It is a programme of academic subjects, study skills and English language training that is equivalent to the first year of an undergraduate degree for Bachelor of Arts in Business Managementand Politics. Students will study the 3, 2.5 or 2 semester programme, depending on their academic and English language levels. They will study a combination of core and subject-specific modules that focus on academic areas most useful to their chosen degree. Business and Politics are of vital importance to all and studying them at Keele emphasises critical thinking that crosses over traditional subject boundaries. In combining these related subjects, students will learn about the practice of management as well as the ways in which organisations function in wider society and how those societies are governed.