International Management - MSc/Postgraduate Diploma/Postgraduate Certificate

The Postgraduate Certificate is made up of four of the seven core modules detailed below.

Core modules

• People and Organisations in an International Context explores the challenges, tensions and issues involved in the complex relationships between people and organisations.
• Strategic Analysis allows you to become familiar with economics and strategy terminology and develop an understanding of strategic analysis and practice.
• Delivering Customer Requirements introduces you to marketing and operations management knowledge in the context of understanding customers. We'll look at how to fulfil customers' requirements in ways that give greatest value to both the customers and the organisation.
• Managing Finance develops your understanding of the principles and techniques of information management and managing finance to support decision making in a global context.
• International Management focuses on the management challenges associated with developing strategies and managing the operations of companies whose activities stretch across national boundaries.
• Globalisation focuses on the concepts, structures and dynamics of globalisation, and problems and perspectives of global capitalism.

The Postgraduate Diploma is made up of the remaining core module and two additional option modules.

Option modules*

• Leadership
• Project Management
• Asian Management
• Global Marketing
• Digital Business Information Systems

* The availability of option modules is subject to demand.

Masters

• Dissertation: International Management - if you are going on to the full Masters, you will also write a dissertation and study the following module:
• Management Research provides you with the research training sufficient to plan, undertake and manage effectively a dissertation.

Your dissertation 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.

Previous dissertation topics include:

• Theories and Determinants of Capital Structure. Evidence from UK Panel Data
• A Critical Analysis of the Perceptions of Employees from Kenya, Tanzania and Ghana on Corporate Social Responsibility
• Website Quality An Assessment Tool Proposal

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 will inform you.

You will begin 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.

For more details see our glossary of teaching and learning terms.

This course lasts 12 months, with an average of 15 hours of teaching scheduled a week.

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

For more details see our full glossary of assessment terms.