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2016/17 Undergraduate Programme Catalogue

BA International Business and Italian B

Programme code:BA-IBUS&IT/BUCAS code:1T16
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 Italian 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 Italian 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.
- this programme requires students to undertake one year of residence abroad in the third year. This may take the form of a course of study at an Italian 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 Italy. 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 Italian 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 Italian, 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 & Italian 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 60 credits in Italian and 40 credits in International Business, plus a 20 credit cornerstone module.

Compulsory modules:

Candidates will be required to study the following compulsory modules:

ITAL1030Beginners Italian 120 creditsSemester 1 (Sep to Jan)
ITAL1035Beginners Italian 220 creditsSemester 2 (Jan to Jun)
LUBS1100Personal Tutorials for International Business10 creditsSemesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun)
LUBS1140Principles of International Business
Pre-requisite for: LUBS2860
20 creditsSemesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun)
LUBS1175Global Entrepreneurship10 creditsSemester 2 (Jan to Jun)
MODL1010IT for LCS Students5 creditsSemester 1 (Sep to Jan)
MODL1090Intercultural Competence: Theory and Application20 creditsSemester 2 (Jan to Jun)

Optional modules:

Candidates will be required to study 10 credits from the following optional modules

ITAL1034Art and Literature in Medieval and Renaissance Italy: An Introduction10 creditsSemester 1 (Sep to Jan)
ITAL1040Italy from Fascism to the Present10 creditsSemester 1 (Sep to Jan)

Candidates will be required to study 10 credits from the following optional modules

ITAL1094Fictions of Fascism (B): Watching the Detectives10 creditsSemester 2 (Jan to Jun)
ITAL1150Italian Cinema: An Introduction10 creditsSemester 2 (Jan to Jun)


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:

Italian - a minimum of 100 credits (at least 40 credits must be at level 3)
International Business - 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 Italian 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:

ITAL2016Italian Language20 creditsSemesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun)
LUBS2415Research Methods in International Business20 creditsSemesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun)
LUBS2860Managing International Business20 creditsSemesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun)

Optional modules:

Candidates will be required to study 20 credits from the following optional modules

ITAL2020Introduction to Dante20 creditsSemesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun)
ITAL2025Linguistic Variety in Modern Italy20 creditsSemesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun)
ITAL2090Power, Pain and Beauty: Introduction to the Art and Literature of the Italian Renaissance20 creditsSemesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun)
ITAL2095The Italian Renaissance: Ideals and Realities20 creditsNot running in 201617
ITAL2200Italian Cinema: Genre and Social Change20 creditsSemesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun)
ITAL2300Italy: Regions, Identities and Nation20 creditsSemesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun)
ITAL2400Tall Tales: An Introduction to the Italian Short Story20 creditsNot running in 201617
MODL2001Linguists into Schools20 creditsSemesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun)

Students wishing to choose MODL2001 as one of their Italian options must take a minimum of 60 credits in Italian in level 2 including ITAL2016.

Candidates will be required to study 20 credits from the following optional modules:

HIST2654Global Business History20 creditsNot running in 201617
LUBS2400The International Economic Environment10 creditsSemester 1 (Sep to Jan)
LUBS2410Small Business Internationalisation and Growth10 creditsSemester 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 Italy.

Compulsory modules:

Candidates will be required to study the following compulsory module:

ITAL9001Year Abroad in Italy120 creditsSemesters 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:

Italian - a minimum of 100 credits (at least 40 credits must be at level 3)
International Business - 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 Italian 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:

ITAL3010Italian Language 320 creditsSemesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun)
LUBS3321International Business Dissertation40 creditsSemesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun)
LUBS3860International Strategic Management20 creditsSemesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun)

Optional modules:

Candidates will be required to study at least 20 credits from the following optional modules

ITAL3020Dante, Purgatorio and Paradiso20 creditsNot running in 201617
ITAL3025Italian Terrorisms/Italian Film20 creditsNot running in 201617
ITAL3033The Making of the Italian Language: From Dante to the Present20 creditsNot running in 201617
ITAL3090Italian Dissertation20 creditsSemesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun)
ITAL3110Italian Cinemas/Italian Histories20 creditsSemester 1 (Sep to Jan)
ITAL3153Primo Levi: From Testimony to Fiction20 creditsNot running in 201617
ITAL3233Minority Languages and Dialects in Italy from Fascism to the Present20 creditsNot running in 201617
ITAL3253Language and Identity in Twentieth-Century Italian Novels20 creditsNot running in 201617
ITAL3310'Giocare al Romanzo': Italo Calvino and the Novel, from Neorealism to Postmodern20 creditsSemester 1 (Sep to Jan)
ITAL3340Bad Christmas Films: The Italian Cinepanettone20 creditsNot running in 201617
ITAL3350Specialised Uses of Italian20 creditsNot running in 201617
ITAL3370Dark Italy: Italian Crime Fiction20 creditsSemester 2 (Jan to Jun)
ITAL3375A Year With 366 Days: A Journey Through Petrarch's Canzoniere20 creditsSemester 2 (Jan to Jun)
ITAL3400Made in Italy. Italian for Business20 creditsSemester 2 (Jan to Jun)
ITAL3450Family Novels: Life Stories, Gender and Social Change in Modern Italy20 creditsNot running in 201617

Candidates can choose to study up to 20 credits from the following optional modules:

LUBS3250Transnational Corporations in the World Economy10 creditsSemester 2 (Jan to Jun)
LUBS3815Contemporary Research Topics in International Business10 creditsSemester 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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