Portuguese & Management with a year abroad

King’s College London

Bachelor's degree

In London

£ 9,250 + VAT

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Description

  • Type

    Bachelor's degree

  • Location

    London

Overview
Our Portuguese and Management BA will allow you to achieve a high level of fluency in Portuguese, whatever your previous understanding of the language, while acquiring knowledge and skills in the broad discipline of management that are key to so many graduate careers. With strong links to the business world surrounding our campus in the heart of London, our students have excellent networking opportunities and a wealth of entrepreneurial, business and economic societies to engage with and enhance their studies. Choose from a range of Portuguese modules on cultural topics from the Middle Ages to the present day and Management modules including economics, organisational behaviour, accounting, marketing, and business strategy. The degree includes a year in a Portuguese-speaking country.
The course information sheet is a printable version of the information on this web page, which you can download here.
Portuguese
Course taught by staff who are experts in their field.
Central location offers easy access to a wide range of institutes and centres that promote Lusophone Culture
Opportunity to study abroad for a year offers students the chance to immerse themselves in culture and society and achieve language fluency. We have exchanges with a number of partner universities currently including Lisboa, Nova de Lisboa, Coimbra, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Universidade Federal da Bahia, Universidade de São Paulo and Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro. The year abroad also offers the opportunity to undertake an internship/work placement in a Portuguese-speaking environment (typically sourced by students themselves).
Lively departmental social life through student-run societies.
One of the country’s most highly rated Spanish and Portuguese departments for teaching and research
Management

Facilities

Location

Start date

London
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Strand, WC2R 2LS

Start date

On request

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Subjects

  • Portuguese Language
  • Economics
  • Organisational Behaviour

Course programme


Year 1

Year 1 Courses are divided into modules. Each year you will normally take modules totalling 120 credits. You are required to take 6o credits in Portuguese and 60 credits in Management. Required Modules Portuguese

You are required to take:

  • Core Portuguese Language (non ab initio) or Introductory Portuguese (ab initio)
  • Global Iberias

Management

You will take:

  • Accounting & Financial Management
  • Organisational Behaviour
  • Sociology of Work
Optional Modules There are no optional modules in year one.


Year 2

Year 2 You are required to take 60 credits in Portuguese and 60 credits in Management. Required Modules

You are required to take:

Portuguese

  • Portuguese Language (30 credits)

Management

  • Principles of Management (15 credits)
  • International Business (15 credits)
Optional Modules

Portuguese

You take 30 credits from a range of optional modules, which may typically include:

  • Visuality, Literature and Modern Life in Latin America
  • Fatherlands: Spain and Portugal under the Dictators
  • Power, God and Race - The Writings of Medieval Portugal
  • Nineteenth-century Fiction in Brazil and Portugual (15 credits)

Management

You take 30 credits from a range of optional modules, which may typically include:

  • Corporate Finance (15 credits)
  • Government & Business (15 credits)
  • Industrial Organisation (15 credits)
  • Microeconomics (15 credits)


Year 3

Year 3

Your third year will be spent abroad at one of our partner institutions which currently include:

  • Lisboa
  • Nova de Lisboa
  • Coimbra
  • Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais
  • Universidade Federal de Bahia
  • Universidade de Sao Paulo
  • Universidade Federal de Rio de Janeiro

You may also have the opportunity to apply for the English Language Assistantship Programme or to undertake an internship/work placement in a Portuguese-speaking environment.

Required Modules Optional Modules


Year 4

Year 4 You will take 60 credits in Portuguese and 60 credits in Management. Required Modules

Portuguese

  • Portuguese Language (30 credits)

Management

There are no required modules in year four.

Optional Modules Portuguese

Students are required to take 30 credits from a range of optional modules that may typically include:

  • Brazilian Poetry and Song II: 1958 to the Present (15 credits)
  • Imperial Visions in Iberian Literature (15 credits)
  • Cross-Cultural Exchanges between Africa and the Americas (15 credits)
  • Love, Dictatorship & Crisis in Contemporary Brazilian Fiction (15 credits)
  • Dissertation (15 credits)
  • Peripheral Europeans: Modernity, Traditionalism & National Identity (15 credits)
  • Lusophone African Literature II: The Post-Colonial Experience (15 credits)
  • Comparing Romance Languages: Historical Evolution and Linguistic Interference (15 credits)

Management

Students are required to take 60 credits from a range of optional modules that may typically include:

  • Applied Economics (15 credits)
  • Company Law (15 credits)
  • Communications in Organisations (15 credits)
  • Corporate Social Responsibility (15 credits)
  • Strategic Management (15 credits)

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