | Honours (FHEQ level 6) |
| Period: |
- Semester 1
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| Assessment Summary: | EXOB 100% |
| Assessment Detail: |
- Open book time limited seen exam (EXOB 100%)
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| Supplementary Assessment: |
- Like-for-like reassessment (where allowed by programme regulations)
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| Requisites: |
Before taking this module you must take MN22166 OR take MN22167 OR take MN20012 OR take MN20747 OR take ES20011
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| Learning Outcomes: |
Identify key business/management challenges/opportunities and issues.
- Evaluate real-life business/management problems with a view to identifying feasible solutions.
- Critically discuss and evaluate management theory and practice.
- Identify and scope problems in context.
- Apply models, theories, and best practice to analyse problems in context.
- Develop the entrepreneurial mindset to enhance creativity, leadership, teamwork, innovation and confidence.
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| Synopsis: | You will use microeconomics to develop a greater understanding of the current economic environment and the issues faced by firms, markets and policy makers within it. You will explore a range of microeconomic models and analytical tools, and learn how these are helpful in making business/management decisions. You will further develop your ability to apply economic theory to analyse practical business problems and hence provide recommendations with respect to strategy and policy.
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| Content: | The content of this will vary year to year, depending what topics are considered to be hot at the time. It will build on intermediate microeconomic units the students are required to have taken previously. Possible topics are expected to revolve around various aspects of firm organisation, markets, business strategies, and competition policy.
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| Course availability: |
MN32194 is Optional on the following courses:
School of Management
- UMMN-AFB10 : BSc(Hons) Accounting and Finance (Year 3)
- UMMN-AKB02 : BSc(Hons) Accounting and Finance with Year long work placement (Year 4)
- UMMN-AFB11 : BSc(Hons) Accounting and Management (Year 3)
- UMMN-ANB07 : BSc(Hons) Business with Thin sandwich placement(s) (Year 4)
- UMMN-AYB06 : BSc(Hons) International Management with Year Abroad (Year 4)
- UMMN-AFB14 : BSc(Hons) Management (Year 3)
- UMMN-AKB04 : BSc(Hons) Management with Year long work placement (Year 4)
- UMMN-AKB05 : BSc(Hons) Management with Marketing with Year long work placement (Year 4)
Department of Politics, Languages and International Studies
- UXXX-AYB05 : BSc(Hons) International Management and Modern Languages (French) with Year Abroad (Year 4)
- UXXX-AYB04 : BSc(Hons) International Management and Modern Languages (German) with Year Abroad (Year 4)
- UXXX-AYB06 : BSc(Hons) International Management and Modern Languages (Spanish) with Year Abroad (Year 4)
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Notes: - This unit catalogue is applicable for the 2025/26 academic year only. Students continuing their studies into 2026/27 and beyond should not assume that this unit will be available in future years in the format displayed here for 2025/26.
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