Choosing your undergraduate modules
Each year, your degree studies are composed of three possible types of module; compulsory modules, module options chosen from within your degree area and discovery modules that are offered across a wide range of subjects in the University that you can opt in or out of, depending on your interests.
As a student in the Business School, you also have the choice to take a special type of optional module – a Pathway Module.
Pathway modules
Pathway modules allow you the opportunity to broaden your study of business beyond your specialist degree subject area, taking advantage of the wide range of expertise available at Leeds University Business School. It is up to you whether you choose to follow a Pathway. We provide Pathways to give you further opportunities to tailor your study to personal and professional interests and, by broadening your study, ways of helping you stand out from the crowd in a competitive graduate jobs market.
How do Pathway Modules work?
Each degree programme has a range of Pathways available. In most cases, Pathway Modules are available only in the second and final year of your degree, once you have settled-in to your studies and identified which direction you would like to go. They generally do not have previous study requirements (‘pre-requisites’ as we call them) and Pathways have been selected to be compatible with your main degree subject timetable.
Exceptions
There are some pathways that do need students to have completed required modules. Please consider if the following situations apply to you when making your choices:
- Students of BSc Economics wanting to follow the Finance Pathway in later years must take the Finance Pathway option in Year 1.
- Students of BA Business Management or BA Business Management with Marketing wanting to follow either the Accounting Pathway or the Economics Pathway in Year 2 and beyond must take the relevant Pathway options in Year 1.
Within each year of study you can choose a maximum of two Pathways, and you can change Pathways between years. As with discovery modules, it is your choice whether to select modules from a Pathway. If you choose not to select Pathway and/or discovery modules, you simply select more module options within your degree subject area
What Pathways are available?
For more information, and to help you decide whether you want to take Pathway Modules in Year 1, where available, full details of Pathway Modules available to you in all Years of study can be found on the University Programme Catalogue - make sure you select "Academic year 2025/26" when you search for your course.
How to add Pathway Module choices
The University has general guidance on how to enrol on modules. Pathway Modules use this same process.
When enrolling on your modules, Pathway Modules will appear in the options list for your degree programme. It is up to you whether you choose to select only module options from within your degree subject area or whether you choose modules from a Pathway and/or the range of discovery modules.
Whatever you decide, your choices must total 120 credits each year and no more than 20 credits of discovery modules can be selected per year.
We must make the choices that enable us to fulfill the deepest capacities of our real selves