Years

FOUNDATION YEAR IN BUSINESS

Start date: 15 September 2025

In the Fall semester there will be two modules:

  • Development of Academic Language & Skills 
  • Business Communications 

In the Spring semester there will be three modules:

  • Success in Academic Language & Skills 
  • Management Skills 
  • Marketing for Business 

In addition to the Foundation Year modules, students at Coventry University Kazakhstan will also need to complete the following modules as mandated by Kazakhstan regulations:

  • Kazakh language 
  • History of Kazakhstan (in English) 

FOUNDATION YEAR IN BUSINESS - January Intake

Start date: 12 January 2026

This is ideal if you missed the September start or want to transfer from a different university.

In the Spring semester there will be four modules:

  • Success in Academic Language & Skills
  • Business Communications 
  • Management Skills
  • Marketing for Business 

In addition to the Foundation Year modules, students at Coventry University Kazakhstan will also need to complete the following modules as mandated by Kazakhstan regulations: 

  • Kazakh language 
  • History of Kazakhstan (in English) 

During your Foundation Year, you will study alongside students who are pursuing related degrees. This offers you the chance to establish connections and form friendships with a diverse group of people who share similar interests and aspirations.

This course has a common first year.

The common first year enables you to work alongside students doing similar courses to you, to widen your knowledge and exposure to other subject areas and professions. You will have the opportunity to collaborate with other students, so you can share your insights and experience which will help you to develop and learn.  

If you discover an interest in a specific subject you have studied, upon successful completion of your first year, you could swap degrees with another course in your common first year (subject to meeting progression requirements).

Common first year courses 

  • Advertising and Digital Marketing BA (Hons)
  • Business Administration BBA (Hons)
  • Business and Human Resource Management BA (Hons)
  • Business Management BA (Hons)
  • International Business Management BSc (Hons)

In the first year, the curriculum is shared across related courses allowing you to gain a broad grounding in the discipline before going on, in the second and third years, to specialist modules in your chosen field.

Modules
Foundations of Management

This module introduces you to the essential building blocks of business and organisational management through a range of theories, concepts and approaches.

You can expect to explore the organisational structure, organisational design and business operations before learning about contexts which impact organisations, such as national culture, capitalism, demography and climate change.

Organisational Behaviour

This module explores how people interact with each other in the workplace and the impact that leaders and managers have upon that interaction. It examines the role of people management practices and how these affect individual behavior in the workplace.

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Marketing, Digital and Social Media

This module develops your knowledge and understanding of the fundamental concepts in marketing, including digital and social media.

You should develop an understanding of the role of marketing within an organisation, and the influence of factors in the external environment on marketing decisions.

Business Decision - Making Using Data Analysis

This module introduces the fundamental concepts and principles of data analytics, and how they can be applied to assess and enhance organisational and functional performance and support decision-making.

This module is designed to help you develop an analytical mindset, deepen your understanding, and prepare you to use innovative data analytic tools, techniques, and methods.

Entrepreneurial Ideation

The aim of this module is to introduce you to the process of entrepreneurial ideation. Entrepreneurial ideation is the creative process of generating, developing, and communicating new ideas.

Through authentic and applied assessment, you will be invited to present your ideas to business and organizational leaders.

Entrepreneurial Thinking

The aim of this module is to enable you to engage critically and creatively with entrepreneurship in the context of responsible management practice. Following an introduction to the key concepts and debates of general entrepreneurial principles, you will actively explore social, economic, and environmental challenges.

We regularly review our course content, to make it relevant and current for the benefit of our students. For these reasons, course modules may be updated.

In year two, you will continue to develop the skills and knowledge you’ve learned. We do this by embedding the following four principles into the curriculum and developing your:  

  • Technical skills – digital fluency, backed with the right academic knowledge 
  • Study skills – to be an adaptive, independent and proactive learner 
  • Professional skills – to have the behavior and abilities to succeed in your career 
  • Global awareness – the beliefs and abilities to be a resilient, confident
    and motivated global citizen 
Modules
Designing a Research Proposal

This module will allow you to develop the skills and knowledge to successfully complete a research proposal, setting you up for your final year project.

Marketing Insight

In this module, you will learn how marketers can take complex data and develop valuable marketing insight to enhance marketing activity. 

Consumer Behaviour

Consumers are central to marketing, however they sit outside the organizational boundary and sometimes exhibit unpredictable and counterintuitive behaviors. In this module, you will study key theories of consumer behavior to improve your own marketing practices.

Integrated Marketing Communications

This module will provide an insight into how marketers develop and implement marketing campaigns. With more noise than ever in the external environment, you’ll explore how to make messages stand out and integrate with the plethora of channels companies advertise through. 

Advertising and Digital Marketing

In this module you will study the principles behind advertising and digital marketing. Developing a deeper critical insight into how organizations and consumers interact in the digital domain. 

Creative marketing

Central to all marketing endeavors is creativity. In this module, you will study how organisation develop new and innovative ideas and concepts to ensure they remain at the cutting edge of creative thinking.

The final year aims to bring you to the level to enter the world of work by consolidating your knowledge and skills from years one and two. You could also work on a large final project in an area of your interest, with the support of a mentor.   

Modules
Project

This module will provide you with the opportunity to apply and develop your research skills and extend your knowledge, understanding and ability to critically analyze a topic in a specialist area of interest. You will choose a research topic related to your programme of study and apply critical analysis skills acquired through this and other modules to research the topic in depth. 

Advertising and Digital Marketing Strategy

Despite the creativity within marketing, all organisations require a strategy in order to achieve their objectives. In this module you will study how organisations can develop advertising and digital marketing strategies. 

Digital Customer Experience

Customer experience is key in a multi-channel environment. In this module, you will study how organisations ensure the consumer experience is optimized within the digital domain. 

Social Media and Influencer Marketing

Social media and influencers are reshaping how organisations  interact with their consumers. In this module, you will study this phenomenon and analyze how organisations can successfully utilize social media and influencers. 

PR and Event Marketing

Within marketing there has been a shift from the consumption of products to the consumption of experiences. Events are consumed through experience and therefore require specific marketing strategies and tactics to be developed. In addition, PR is an important marketing tool, but with the proliferation of digital we ask if PR is still relevant, in this module you will investigate this issue further.