Course 1
Is this course for me?
The medical programme at Trinity is a challenging but highly rewarding experience. A student wishing to study medicine requires an enquiring mind, the capacity to acquire and maintain high levels of knowledge, the ability to develop effective communication skills in order to respond to the health needs of individuals, families and communities and an interest in improving healthcare at all levels.
I graduated in the class of 2014 and have spent the past 18 months working on developing a health and wellness company. I started the business in my third year of college with my partner who also studied business at Trinity. For me, one of the best things about Trinity is its centrally located campus and the feeling that you are studying in the heart of the city. The campus has an inviting atmosphere, inspires learning and is great during the warmer months. I studied BESS, finishing with a BBS degree. The broad curriculum and flexibility of the BESS course allowed me to pick and choose modules which I felt would aid my entrepreneurial endeavours, these included Innovation, Marketing and my favourite subject New Product Development. After finishing 4th year I participated in Launchbox, Trinity’s student incubator. It was a brilliant experience and one of the main reasons I pursed my own business after college. I think from a student entrepreneurial standpoint, Trinity, and in particular Trinity Business School, is a place of amazing opportunity, aided in no small part by its forward looking initiatives like Launchbox.
I loved studying the various subjects and Business was my favourite module in first year, which was why I knew I'd continue specializing in it for the next three years. What I found interesting about my time as a business student was that when I initially applied for the course, I thought I would pursue work in investment banking or sales and trading. This quickly changed after reading an article on social business models and studying the concept of sustainability in my marketing elective. This totally changed my direction, leading me to found FoodCloud – a service that matches businesses with surplus food to the needs of their local community organisations – diverting the tonnes of good food being dumped while helping those most in need in our communities.
I was able to shape my final year business course to keep it relevant to my new 'business', receiving great support from lecturers, enjoying the content and encouraging me to do very well.
Course Structure
This stimulating programme is designed to give you a world-class education and also to help you attain the competencies desired by employers. The key pillars of the BBS programme are a focus on innovation and entrepreneurship, and relevant real-life experience which will open up doors to the fascinating world of business.
- Start Date: September 2017
- Duration: 4 years
- Features: Focus on Innovation and Entrepreneurship and Experiential Learning
Year 1: Junior Freshman
In your first year, you will learn about the history and evolution of business, organisation and management, in order to establish and reinforce the principle that the pursuit of business is embedded in - and a central driver of - our complex global economy. Furthermore, you will start your self-development journey with the key quantitative and qualitative skills required for business in the 21st Century.
- BU1512 Fundamentals of Management and Organisation
- BU1520 Economics for Management
- BU1530 Quantitative Methods for Business 2016-17
- BU1540 Fundamentals of Social Science, Ethics and Philosophy
In addition, to the four mandatory Business modules you will choose two modules from the list below. Students wishing to spend all or part of their third year studying abroad in a non-English speaking country should take a language module during their Freshman years. Extra module list:
- LA1240 Introduction to Law
- FR1040 Language – French
- GR1004 Language – German
- SP1018 Language – Spanish
- RUF100 Language – Russian
- PLF104 Language – Polish
- RUF603 Introduction to Central, East European and Russian area
Year 2: Senior Freshman
Your second year gives you a thorough grounding in every core discipline of business theory and practice, from marketing to finance. You will benefit from the full resources of a globally networked institution. By taking a significant number of credits from other disciplines – from Law and Linguistics, to Geology or Psychology – you will have the unique opportunity to see how your thinking interacts with and is influenced by others, cultivating new insights that can only come through such interdisciplinarity.
- BU2510 Organisational Behaviour
- BU2520 Principles of Marketing
- BU2530 Introduction to Accounting
- BU2550 Introduction to Finance
- BU2560 Introduction to Operations Management
- BU2570 Creative Thinking, Innovation and Entrepreneurial Action
Year 3: Junior Sophister
While building on your portfolio of skills and knowledge, you are awarded credit for experience that transforms your learning – whether through a semester or year abroad at one of our partner institutions, an internship in a firm, start-up, or voluntary organisation, or a leadership role in one of Trinity’s many business student societies. This experiential learning is highly valued by employers and is a unique opportunity for students to develop business skills.
- BU3520 Management Accounting for Business Decisions
- BU3530 Financial Accounting
- BU3571 Human Resource Management
- BU3591 Business in Society
- BU3601 Innovation, Entrepreneurship and Business Modelling
- BU3610 Personal and Career Development
- BU3615 Management Experience and Reflection
- BU3620 Introduction to Fixed Income Securities and Alternative Investments
- BU3631 Corporate Finance and Equity Valuation
- BU3640 Services Management
- BU3650 Digital Technology in Operations
- BU3660 Organisational Theory and Organisational Analysis
- BU3680 Investments
- BU3690 Social Entrepreneurship
- BU3700 Contemporary Marketing Management
- BU3710 Marketing for Different Organisational and Business Contexts
Year 4: Senior Sophister
In your Senior Sophister year, you will focus on at least one area of business expertise: studying your chosen subject in depth, taking advanced modules in the subject and undertaking research guided by one of our faculty or industry experts. Your work acts as a ticket of entry into your chosen career path, be it finance, accounting, strategy or marketing, in areas as diverse as cosmetics to capital funds management.
- BU4501 Strategic Management: Theory and Practice
- BU4511 International Business & The Global Economy
- BU4522 Exploring Organisational Experiences
- BU4530 Financial Reporting and Analysis
- BU4550 Advances in Marketing Theory and Practice
- BU4580 Managing New Product Development
- BU4590 Business Dissertation
- BU4621 Social Innovation and Social Impact
- BU4630 Economic Policy and Business History
- BU4640 Derivatives & International Finance
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