This programme offers students a flexible, contemporary, and integrated business and management education covering key disciplines and operational areas of business with a specific focus on the international dimensions of business and management. The curriculum aims to challenge students in their ways of thinking, behaving, and learning, covering critical business issues of change and complexity, ethics and ethical decision-making, sustainability and global citizenship within their disciplinary context. Student learning is grounded in the external context wherever appropriate through, for example, external speakers, assessment that provides opportunities for students to test out concepts in practice and incorporation of reflections on own experience of organisations.
General Entry Criteria
• A related MNQF level 6 qualification
Core Modules
Year 1
Business Project
Business Project in Theory
Enterprise Project
(Students must take 30 credits within this compulsory module group.
The Enterprise Project (UMCD9Q-30-3) modules is a barred combination with both the Business Project in Theory (UMCDVE-15-3) and the Business Project (UMCDVF-15-3) modules.
The Business Project in Theory (UMCDVE-15-3) module is a co-requisite to the Business Project (UMCDVF-15-3) module. All projects must be in the field of international business.)
Compulsory modules
Academic and Professional Development
Business Strategy
Integrated Business Management Simulation
Managing Organizational Change
Multinationals in the Domestic and
Optional Modules (Choose one)
Doing Business in Asia
International Human Resource Management
International Marketing Communications
The Economics of Developing Countries
Virtual Business
The programme aims to enable students to:
Acquire a critical understanding of organisations, their management, and the changing global environment in which they operate.
Be equipped with the employability attributes and skills necessary for careers in international business and management
Develop an analytical and enquiring approach in the analysis of business problems so that considered and appropriate conclusions are drawn – which can be communicated effectively in a variety of forms
Have an informed understanding of critical contemporary business issues and theoretical debates, including ethics and ethical decision-making, sustainability, and global citizenship Work with academic theory in practice
On the successful completion of this programme participants will be able to have:
Knowledge and Understanding of;
The global business environment
Key functional areas of business and management business areas, such as marketing, accounting, human resources, strategy and operations management
How aspects of business and management interrelate and affect overall organisational performance
Current issues and priorities in contemporary management including entrepreneurship, change management and sustainability, ethics and corporate social responsibility
Theory, practice, controversies, and challenges associated with the conduct of international business and management
Intellectual Skills;
Identify and analyse business and management problems utilizing appropriate concepts, models, and frameworks
Ability to gather, critically evaluate and apply information, data and evidence from a range of resources
Analysis and critical thinking skills to develop informed arguments and propose evidence-based recommendations in defined contexts
Ability to express ideas and solutions to problems fluently in a manner appropriate to the needs of diverse audiences and in a variety of formats
Design, execute and evaluate ethical research into business and management issues
Subject/Professional Practice Skills;
Effective use of a range of ICT tools
Work effectively as a member of a team to achieve goals within time constraints and utilise the contributions of individual group members
Ability to recognize and address a range of ethical dilemmas, applying the principles of ethical management to a range of situations and choices
Transferable skills and other attributes;
Self-awareness and reflectivity in practice
Ability to articulate and apply knowledge and skills gained during their studies to support their ongoing personal development
Ability to apply the principles of ethical management
Understanding of the value of diversity and global outlook