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• Year one

Overview

In the first semester, you will learn about theory and principles underpinning strategic management, as well as the linkages between major business functions and their role in international business and commerce. You’ll study a range of organisations to gain a practical understanding of how they manage their resources and operations, recruit and develop staff, set and monitor budgets, and adapt to change.

We’ll cover the basic principles of marketing – where students will have the opportunity to discuss and analyse key managerial decisions on formulating and executing international marketing activities by developing their knowledge and skills of marketing concepts including environmental analysis, buying behaviour, strategic market segmentation and more. This will be done through active case studies and practical examples.

In the second semester, you have an opportunity to tailor your studies to suit your interests or career aspirations. You may wish to delve deeper into the principles and application of human resource management in the international context or the complexity of Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems and how to implement and manage such systems effectively within the options of international human resource management or business process integration respectively. Within the core modules, we will learn about international leadership and management, global markets and entry strategies, international trade management, research methods as well as undertake workshops for the CMI module for which students can gain accreditation and a certificate in professional consultancy.

In your final semester, you can choose to spend time on a company internship, typically lasting eight to 12 weeks. In the past, we have supported students to take on business and product development roles in companies in the UK such as Aston Martin, Jaguar Land Rover to mention a few. There is also a further option of undertaking a self-organised placement or going through the normal dissertation route.

This course includes the Professional Development Module. Each of the participating postgraduate courses have an individually tailored version of the Chartered Management Institute (CMI) Professional Development module.

Without professional experience option

Semester 1

• Quantitative Methods for Finance
• Equity Investment Using Thompson-Reuters Eikon
• Derivatives
• The Foreign Exchange Market

Semester 2

• Fund Management
• Bond Market Analysis Using Bloomberg
• Governance, Accountability and Ethics
• Behavioural Finance

Semester 3

• Project
• Global Professional Development – Consultancy

With professional experience option

The professional experience opportunity enables you to apply for optional professional experience in semester 1, which, upon successfully securing a opportunity, will extend the duration of your Masters to 24 months. The placement provides an opportunity for you to develop expertise and experience in your chosen field with the aim of enhancing your employability upon graduation.

Please note that the optional professional experience modules incur an additional tuition fee of £4,000. Professional experience opportunities may also be subject to additional costs, visa requirements being met, subject to availability and/or competitive application. Professional experience opportunities are not guaranteed,but you will benefit from the support of our employability and placements team in trying to find and secure an opportunity.

Semester 1

• Quantitative Methods for Finance
• Equity Investment Using Thompson-Reuters Eikon
• Derivatives
• The Foreign Exchange Market

Semester 2

• Fund Management
• Bond Market Analysis Using Bloomberg
• Governance, Accountability and Ethics
• Behavioural Finance

Semester 3

• Professional Experience (Part One)

Semester 4

• Professional Experience (Part Two)

Semester 5

• Professional Experience (Part Three)

Semester 6

• Project
• Global Professional Development – Consultancy