Professional Core
The courses and skills training in the Professional Core provide graduates with the general skills and knowledge to be a project manager or consultant in the global arena. These skills include business consulting skills, business economics and diversity management.
You will also ‘learn how to learn’. The courses and training will provide you with the studying and learning skills needed to successfully complete the Bachelor programme.
You will take these classes together with students from the different specializations, making the Professional Core an enriched learning experience.
Courses and skills training
- Basic academic skills (desk research, writing, reading and presentation skills)
- Basic professional skills in English (improvisation, debate, business meetings, decision making, negotiations and team work)
- Project management
- A second foreign language
- Communication skills, including communicating in a multicultural environment
- Statistics and mathematics
- Research skills
- Business economics
- Strategic management and leadership
- Ethics
In the Professional Core courses and training you will learn:
- How to approach problems and issues from different perspectives
- How to approach issues in a creative and innovative way
- How to develop the ability to think laterally / outside the box
- How to form value judgements concerning actual social and ethical issues within an organisation or in relation to a product
- How to develop the ability to function in a complex organization
- How to deal with balance of power issues
- How to develop change management skills
- How to communicate across the boundaries of your own organization, professional field or country
- How to cooperate with colleagues
- How to function effectively in project groups
- How to fulfil the various roles within a team
