HND Global Trade and Business
The SQA HND in Global Trade and Business is designed to provide you with theoretical business knowledge, combined with the essential elements of economics and international marketing an employed will expect you to have for a career in, for example, marketing or exporting in a highly competitive international business. Globalisation ca be defined as the international integration of services, products, labour, capital and technology. Many firms worldwide are implementing global strategies to coordinate and market their international business activities.
The SQA HND in Global Trade and Business consists of a total of 30 Unit credits. Each Unit credit is designed to take about 40 hours teaching and learning (though it may take more or less time than this).
An SQA HND in Global Trade and Business can gain you entry in to an English speaking university.
SQA’s prestigious qualifications are recognised worldwide.
Course Tutor Guide (including Course Framework)
Title: HND Global Trade and Business
Code: GG5F 16
Downloads: Global Trade and Business Course Tutor Guide (including Qualification Framework)
Version Change - March 2019
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A Guide for Tutors
Communication Units
This document is aimed at tutors who are teaching learners whose first language is not English.
The purpose of this document is to provide a selection of formative exercises that will:
- provide interesting exercises to motivate learners
- increase learners' confidence in their ability to communicate effectively in English
- prepare learners to successfully pass the summative assessments
Communication Units in HNCs and HNDs
Research Skills
The guide provides support for developing good practice in how the Research Skills unit might be delivered, scheduled and assessed. It contains guidance on delivering the Research Skills Unit both on a stand-alone basis or integrating with other Units, and provides customised checklists for integration with various Graded Units.
Notification of changes
Unit Specifications
- Business Accounting (F84M 34)
- Business Contractual Relationships (F84N 34)
- Business Culture and Strategy (F7J7 35)
- Business Law: An Introduction (F84P 34)
- Communication: Business Communication (H7TK 34)
- Economic Issues: An Introduction (F7J8 34)
- Economics 1: Micro and Macro Theory and Applications (F7J6 35)
- Economics 2: The World Economy (F86E 35)
- Global Business Organisations (H2XK 35)
- Global Trade and Business: Graded Unit 1 (H3P4 34)
- Global Trade and Business: Graded Unit 2 (H3P5 35)
- Information and Communication Technology in Business (F84W 35) - Finish date 31/07/2019
- Information and Communication Technology in Business (HH87 35)
- Information Technology: Applications Software 1 (D75X 34)
- International Business Environment: Geographical Influences (H3MF 34)
- International Marketing: An Introduction (H8PD 34)
- International Marketing:The Mix (F7R3 35)
- International Physical Distribution (H316 35)
- International Purchasing and Supply (H2X3 35)
- International Trade Institutions (H2VX 34)
- Managing People and Organisations (F84T 34)
- Marketing: An Introduction (F7BX 34)
- Using Sources of Export Assistance (H31C 35)
Two additional mandatory units
Workplace Communication in English (H8T2 33)
Research Skills (F60A 34) – Finish date 31/07/2022
Research Skills (J1NC 34) – Start date 01/08/2019
Research Skills Unit: A Guide for Tutors
This guide provides support for developing good practice in how the Research Skills Unit (F60A 34) might be delivered, scheduled and assessed. It contains guidance on delivering the Research Skills Unit both on a stand-alone basis or integrating with other Units, and provides customised checklists for integration with various Graded Units
