MSc Research in Business and Management(Part-Time) (not recruiting in 2017/18)

Year 1

Learning outcomes

On completion of the programme students should have shown evidence of being able to:

- demonstrate in-depth, extended or specialist knowledge of the state of the art in research methods relevant to management and business;
- exhibit competence in the exercise of advanced generic and subject-specific intellectual abilities;
- demonstrate an advanced understanding of techniques applicable to their own research or advanced scholarship;
- take a proactive and self-reflective role in working and to develop professional relationships;
- proactively formulate ideas and hypotheses and to evaluate these;
- evaluate critically current issues and research in specific areas of management and business;
- demonstrate a critical understanding of the philosophical challenges underlying social science research and those posed by inter-disciplinary research;
- evaluate the dominant ideas and models concerning the role of researchers;
- demonstrate good awareness of current debates and controversies in a chosen area of management and business research.

Transferable (key) skills

Masters students will have had the opportunity to acquire the following abilities as defined in the modules specified for the programme:

- the skills necessary to undertake a higher research degree and/or for employment in a higher capacity in industry or area of professional practice;
- evaluating their own achievement and that of others;
- self direction and effective decision making in complex and unpredictable situations;
- independent learning and the ability to work in a way which ensures continuing professional development;
- critical engagement in the development of professional/disciplinary boundaries and norms.

Assessment

Achievement for the degree of Master will be assessed by a variety of methods in accordance with the learning outcomes of the modules specified for the year/programme and will involve the achievement of the students in:

- evidencing an ability to conduct independent in-depth enquiry within the discipline;
- demonstrating the ability to apply breadth and/or depth of knowledge to a complex specialist area;
- drawing on a range of perspectives on an area of study;
- evaluating and criticising received opinion;
- making reasoned judgements whilst understanding the limitations on judgements made in the absence of complete data.