Human Resourse Degrees

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The course comprises eight modules:
Managing Resources in a Strategic Context
Managing People for Results
People Management and Resourcing: Issues and Contexts
Learning and Development
Employment Relations
The Reflective Practitioner
Consultancy, Skills and Change
Choice of modules: either Managing Diversity or Labour Law

On the first stage of the course, you will be studying the CIPD-accredited Leadership and Management Standards. This is taught in one semester (in two modules). This provides you with an understanding of the context of human resource management practice and the skills required by a professional practitioner. Successful candidates will gain CIPD’s Leadership and Management field and Licentiate status within the Institute.

The second stage of the course then builds on this foundation to develop expertise in more general areas of human resource management. It also develops skills for acting as an adviser or consultant to decision-makers in the organisation. This involves a practical in-company investigative project, culminating in a management report (7,500 words in length). Full-time students undertake a period of in-company placement for this work. Please be aware that you are responsible for finding your own placement.
Assessment

The University is a CIPD-accredited centre. This means that the course is assessed by a combination of coursework and examination, set and assessed internally by the University.
Career opportunities

Students who obtain this postgraduate diploma move directly to Graduateship of the CIPD. Progression may be available to the MA Employment Studies and Human Resource Management. Which can be successfully completed after one further year of part-time study.

The course provides aspiring and current practitioners in the expanding area of human resource management with the professional education, development and skills to enable you to build your career. You may proceed to a career as a professional practitioner in personnel management, training and development, or industrial relations.

The University’s provision in Business and Management was rated ‘Excellent’ in recent subject reviews by the Quality Assurance Agency for Higher Education. The course meets the requirements of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD) for Graduate status.
Entry requirements

You should have a university degree (2.2). Individuals without this qualification but with an HND/C in an appropriate discipline or a CIPD qualification such as a CPP or CTP may also be admitted. Exceptionally, appropriate and significant experience in HR may be considered.

The course consists of seven modules plus a dissertation and residential component. The modules are:
Managing Resources in Context
Managing People for Results
Personnel Management: Issues and Contexts
Learning and Development
Employment Relations
Research Methods
Reward Management

On the first semester of the course, you will be studying the CIPD – accredited Leadership and Management Standards. This provides you with an understanding of the context of human resource management practice, and the skills required by a professional practitioner.

The dissertation is usually around 15,000 words.

During the course you will also participate in an international study visit to another EU country (previous residentials have been held in France). It will normally be of about six days’ duration. The week consists of visits to organisations, presentations from practitioners, and seminars and discussions on relevant issues. You will be required to complete an assignment about the study visit.

In addition, Year One includes a compulsory weekend residential at the beginning of the course to examine and practice the skills you will need throughout the rest of the course. There are a number of other compulsory one-day workshops throughout the course.

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Assessment

Assessment methods include assignments written in report format, comparative analyses, learning contracts and logs, presentations, group work and exams. There will also be a record of continuing professional development, and a dissertation.
Career opportunities

Successful completion of this Masters degree (or the Postgraduate Diploma) provides Graduate Membership of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development, and prepares you for careers in a wide variety of industries. Successful completion of the two modules in the first semester of the course leads to an Advanced Diploma in Professional Development and Licentiate Membership of the CIPD.

The two-year part-time Executive-style MA in Human Resource Management is aimed at practising human resource professionals seeking to develop their knowledge, skills and understanding of human resource activities. The aim of the course is to develop ‘thinking HR performers’ by providing a systematic understanding of people management and development, and a critical awareness of current problems and/or new insights, much of which is at, or informed by, the forefront of human resource management and practice. The MA in Human Resource Management is designed for HRM generalists and is intended to enable you to identify and make effective use of a range of methods and techniques for providing human resources for an organisation and ensuring their optimum utilisation.
Entry requirements

You should possess a lower second degree or above, or an equivalent professional qualification or have considerable relevant professional experience and be in an appropriate human resources job role. All applicants who meet the requirements are invited along to an interview, where they will be asked to demonstrate that they have the required intellectual ability; sufficient prior experience of HR, and the ability to learn independently, and contribute to others’ learning.

