Course overview
You cultivate essential knowledge and insights into the global marketplace, master key international business practices, excel in cross-cultural leadership, and learn to expand operations on a global scale.
The modules are uniquely developed to enable you to tackle the pressing challenges facing international businesses today, including sustainability, technological innovation, and strategic change management. Gain the skills and mindset to nurture entrepreneurship and drive impactful solutions, addressing society's critical challenges.
* Subject to University approval
Course details
Course structure
Core modules
Emerging Issues in Business and Society
We live in a rapidly changing world, presenting many opportunities and challenges for business and society. Draw on thought leadership from a mix of disciplines such as business, marketing, social sciences and the humanities. Given the dynamic nature of the global business environment, you also study what’s happening in the world right now. You take a critical approach to your research within a wider theoretical and contextual base.
Understand the relationship between the University or your workplace, and your own practice in a collaborative process of generating and using knowledge. Bring together key elements of learning to demonstrate your knowledge and understanding of practice in a work-based project. The composition, content and context of your project is unique to you. It’s a great opportunity to reflect on your practice to show continual learning and development.
Get an insight into how organisations can tap into the knowledge of their increasingly skilled workforce. And understand the impact of cultural differences on individuals and organisations.
Reflect critically and creatively to support your own leadership development. Examine responsibility, accountability and sustainability and take a proactive approach to developing your own leadership competencies, behaviours and attributes. In a dynamic business landscape, you need to take a creative, developmental and compassionate approach as a leader, to make sure your organisation is sustainable, innovative and agile.
As the global business environment becomes more complex and volatile, organisations must think and act more entrepreneurially, innovatively, and creatively, to change and adapt. Explore strategic theories, tools and concepts relating to the external environment’s impact on strategic challenges and choices. Apply a variety of academic and practical material to your own organisation, or a live case organisation appreciate the importance of developing and implementing strategic plans for the success of your organisation, its key stakeholders and society.
Modules offered may vary.
How you learn
Experience the convenience and flexibility of online learning, where you can earn a university-level qualification from the comfort of your own home or workplace. You benefit from world-class teaching and comprehensive support, with all lectures, tutorials, and assessments being conducted online.
Through dynamic online discussions and debates, you tackle real-world strategic challenges in marketing, leveraging creative dialogue and invaluable industry insights. Our unique Virtual Learning Environment (VLE) encourages collaboration with organisations on international, national, and regional scales.
How you are assessed
You are assessed on your subject-specific knowledge, cognitive and intellectual skills and transferable workplace skills through ongoing formative assessments and a final summative assessment.
Entry requirements
At least a 2:2 honours degree, professional qualification or equivalent experience.
For EU and international students an IELTS score (or equivalent) of 6.0.
For general information please see our overview of entry requirements
Employability
Career opportunities
You graduate with the knowledge, experience and confidence to succeed in a management role on a global scale. You develop a unique mix of skills to work in roles including global strategic management, leadership and management, strategic marketing management, operations and finance, or setting up your own business.
Learning platform
Our virtual learning environment (VLE) is the platform you use to access your online course
Teesside University online learning courses are delivered through the Brightspace Learning Environment.
Here are some of the benefits.
- You can use it on your smartphone, tablet and computer.
- And you can use it anytime, so that you can plan your learning to fit your own schedule.
- It's easy to use and navigate.
- Modules are set out by topics and themes. You can use the progress bar to understand where you are in your modules, and appreciate your achievements.
- We support you to become familiar with your VLE, helping you to start learning quickly.
- You get feedback, help and guidance from tutors throughout your course through the VLE, and you can ask questions at any time.
- Our tutors use a live activity feed to keep you updated about your course.
- You can create a student profile, collaborate with other students and take part in online discussion forums.
