MSc/Postgraduate Diploma/Postgraduate Certificate International Management

Content

The optional modules listed are those that are most likely to be available, but they may be subject to change.

You'll study the following compulsory modules:

Evaluating the Global Context - covers the external economic, social and strategic challenges that impact on firms operating across borders. It will provide concepts and frameworks to enable you to analyse the environment in which multinational organisations operate and link the insight gained to strategic and operational decisions.

The Strategic Context - introduces you to management challenges that impacts on international operations of firms. You will explore different approaches and perceptions that shape businesses and enable you to analyse the environment where multinational companies operate and link insight gained to strategic and operational decisions.

Managing Finance - introduces you to the importance of gaining and using knowledge and evidence to inform management decision-making and academic study. You will also gain an understanding of markets, financial tools and techniques to support financial decision making.

People and Global Organisations - provides you with a critical and enquiring understanding of people and organisations in an international context. It will introduce you to a range of organisational behaviour and human resource management theoretical perspectives and empirical research. You will develop an ability to explore a variety of perspectives to analyse people working in a cross-cultural context.

The Service Concept: Design and Delivery - provides an understanding of services marketing and operations, from planning to implementation. You will be introduced to a variety of key topics, such as: customers and competitors; designing and implementing products and services; managing customer strategy.

Personal and Professional Development - is a spine module that applies a practice-focused teaching and learning approach. Through the vehicle of a team-based business simulation you will be able to link your learning experiences with practice. You will further develop your interpersonal, communication and research skills. Emphasis is placed on the relevance and applicability of knowledge to your own individual professional and academic development with respect to your future careers in the international business domain.

International Management Project and Research Methods* - involves developing your own academic research project and gives you the opportunity to investigate an area of particular interest to you and of relevance to your career.

In addition, you'll study two optional modules from the list below (subject to availability):

• Leadership
• Global Marketing
• Digital Business Information Systems
• International Project Management
• Global Supply Chain Management
• Innovation, Creativity and Enterprise
• Management Consultancy.

*To achieve a master's, you must complete this module which gives you the chance to research an area of international management which is of particular interest to you and relevant to your career or company. An example of a past topic is:

• A Critical Analysis of the Perceptions of Employees from Kenya, Tanzania and Ghana on Corporate Social Responsibility.

The University continually enhances our offer by responding to feedback from our students and other stakeholders, ensuring the curriculum is kept up to date and our graduates are equipped with the knowledge and skills they need for the real world. This may result in changes to the course. If changes to your course are approved we'll inform you.

Learning and Teaching

The MSc International Management is offered as a one year intensive course.

The course will particularly appeal to those students who want to gain a postgraduate qualification, graduate and progress their career within 12 months.

You will begin the course by learning core information-gathering and presentation skills, including library research and use of web-based resources. You will use in-depth business case studies to learn about the problems of decision making in international organisations and the challenges of working in teams.

You'll learn though formal classes and seminars, as well as through group work and independent study. The work will include assignments, exercises, case studies and presentations, with an emphasis on independent learning to develop your problem-solving skills.

See our glossary of teaching and learning terms.

Study time

This course lasts 12 months. The taught component has an average of 15 hours of teaching scheduled a week. Students are also expected to conduct independent study and prepare for each session to be able to engage in meaningful discussions.

Study support

If you have been out of higher education for a while, we provide skills sessions to help prepare you for studying again as well as sessions for non-native English speakers.

Assessment

Assessment is through supervised mini-projects, presentations, time-constrained assignments and examinations.

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