The course consists of six modules and a dissertation.
Core modules:
Consultancy Skills for HR
Organisation Dynamics and Change
Research Methods
Strategic Human Resources
Strategic Management
International Personnel and Development

The dissertation comprises a 15,000-word organisation research project and report.
Assessment

You are assessed using a range of methods: essays, seminar leading, group project presentations, writing portfolios, research papers, as well as assessment and evaluation by your peers, together with the dissertation.
Career opportunities

On graduation you can apply for a transfer to MPhil/PhD. A number of our graduates have moved into consultancy and others have found advancement in senior HR posts as a result of the course.

This course is designed for experienced senior managers and human resource professionals who wish to contribute more effectively to the strategic management and human resource development of an organisation. It will be of particular interest if you are currently working within or consulting for an organisation undergoing major structural or cultural change.

The course will enable you to:
formulate and implement a business strategy through exposure to various approaches to strategic management and use of appropriate analytical tools and frameworks
take a strategic approach to the management and development of human resources
gain a broad awareness of human resource strategies in an international context
develop an understanding of the processes and skills involved in operating in a consultancy role for a client organisation in respect of human resource interventions and the management of change
develop a rigorous approach as a practitioner to research activities and methodological issues
A special feature of the course is a residential module in a mainland European city, which allows you to develop your diagnostic skills about HR and change issues in a European context.
The course covers all of the advanced practitioner standards of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD).
Entry requirements

Applicants should possess a degree or equivalent qualification in a human resources related field, and have at least three years’ practitioner experience at managerial level, and have a job role affording access to senior management, and opportunities to influence strategic processes. In exceptional circumstances candidates can access the course on the basis of significant prior experiential learning.

The course comprises nine modules, including three core modules, three options and a triple-module dissertation.
The core modules are:
History and Theory of Human Rights
Human Rights in UK and International Law
Legal Research Methodology
Options are chosen from a list including:
Human Rights and Criminal Justice
Women, Gender and Human Rights
Human Rights and Labour Rights
Refugees and Human Rights
International Children’s Rights
Human Rights in the Digital Age
European Convention on Human Rights Parts I & II (including Moot Court)
Litigation at the European Court of Human Rights (Clinical module)

One option may be taken following discussion with the course director as a free module from another of our courses.

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Assessment

Assessment methods will be a range of unseen, take-home and open-book examinations, and various forms of coursework and assessed seminar performance.
Career opportunities

There are excellent career prospects for those engaged in human rights law. You can also progress to an MPhil or PhD. The course has Law Society Continuing Professional Development (CPD) accreditation – Ref: CPB/LOMU.

The LLM in Human Rights offers a rigorous and challenging course, taught by human rights scholars and practitioners, and linked to significant human rights practice based in the University. It provides you with:
a contextual and critical knowledge of international and domestic human rights law, based on a thorough understanding of both theory and practice
compulsory modules in the history and theory of human rights, human rights in international and UK law, and legal research methodology, and a choice from a wide range of options specialising in specific areas. A substantial dissertation is a crucial part of the course
an overview and critical awareness of the difficult operational environment in which domestic and international human rights standards are created and enforced.

The course also provides you with generic skills and abilities in:
researching, handling and interpreting information
recognising and examining critically international and domestic human rights laws, instruments and mechanisms
structuring and organising documented material
sustaining and structuring arguments in the pursuit of a dissertation.

The mode of delivery is student-centred and interactive. Primary source material will be introduced in workshops as part of problem-solving exercises. You will have the opportunity of applying the Human Rights Act 1998 and international human rights instruments to specific conceptual problems and real-life conflicts.

The course will be of particular interest to those with academic and practical interests in human rights and its international and domestic dimensions from the UK, the EU and the world as a whole.
Entry requirements

A good Honours degree in law, or possibly another appropriate field. The course also welcomes candidates whose applications demonstrate suitable levels of experience (especially fieldwork), and the ability to work to the academic standard required by this postgraduate course.