Learn more with our business short courses
Ulster University Business School offers a number of short-courses for post-graduate study and CPD.
Ulster University Business School offers a range of short-courses enabling you to learn more. A number of our courses are taught over three or four days, in a number of areas including management, hospitality and tourism, marketing and entrepreneurship for postgraduate study and continuing professional development.
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Ulster University Business School offer a range of short courses taught over a 12 week semester, enabling you to learn more in a subject area of your choice. A full listings of all available short courses are shown below.
View course page for Business Practice and Commercial Awareness in Pharmacy
This course aims to critically evaluate, develop and apply business practice and commercial awareness in the marketing of pharmaceutical services.
View course page for Business Sustainability and Innovation
This course focuses on the importance of innovation and entrepreneurship in the wider context of business sustainability and the triple bottom line.
View course page for Construction Legal Studies
This course provides knowledge to enhance understanding of fundamental principles and key aspects of law and contractual procedures.
View course page for Contemporary Issues in Tourism and Hospitality
The aim of this course is to equip participants with the ability to address and critique issues that are of relevance to both tourism and hospitality.
View course page for Corporate Law
This course provides an understanding of legal concepts, principles and rules relevant to businesses, and the skills needed to apply them.
View course page for Critical Event Studies
This course critically examines the wider environment in which event organisers must plan and manage their event.
View course page for Digital Marketing Communications
This course provides knowledge on how digital marketing communications can develop marketing and business decision-making.
View course page for Digital Transformation
Digital transformation is concerned with the changes digital technologies can bring to an organisation's business model.
View course page for Entrepreneurship
This course aims to build awareness of entrepreneurship as a theoretical concept and a practical reality.
View course page for Event Management
This course introduces participants to the events industry, the event planning process and the complexities involved in organising events.
View course page for Executive Coaching and Mentoring
Coaching and mentoring can be used as powerful leadership skills in motivating, delegating, team development, managing change and staff engagement.
View course page for Foundations in Management
This course introduces participants to the subject of management, organisational structures and strategy.
View course page for GIS in Business and Society
This course introduces GIS relevant management and decision making concepts in business and society.
View course page for Global Business
This short course focuses on firm internationalisation and the key issues that affect marketing decisions in an international and global context.
View course page for Innovation in Practice
This short course explores organisational innovation from an operational or practice perspective as a key aspect of business development.
View course page for International Competitiveness
This applied course focuses on the role of the strategic management process to create competitiveness within a global environment.
View course page for Managing and Leading People
The aim of this course is to provide participants with a comprehensive framework of knowledge concerning the management and leadership of people.
View course page for Marketing Management
This course provides an advanced understanding of how marketing can be managed from both practical and theoretical perspectives.
View course page for Organisation & Management: Thinking Differently
This course focuses on the application of organisation and management theory to construction projects.
View course page for Procurement of Infrastructure and Major Projects
This course contextualises the infrastructure deficit and critically appraises the innovative approaches to procuring infrastructure.
View course page for Project Leadership for Construction Professionals
This course is designed to allow participants to master the twin tracks of managing a construction project and leading a business organisation.
View course page for Project Management in Construction
This course introduces the concepts of project management, examines the recognised practices involved in the project management function.
View course page for Sports, Management and the Law
This course will enable participants to see the interconnections between sport business and the law.
View course page for Strategy
This short course is designed to introduce participants to the key concepts in business strategy in the context of the global economy.
View course page for Strategy and Innovation
This course focuses on strategy and particularly on innovation and business development using innovative business modelling techniques.
View course page for Tourism and Hospitality Principles
This course provides participants with the necessary base of the key principles of tourism and hospitality.
View course page for Unblocking Potential: Bridge over Troublesome Knowledge
Bridge over troublesome knowledge.