2016/17 Undergraduate Programme Catalogue
BA French and International Business
Programme code: | BA-FREN&IBUS | UCAS code: | 1N63 |
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Duration: | 4 Years | Method of Attendance: | Full Time |
Programme manager: | Dr Wolfgang Keinhorst | Contact address: | w.keinhorst@leeds.ac.uk |
Total credits: 485
Entry requirements:
For entry requirements for this course please visit www.leeds.ac.uk/coursefinder
School/Unit responsible for the parenting of students and programme:
School of Languages, Cultures and Societies
Examination board through which the programme will be considered:
School of Languages, Cultures and Societies
Relevant QAA Subject Benchmark Groups:
QAA Subject benchmark statement Languages and Related Subjects
http://www.qaa.ac.uk/Publications/InformationAndGuidance/Documents/languages07.pdf
QAA Subject benchmark statement General Business and Management (2007)
http://www.qaa.ac.uk/Publications/InformationAndGuidance/Documents/GeneralBusinessManagement.pdf
Programme specification:
The programme will:
- enable students to study the disciplines of International Business and French to the same depth as Single Honours students of the disciplines, but with less breadth in each. This means that Joint Honours students will normally be required to take compulsory modules and a subset of the optional modules that are also part of the corresponding Single Honours degree programmes, and that they will be assessed on those modules using criteria identical to those applied to Single Honours students. Joint Honours students will reach the same levels of fluency and accuracy in French as Single Honours students
- at Level One, allow students the flexibility to extend their intercultural and interdisciplinary knowledge and skills by means of a ‘cornerstone’ module, Intercultural Competence: Theory and Application, exploring a particular aspect of the field of international business and management.
- at Levels Two and Three, allow students to choose, within certain parameters, optional modules from the full range available within each discipline, and thereby devise pathways of their own choosing.
- require students to undertake one year of residence abroad in the third year. This may take the form of a course of study at a French university where students follow a prescribed course of study in language, and in some cases non-language courses; a teaching assistantship; or, subject to the approval of the Residence Abroad Committee in the School of Modern Languages and Cultures, students may do a work placement in a French-speaking environment. This should include an element of language study.
- Give students at Level Three the opportunity to undertake a significant piece of independent research in the realms of international business and/or French language and/or culture.
- require students to acquire the flexibility of mind and variety of learning techniques needed to switch between the two disciplines.
- provide a basis for further advanced study in either International Business or French, or in a cognate interdisciplinary area.
- have the flexibility to allow students to change programme upon successful completion of Level One, subject to approval. It may be possible to switch from Joint Honours International Business & French into Single Honours in either discipline.
Year1 - View timetable
[Learning Outcomes, Transferable (Key) Skills, Assessment]
In level 1 students must study 125 credits. Students are required to take 40 credits in French and 40 credits in International Business, a 20 credit cornerstone module, plus 20 credits of Discovery modules.
Compulsory modules:
Candidates will be required to study the following compulsory modules:
FREN1010 | Language Awareness and Skills Pre-requisite for: FREN2010/2015 | 20 credits | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) | |
FREN1020 | Introduction to French Studies (Resistance and Desire) | 20 credits | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) | |
LUBS1100 | Personal Tutorials for International Business | 10 credits | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) | |
LUBS1140 | Principles of International Business Pre-requisite for: LUBS2860 | 20 credits | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) | |
LUBS1175 | Global Entrepreneurship | 10 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
MODL1010 | IT for LCS Students | 5 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
MODL1090 | Intercultural Competence: Theory and Application | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) |
Optional modules:
In addition, candidates may choose to take the following optional module:
FREN1070 | Introduction to Skills in French Translation | 20 credits | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) |
Discovery modules:
Candidates will be required to study up to 20 credits of discovery modules
Year2 - View timetable
[Learning Outcomes, Transferable (Key) Skills, Assessment]
In level 2 students must study 120 credits.
