Course Content
Year 1 (60 credits)
Compulsory Core Modules (50 credits)
- Introduction to Financial Accounting (5 credits)
- Introduction to Management Accounting (5 credits)
- Understanding the Law (10 credits)
- Constitutional Law (10 credits)
- Contract Law (10 credits)
- Tort Law (10 credits)
Optional Modules (10 credits)
Digital Business
- Information Management for Business (5 credits)
- Business Information Systems (5 credits)
Economics
- Principles of Microeconomics (5 credits)
- Principles of Macroeconomics (5 credits)
Language
- Spanish, Legal German, Legal French or Teanga an Dlí (Legal Irish) (10 credits)
Year 2 (60 credits)
Compulsory Core Modules (35 credits)
- Criminal Law I & II (10 credits)
- European Union Law I & II (10 credits)
- Company Law I & II (10 credits)
- Mooting (5 credits)
Optional Modules (25 credits)
Accounting
- Management Accounting I (5 credits)
- Business Finance I (5 credits)
- International Financial Reporting I (5 credits)
Economics
- Applied Microeconomics for Business (5 credits)
- Macroeconomics and the Business Environment (5 credits)
- Principles of Microeconomics (5 credits)
- Principles of Macroeconomics (5 credits)
Digital Business
- Business Information Systems (5 credits)
- Information Management for Business (5 credits)
- Cybersecurity (5 credits)
Management
- Employment Relations (5 credits)
- Management (5 credits)
Language
- Spanish, Legal French, Legal German or Teanga an Dlí (Legal Irish) (10 credits each)
Year 3 (60 credits)
- Customise your experience by choosing either professional work placement or study abroad.
Year 4 (60 credits)
Compulsory Modules (35 credits)
- Equity Law (10 credits)
- Land Law (10 credits)
- Commercial Law (5 credits)
- Legal Business & Ethics (5 credits)
- Guided Research Essay (5 credits)
Optional Specialist Streams (25 credits)
Students will have the opportunity to shape their degree by choosing a specialist stream. Students may choose one of the following specialist streams including the ‘General’ stream which allows students to choose modules from multiple streams. Certain specialist streams have prerequisite modules which must be passed before choosing the stream in the final year.
Economics
Compulsory modules for this stream:
- Microeconomics and Public Policy (5 credits)
- Macroeconomics and Public Policy (5 credits)
Optional Modules for this stream:
- Econometrics (5 credits)
- Health Economics (5 credits)
- Money & Banking (5 credits)
- Environmental and Natural Resource Economics (5 credits)
- Development Economics (5 credits)
- Economics and Philosophy (5 credits)
- International Economics (5 credits)
- Economics of Financial Markets (5 credits)
- Public Economics (5 credits)
- Marine Economics (5 credits)
Accounting
- Management Accounting II (5 credits)
- Management Accounting III (5 credits)
- International Financial Reporting II (5 credits)
- International Financial Reporting III (5 credits)
- Business Finance I (5 credits)
- Business Finance II (5 credits)
The Legal Professions
- Administrative Law I (5 credits)
- Jurisprudence I (5 credits)
- Evidence I & II (10 credits)
- Choose a module from another stream (5 credits)
Management
- Labour Law I (5 credits)
- Labour Law II (5 credits)
- Human Resource Management (5 credits)
- Work in a Global Context (5 credits)
- Business Strategy (5 credits)
Digital Business and Analytics
- Database Technologies (5 credits)
- Decision Modelling and Analytics (5 credits)
- Business Intelligence & Analytics (5 credits)
- Implementing Digital Innovation (5 credits)
- Advanced Research Topics in Information Systems (5 credits)
- Law and Innovation (5 credits)
Language
- Students who choose a language must also choose 15 credits worth of modules on other streams to meet credit requirements.
- Spanish/ Legal German/ Legal French/ Teanga an Dlí (Legal Irish) (10 credits)
General
Define your own degree by selecting modules from the list below or from any of the other streams to meet the requirement of 25 credits. Module selection is subject to timetable clashes and availability.
- Applied Microeconomics for Business (5 credits)
- Macroeconomics and the Business Environment for Business (5 credits)
- Economics of Public Policy (5 credits)
- Introduction to Public Policy (5 credits)
