Bachelor of Arts (Hons) in French and Economics

at University of Strathclyde United Kingdom

With our Masters of Marketing programme, you’ll gain a sound knowledge of the principles of marketing and develop an understanding of consumer behaviour in relation to individuals and organisations. We’ll ensure that you gain the necessary technical and personal skills for your future career.

Key features of the course include:

• Real-life learning through our live industry consultancy project, International Marketing Works
• High-calibre industry collaboration
• Research excellence
• Skills-based teaching

Our marketing postgraduate students are truly international with representations from all parts of the globe which further enhances your learning experience.

Accreditations & Affiliations
The Department of Marketing has an international reputation for the quality of teaching and research. Our staff also act as advisors to private and public organisations; some hold senior positions in the Chartered Institute of Marketing, the Marketing Research Society and other professional associations.

We’re affiliated with the Chartered Institute of Marketing and the Marketing Society.

Our courses are accredited by AACSB – the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business, based in the USA and EQUIS – the quality assurance scheme run by the European Foundation for Management Development (efmd) and based in Brussels.

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Studying an MSc Marketing at Strathclyde Business School, you'll learn at a pioneering internationally-renowned academic organisation that develops the business minds of tomorrow.

A 5-star QS-rated institution, we were awarded Times Higher Education UK Business School of the Year 2016 and also recognised as Scottish University of the Year 2020 by The Sunday Times Good University Guide.

• Suitable for non-business graduates who want to pursue a career in this area
• Develop an understanding of marketing in relation to individuals and organisations
• Undertake an industry marketing project
• Reflects the dynamic and technologically innovative nature of contemporary marketing, spanning the private, public and third sectors

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 16th century, Slavery in World History and Cold War Europe, 1945-1991.

Our main focus in psychology is the study of human behaviour.

Studying with us, you'll look at conditions of behaviour – how we learn, remember, coordinate our actions and interact with others – and the reasons for differences between individuals, such as personality or intelligence.

Due to the popularity of the psychology course and performance criteria for entry into Honours (Year 4) the numbers admitted to Years 2 and 3 are limited.

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

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

This BA Hons Business Enteprise course is designed for students who:

• Want to start a new enterprise
• Want to take over the management of an existing business
• Are aiming for leadership positions.

Business enterprise is about the creation of wealth. This course focuses on the ability of entrepreneurship to challenge the norm and disrupt established markets through the creation of new ventures.

This programme will allow you to develop an awareness of academic and practitioner perspectives and apply them in real-life settings. It will also give you the real-world skills that are highly valued in a competitive employment market.

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• Develop the skills and expertise required to set up your own business and the entrepreneurship required by organisations
• Gain valuable industry experience in Years 3 and 4, working with placement companies
• Learn from the experiences of our guest lecturers who include industrial contacts and alumni
• Gain real-world skills, which are valued by employers, through taking part in student competitions in which you will plan and develop a business idea
• Develop skills in key areas of management, teamworking and communication, which are highly valued by graduate recruiters
• Strathclyde Business School (SBS) was awarded Times Higher Education UK Business School of the Year 2016

Our MSc in Public Policy provides rigorous training in the analytical frameworks and methods required in the study of public policy. You’ll explore the various methodological tools and their connections to real world problems facing governments and related organisations. You’ll also gain a range of key skills including:

• Analytical and critical thinking
• Research management
• Data analysis
• Report writing and presentation

The course is ideal for those wanting professional skills to become a policy practitioner, analyst or to proceed to a PhD.

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• Explore various conceptual and methodological tools and their connections to real-world problems
• Gain a range of useful research and analysis skills
• Freedom in dissertation topic to focus on any area of public policy
• Provides rigorous training in the analytical frameworks and methods required in the study of public policy
• Ideal for those wanting professional skills to become a policy practitioner, analyst or to proceed to a PhD.

The Masters course in Education Studies introduces the most important questions and problems by which the discipline of education studies is characterised, along with the methodologies and methods used to answer those questions. In addition to the core modules designed to give you a solid foundation for understanding educational processes, you'll have the flexibility to choose a pair of modules from a range of specialist classes to meet your personal and professional needs. This includes a pair of work-based learning modules where you can explore how learning works, components of effective teaching and encourage professional learning through practitioner inquiry.

Education Studies is a discipline in its own right. While it draws on insights from different disciplines, such as psychology, sociology, philosophy, political studies and international relations, economics and business studies, it entertains a very specific perspective on the world.

In education studies, we're mainly interested in the ways, personal growth and (trans)formation can be individually and socially initiated, guided, and supported. Those educational processes are, of course, not restricted to contexts of formal education, eg schooling, but can be perceived everywhere in modern cultures.

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• Develop a solid foundation for understanding transformative processes in all cultural contexts
• Enhance practice and career opportunities in the broader field of formal and informal education
• Gain a grounding in research methods and reasoning
• Suitable for those looking to pursue full-time study in this area
• Open to applications from international students
• Take part in optional work-based learning modules

As an English student at Strathclyde, you'll enjoy the best of old and new: a grounding in the classics as well as an insight into new fields of literature.

We're the only university in Scotland to offer a joint honours degree in Education.

We'll show you how exciting and wide-ranging our subject can be. Employers like the skills developed in an English degree: written and verbal communication, analysis and discussion of ideas, and broad, creative thinking.

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).
as gender, race, disability, and poverty, or educational representations in film and literature.

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• Read texts from a wide range of literary periods, and debate key issues such as identity, race, gender, what it is to be a human
• Work with staff who are world-leading researchers and prize-winning novelists and poets
• Benefit from cutting edge approaches to the study of literature, language, writing and theory
• The link drawn between critical and creative approaches make Strathclyde’s a unique approach to the subject
• Cultivate employable skills in written and verbal communication, analysis of complex cultural ideas and creative thinking

Chemical engineers play a vital role in finding solutions to 21st century challenges, such as providing people with clean water, medicines, food and fuel.Our graduates design and operate industrial processes that turn raw materials into valuable products, minimising their environmental impact.

Other projects include a team-based Frontiers of chemical engineering project in Year 1 and various research projects throughout other classes.

This MSc in Financial Technology (FinTech) teaches the big data techniques, computer programing, and analytics that banks and insurance companies are looking for. Graduates in this field will have a good understanding of the changing nature of finance and how accounting, business information systems, and analytic methods are adapting to the internet as a delivery channel.

The course is provided jointly by the top-ranked Departments of Accounting & Finance and Management Science with input from Computer & Information Science.

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• Combine the study of theory with intensive practice and industrial engagement
• Understanding how the use of technology improves the efficiency of financial transactions
• Opportunity to undertake client-based project 

Our finance degree is unique in Scotland in terms of the range and depth of issues covered.

Subjects include the principles of investment and value, business finance and decision-making and the analysis of securities such as bonds and shares.

Employers tell us that they particularly value the range of subject combinations available at Strathclyde, ensuring that our students have an in-depth understanding of a second subject to complement their finance studies.

An undergraduate degree in finance will give you the skills for a career in financial services such as banking, investment management, pension fund management and insurance.

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• Ranked 2nd in the UK for Accounting & Finance (Complete University Guide 2021)
• Benefit from studying a finance degree which is thought to be unique in Scotland in terms of the range and depth of issues covered
• Gain skills for a career in banking, investment management, pension fund management and insurance
• Enhance your employment prospects by combining your finance studies with a second subject