Undergraduate Course: Risk Management (BUST10036)
Course Outline
| School | Business School |
College | College of Humanities and Social Science |
| Credit level (Normal year taken) | SCQF Level 10 (Year 3 Undergraduate) |
Availability | Available to all students |
| SCQF Credits | 20 |
ECTS Credits | 10 |
| Summary | The course provides students with an appreciation of the issues, techniques and concepts in risk management. Risk management is the ability to identify, analyse, evaluate and absorb risk which allows the individual or organisation to manage risk in their activities or their organisations.
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| Course description |
The course is divided into two main parts: Theory and Practice. The theory is divided into four main subsections: Identification, Analysis, Evaluation and Absorption. The practice part is divided into Health and Safety, Industrial Risk, Medical Risk, Financial and Insurance Risk and Transport Risk.
Syllabus
Introduction, General Concepts and Overview
Awareness
Assessment
Evaluation of Risk
Absorption and Ethics
Finance and Insurance
Health and Safety
Engineering/Industrial and Transport
Student Learning Experience
The lecture programme provides details of the approaches to risk management including, identification, analysis, evaluation and absorption, and of application of the approaches in a wide range of management contexts. The seminars will be used to discuss issues arising from the course and will specifically tackle issues associated with requirements for assessment such as preparation for the project and examinations.
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Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
| Pre-requisites |
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Co-requisites | |
| Prohibited Combinations | |
Other requirements | Years 3 & 4. Business Studies Honours entry |
Information for Visiting Students
| Pre-requisites | Visiting students should have at least 3 Business Studies courses at grade B or above (or be predicted to obtain this). We will only consider University/College level courses. |
| High Demand Course? |
Yes |
Course Delivery Information
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| Academic year 2015/16, Available to all students (SV1)
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Quota: None |
| Course Start |
Semester 1 |
Timetable |
Timetable |
| Learning and Teaching activities (Further Info) |
Total Hours:
200
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Lecture Hours 20,
Summative Assessment Hours 2,
Revision Session Hours 2,
Programme Level Learning and Teaching Hours 4,
Directed Learning and Independent Learning Hours
172 )
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| Assessment (Further Info) |
Written Exam
70 %,
Coursework
30 %,
Practical Exam
0 %
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| Additional Information (Assessment) |
Individual essay 30% 2000 words
Examination 70% End of Semester 1: 2 hours
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| Feedback |
Generic feedback on your coursework, together with individual marks, will be available on Learn. You can also look at your individual feedback in the UG Office (Room 1.11, Business School, 29 Buccleuch Place) and take away a copy of the feedback form, but you will not be able to take away the original piece of coursework, as it may be required by the Board of Examiners.
Your examination marks will be posted on Learn (together with generic feedback and examination statistics) as soon as possible after the Board of Examiners' meeting (normally end of January/beginning of February). You will have the opportunity to look at your examination scripts in early February in the UG Office (Room 1.11, Business School, 29 Buccleuch Place). Note that you will not be able to remove any examination scripts from the UG Office as they may be required by the Board of Examiners
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| Exam Information |
| Exam Diet |
Paper Name |
Hours & Minutes |
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| Main Exam Diet S1 (December) | | 2:00 | |
Learning Outcomes
On completion of this course, the student will be able to:
- Describe the approaches taken in risk management
- Critically review the approaches used in risk management.
- Apply the approaches to specific context, which includes the selection and implementation.
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Reading List
John Adams, "Risk", University College Press.
Ansell & Wharton, "Risk - Analysis, Assessment and Management", John Wiley and Sons
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Additional Information
| Graduate Attributes and Skills |
Cognitive Skills
On completion of the course students will be able to demonstrate:
a) they can describe the approaches to risk management;
b) they can critically review the techniques used in risk management
c) to apply risk management techniques to specific context.
Key Skills
On completion of the course the students will be able to:
a) demonstrate their ability to plan and implement risk management approaches to a real world activity or organisation which includes selection and evaluation of the approach;
b) demonstrate they can present findings of their risk analysis of an activity or organisation in a written form.
Subject Specific Skills
On completion of the course the students will be able to:
a) develop their critical and evaluatory skills in dealing with application of risk management to real-world activities or organisation.
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| Additional Class Delivery Information |
1 lecture every week
Available to 3rd & 4th year students.
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| Keywords | RM |
Contacts
| Course organiser | Prof Jake Ansell
Tel: (0131 6)50 3806
Email: |
Course secretary | Miss Anastasia Fliatoura
Tel: (0131 6)50 3826
Email: |
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