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• Objectives
  The MA in Management allows you to look at broader management issues. It is the most general of the MA programmes offered within the Business School and provides a theoretically grounded coverage of key conceptual and practical developments across a wider range of management disciplines, including marketing, human resource management, finance and accounting, and corporate strategy. The programme acts as a sound basis for a variety of management or management-related careers.
• Academic title
  MA Management
• Course description
  Key facts
  
  -The Business School is a leading UK centre for management education, and is ranked seventh in the UK in the 2007 Times Good University Guide.
  -We regularly review and update our MA programmes to ensure that their content is relevant to the changing global business environment.
  
  Course Content
  
  You will study the following core module in order to develop your knowledge and skills relating to Management:
  
  -Research Method
  
  In addition, you will be able to choose from a broad range of elective modules:
  
  Two from:
  
  -Corporate Financial Strategy
  -Managerial Economics
  -Managing Organisation
  
  Four from:
  
  -Capital Market Analysis
  -Corporate Governance
  -Corporate Risk
  -Corporate Strategy
  -Destination Management
  -East Asian Business and Society
  -Fixed Interest Investmen
  -Industrial Economics
  -International Finance
  -International Marketing
  -Management Information Systems
  -Managing International Business in China
  -Marketing Communications
  -Product Market Strategies
  -Strategic Human Resource Management
  -Corporate Social Responsibility
  -Understanding Buyer Behaviour
  -Venture Capital and Corporate Restructuring
  
  Please note that all module details are subject to change.
  
  Over the summer period towards the end of the course, you will undertake a 60-credit supervised 20,000-word dissertation on a subject of your choice relating to Management.
  
  The supervised dissertation allows you to develop your own independent research using concepts and techniques from the theoretical and methodological modules.
  
  Course Structure
  The MA in Management is taught on a full-time basis over one year.During this time, you must accumulate 180 credits to qualify for the award of MA.120 credits come from modules taught and examined during two 15-week semesters.
  
  Each taught module typically consists of ten 2 or 3 hour sessions. Assessment is a combination of individual essay or group project and written examination
  
  The remaining 60 credits of this course are allocated to an independent dissertation, which is completed over the summer period for submission in September.
  

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