Course description
Programme
This innovative one year programme is for graduates and professionals who would like to give themselves a competitive edge in today's international job market. Students gain an advanced knowledge of business and management principles, through both practical application and challenging theory. The programme begins with a number of core modules designed to reinforce key business and management fundamentals. These are followed by a choice of electives aimed at developing strategic management skills in relation to specialist areas such as marketing, entrepreneurship or accounting.
Following an induction week, students study four core (compulsory) modules covering essential key themes in business and management:
-Critical Perspectives in Global Management
-Accounting for Managers
-Organisational Context and Analysis
-International Strategic Management, Markets and Resources.
During Semester Two, students study one compulsory module - Research Methodology - plus three elective modules which may include:
-International Marketing and Ethics
-European Business in a Globalised Context
-International Human Resource Management
-Managing E-business in a Global Economy
-International Finance
-Globalisation
-Entrepreneurial Organisations
-Strategic and Financial Decision Making
-Business Ethics, Environment and Society
-International Trade
-Managing integrated Marketing Communications
-Knowledge Management in a Globalised Context.
The final stage is the dissertation, a detailed piece of written research with an international focus, on a business/management topic of your choice.