Business Management and English (Hons) University of Derby

Overview

With a range of optional modules across Business Management and English (such as logistics, human resource management, marketing, and various themes and theories in literature such as crime, fantasy, gender and cultural politics) you’ll be able to tailor your studies to your area of interest and your career goals. 

Why study Business Management and English at Derby?

• Combining two subjects boosts your employability and gives you the opportunity to develop knowledge and expertise in two subject areas, making you a more versatile graduate
• The course is accredited by the Chartered Management Institute (CMI)**
• You'll gain an extra professional qualification in Management and Leadership on top of your degree, plus access to professional mentoring and CMI member benefits**
• The English course provides a distinctive core of engagement with literary, critical and cultural theory that will enable you to develop a highly nuanced and sophisticated approach to the analysis of literature, language and culture
• You will explore fascinating aspects of English, including the evolution of fantasy, the representation of crime, the legacy of Empire, cultural politics, existentialist writing, classical myth and the 19th-century realist novel

• The Business Management and English (Hons) program at University of Derby will change the way you think: you will encounter a wide range of literature from across the globe, studied in the context of perspective-altering theories concerning identity, desire, cultural politics and the nature of reality itself

You’ll graduate with a range of transferrable skills in areas such as research, analysis, interpretation, argument, expression and communication which you will acquire in your course of study. All of these skills are transferable to a wide range of careers, and both Business and English graduates are consequently very well-qualified to engage with the world around them, and to find success within it.  

Roles graduates could move onto include: 

• Advertising  
• Marketing 
• Journalism  
• Publishing 
• Press and PR 
• Media  
• Broadcasting 
• Human Resource Management 
• Sales 
• Project Management