Human Resource Management (With Professional Practice Year) (Accredited)
University of Bedfordshire
UCAS Code: N601 | Bachelor of Science (with Honours) - BSc (Hons)
University of Bedfordshire
UCAS Code: N601 | Bachelor of Science (with Honours) - BSc (Hons)
Entry requirements
A level
96 UCAS Tariff points
Pearson BTEC Level 3 National Extended Diploma (first teaching from September 2016)
96 UCAS Tariff points
UCAS Tariff
About this course
This course equips you with the knowledge, skills, behaviours and graduate competencies that employers value and need, in line with the CIPD professional accreditation. You explore key areas of human resource management (HRM) such as talent management; operational management; leadership and motivation; data management and interpretation; selection and recruitment; and employee relations. You may also take up opportunities to engage with real-life HRM problems, allowing you to carry out practical projects that emulate working as a professional manager.
**Professional Practice Year**
Take your course over four years and include a Professional Practice Year after your second year of studies. It is an opportunity to apply your learning in the workplace while enhancing your knowledge and skills through fee-free paid practice. It also builds your CV and industry contacts with many students progressing to employment within their practice-year organisation or institution.
**Course Accreditation/Industry Endorsement**
- We are an accredited Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD) centre. This means all of our HRM courses are professional-body accredited, giving you access to Level 5 accreditation and increasing your employability in the HRM profession, on successful graduation.
**Your Student Experience**
- Learn from expert tutors, active within the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD), and in both consultancy and research.
- Develop your understanding of how HRM works with other business disciplines, enabling you to fit into numerous organisation roles.
- Apply what you have learnt to real-life situations experienced by companies and organisations globally.
- Build the confidence and problem-solving skills needed to be an effective manager across a range of organisations and settings.
- Benefit from HRM-focused employability events throughout the academic year, including careers fairs and immersive CV events.
- Learn from employer site visits and visits to the University by employers and local HR managers, who to share their HRM stories - a great way to network and ask questions relating to HRM career development.
- Gain from having regular engagement and support from CIPD members and branch officials, helping you make a smooth transition into the world of HRM employment.
Modules
Year 1;
Business Pod,
Human Resources Management Foundations
Year 2;
Employment Relations, Reward and Law,
Innovative Practice in HRM and HRD,
People Resourcing and Development,
Practice Weeks: Career Planning,
Project Management,
Research Skills,
Strategic Thinking,
The Strategic Context of Human Resource Management
Year 3,
HRM Practice Portfolio,
Developing Professional Human Resource Management Practice,
Dissertation or Specialist Project in Human Resource Management,
Practice Weeks: The Future You,
Strategy and Creativity
Assessment methods
In line with the Business School’s commitment to practical applied education, a large part of the assessment will relate to your demonstration of your ability to do HRM in practice.
We will want to see that you understand the theory and have developed critical thinking skills which help you evaluate the relevance of what you have learned.
To assess this range of integration of theory and skills into sound practice, we use a range of methods including:
Project work, reports, case studies (78%)
Presentations, posters (9%)
Formal exams (13%)
The Uni
Luton Campus
Department of Law and Finance
What students say
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Top job areas of graduates
This subject is much more common at postgraduate level, and so be aware that many of the good jobs in HR and personnel management go to graduates with Masters or other postgraduate qualifications in this subject. Work experience for first degree graduates can help to get around the lack of postgraduate qualifications, but if you want to go into management you might find that Masters to be an advantage. Although human resource roles are much the most common outcome for graduates from these courses, they take those jobs in an impressive array of industries so there are plenty of options for the kind of employer you can work for. If you would like to know about graduate prospects for your chosen course more specifically, head to an open day to talk to tutors about what previous graduates went on to do.
What about your long term prospects?
Looking further ahead, below is a rough guide for what graduates went on to earn.
Human resource management
The graph shows median earnings of graduates who achieved a degree in this subject area one, three and five years after graduating from here.
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Note: this data only looks at employees (and not those who are self-employed or also studying) and covers a broad sample of graduates and the various paths they've taken, which might not always be a direct result of their degree.
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