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Welcome to the Full-Time Masters of Business Administration (MBA) in Mineral Resources Management
The MBA programme is designed for industry professionals from any discipline who wish to gain a basic grounding in international management practises and specialist knowledge in the fields of petroleum, energy, mining, water or international business transactions. It is suitable for those aspiring to be asset managers or project managers within these industries.
Structure
The MBA is made up of 270 credits as follows:
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Management Foundation (core modules) |
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60 |
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Discretionary modules, for example, Managament and Personal Skills Development |
30 |
Applied Management in International Business and the Extractive Industries |
40 |
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To find out everything you need to know about the programme, please click on the headings above. Additional useful information about the MBA can be found using the links in the table below:
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Induction Programme (20 credits)
The Induction Programme provides students with vital knowledge and skills before they embark of the main components of CEPMLP’s taught Masters and Diploma programmes. CEPMLP student have a wide range of academic and professional backgrounds and the Induction Programme provides each student with a basic introduction to all the main disciplines included in the degrees programmes, namely law, economics, finance and geology. It also provides training in research methods.
Management Foundation
Economics for Business Managers (20 credits)
The module is aimed at presenting and developing practical applications of economic theory and analytical tools to business decisions. The emphasis is on the study of the production decisions, the interaction of firms in different market structures, and the international financial market. Real world examples from the energy industries will be utilized to demonstrate the theoretical models developed in the class.
Foundation Accounting (20 credits)
The principle aim of this course is to give an appropriate understanding of the published accounts of a company and their underlying practices and processes, so that an effective contribution may be given, to the senior financial management of an organisation. Particular emphasis is given to accounts of the extractive industries.
Foundation Finance (20 credits)
This module will introduce students to the complexities of business finance and aim to give them an understanding of the issues business managers in the energy and extractive industries are required to consider in the decision-making process. All managers, in all types of organisations, have to be constantly aware of the financial implications of decisions being made, including sources and cost of finance, return on investment, management of working capital requirements and of associated business and financial risk. The module is designed to give students an appreciation of the financial management issues they will confront as managers and to give them the confidence in the understanding of finance to be able to ensure the correct financial information is available to them to allow for well informed decision making.
Management Processes
Human Resources Management (20 credits)
This course aims to provide students with a strategic understanding and key skills in managing people in organizations. It focuses on the core human resource problems faced by all organizations, including culture change, the contribution of human resources to organizational performance and change, and the developing role of information and communication technologies (ICT), recruitment, selection and retention, human resource development and managing knowledge, motivation and performance management, compensation and rewards, the design of work, and employee relations.
Marketing (20 credits)
Acquire knowledge of current theories in marketing and understand their application to corporations in the public and private sectors in a global context.
Strategic Management & Organisational Analysis (20 credits)
This module will encourage a critical and reflexive orientation to the understanding of successful approaches to strategic management and organisational analysis and develop understanding of the requirements for effective executive and organisational analyses and decision making in an increasingly complex and uncertain business environment. The module will develop an appreciation of basic concepts and essential strategic and organisational management tools for understanding data and analysing decisions. Students will learn the analytic skills needed to accomplish, defend and critique a business analysis.
Core Specialist Modules: Candidates are required to take a minimum of 3 modules from the following list:
Energy and Mining Finance (20 credits)
The primary aim of the course is to provide a detailed consideration of the theory of finance as it applies to the energy and mining industries and to consider how the theory is applied in practice. The two key focus areas will be investment decision making with uncertainty and how the investment demands are financed.
Environmental Law and Policy for Natural Resources and Energy (20 credits)
The course deals with selected issues central to understanding international and national environmental policy and law related to production and consumption of natural resources and power generation. It addresses, in particular, environmental problems arising in connection with production and transportation of petroleum (both on-land and offshore), mining activities, use of nuclear energy, including production of uranium and disposal of radioactive wastes, and use of fossil fuels, including transboundary air pollution and global climate effects. A special emphasis is placed on the solutions for environmental problems provided by various national regulatory systems, in particular British and North American.
International and Comparative Mineral Law (20 credits)
This module aims at introducing participants to main principles and concepts of legal, regulatory and contractual regimes for mining, from international and comparative perspectives. The focus is on the understanding of ownership and mineral tenure regimes; the interface between mineral tenure regimes, competitive uses of land and environmental regulation; forms and typical clauses of mining agreements; the concept of sustainable development and its application to mining, as well as the scope and implications of voluntary regulation; an introduction to underlying conflicts for the regulation of artisanal and small-scale mining; and forms of community engagement in mining projects.
Mineral and Petroleum Taxation (20 credits)
The main objective of the course is to provide an introduction to the main policy issues in the field of mineral and petroleum taxation and to the main instruments of taxation. The emphasis is on providing an understanding of the issues rather than teaching skills in accounting or financial analysis. These latter skills should be acquired on other courses. Neither does this course intend to make the student into a tax lawyer.
Mineral Resources Policy and Economics (20 credits)
The main objective of this course is to give students an understanding of the main economic forces that drive and influence the hard-rock mineral industries, and of the major economic policy issues for the industry. It does not aim to create economists, and nor is a prior knowledge of economic theory a prerequisite for the course. Students will acquire an appreciation of both the macro- and micro-economic factors that affect the industry and provide the context for all legal and policy issues.
Applied Management in International Business and the Extractive Industries
Taught Route:
Business Strategy in the Extractive Industries (20 credits)
The main objective of the course is to provide an inter-disciplinary framework for the strategic analysis of firms and markets in the extractive industries. Drawing on core topics in the MBA curriculum, in particular on the Strategic Planning module, this module uses the field of corporate strategy to provide a series of opportunities for integrated analysis of strategies applied in the extractive industries.
Strategic Management & Organisational Analysis (20 credits)
This module will encourage a critical and reflexive orientation to the understanding of successful approaches to strategic management and organisational analysis and develop understanding of the requirements for effective executive and organisational analyses and decision making in an increasingly complex and uncertain business environment. The module will develop an appreciation of basic concepts and essential strategic and organisational management tools for understanding data and analysing decisions. Students will learn the analytic skills needed to accomplish, defend and critique a business analysis.
Self-Directed with Supervision:
Placement Project (12,000 words): Candidates are required to source an organisation willing to offer a 3-month work placement, approved by an academic supervisor. The Placement includes the submission of a written report as part of the assessment.
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Dissertation (12,000 words): Candidates are required to write a Dissertation of up to 12,000 words on a topic approved by an academic supervisor.
