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Postgraduate Certificate - Full time - February 2024
Course starts: 19 February 2024Apply now
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Students must apply via one of the following online application forms:-
Postgraduate Certificate - Full time - February 2024
Course starts: 19 February 2024Apply now
Study employer-led modules. Focus on your personal development in key areas of People Management and Learning and Development. Progress onto an MSc in HRM.
The Certificate and Diploma in Human Resources Management, Level 7 stand-alone courses have been designed to develop relevant and essential knowledge and skills in People Management and Learning and Development and are a route into professional membership of the CIPD.
At Sunderland, we focus on problem-solving ability and linking theory to real-world challenges. As part of this, you will visit UK companies and also learn from guest speakers who share their practical business experience. HR practitioners work with our academic team to deliver events and workshops that will help prepare you to become a part of the HRM professional community. The networks you develop will become invaluable to you when you graduate and embark on your career in a senior role in human resource management.
Attainment of the Certificate and/or Diploma in Human Resources Management is on successful achievement of the following credits attributed to the modules of study:
Postgraduate Certificate in Human Resource Management (60 credits)
Postgraduate Diploma Human Resource Management (120 credits)
The stand-alone courses provide a pathway to achievement of an MSc HRM (180 credits)
All modules are at postgraduate level (level 7 in the UK’s national scheme).
Throughout the course we encourage you to develop a strong sense of self-awareness and of your own strengths and weaknesses as managers and colleagues. You will be working on the development of skills to improve and develop a range of definable skills that are pivotal to successful management practice and to effective leadership in your future. These include thinking and decision making skills, the management of financial information, a range of team working and interpersonal skills and others associated with developing personal effectiveness and credibility at work.
You will develop key postgraduate study and research skills including critical reflection on theory and practice from an ethical and professional standpoint. We also include two special skills development weeks to augment the work you will be doing within each module.
Overall you will be required to consider and reflect on your professional development to establish this as the foundation of a lifetime practice in your future as a business “savvy” human resources and people development professional.
Your progress will be assessed through a range of methods which include individual and group assignments, business reports, presentations, case study analysis, portfolios of work, time-constrained activities and project work.
We don’t currently display entry requirements for United States. Please contact the Student Admin team on studentadmin@sunderland.ac.uk or 0191 515 3154.
We welcome applications from a range of academic and professional backgrounds. Please contact us to ensure that your qualifications and experience meet the entry requirements.
The Postgraduate Certificate can be studied over 7 months part-time or 4 months full-time.
The Postgraduate Diploma can be studied over 16 months part-time or 7 months full-time.
The fee for this course is:
PgDip
PgCert
This information was correct at the time of publication.
Previous HRM postgraduate degree students now work at senior HR manager level in a number of organisations, including Caterpillar, BT and Nissan.
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