Students are required to choose either a Dissertation or Consultancy Project which are optional non-condonable modules. Only one dissertation is permitted. Teaching and learning will be delivered in the form of lectures, and seminars, coursework assignments, supervised individual project, and guided independent study. Students will write a dissertation as part of their studies. One unique aspect of our curriculum design is the promotion of a ‘curiosity pod’ to support problem solving and enquiry based and personalised learning by students. Designed for experiential learning, our Digital Innovation Lab will be used as our studio where critics will help students become better business analysts in their chosen domains. The role of critics will be to offer opinions, alternatives and different perspectives. The curiosity pod will focus on questioning student work from different perspectives, allowing students time to reflect and integrate their prior learning to real life problems and datasets. In addition to mandatory modules, there will be a number of optional modules available during the course of your degree. Although Royal Holloway will keep changes to a minimum, new options may be offered or existing ones may be withdrawn. For example where reasonable and necessary due to unexpected events, where requirements of relevant Professional, Statutory or Regulatory Bodies (PSRBs) have changed and course requirements must change accordingly, or where changes are deemed necessary on the basis of student feedback and/or the advice of External Advisors, to enhance academic provision. There may be additional requirements around option selection; please contact the Department for further information.

English language requirements