BA (Hons) International Business with French
Bachelor's degree
In Hatfield
Description
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Type
Bachelor's degree
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Location
Hatfield
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Duration
4 Years
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Start date
Different dates available
In your first year, you’ll start your studies at the University of Hertfordshire. Your core modules will be Marketing, Economics, Accounting and Human Resources. You’ll learn regional consumer patterns that influence how companies decide to advertise and digitally communicate to their audience. Explore how politics and levels of infrastructure, such as transport, can affect global economic development. If you decide to, you can pick up a language during this year.
In your second year, you can stay at the University of Hertfordshire or study at one of our partner universities in English taking similar subjects. In the four-year route you have a choice to study at a partner university, whilst in the three-year route you must study at a partner university for at least one semester. The programme team at Hertfordshire will support you in your choice of modules at the partner university.
Here there’s a stronger international focus of the business disciplines. You’ll explore geographic influences on international relations in geopolitics and gain an international insight on global employment laws, performance and people management in HR and finance. You’ll also explore economics at an international level and get a better understanding of our own and the European market.
You’ll start taking your learning into your own hands. You can choose to continue with your language if you want and you have a choice of optional modules. You can dip into organisational psychology, get to grips with social media apps in digital marketing, or learn about project management.
Students on the four-year route will all be abroad in your third year. You can shape your learning through study or practice too. This means you can study for one semester at one of our partner universities, then do a placement. Or you can spend the entire year studying abroad. This can be at one university, or you can experience two.
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About this course
If you want a career in international business and love to travel, this degree is ideal for you. The degree has two routes you can take, a three-year route and a four-year route. You can study in one country and on the four-year route you can study and work in 2 or possibly 3 countries and perhaps even get a second degree from one of our partner universities.
On the three-year route, you'll need to spend a minimum of one semester in the second year at a partner university in Europe, North America, Latin America, Australia, Africa, Middle East or Asia. Ideally, you will spend the whole year abroad to really immerse yourself into a different culture. UK nationals who spend the whole year abroad pay a reduced tuition fee.
On the four-year route, you will have the opportunity to spend one or two years studying and working abroad. Everyone on this route will study abroad in the third year (with no tuition fees to pay). However, as a bonus you can also choose to spend the second year abroad (again with a reduced tuition fee for UK nationals). There’ll be opportunities for work placements too. We have partnerships with over 100 universities and business schools around the world, so there’s lots of choice.
This course reflects the growing need for managers of tomorrow to have the business and leadership skills, language competency and cultural awareness for success in today’s global business environment.
We’re one of 11 UK business schools with an EFMD Accredited course and one of only 96 schools worldwide (June 2021). The European Foundation for Management Development (EFMD) is an internationally recognised badge of programme quality, with its strong focus on internationalisation, ethics and sustainability.
This EPAS-accredited international business degree gives you exceptional employability and 92% of our graduates are in work or further study within six months of graduating. They go into a wide range of roles in both internationally oriented UK businesses and in organisations all over the world.
Some of our graduates are offered jobs by the companies they took placements with, while others join graduate training schemes with globally focused companies. Some work as international experts within smaller businesses, and others secure professional roles in multi-national companies. Each year a number of our students also stay on to study at postgraduate level.
With a business degree, language skills and international exposure, you’ll be an attractive prospect for employers worldwide, as well as for UK-based multinationals. Many of our graduates work across Europe, North America, Asia and Africa, in the financial, automotive, publishing and retail sectors. They work in fields including HR, marketing, sales, procurement and travel management. Our graduates earn an average salary of £23,000 six months after finishing the course.
UCAS points 112
A Level BBC
Our BA International Business is EFMD Accredited by the European Foundation for Management Development (EFMD). EFMD Accredited is an internationally recognised badge of programme quality with its strong focus on internationalisation, ethics and sustainability. We’re one of ten UK business schools with an EFMD Accredited course and one of only 92 schools worldwide (October 2020).
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Subjects
- Business French
- Economics
- Marketing
- International
- Global
- International Business
Course programme
You'll normally study four 15 credit modules in each semester and your contact time varies between modules. Usually, you’ll have two sessions per week for each module, a one-hour lecture following by a one-hour seminar/tutorial. Typically, a new topic or theory will be introduced in each lecture and will be followed up with class discussion and feedback in the subsequent seminar. In addition, as part of your study time, you will be collaborating with your peers on tasks and group assignments. Module leaders also offer weekly drop-in and feedback sessions, usually 2 x 1 hours per module as well as revision sessions.
The University’s online learning environment means you can access all your course resources, literature and timetables from anywhere in the world.
Usually, assessment is split between coursework and examinations. The style of coursework can vary from presentations to business reports or essays depending on the taught topics.
Degree programmes are structured into levels, 4, 5 and 6. These correspond to your first, second and fourth which is your final year. In addition, you will have access to a zero-credit module in the first year, which focusses on developing your academic skills.
Level 0
Module
- Academic Skills
Module
- People and Organisations
- Economics for International Business
- Quantitative Methods for International Business
- Accounting Aspects of Business
- The Global Business Environment
- Understanding Marketing
- French Route C - 4a
- French Route C - 4b
- French Route A - 4a
- French Route A - 4b
- French Route B - 4a
- French Route B - 4b
Additional information
EU Students Fee
Full time - £13450 for the 2021/2022 academic year
International Students Fee
Full time - £13450 for the 2021/2022 academic year
BA (Hons) International Business with French