QUALIFYING MANDATORY REQUIREMENTS

 

Advanced Certificate of Competency (ACDipl)

To qualify for Advanced Certificate of Competency upon completion of the nine-module postgraduate course, the participant will be required to:

• Pass the tests of understanding and final examination questions, answering 70 percent of the questions correctly

To qualify for Advanced Certificate of Competency (with distinction) upon completion of the nine-module postgraduate course, the participant will be required to:

• Pass the tests of understanding and final examination questions, answering at least 90 percent of the questions correctly.

Master of Commercial Diplomacy
To qualify for Master of Commercial Diplomacy upon completion of the commercial diplomatic practise course, the participant will be required to:

• Pass the tests of understanding and final examination questions, answering 70 percent of the questions correctly and submit a mandatory Master research project (12-15,000 words)

Master of Commercial Diplomacy
To qualify for Master of Commercial Diplomacy (with distinction) upon completion of the commercial diplomatic practise course, the participant will be required to:

• Pass the tests of understanding and final examination questions, answering 90 percent of the questions correctly and submit a mandatory Master research project (12-15,000 words)

Doctoral/Fellow of the Diplomatic Academy
Participants will be required to:

• submit a mandatory publishable doctoral research project of high standard on an approved related topic (Up to 120,000 words)

Senior Diplomatic Fellow/Higher Doctorate in Commercial Diplomacy (QCD Candidates)

Participants will be required to:

• submit a mandatory publishable senior diplomatic fellowship/doctoral research project of high standard on an approved related topic (Up to 180,000 words)

STRUCTURE OF EACH MODULE 

 

Generally, the course material will consist of:

• Specific course material developed for each module 
• Tests of Understanding (tests the participant's comprehension of the module material. The participant must correctly answer at least 70 percent of the test questions to proceed to the next training module).
• Case studies
• Resources