Teaching & modules
Modules
Courses are divided into modules. You will normally take modules totalling 180 credits. For part-time, you will normally take modules totalling 60 credits in year 1 and 120 credits in year 2.
Required Modules
You are required to take the following modules. For part-time, you will take four required taught modules (60 credits) during your first year, and three required taught modules (45 modules) and the dissertation (60 credits) during your second year.
- The Foundations of Human Resource Management: Strategy and Conceptualisations (15 credits)
- Research Methods in Human Resource Management and Organisational Analysis (15 credits)
- Enabling Strategic Organisational Transformation: The role of HRM (15 credits)
- Globalisation and Employment (15 credits)
- The New Workforce: Issues and Challenges (15 credits)
- Managing Diversity: Contemporary Issues (15 credits)
- High Performance and Employee Wellbeing (15 credits)
- Project (60 credits)
Optional Modules
In addition, you are required to take 15 credits from optional modules. For part-time, you are required to take 15 credits from optional modules in year two.
They may typically include:
Teaching methods - what to expect
We use lectures, seminars and group tutorials to deliver most of the modules on the course. You will also be expected to undertake a significant amount of independent study.
The total contact time for each 15-credit taught module is typically 20-30 hours. These sessions will include lectures, teacher-led and student-led group discussions based on the main areas of study. Each 15-credit taught module also has approximately 120-130 hours of self-guided learning time.
We will use a delivery method that will ensure students have a rich, exciting experience from the start. Face to face teaching will be complemented and supported with innovative technology so that students also experience elements of digital learning and assessment.
Assessment
- Written Examinations
- Coursework
- Individual or Group Projects
- Presentations
- Case studies
- Multiple-choice tests