This is a single honours degree in Accounting, with an optional placement year. With maximum professional accreditation, the degree will enable you to graduate as a partly exam-qualified accountant. The degree embeds a strong employability theme and demonstrates clear pathways for you, allowing you to specialise in your final year and also complete an independent piece of research in an area related to your work-experience or an area of special interest.This degree will be taught on a semesterised basis, with new modules being introduced each term. The degree incorporates a strong employability theme throughout the course in both credit bearing and non-credit bearing activities.Lectures deliver basic subject-specific learning, and provide a framework for further study.Seminars provide opportunities for you to explore issues in greater depth, test your own understanding of the material studied, engage in group work, assess arguments in a group context and defend and debate different opinions.Workshops are used to allow you to work independently, under supervision, in small groups on questions, problems or case studies and build on subject-specific learning, developing key skills.Guided reading and independent study provide a structure within which you exercise and extend your abilities to make use of available learning resources.Accounting project preparation and supervision foster independent learning and the ability to manage a planned programme of research.In particular, the course takes advantage of technology enhanced active learning, where appropriate and, particularly in the context of employability and professional skills, experiential learning techniques.This course has a holistic approach to the student journey – enhancing the academic aspects of the degree with a schedule of extra-curricular, non-credit bearing components that will aim to develop the skills of the students to improve their opportunities for employment.The degree will have a clear emphasis on recruitability and employability. In the context of the subject matter of the degree, in the first instance, this will be in relation to accountancy-related careers, however, all graduates will have skills gained through the course and also the non-credit bearing aspects of the degree that should enhance their employment opportunities.

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