Master in Management of Global Financial Services FT Sem 1

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• Objectives
  This MSc focuses on providing academic experience with a strong emphasis on development of the knowledge and capabilities appropriate to the rapidly changing global financial services environment. The course enhances your learning experience on how financial institutions operate and manage their services and resources. You will have an opportunity to develop skills required to add value to banking and non-banking organisations and to address the issue of management within a financial services context.
• Entry requirements
  You should normally possess a good knowledge of business and finance at undergraduate level, therefore, you must hold at least a Second Class degree or equivalent in the area of business and finance (ie Bachelors degree in business, finance, accounting or management). You must be able to speak and write English fluently. If you are a non-native English speaker you will have to achieve at least 6.5 in IELTS, 600 in TOEFL (paper based) or 250 in TOEFL (computer based) or an equivalent from a well established higher education organisation. Exemptions will be made if you have successfully completed a significant part of your studies in English.
• Academic title
  MSc in Management of Global Financial Services FT Sem 1
• Course description
  Course Content
  
  You receive different lectures and workshops
  that cover specific subject areas relating to
  the management of financial services within
  both the national and international contexts.
  The themes covered consider the various
  financial institutions of different sizes (small,
  medium and large) and the risk involved
  in managing their financial resources. On
  finishing the course, you will be educated to
  deal with complex business environments in
  order to respond positively to market needs.
  
  Core modules
  - Contemporary Issues in Management of Financial Services
  - Dissertation (Research Project)
  
  – including Research Methods and PDP Part 2
  - Financial Institutions and Markets
  - Financial Services Management
  and Marketing
  - Global Corporate Finance
  - International Finance
  - Management of Financial Exposure
  - Management of International Services
  - Research Methods and Personal
  
  Development Part 1
  
  Teaching and Assessment
  The delivery of the modules will draw upon two main different
  learning approaches: face to face and online teaching methods.
  The face to face teaching will take the form of lectures and
  seminars. The lectures provide you with key opportunities to
  develop your ‘critical thinking’ of the subject, to provide the
  framework for your independent study and to reinforce what
  you have already learnt. Seminars are designed to enable you
  to seek clarification of material covered in the lectures and
  practice the management tools employed within the financial
  services industry using case studies, open discussions and
  other forms of learning. The Blackboard system will be used
  to support delivery of this programme. The system allows
  you to practice online exercises, to have access to various
  case studies and to test your knowledge of the subject using
  online assessments.
  
  The purpose of the assessment strategy is to provide both
  formative guidance and summative assessment at Masters level.
  The assessment criteria of the modules embody this learning
  approach, as they test personal evaluation skills as well as
  the ability to work collaboratively in applying knowledge and
  techniques. The research methods and final project module
  integrates the learning cycle, giving you responsibility on
  a specific project, where the aim and the correspondent
  assessment criteria are to reach a professional level in
  researching, self developing and reporting.
  
  Associated Careers
  You are expected to develop career management skills
  in parallel to the educational skills. The aim is to prepare
  graduates with positive and critical way of thinking towards
  leadership. There is high emphasis on self-awareness, planning,
  leadership, negotiation, decision-making, communication and
  dealing with uncertainty. Graduates are expected to be able to
  transfer these skills to the employing organisation.
  

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