The professional module (Major) forms the basis for future professional activity and consists of two parts: the basic professional block and the variable professional block. The basic professional block forms the basis for future professional activity, contributing to the acquisition of comprehensive knowledge in the field of global strategic management and international economy and developing general professional competences of a student in conducting research in management, including the following disciplines:
- Global Strategic Management;
- International Economics;
- Research Methods in International Management.
The Professional Block includes compulsory and elective disciplines. Compulsory disciplines in a number of key areas of management (operations management, marketing, financial management) with a focus on the global nature of international companies, as well as disciplines in new business models in the digital economy and business analytics. Pools of elective disciplines allow students to shape their individual educational trajectories and develop their competences in the various functional areas of management that are of most interest to them in terms of professional and career development.Mandatory disciplines:
- Global Operations Management;
- Marketing in the Digital Economy;
- International Financial Management;
- Digital Transformation and New Business Models;
- Business analytics.
Elective Block 1 (1 of 2):
- Toolkit (Excel, PPT)
- Business valuation
Elective block of disciplines 2 (2 of 3):
- Project Management in International Companies
- Transformational leadership toolkit: enhancing agility through knowledge engineering and conscious learning;
- Practical marketing tools.
The Key Seminar module is designed to design personal learning outcomes and to coordinate learning activities for students' mastery of the education programme. In addition to the common Mentor Seminar aimed at identifying individual learning outcomes and designing individual learning plans for students, this block includes a number of research seminars aimed at providing students with an insight into international best practice and research on various aspects of international management:
- Research Seminar "Corporate Social Responsibility and Sustainability Aspects in International Management";
- Research Seminar "Talent Management";
- Research Seminar "Technology Innovation Management";
- Research Seminar "Skills for Master's Thesis Preparation";
- Project Seminar "Building Successful International Teams".
The module "MagoLego" is aimed at forming additional competences necessary for a student to master the individual curriculum. All the disciplines of the university-wide Master's pool are available for students to choose the disciplines in the module "MagoLego". The practical module forms the student's competences in solving applied problems and conducting research in the field of international management and includes professional and project practice.
Professional practice is implemented through an internship and is aimed at gaining work experience, participation in business processes and projects in international companies and organizations, as well as giving students the opportunity to collect empirical information about international companies for writing the graduate qualification work.
Project-based practice is aimed at providing students with the skills to solve specific applied business or research problems in the field of international management and includes
- management consulting for an international company in the field of strategic business transformation (1st year);
- coursework (1st course);
- Consultancy project (2nd year);
- Preparation of the final qualification work (2nd year).
The State Final Attestation (SFA) module includes the defence of the student's final qualification work and allows assessing the degree of achievement of the educational programme results.