What evidence should I seek that a course teaches supply chain risk with current disruption cases?
Look for a recent module handbook or syllabus that explicitly covers supply chain risk and applies concepts to identifiable disruption cases, such as pandemics, port closures, geopolitical conflict, cyberattacks, climate events, or semiconductor shortages. Check whether current case readings, practitioner input, simulations, projects, or assessments require you to analyse causes, impacts, mitigation, resilience, and trade-offs.
Key points
- Check the publication dates and sources of required readings, case studies, and datasets, and ask how the course is updated when new disruptions occur.
- Look for learning outcomes and assessment examples that involve risk identification, scenario analysis, continuity planning, supplier diversification, or resilience metrics.
- Evidence may include guest speakers, live industry projects, simulation exercises, or a dissertation option focused on a recent disruption.
- Request the latest syllabus, reading list, assessment brief, and examples of previous case topics from the department.
Things to check
- Course materials may change by academic year, and a course description alone may not show how much teaching uses current cases.
- A recent case is useful, but check that the course also teaches transferable risk frameworks rather than relying only on news examples.