Product quality and development

Basic information:

studies in the field of: Quality Science
name of the programme: Product quality and development
studies: part-time second-cycle programme, track: general academic
leading discipline: management and quality studies

Part-time Master’s degree (four-semester) studies in Product quality and development enable students to acquire unique competences in the management of products throughout their life cycle, with particular emphasis on shaping and assessing their quality, while supporting their innovation, as well as their economic, environmental and technological efficiency.

The curriculum consists of courses with practical content related to designing and managing sustainable products (including innovations); shaping the quality and safety of products at all stages of their life cycle; implementing, maintaining and improving management systems in the organization; managing the company’s product portfolio; conducting marketing research; brand, price and distribution management. Students gain knowledge about systems of environmental and health-and-safety management, ecological product assessment, quality-management methods and techniques, management-system audits, consumer behaviour, modern promotion instruments, instrumental methods of product assessment, and corporate social responsibility.

Classes are conducted by experienced research and teaching staff and business practitioners, in the form of both practical project classes and laboratory classes. Students have the opportunity to shape their learning pathway by selecting, from a pool of elective lectures, subjects tailored to their preferences and interests.

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Subject	Number of hours	ECTS points	Form of verification	Code	Block
Marketing research	Lectures: 9 Classes: 18	5	Exam	1	B
Managerial economics	Lectures: 27 Classes: 18	6	Exam	1	A
Quality evaluation of food products	Lectures: 18 Laboratories: 27	6	Exam	1	B
Corporate social responsibility	Lectures: 9	2	Assessment	1	A
Quality management in organization	Lectures: 18 Classes: 18	5	Exam	1	A
Process management	Lectures: 9	2	Assessment	1	B
Corporate management	Lectures: 9 Classes: 18	4	Assessment	1	B
Sum	198	30
Sum (Lectures)	99
Sum (Classes)	72
Sum (Laboratories)	27

Subject	Number of hours	ECTS points	Form of verification	Code	Block
Instrumental methods of product quality assessment	Lectures: 9 Laboratories: 18	4	Assessment	1	B
Quality management methods and techniques	Lectures: 9 Classes: 18	4	Assessment	1	B
Modern promotional instruments	Lectures: 9 Classes: 9	3	Assessment	1	B
Quality evaluation of non-food products	Lectures: 18 Laboratories: 27	6	Exam	1	B
Wykład do wyboru - Blok 1	Lectures: 18	3	Exam	5	C
Business plan	Lectures: 18	3	Exam	0	C
Effective Energy Management	Lectures: 18	3	Exam	0	C
Team management	Lectures: 18	3	Exam	0	C
Project management	Lectures: 18	3	Exam	0	C
Wykład do wyboru - Blok 3	Lectures: 18	2	Assessment	5	C
Ecodesign	Lectures: 9	1	Assessment	0	C
Hygiene of production processes	Lectures: 9	1	Assessment	0	C
Communication in business	Lectures: 9	1	Assessment	0	C
Social media in marketing	Lectures: 9	1	Assessment	0	C
Modern analytical methods in the fight against fraud	Lectures: 9	1	Assessment	0	C
Designing customer experiences	Lectures: 9	1	Assessment	0	C
Transport of goods in the global economy	Lectures: 9	1	Assessment	0	C
Information security management	Lectures: 9	1	Assessment	0	C
Consumer behaviour	Lectures: 9 Classes: 9	3	Assessment	1	B
Product management	Lectures: 9 Classes: 18	5	Exam	1	A
Sum	198	30
Sum (Lectures)	99
Sum (Laboratories)	45
Sum (Classes)	54

Subject	Number of hours	ECTS points	Form of verification	Code	Block
Safety and quality of products	Lectures: 18 Classes: 18	4	Assessment	1	B
Ecological evaluation of products	Lectures: 9 Classes: 9	4	Exam	1	B
Konwersatorium	Lectures: 18	2	Assessment	5	D(C)
Creative thinking	Lectures: 9	1	Assessment	0	D(C)
Innovation management in food industry	Lectures: 9	1	Assessment	0	D(C)
Communication with Russian business correspondence elements (lecture in Russian)	Lectures: 18	2	Assessment	0	D(C)
La comptabilité financiére et le contrôle de gestion	Lectures: 18	2	Assessment	0	D(C)
Life Cycle Costing	Lectures: 9	1	Assessment	0	D(C)
Management in circular economy	Lectures: 9	1	Assessment	0	D(C)
Management of goods in the distribution chain	Lectures: 9	1	Assessment	0	D(C)
Qualitätsmanagement	Lectures: 18	2	Assessment	0	D(C)
Risk and Process Management in Integrated Management System	Lectures: 9	1	Assessment	0	D(C)
Law in Business	Lectures: 18	3	Assessment	1	A
Diploma seminar	Seminars: 18	3	Assessment	1	C
Statistical process control	Lectures: 9 Classes: 18	3	Assessment	1	A
Food safety management system	Lectures: 9 Classes: 9	3	Assessment	1	C
Environmental and OHS management systems	Lectures: 9 Classes: 18	5	Exam	1	C
Wykład do wyboru - Blok 2	Lectures: 18	3	Exam	5	C
Nanomaterials	Lectures: 18	3	Exam	0	C
Warehouse organization and monitoring	Lectures: 18	3	Exam	0	C
Podstawy toksykologii środowiska	Lectures: 18	3	Exam	0	C
Future technologies	Lectures: 18	3	Exam	0	C
Sum	198	30
Sum (Lectures)	108
Sum (Classes)	72
Sum (Seminars)	18

Subject	Number of hours	ECTS points	Form of verification	Code	Block
Management system audit	Lectures: 9 Classes: 9	2	Assessment	1	B
Diploma seminar	Seminars: 18	17	Assessment	1	C
Wykład do wyboru - Blok 4	Lectures: 54	6	Assessment	5	C
Design thinking	Lectures: 18	2	Assessment	0	C
Economical aspects of quality	Lectures: 18	2	Assessment	0	C
Merchandising	Lectures: 18	2	Assessment	0	C
Packaging as a product protection and market communication tool	Lectures: 18	2	Assessment	0	C
Production processes design	Lectures: 18	2	Assessment	0	C
Public relations	Lectures: 18	2	Assessment	0	C
Sensory consumer research	Lectures: 18	2	Assessment	0	C
Business continuity management system	Lectures: 18	2	Assessment	0	C
Packaging systems of goods	Lectures: 18	2	Assessment	0	C
Price and distribution management	Lectures: 9 Classes: 9	3	Exam	1	B
Brand management	Lectures: 9 Classes: 9	2	Assessment	1	B
Sum	126	30
Sum (Lectures)	81
Sum (Classes)	27
Sum (Seminars)	18