Overview
Status: Active
National Framework Of Qualifications (NFQ) Level: 9
NFQ Award Class: Major Award
Duration Full Time: 1 Academic Year(s)
Duration Part Time: 2 Academic Year(s)
Total Credits: 90
Delivery Method: In-Person
Connected Curriculum: - Employability
- Global Reach
- Research Based Teaching
- Sustainability
Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs): - Responsible Consumption and Production
- Decent Work and Economic Growth
- Industry, Innovation, and Infrastructure
Graduate Attributes: - Creator, evaluator and communicator of knowledge
- Digitally Fluent
- Effective global citizen
- Independent and creative thinker
- Socially Responsible
Work-Integrated Learning (Including Placement): No
The MSc in International Sustainable Business may be taken full-time over 12 months or part-time over 24 months from the date of first registration for the programme.
Exit Award
Postgraduate Diploma in International Sustainable Business
Students who pass taught modules to the value of 60 credits in Part I, may opt to exit the programme and be conferred with a Postgraduate Diploma in International Sustainable Business (NFQ Level 9, Major Award).
Programme Requirements
For information about modules, module choice, options and credit weightings, please go to Programme Requirements.
Programme Requirements
Full-Time
Module List
| Code |
Title |
Credits |
| |
| |
| BU6012 | Professional Business Skills | 5 |
| BU6013 | Responsible Leadership for a Global World | 5 |
| BU6014 | Global Markets and Trade | 5 |
| BU6015 | Business Research Methods | 5 |
| BU6016 | Quantitative Techniques for Business Research | 5 |
| EC6621 | Strategy for Global Business | 5 |
| FE6305 | Contemporary Socio-Economic and Environmental Issues | 5 |
| MG5005 | Marketing Ethics and Sustainability | 5 |
| 1 | 20 |
| |
| International Business (5) | |
| Growth Strategies for Internationalisation (5) | |
| Innovation and Entrepreneurial Venturing (5) | |
| Corporate Social Responsibility (5) | |
| |
| Environmental Economics and Sustainability Policies (5) | |
| Business Practices for Circular Economies (5) | |
| Sustainable Investment Strategies (5) | |
| Environmental Regulation and Compliance Management (5) | |
| |
| BU6017 | International Sustainable Business Report | 30 |
| Total Credits | 90 |
Part-Time
Module List
| Code |
Title |
Credits |
| |
| |
| BU6012 | Professional Business Skills | 5 |
| BU6016 | Quantitative Techniques for Business Research | 5 |
| EC6621 | Strategy for Global Business | 5 |
| FE6305 | Contemporary Socio-Economic and Environmental Issues | 5 |
| 1 | 10 |
| |
| International Business (5) | |
| Innovation and Entrepreneurial Venturing (5) | |
| |
| Environmental Economics and Sustainability Policies (5) | |
| Business Practices for Circular Economies (5) | |
| |
| BU6013 | Responsible Leadership for a Global World | 5 |
| BU6014 | Global Markets and Trade | 5 |
| BU6015 | Business Research Methods | 5 |
| MG5005 | Marketing Ethics and Sustainability | 5 |
| 1 | 10 |
| |
| Growth Strategies for Internationalisation (5) | |
| Corporate Social Responsibility (5) | |
| |
| Sustainable Investment Strategies (5) | |
| Environmental Regulation and Compliance Management (5) | |
| |
| BU6017 | International Sustainable Business Report | 30 |
| Total Credits | 90 |
Examinations
Full details and regulations governing Examinations for each programme will be contained in the Marks and Standards Book and for each module in the Book of Modules.
Programme Learning Outcomes
Programme Learning Outcomes for the MSc in International Sustainable Business (NFQ Level 9, Major Award)
On successful completion of this programme, students should be able to:
- Communicate and work effectively to a high professional standard.
- Demonstrate advanced analytical and problem solving skills associated with effective practice.
- Engage in advanced application of frameworks and techniques in organisational settings
- Assess key business challenges in the context of global environmental, social and governance issues.
- Critically analyse responsible and ethical approaches to global business practice through an appreciation of the business’s role in addressing UN Sustainable Development Goals.
- Conduct high-quality applied business research using relevant qualitative and/or quantitative techniques.
- Formulate novel sustainable approaches to global business issues through the completion of an applied research project.
- Develop self-awareness and reflective capacity in formulating their own learning goals, needs and core values to be responsible business leaders and creative thinkers.
