Oversea English Program for Professional Master Degree of International Business

School of Economics and Management, Wuhan University

Ⅰ. Program Metrics:

The program for professional master degree of international business aims to develop advanced business specialized talents with high quality to satisfy the needs of the international competition and national economic development in the new century, as well as being familiar with the system the knowledge of modern business theory, mastering perfect international business knowledge, mastering modern international business practical skills and strong English(and/or other foreign language)communicative competence, being able to engage in international business operation and management in enterprises and institutions and government agencies and to explore the international market.

The specific requirements are as followed:

All the student should

(1) master the International Law, firmly abide by Chinese laws and regulations, obtain noble professional ethics and positive enterprising spirit, have a global vision and innovation consciousness;

(2) master international business knowledge and skills in the field of theory and practice, with the strategic consciousness of complicated changing international business environment, learning ability and the leadership potential of harmonizing and organizing international business;

(3) Skillfully master and use a foreign language, and have good competence of cross-cultural communication;

(4) be healthy physically and psychologically.

II. Program Profile

Professional master degree of international business aims at cultivating senior applied talents of international trade, which differ from academic of science in international trade and academic degree and specialized degree in management, and which mainly offset academic of science in international trade and business management, marketing management, such as academic degree, between the lack of international economic and trade management and management of specialized personnel training needs in the higher education system in our country. Contrary from academic of science in international trade, it pays attention to the development of skills; And unlike the professional degree in management, it breaks through the limitation of the enterprise level, and focuses on the international business field; It also have big difference from master of international business in the west, since it not only expands business activity to the international latitude, but also closes to the China’s foreign economic trade system and transition of reality, according to distinctive Chinese characteristics. Compared to the existing academic master degree in economics and master degree in business administration, professional master degree of international business has three characteristics, namely, professionalism, comprehensiveness and openness.

Professionalism embodied in career positioning of business activities in the perspective of global, which highlights theoretical and practical work skills, especially the balance of the soft skills. The lack of global view and professional skills is the shortage of the traditional MBA, and By expanding the basic course of international latitude, setting interdisciplinary and international economic and trade skills course and with the help of a large number of experimental teaching, foreign language teaching, case study, group discussion and practice base in exercise teaching, professional master degree of international business aims at making the students grasp the most advanced method in the practical work in the area,  the ability of work skills, foreign language skills and cross-cultural communication in the related business sector, therefore, the professional degree is a professional and practical-oriented, and has obvious professional.

Comprehensiveness means that the master of international business must possess broad knowledge, learn multidisciplinary course, shape high professional ethics, form broad knowledge and strong ability of overall quality, and be capable of successfully carrying out the work of business activities in the complicated and changeable international environment, which is obviously different from the master of academic degree in economics and other theory research personnel training, so the professional degree has a strong comprehensive.

Openness extrudes training process and opening features of direction. Openness of training process refers to the process closely connected with corporate and government, or the joint training associated with corporate and government, which gives full play to unit of choose and employ persons as another main body of talent training. Openness of direction setting means a pointer to difference of the international business links or sides, to set the direction which has urgent practical need but also has certain uniqueness at the same time, such as the promotion of international investment, international conference and exhibition, international trade dispute settlement, international trade logistics, etc.

Master of international business is a kind of professional master's degree under the category of economics, which, together with the academic degree of international trade, constitutes a relatively perfect graduate student training system of international trade specialty master, and has the characteristics of multidisciplinary cross, with the related disciplines including management, law, sociology, and applied linguistics.

Ⅲ. Period of Schooling

The period of schooling is 2 years basically and 4 years at max.

Ⅳ. Curriculum and Credits

1. Curriculum:

The curriculum for this program refers to appendix.

2. Credits:

The students in this program must get minimum 35 credits, Course credits’ detail are as followed:

(1) 25 compulsory course credits, including: 7 credits from compulsory courses for all university students; 16 credits from compulsory courses for this program; 2 credits of internship.

(2) minimum 10 elective course credits.

Lectures on Industrial Trends in the elective courses is mandatory for all students in this program. Each student is required to attend more than four lectures and write a report which will be evaluated by the tutor.

Specific curriculum and credit requirements can be viewed in appendix.

Ⅴ. Other Compulsory Requirement

(1) Internship

Students in this program are encouraged to, either continuously or segmentally, perform internship, generally from the 2nd to 3rd semester, in foreign-related enterprises or public institutions like government, finance and transportation agency at least 6 months during the schooling period.

Firstly, students should formally acknowledge a professor as thesis supervisor at the end of the first semester.

Secondly, students are required to develop and submit internship plan under the guidance of the supervisor. Meanwhile, students are required to carry out the submitted internship plan by steps and self-evaluate and be evaluated by a tutor, who is in charge of the step in the internship and can be either the supervisor or specialist from the internship sector, after each step is fulfilled.

Finally, A written report is required upon the end of the internship.

(2) The interim evaluation and thesis proposal report is mandatory.

Ⅵ. Academic thesis

The thesis composition normally lasts for one semester.

Topic of the thesis should be carefully chosen by implementing the principle of theory plus practice and should show the ability of the student to solve practical problems with the knowledge he or she learns.

The thesis may take form of either thematic study report or high-quality research or business practice report.

Whatever form it takes, evaluation of the thesis will be rendered under following aspects:

(1) whether it shows the capability of the author to solve practical problems through international business knowledge;

(2) whether its content is innovative;

(3) whether it is of practical value.    

Oral defense committee members include the supervisor, thesis reviewers, and 1-2 specialists from the program-related field, with senior professional and technical titles.

With all the requirements of this program fulfilled, students who have successfully defended their thesis and approved by the School of Academic Degree Evaluation Committee shall be conferred the master's degree of Library and Information Studies and can get a master's graduate diploma as well.

Ⅶ. Educating Mode

This program educates students

(1) under the credit system;

(2) taking heuristic and discussion-based teaching method that means few lectures with high quality, integrates theory with practice, pays attention to practical application, organically combines the lectures seminars case analysis and social practice together, draws emphasize on the training of students' ability of thinking analyzing and solving problems;

(3) Strengthening internship practice with setting up practice base;

(4) by supervisor team work, and establishing "double tutorial system" that means a team work from both high academic levels and outstanding professional background with both rich practical experience and strong ability to solve problems, which includes experts with overseas education background, business officials with high education background, and experts in related field, etc.;

(5) attaching great importance to the cultivation of the universal values and professional ethics.

Appendix:

The Curriculum of International Business