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Programme Description - MSc International Economics and Finance
The programme aims to produce graduates who understand the fundamentals of finance theory and its interrelationship with international monetary policy. The aim is to produce graduates who aspire to a financial role in private and public sector organisations. The course is primarily aimed at graduates, or those at graduate level, with a pre-dominantly non-financial background but are interested in a management career with a strong emphasis on finance.
Programme Structure- MSc International Economics and Finance
This is a one-year full-time modular MSc programme. It consists of two stages: a taught component and a research dissertation. The programme has been designed to meet the demand for a specialist postgraduate course in finance. A distinctive feature of the programme is that students will be given an international perspective in the role of finance and of monetary policy.
The student pursues a programme of full-time study comprising modules to a credit value of 180 studied over a period of 12 months in Semester 1, Semester 2 and the research semester of a single academic year. Candidates study core taught modules of 50 credits in the first semester. In the second semester they study core taught modules of 20 credits. The research semester will comprise the completion of a 60 credit extended individual project or research dissertation. The student will need to have passed the 120 credits of taught modules before being allowed to proceed to the 60 credit research dissertation.
The taught component of the course comprises 70 credits of compulsory modules and a further 40 credits chosen from a list of optional modules taught within the Newcastle University Business School . The research dissertation (60 credits) is supervised within the Business School .
Compulsory Modules and Dissertation
•NBS8015 (20) Financial Theory and Corporate Policy
•NBS8186 (10) Econometrics I
•NBS8251 (10) Microeconomic Theory
•NBS8252 (10) Macroeconomic Theory
•NBS8257 (10) Empirical Techniques in Research
•NBS8019 (10) Research Methods in International Economics and Finance
•NBS8020 (60) Dissertation
Optional Modules
All candidates shall take at least 20 credits of the following optional modules:
•NBS8018 (10) International Money and Banking
•NBS8249 (10) International Finance
•NBS8256 (10) International Trade
All candidates shall take credits outstanding from the following optional modules. The total number of credits shall be 180.
•NBS8018 (10) International Money and Banking
•NBS8187 (10 ) Econometrics II
•NBS8200 (10) Behavioural Finance
•NBS8202 (20) Financial Derivatives
•NBS8204 (10) Central Banking
•NBS8218 (10) Legal & Regulatory Aspects of Banking Supervision
•NBS8219 (10) Legal & Regulatory Aspects of Money Laundering & Financial Crime
•NBS8249 (10) International Finance
•NBS8256 (10) International Trade |
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