Language and/with Management (French, German, Italian, Japanese, Spanish) (BA): 3-year, full-time

COURSE STRUCTURE

You take compulsory, core and option modules to a total of 360 credits over three years.

Modules taken in management in the first two years will give you a firm appreciation of business and management, while the third year gives you the opportunity to specialise.

Your programme will be designed to suit your interests and your language capability, and you can start at any language level from beginner to native speaker proficiency. A typical set of modules, divided by year, might look like this:

YEAR 1

• Business Information Systems
• Management Studies I
• Management Studies II
• Quantitative Methods
• Spanish 3
• Studying the Hispanic, Luso-Brazilian and Native American Worlds

YEAR 2

• Buyer Behaviour
• Commercial Law for Business
• Employment Relations and Human Resources Management
• Luso-Brazilian Cultures
• Marketing Principles and Practices
• Spanish 4

YEAR 3

• Financial Management
• Spanish 5
• Strategic Management (Undergraduate)
• The Urban Experience in Brazil

INDICATIVE MANAGEMENT OPTION MODULES

• Advanced Management Accounting
• Applied Financial Management (Undergraduate)
• Approaches to Studying Management with PDP
• Auditing
• Brand Development
• Business Information Systems
• Buyer Behaviour
• Entrepreneurship and Small Business
• Financial Accounting
• Financial Reporting
• Groupwork in Practice
• International Business
• Introduction to Corporate Governance and Ethics
• Introductions: Understanding the Business World
• Macroeconomics for Business
• Management Accounting
• Management Studies I
• Management Studies II
• Marketing Strategy
• Mathematics for Business
• Microeconomics for Business
• Operations Management
• Organizational Behaviour
• Quantitative Methods
• Research Methods in Management (Undergraduate)
• Research Project: Management
• Taxation
• Work-Based Learning

INDICATIVE COMPARATIVE CULTURE OPTION MODULES

• Beating Nature: Artificiality, Imitation and Simulation
• Film and Politics
• Representations of Love, Desire and Sexuality
• Stories of the Self (Level 5)
• The Twentieth Century: Key Themes in Comparative European History (Level 5)
• Understanding Culture: Language and Texts

INDICATIVE FRENCH OPTION MODULES

• French Cinema: History, Practice, Analysis
• French Political Culture: Traditions and Change
• French Thought: from the Renaissance to Postmodernity
• Imagining France: An Introduction to French Studies
• Memoire en francais
• The Twentieth-Century French Humanist Novel: Malraux and Camus
• Translation from and into French

INDICATIVE GERMAN OPTION MODULES

• A Topic in German Thought: The Idea of Enlightenment
• Berlin since 1945: History and Culture (Level 5)
• Das Dritte Reich
• Die Deutschsprachige Presse
• Post-War German Film
• The Politics of Gender and Modern German Culture
• Wirtschaftsdeutsch

INDICATIVE ITALIAN OPTION MODULES

• Introduction to Italian Culture (Level 4)

INDICATIVE JAPANESE OPTION MODULES

• Advanced Seminar in Japanese Culture and Society
• Manga and Anime
• Popular Culture in Japan and East Asia
• Rethinking Japan: Introduction to Modern Japanese Society and Culture (Level 4)
• Theorising Japanese Cinema

INDICATIVE PORTUGUESE AND SPANISH OPTION MODULES

• Advanced Portuguese Seminar (Level 5)
• Art and Empire in the Iberian World
• Iberian Political Cultures: The Spanish Case
• Iberian Political Cultures: The Portuguese Case
• Literature and the Nation in Latin America (Mexico)
• Lusophone Cinema (level 5)
• Picturing the African Presence in Early Modern Spain
• Power and Control in Spanish Golden Age Art
• Power and Resistance in Spanish and Brazilian Film (Level 5)
• Scenes of Portuguese History: Cultural approaches to modern politics
• Studying the Hispanic, Luso-Brazilian and Native American Worlds
• The Latin American Novel
• The Problem of National Identity in Modern Spain
• The Urban Experience in Brazil

DEGREE CLASSIFICATION

Please note that not all modules are available every year; the list above is indicative.

If you exit the degree with Language 3 (A-level+/B2) or Language 4 (post-A-level/C1) the degree awarded will reflect this (e.g. BA Management with Japanese). However, if you exit the degree with Language 5 (degree level/C1/C2) the degree awarded will reflect this (e.g. BA Japanese and Management).

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