Over levels 2 and 3 taken together students must take:
French - a minimum of 100 credits (at least 40 credits must be at level 3)
International Business - a minimum of 100 credits (at least 60 credits must be at level 3)
plus 40 credits of electives. These may take the form of additional modules in French or of one or more modules chosen in other subject areas. No more than 20 level 1 elective credits may be taken in level 2.
In order to be eligible for an honours degree, students must meet the normal Rules for Award by passing all modules which are designated to be passed for award or progression and by passing the required number of credits at each level as specified in the Curricular Regulations (at least 200 credits at level 2 or above, of which at least 100 should be at level 3).
Compulsory modules:
Candidates will be required to study the following compulsory modules:
FREN2010 | Language in Contexts Pre-requisite for: FREN9001 | 20 credits | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) | |
LUBS2415 | Research Methods in International Business | 20 credits | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) | |
LUBS2860 | Managing International Business | 20 credits | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) |
Optional modules:
Candidates will be required to study at least 20 credits from the following optional modules
FREN2060 | Aspects of French History 1789-1914 | 20 credits | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) | |
FREN2080 | Laughter, Love and Chivalry: Society and Culture in the French Middle Ages | 20 credits | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) | |
FREN2090 | Politics and Society in France since 1945 | 20 credits | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) | |
FREN2120 | The Foundations of Modern French Thought | 20 credits | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) | |
FREN2160 | Francophone Africa | 20 credits | Not running in 201617 | |
FREN2190 | The Age of Extremes: Culture, Crisis and Commitment between the Wars | 20 credits | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) | |
FREN2200 | The Seventh Art - Cinema in France | 20 credits | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) | |
FREN2240 | The French Language Today | 20 credits | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) | |
FREN2260 | Black Atlantic: African and Caribbean Culture in French | 20 credits | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) | |
FREN2280 | Culture and Society in Early Modern France | 20 credits | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) | |
FREN2290 | The Short Form in French and Francophone Literature | 20 credits | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) | |
FREN2320 | The Pleasures of French Poetry | 20 credits | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) | |
FREN2330 | Francophone Africa and the Caribbean | 20 credits | Not running in 201617 | |
FREN2340 | Twentieth and Twenty-First Century French Fiction | 20 credits | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) | |
FREN2350 | Introduction to Professional Translation and Interpreting | 20 credits | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) | |
MODL2001 | Linguists into Schools | 20 credits | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) |
Students wishing to choose MODL2001 as one of their French options must take a minimum of 60 credits in French in level 2 including FREN2010.
Candidates will be required to study 20 credits from the following optional modules:
HIST2654 | Global Business History | 20 credits | Not running in 201617 | |
LUBS2400 | The International Economic Environment | 10 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
LUBS2410 | Small Business Internationalisation and Growth | 10 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) |
Discovery modules:
Candidates may choose to study 40 credits of discovery modules
Year3 - View timetable
[Learning Outcomes, Transferable (Key) Skills, Assessment]
The candidate will spend the second year of the programme in France or a French-speaking country, approved by the School.
Compulsory modules:
Candidates will be required to study the following compulsory module:
FREN9001 | Year Abroad Pre-requisite for: FREN3010 | 120 credits | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) |
Year4 - View timetable
[Learning Outcomes, Transferable (Key) Skills, Assessment]
In level 3 students must study 120 credits.
Over levels 2 and 3 taken together students must take:
French - a minimum of 100 credits (at least 40 credits must be at level 3)
International Business - a minimum of 100 credits (at least 60 credits must be at level 3)
plus 40 credits of electives. These may take the form of additional modules in French or of one or more modules chosen in other subject areas. No more than 20 credits of either level 2 electives or level 1 special skills electives may be taken in level 3.
In order to be eligible for an honours degree, students must meet the normal Rules for Award by passing all modules which are designated to be passed for award or progression and by passing the required number of credits at each level as specified in the Curricular Regulations (at least 200 credits at level 2 or above, of which at least 100 should be at level 3).
