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The award builds on your existing business expertise and develops your understanding of a range of core business disciplines including international competitiveness, human resources and international strategic management It will enhance your understanding of a range of core business disciplines and how they relate to an international business environment Its range of specialist option modules will allow you to tailor part of your programme to reflect your personal and professional interests Teaching methods include formal lectures, incorporating guest speakers from industry and business, group seminars and workshops

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This course focuses on the essential skills of the HR professional including managing people and activities and learning and development Study the latest HRD principles and practices Form close professional links with organisations from the public, private and not-for-profit sectors ensure our programmes deliver the knowledge and skills demanded Our devolved status from the CIPD allows us to internally assess all our professional HR programmes - you can study for a professional qualification that leads to membership of the CIPD The course features a distinctive international residential

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This course provides a comprehensive research training programme enabling you to gain high-level research skills, equipping you for further study at MPhil and PhD level, or for a range of professional careers in the knowledge economy. The emphasis of the course is the development of critical thinking skills and their application to concrete research problems and issues.

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Research at the School of Art and Design, both theoretical and practice-led, is studied within CADRE the University's Centre for Art, Design, Research and Experimentation, and focuses on new technologies and social engagement, the crafts and studio-based areas of fine art, visual communication, experimental time-based media, performativity, and representation. From the social interaction inherent in new media technologies, the theory and practice of cultural agency, experiments in dialogic collaborations for curation, to exploratory material processes for performative objects - the Research Centre investigates a broad range of artistic practices that influence the way we think, feel and behave.

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The Masters course in Language and Information Processing is aimed at students from linguistics, computational linguistics, translation, languages, computer science and mathematics backgrounds. The duration of the course is 12 months full-time (or 2-4 years part-time) and it gives students valuable hands-on experience through lab-based practical sessions as well as a solid theoretical grounding via lectures.

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The focus of postgraduate study in Design and Applied Arts is to consider your current and past practice and recognise the opportunities that exist for research, material investigation and professional development. The aim is to provide a framework that will guide your enquiry within your subject specialism.

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The Course aims to: · Provide you with exciting and diverse opportunities to advance and develop your fine art practice, contextual awareness and theoretical knowledge/understanding within a supportive and creative environment. · Support you to acquire advanced specialist knowledge and practical experience of working with different contemporary fine art media and its conceptual and theoretical relevance, and importance, including (but not limited to); painting and sculpture, printmaking, conceptual and social practices, intervention, performance, film, video, photography (digital and analogue), sound art, new-media, digital-media and installation. · Enable you to develop an advanced level of fine art practice informed directly by a relevant theoretical and contextual framework and independently critically evaluate developments within your individual working practice. · Produce informed independent fine art practitioners who can adapt their knowledge, understanding and skills for a variety of professional contexts and enable you to gain advanced knowledge of presentational strategies within contemporary fine art. · Build advanced strategies for research through an in-depth exploration of different contemporary methodologies. This course draws on the School's considerable research reputation and professional expertise in the areas of painting, photography, performance, film and video, sculpture, installations, public art and print-making.

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This exciting course focuses on the creative approach important to you, allow you to develop your interests and expertise in your preferred area within digital media and visual communications. You will enjoy the support and guidance of our staff of artists and designers.

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The award provides the opportunity for existing practitioners in the voluntary and public sectors, or those seeking a career in these sectors to understand welfare reform It provides opportunities to enhance knowledge and understanding of the sectors in a rapidly changing political and economic climate The course gives you the chance to critically reflect on policy and practices encountered in your working life, and to exchange ideas with a view to developing and improving practice It helps prepare you for high-level practice and understanding, focusing on knowledge, policy dynamics and the articulation of problems, as well as identifying practice-related solutions The course aims to enhance the development of skills and knowledge useful to both employers and current prospective employees in the voluntary and public sectors across the region. The course is ideal for existing practitioners or graduates who wish to move into the voluntary and public sectors The course is particularly relevant to enhancing the career prospects of voluntary sector workers and managers, healthcare professionals, researchers, local government employees and further education professionals Successful completion of the MA degree is appropriate preparation for doctoral research in these fields You will gain:- knowledge and critical understanding of the voluntary and public sectors awareness of the impact of policies upon practice expertise in research analysis and presentation skills, as well as a theoretical, reflective and in-depth understanding of key issues effective communication to a range of audiences "I would recommend the MA VAPS to anyone who wants to give themselves the edge in our line of study.

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This innovative course introduces you to advanced level study of the various aspects of popular culture; principally that produced and consumed in Britain since the late nineteenth century The programme consists of a broad range of modules from a number of academic disciplines, including History, English, Sociology, Cultural Studies, Religious Studies, and Film Studies All modules are taught by experts in their respective fields, and informed by research at the forefront of the various disciplines. For your own independent research into popular culture, we can also offer supervision in a wide range of areas and approaches You will experience a variety of teaching methods with a high level of input from students on the course.

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