Student Management of Cultural Diversity

Management of Cultural Diversity

1 year English Starts end of August

Become an expert in managing a culturally diverse workforce within companies and organizations. Research multilingualism, gender inequality, and intercultural competences. Develop policies solving important societal challenges such as equal opportunities in the labor market, the educational or the healthcare system and the participation of refugees in society. This is a track of MA Culture Studies.

30%
international students

in 2022/2023 (Culture Studies, all tracks)

81%
of our alumni find a job within 6 months

National Alumni Survey, 2021 | n=11 (Culture Studies, all tracks)

33
different nationalities

Alumni report, 2021 | n = 502 (Culture Studies, all tracks)

Program and courses

Learn to understand and manage organizational and societal challenges that come with cultural diversity.

  • Reflect on questions such as:
    What does it mean for a hospital when patients with various religious beliefs need tailor-made care?
    What are the consequences when citizens representing different identities, traditions, languages and beliefs send their children to mixed schools?
    Do people with different ethnic backgrounds get equal opportunities in the labor market?How can a company customize its services to customers from all over the world
    How can employers deal with challenges related to working with quotas regarding the composition of their workforce
    What should managers and policymakers do to make diversity work?
  • Learn to approach complex issues from an interdisciplinary perspective, combining insights from culture studies, sociology, anthropology, social psychology, sociolinguistics, organization and management studies and human resource studies.
  • Apply your theoretical knowledge to real-life cases within companies and organizations. 

This is a track of MA Culture Studies. You specialize by following one of its tracks.

Typical courses are:

  • Cultural Identity and Diversity
  • Cultural Diversity Management
  • Cultural Diversity Policies
  • Industries and Infrastructures
  • Media Interventions: Practices and Debates 

More on the program and courses

  • Bruno Boj

    Bruno

    Alumnus

    "The program was an eye-opener as it taught me to look at the multicultural societies from a broader perspective. It prepared me to manage the diversity of people in organizations in a way everyone gets equal chances and opportunities."

Career prospects

Upon graduating you will have obtained the following title (as stated on your diploma): MA Culture Studies, specialization Management of Cultural Diversity.

This specialization will enable you to analyze cases involving cultural diversity and to propose interventions that managers, policy makers and government officials can work with. You may focus on the management of a culturally diverse workforce within companies and organizations or work on policy development and implementation related to issues of cultural diversity in society within governmental organizations or NGOs.

Some of our graduates' jobs:

  • Head of Talent at Granger Reis 
  • Consultant at Ministerie van Veiligheid en Justitie  
  • Project Coordinator Inclusion & Diversity at PwC 
  • Corporate Recruiter at Coolblue 
  • HRM Trainee at Yacht 

Alumni facts

  • Average time between graduation and first paid job is 3.4 months
  • 81% of the alumni find a job within 6 months of graduation

Source: Alumni of Culture Studies (all tracks), National Alumni Survey, 2021 | n = 11

More on your career prospects

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Application and admission

This program starts:

End of August (both the Master’s and the Pre-Master’s program)

Best preparatory programs:

A Bachelor's degree in the field of:

  • Cultural Studies
  • Sociology
  • Organization Studies
  • Human Resource Studies
  • Business Studies
  • Communication Studies
  • Language and Culture
  • Anthropology
  • Philosophy
  • Religious Studies
  • Liberal Arts and Sciences
  • The academic background of the students in our Master's program varies a lot. Students with a Bachelor's degree in a different subject area are also most welcome to apply.

Pre-Master's program:

Open to  both Research University students and students of a Dutch University of Applied Sciences (HBO).

Tuition fees and scholarships

As an international student, you can find all information about tuition fees and scholarships here.

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