Compulsory modules:
Candidates will be required to study the following compulsory modules:
FREN3010 | Advanced Language Skills | 20 credits | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) | |
LUBS3321 | International Business Dissertation | 40 credits | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) | |
LUBS3860 | International Strategic Management | 20 credits | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) |
Optional modules:
Candidates will be required to study 20 credits from the following optional modules
FREN3045 | Antiracism in France since 1945 | 20 credits | Not running in 201617 | |
FREN3070 | Bilingual Liaison Interpreting | 20 credits | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) | |
FREN3390 | Variation in Spoken French | 20 credits | Not running in 201617 | |
FREN3460 | The Art of Romance: Love, Marriage and Gender in Medieval France | 20 credits | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) | |
FREN3480 | Twentieth Century French Literature and the Visual Arts | 20 credits | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) | |
FREN3490 | Post-Holocaust Culture in France | 20 credits | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) | |
FREN3555 | Existentialism(s): Sartre, Beauvoir and Camus | 20 credits | Not running in 201617 | |
FREN3585 | Camera Lucida: Theory, Practice and Writing of Photography | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
FREN3591 | Heroines: Representations of Mythological Women from Antiquity to the Present | 20 credits | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) | |
FREN3611 | Francophone Cinema - Postcolonial Images | 20 credits | Not running in 201617 | |
FREN3620 | Mémoires de guerre: France and the First World War | 20 credits | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) | |
FREN3621 | French Culture and the First World War | 20 credits | Not running in 201617 | |
FREN3632 | Representing Empire | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
FREN3641 | The Algerian War of Independence: From the Colonial to the Post-Colonial | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
FREN3651 | Contemporary Political Issues in France | 20 credits | Not running in 201617 | |
FREN3680 | The French Novel in the Nineteenth Century: From the Mill to the Mine | 20 credits | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) | |
FREN3681 | The French Novel in the Nineteenth Century | 20 credits | Not running in 201617 | |
FREN3691 | Representations of the City | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
FREN3711 | Francophone Voices - Textual and Cultural Analysis | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
FREN3720 | Colonial Legacy - Postcolonial Conflict | 20 credits | Not running in 201617 | |
FREN3730 | French as a Professional Language | 20 credits | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) | |
FREN3740 | Ecrire et s'écrire. Womens' Writing in France, 20th/21st Centuries | 20 credits | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) | |
FREN3751 | Gender, Sex and Cinema in France | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
FREN3760 | Women in Early Modern France | 20 credits | Not running in 201617 | |
FREN3770 | Theory and Practice in French-English Translation | 20 credits | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) | |
FREN3780 | Symbolism and Decadence: French Literature in the Fin de Siècle | 20 credits | Not running in 201617 | |
FREN3785 | Decadence and Symbolism: French Literature in the Fin de Siecle | 20 credits | Not running in 201617 | |
FREN3790 | Dissertation module in French | 20 credits | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) | |
FREN3810 | The Occupation in French Fiction and Film | 20 credits | Not running in 201617 | |
FREN3815 | The Occupation in French Fiction and Film | 20 credits | Not running in 201617 | |
FREN3835 | Surrealism to Slam. Modern French Poetry and Protest | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
FREN3840 | The Sublime and the Abject in French Literature and Thought | 20 credits | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) | |
FREN3845 | The Sublime and the Abject in French Literature and Thought | 20 credits | Not running in 201617 | |
FREN3860 | French Popular Culture | 20 credits | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) | |
FREN3865 | Paris in Revolt. The May 1968 events, past and present | 20 credits | Not running in 201617 | |
MODL3800 | Linguists into Schools | 20 credits | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) |
Candidates can choose to study up to 20 credits from the following optional modules:
LUBS3250 | Transnational Corporations in the World Economy | 10 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
LUBS3815 | Contemporary Research Topics in International Business | 10 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) |
- Candidates are strongly recommended to take LUBS3815.
Discovery modules:
Candidates may choose to study 20 credits of discovery modules
Last updated: 27/09/2016
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