Bachelor of Arts (Hons) in Business Enterprise and Marketing

at University of Strathclyde United Kingdom

Our Masters in Advanced Pharmacology will provide you with a comprehensive three-part postgraduate life sciences training.

Firstly, unlike many Masters courses, we offer you dedicated training in a broad suite of practical laboratory skills.

Secondly, this is complemented by two unique classes that develop your transferrable skills in statistics, presentations, career development, and ethics, as well as honing your science writing skills and your ability to design experiments and analyse sophisticated datasets.

Thirdly, our taught classes capture the excitement of cutting-edge research fields and you'll be taught by active researchers or practising clinical professionals.

A choice of classes allows you to select a pathway to suit your future aspirations. The programme has a special focus on how drugs and other chemicals affect the body in health and disease. You'll explore the development of new and improved medicines and the treatment of disease.

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• Studying our MSc in Advanced Pharmacology you'll receive the highest-quality teaching in the leading Strathclyde Institute of Pharmacy & Biomedical Sciences by staff dedicated to your personal and scientific development.

This course explores the frontiers of science on the nanoscale. It provides a strong grounding in basic nanoscience before progressing to advanced topics.

Taught classes have been developed from the many years of nanoscience research at the University in areas such as:

• Nanoscale imaging
• Nanoparticle fabrication and functionalisation
• Chemical physics
• Computational modelling of the nanoworld

Who’s the course suitable for?

• The course will be of interest to physical science graduates looking to work in the field of nanoscience. It’s also suitable for those with an industrial background as a further training opportunity and a way of gaining insights into topics at the forefront of academic research.

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• Master state-of-the-art research and methods in nanoscience in an interdisciplinary course connecting physics and chemistry 
• Become equipped for a research-based career in industry or to progress to a PhD
• Provides a comprehensive overview of state-of-the-art research in nanoscience, along with the opportunity to develop the skills necessary for this emerging area
• Mainly designed to equip you for a research-based career in industry, but it can also serve as a way of progressing towards a PhD

Our BSc in Physics degree covers a wide range of topics in physics and modern physical principles. You’ll develop core skills in mathematics and physics that will allow you to gain an understanding of the fundamental aspects of physics.

Training in laboratories is complemented by a research project carried out in an up-to-date research lab, attached to one of the Department’s research groups. This allows you to benefit from our lively and diverse research environment.

Our BSc in Physics is accredited by the Institute of Physics for the purpose of fully meeting the educational requirement for Chartered Physicist.

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• Develop skills that will enable you to become a successful physicist and maximise your career options
• Computational physics is embedded in the first three years of the degree
• Learn from academics at the forefront of their research field
• Opportunity to undertake a summer industrial placement

Business Analysis applies advanced analytical methods to business problems to help managers make better decisions while technology is at the heart of all modern business.

Organisations need business graduates with expertise in business technology. Business analysts have an excellent general awareness of how a business works. They’re also able to apply advanced analytical methods to deal with specific management issues.

We also offer some of the best teaching in Human Resource Management (HRM) in both Scotland and the UK.

HRM is about the relationship between employers and employees and the ways in which people are managed in the workplace. This covers areas such as recruitment and selection, training and developing and managing conflict at work. These are an important part of the management process in all organisations.

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• Gain an understanding of the impact on organisations of developments and issues in business technology
• Learn about recruitment and selection, training and developing, rewards, diversity and managing conflict at work
• Develop analytical expertise to support business decision-making
• Extend your skills through practical case studies with a range of organisations
• Join our HRM Society and share knowledge and practice, awareness of careers and build relationships with alumni and employers

Studying history – the story of humanity through the ages – develops your knowledge of the past and gives you a better understanding of the present.

Throughout your studies, you'll receive excellent training in areas such as problem-solving, communication, research methods and interpretation.

Our classes cover some of the most important and interesting historical periods at home and abroad, including Scotland’s ‘Highland Problem’ in the 16thcentury, Slavery in World History and Cold War Europe, 1945-1991.

Education is essential if you wish to study initial teacher education courses. We offer you the chance to develop knowledge of the education systems of Scotland and beyond, looking at issues including policy, social justice, equity and inclusion.

Combining education with other subjects provides opportunities for those who wish to work in professions associated with education, but who don't wish necessarily to become teachers. Please note that this course doesn't allow you to qualify as a teacher, though joint honours Education graduates will be able to explore postgraduate routes into teaching careers (via the PGDE).

Our BA degrees in Humanities & Social Sciences are initially broad-based. In Year 1, you'll study three subjects, including your chosen subject(s).

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• Learn about the context in which we live today through some of the most important and interesting periods in UK and world history
• Benefit from excellent teaching in a range of professionally relevant areas, such as problem-solving, communication, research methods and interpretation that enhance your employability
• Develop your knowledge and understanding of the education systems of Scotland and beyond
• Opportunity to progress to a Professional Graduate Diploma in Education (PGDE) Primary/Secondary

Strathclyde’s MSc in Technology Policy & Management will provide you with the context and skills to operate at the nexus of the public and private sectors. With innovation as the central thread running through your studies, you'll gain a repertoire of frameworks and tools that will enable you to formulate, contribute to and analyse the complex dynamics of technology policy and industrial strategy.

