Why choose this course?

At the end of the course, students taking the course will be expected to have:

You will have the opportunity to engage with a range of learning approaches during the course of your study.

You will take part in lectures, workshops and seminars. Some of these will be more traditional whereas others will require you to undertake research before coming together to discuss project and programme issues with a range of students and academic staff.

You will have seminars from industry practitioners and have the opportunity to discuss your projects with them to gain real world insight into the problems you are trying to solve.

You will have the opportunity to work in a range of study facilities to develop practical skills and understand the link between the theory and practical implementation of projects and programmes, with a deep understanding of benefits and risks. Throughout the weekly class sessions and through use of the on-line support material, you will obtain skills required to successfully implement and manage a range of diverse projects and programmes with confidence.

Often working on assessment and project briefs you will develop solutions to meet real world problems/requirements in project and programme management and be able to present these to your peers, practitioners and third parties in order to obtain balanced and current feedback.

What happens on the course?

The course will provide professionals from not only technical industries (ranging from IT, through engineering to creative industries) but also business management, public administration and law with opportunities to develop or enhance careers in the strategic management of projects and programmes (groups of related projects that together achieve a beneficial outcome for an organisation, country or other unit).

It has therefore been designed to develop the expertise, skills and strategic management competencies necessary to manage complex projects and programmes to a successful conclusion. It covers classic project and programme management with special focus on team leadership, change management, financial management and the legal frameworks governing the interests of project/programme participants and their responsibilities to society at large.

It is a very much valued feature of this course that students come from a very rich mix of professional backgrounds as it provides an environment for critical analysis of practice and development of networking skills across sectors. Understanding of the processes, systems, methods, and tools of project and programme management are taught by lectures and tutorials whilst their application to real world projects programme is imparted by case studies, seminars, role plays and simulations.

After studying a diet of modules students are able to complete dissertations specific to their own future career aspirations under the supervision of an expert from the course faculty.

Course Modules

• Advanced Project Planning and Control
• Building Information Modelling (Theory and Application)
• Dissertation
• Financial Management of Projects
• Legal Obligations
• Programme Management
• Research Methods and Professional Skills

*Scholarships available for international students.