Bachelor of Commerce (1BC1)

Commerce is a very flexible programme that covers all business areas before a student chooses a specialism in the final year. Depending on subject choices, exemptions are available to successful students in the examinations of the professional accountancy bodies.

Subjects in this course are:-

Semester 1

• Optional GR141: German Language I (Advanced) - 10 Credits 
• Optional GR140: German Language I (Beginners) - 10 Credits 
• Optional GA191: Gaeilge & Scileanna Cumarsáide 1 - 5 Credits 
• Optional SBE1000: Skills for Success - 5 Credits 
• Optional SH102: Spanish Language I (Beginners) - 10 Credits 
• Optional SH140: Intermediate Spanish Language - 10 Credits 
• Optional CI1110: Chinese Language 1 (Beginners) - 10 Credits 
• Required MG1101: Management and Enterprise - 5 Credits 
• Required AY104: Introduction to Financial Accounting - 5 Credits 
• Required EC142: Principles of Microeconomics - 5 Credits 
• Required MA119: Mathematics for Business - 5 Credits
• Required MS120: Business Information Systems - 5 Credits 

Semester 2

• Optional LW190: Business Law 1 - 5 Credits 
• Optional GA192: Gaeilge & Scileanna Cumarsáide 2 - 5 Credits 
• Required ST1120: Data Science for Business Analytics I - 5 Credits 
• Required MS1100: Information Management for Business - 5 Credits 
• Required AY105: Introduction to Management Accounting - 5 Credits 
• Required MK1100: Foundations of Marketing Thought - 5 Credits 
• Required EC143: Principles of Macroeconomics - 5 Credits 

Semester 3

• Required ST2120: Data Science for Business Analytics II - 5 Credits
• Required MK2101: The Psychology of Consumer Behaviour - 5 Credits 
• Required SBE2000: Skills for Business - 5 Credits 
• Required EC2100: Applied Microeconomics for Business - 5 Credits 
• Required MG2100: Organisational Psychology - 5 Credits 
• Required AY207: Management Accounting I - 5 Credits 

Semester 4 

• Optional LW290: Business Law II - 5 Credits 
• Optional CI200: Doing Business in China - Language & Culture 1 - 5 Credits
• Optional AY209: International Financial Reporting I - 5 Credits 
• Optional EC259: Economics of Public Policy - 5 Credits 
• Optional EC247: Introduction to Financial Economics - 5 Credits 
• Optional ST2218: Advanced Statistical Methods for Business - 5 Credits
• Optional MG2101: Entrepreneurial Venture Development - 5 Credits 
• Optional MS2100: Cybersecurity - 5 Credits 
• Optional MK2102: Marketing & Sustainability - 5 Credits 
• Required MS2101: Managing Digital Transformation - 5 Credits 
• Required EC2101: Macroeconomics and the Business Environment - 5 Credits
• Required MG325: Employment Relations - 5 Credits 
• Required AY208: Business Finance I - 5 Credits 

Semester 5 

• Optional AY308: Taxation I - 5 Credits 
• Optional EC369: Money And Banking - 5 Credits 
• Optional AY325: International Financial Reporting II - 5 Credits 
• Optional LW427: European Union Law I - 5 Credits
• Optional EC345: Health Economics - 5 Credits 
• Optional MS403: IS Strategy & Planning - 5 Credits 
• Optional MK3101: Cases in Marketing Strategy - 5 Credits 
• Optional IE309: Operations Research - 5 Credits 
• Optional MK311: The Marketing of Services - 5 Credits 
• Optional MG328: Human Resource Management - 5 Credits 
• Optional MG326: Employee Relations: Rights And Obligations - 5 Credits 
• Optional LW423: Advanced Business Law - 5 Credits
• Optional AY321: Management Accounting II - 5 Credits 
• Optional MK314: Media & Marketing Communications - 5 Credits 
• Optional MS218: Database Technologies - 5 Credits 
• Optional MS414: Business Intelligence and Analytics - 5 Credits 
• Optional MS325: Contemporary Project Management - 5 Credits 
• Optional CI300: Doing Business in China - Language & Culture 1 - 5 Credits 
• Optional MS321: Web & Interactive Media Design - 5 Credits 
• Optional EC3101: Microeconomics and Public Policy - 5 Credits 
• Optional EC388: Environmental And Natural Resource Economics - 5 Credits 
• Optional ME5102: Quality Systems - 5 Credits 
• Optional EC3105: Econometrics - 5 Credits 
• Optional MG3101: Contemporary Issues in Work and Organisations - 5 Credits
• Optional LW229: Company Law I - 5 Credits 
• Optional SBE3002: Entrepreneurship - 5 Credits 
• Optional MS222: Decision Modelling and Analytics - 5 Credits 
• Optional LW333: Comparative Competition Law - 5 Credits 
• Optional EC382: International Economics - 5 Credits 
• Optional MK3104: Marketing Research - 5 Credits 
• Optional SBE3006: Entrepreneurial Finance - 5 Credits 
• Optional LW383: Information Technology Law - 5 Credits
• Optional LW356: Industrial And Intellectual Property Law - 5 Credits 
• Optional SBE3108: Megatrends - 5 Credits 
• Required MG3104: Ethics and Corporate Responsibility - 5 Credits 
• Required EC423: Ireland in the Global Economy - 5 Credits 

Semester 6 

• Optional LW374: Banking Law - 5 Credits 
• Optional MK303: Global Marketing - 5 Credits 
• Optional IE345: Logistics and Transportation - 5 Credits 
• Optional MK341: Brand Management - 5 Credits 
• Optional CI301: Doing Business in China - Language & Culture 2 - 5 Credits 
• Optional AY319: Taxation II - 5 Credits 
• Optional AY314: Business Finance II - 5 Credits 
• Optional EC362: Economics Of Financial Markets - 5 Credits 
• Optional EC386: Public Economics - 5 Credits 
• Optional LW428: European Union Law II - 5 Credits 
• Optional AY326: International Financial Reporting III - 5 Credits 
• Optional IE319: Operations Strategy - 5 Credits
• Optional MG323: International Business - 5 Credits 
• Optional MS319: Enterprise Systems - 5 Credits 
• Optional AY322: Management Accounting III - 5 Credits 
• Optional LW364: International Trade Law - 5 Credits 
• Optional MK3103: Digital Marketing Planning - 5 Credits 
• Optional EC3102: Macroeconomics and Public Policy - 5 Credits 
• Optional MG3100: Human Resource Practice - 5 Credits 
• Optional MG3102: Work in a Global Context - 5 Credits 
• Optional LW231: Company Law II - 5 Credits
• Optional MS4101: Implementing Digital Innovation - 5 Credits 
• Optional EC3104: Agricultural and Food Economics - 5 Credits 
• Optional EC3100: Economics and Philosophy - 5 Credits 
• Optional MK3105: Marketing Analytics - 5 Credits 
• Optional SBE3007: Entrepreneurial Leadership and Management - 5 Credits 
• Optional CI200: Doing Business in China - Language & Culture 1 - 5 Credits
• Optional SBE3109: Founder Selling - 5 Credits 
• Optional ME353: Quality Systems - 5 Credits 
• Required SBE3001: Innovation: Creativity and Enterprise - 5 Credits 
• Required MG3103: Business Strategy - 5 Credits