Through learning with our world-leading faculty and our networks of practitioners, Technology Policy & Management will equip you with a thorough theoretical grounding as well as a practice-based understanding of technology policy formulation, analysis and management.

Technology Policy & Management is a truly interdisciplinary programme that draws on the academic expertise of all four faculties at the University of Strathclyde:

• Strathclyde Business School
• Faculty of Engineering
• Faculty of Science
• Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences

This enables you to develop a multidisciplinary perspective that will prepare you well for a wide range of boundary-spanning careers in a variety of contexts relevant to technology policy and management.

The University of Strathclyde is embedded in, and an integral part of, the Glasgow City Innovation District. The District is home to global innovative companies and organisations that have located in Glasgow to nurture and accelerate growth, improve productivity, and access world-class research and technology from the University.

Technology Policy & Management has been uniquely designed to closely align with Glasgow City Innovation District, offering you access to, and engagement with, the wide range of organisations in this rapidly growing business community. This engagement will be realised in your studies via live case studies, projects and guest lectures from our partners, offering you a truly experiential year.

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• A new, interdisciplinary program that draws on Strathclyde’s expertise in Business, Engineering, Science and Government & Public Policy.
• Uniquely aligned with Glasgow City Innovation District (GCID) to maximise your opportunity to engage with business
• One of few taught programs in the UK and globally that focuses on policy formulation, analysis, communication and management of innovation and technology

The aim of the MSc Economics & Finance is to produce highly skilled professionals who can analyse, understand and explain the complex economic and financial issues that arise in a globalised world. 

Jointly delivered by the Departments of Economics and Accounting & Finance, you will study the interaction between economics and finance, which is now critical to understanding the world we live in. 

Training in these subjects will equip you for finding employment in the public or private sector as economists, analysts or consultants. 

There is a strong emphasis on developing and applying skills learned in classes to real-world situations. 

The practitioner seminar series within our Professional Development for Economists class provides you with opportunities to learn from senior figures in business, consultancy and government about the key economic issues of the day and their own journey to the top of their chosen career. Many of the speakers are our own graduates.  

We're ranked 2nd in the UK for Accounting & Finance in the Complete University Guide Subject Tables 2020.

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• Enhance your knowledge and skills in a range of economics, finance, analysis and quantitative methods
• Learn to analyse, understand and explain complex economic and financial issues
• Develop specialised skills through choice of options

This one-year MRes in Climate Change Adaptation aims to provide advanced study in key issues related to climate change and global warming, and how infrastructure will need to adapt.

The course links with the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and in particular the different indicators associated with SDG13 on Climate Action. The course is largely research and project-based but there is also a taught element to it.

This course is designed to cater mainly for graduates with an engineering education, and employees of public and private sector companies who wish to upgrade their skills to be able to tackle the complex issues relating to the current climate crisis, circular economy goals, and the design of engineering options for mitigating environmental impacts and promoting sustainable development.

The course is ideal for you if:

• you're looking for an alternative to an MSc
• you're interested in carrying out shorter research projects
• you wish to tailor your studies to suit your own research interests and career objectives
• An MRes takes one year full-time or two years part-time to complete. Part-time study is only available to UK students.

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• Masters by Research (MRes) postgraduate research degree in Climate Change Adaptation
• Further your knowledge and develop your research skills on topics relating to climate change adaptation, particularly regarding infrastructure
• Tailor your studies to suit your own research interests and career objectives

Robots and automated machines can work 24 hours a day, in hazardous places and are much more accurate and consistent than any human. The exciting world of mechatronics and automation engineering has the important task of bringing these machines to life, maintaining them, fixing them when they malfunction and designing and building new models.

Mechatronics and automation is becoming an increasingly important discipline in today’s digital society. Consumers and society have benefited tremendously from new products which have been designed applying mechatronic principles. These intelligent products include:

• Mobile phones with mechatronic features
• Intelligent robotic vacuum cleaners
• Intelligent wheelchairs

The course is aimed at:

• Graduates from relevant courses, who wish to study mechatronics and automation as their chosen career
• Those currently working in mechatronics and automation who wish to enhance their theoretical grounding and practical skills

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• Gain knowledge and skills to develop multidisciplinary products with an integrated approach
• Benefit from the facilities of our digital design and manufacture studio and prototype workshops
• Contribute to future mechatronic product development

Social Policy examines the ways in which societies distribute resources and develop services to meet individual and social needs. Key social policy issues examined include poverty; economic, race, age and gender inequality; social justice health; education; criminal justice and housing.

It utilises a combination of qualitative and quantitative methods to improve our understanding of how societies organise their resources to meet individual and social needs and how they measure progress in these areas. 

This program gives you the opportunity to learn more about the social and economic challenges facing Scottish society and place these in a broader international perspective. It draws on disciplines such as history, sociology, anthropology, economics, law, psychology, social anthropology and politics.

Human Resource Management (HRM) covers areas such as recruitment and selection, training and developing and managing conflict at work. These are an important part of the management process in all organisations.

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• Examine the ways in which societies distribute resources and develop services
• Study the relationship between employers and employees and the ways in which people are managed in the workplace
• Address some of the major questions of our time, such as how social policy should adapt to a changing global, digital, connected and information-rich world
• Our BA degrees in Humanities & Social Sciences are initially broad-based. In Year 1, you'll study three subjects, including your chosen subject(s)