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This programme is specially designed, with a flexible, user-friendly structure, for students who wish to acquire knowledge, understanding, and skills necessary to proceed to careers in an international organisation, who would like to enhance their language and communication skills for professional communication in cross-cultural contexts.
Main features of the programme
•Enhancing international employability
•Raising cross-cultural awareness
•Combination of knowledge-based & skill-oriented training
•Focus on communication: written/ oral /interpersonal
•Jointly taught by staff from the School of Education, Communication and Language Sciences and the Business School
Programme structure
All candidates must complete 180 credits. This includes:
Compulsory modules (90 credits)
•Research Portfolio (60 credits)
•Language and Cross Cultural Communication (20 credits)
•Developing and Implementing Corporate Strategy (10 credits)
Optional modules - Language and Communication (40 credits)
•Social Psychology of Communication (20 credits)
•Sociolinguistics (20 credits)
•English in the world: Global and Cross-Cultural Issues surrounding English as a Lingua Franca (20 credits)
•Culture, Interculturality and Identity (20 credits)
Optional modules - Management (50 credits)
•rinciples of Marketing (10 credits)
•Organisational Learning (10 credits)
•Managerial Economics and Organisational Architecture (10 credits)
•The Sociology and History of Technology (10 credits)
•Information Systems Management (10 credits)
•Exploring E-Business (10 credits)
•Introduction to Operations Management (10 credits)
•Managing Innovation in the Risk Society: An International Perspective (10 credits)
•Marketing (10 credits)
•Management and New Media (10 credits)
•Managing Across Culture (10 credits)
•erformance and Decision Management (10 credits)
•Analysis of Company Accounts (10 credits)
•erformance and Decision Making (Semester 2) (10 credits)
Please note that modules offered and module content is subject to change
Assessment is by course work (examinations, oral presentations and submitted work) and the research portfolio. The research portfolio (60 credits) is different from a conventional dissertation. It consists of a set of country files, where you discuss the core cultural values of a target country and their implications for cross-cultural |
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