2016/17 Undergraduate Programme Catalogue
BA International Business and Russian A
Programme code: | BA-IBUS&RUSA | UCAS code: | 1P63 |
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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 Russian 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 Russian 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 residence abroad in the second year at a Russian university where students follow a prescribed course of study in language, and in some cases non-language courses.
- give students at Level Three the opportunity to undertake a significant piece of independent research in the realms of international business and/or Russian 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 Russian, 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 & Russian 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 Russian and 40 credits in International Business a 20 credit cornerstone module, plus 20 credits of elective modules.
Compulsory modules:
Candidates will be required to study the following compulsory modules:
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) | |
SLAV1101 | Core Russian Language 1 Pre-requisite for: SLAV9001 | 20 credits | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) |
Optional modules:
Candidates will be required to study 20 credits from the following optional modules
SLAV1102 | Developing Russian Language 1 | 20 credits | Not running in 201617 | |
SLAV1103 | Text and Context: Introduction to Russian Literature | 20 credits | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) | |
SLAV1104 | From Icons to iPods: Approaches to Russian Culture | 20 credits | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) |
Candidates can choose to take either the following optional module OR 20 credits of discovery modules.
SLAV1110 | Introduction to Russian Folklore: Fairy Tales and Cultural Practice | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) |
Discovery modules:
Candidates may choose to study 40 credits of discovery modules
Year2 - View timetable
[Learning Outcomes, Transferable (Key) Skills, Assessment]
The candidate will spend the second year of the programme in Russia.
Compulsory modules:
Candidates will be required to study the following compulsory module:
SLAV9001 | Year Abroad | 120 credits | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) |
Year3 - 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:
Russian - 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 Russian 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:
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) | |
SLAV2101 | Core Russian Language 2 Pre-requisite for: SLAV3101 | 20 credits | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) |
Optional modules:
Candidates may choose to study 20 credits from the following optional modules
FOAR2000 | Research Placement | 20 credits | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) | |
SLAV2103 | Applied Russian Language 2 | 20 credits | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) | |
SLAV2105 | Ideology and Imagination: Prose Literature in 19th Century Russia | 20 credits | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) | |
SLAV2107 | Not by Bread Alone: Everyday Culture under the Soviet Regime | 20 credits | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) | |
SLAV2109 | Postcommunist / Postmodernist Identities | 20 credits | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) | |
SLAV2111 | The Sounds of Russian | 20 credits | Not running in 201617 |
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
Year4 - View timetable
[Learning Outcomes, Transferable (Key) Skills, Assessment]
Over levels 2 and 3 taken together students must take:
Russian - 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 one or both of the named subjects 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:
LUBS3321 | International Business Dissertation | 40 credits | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) | |
LUBS3860 | International Strategic Management | 20 credits | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) | |
SLAV3101 | Core Russian Language 3 | 20 credits | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) |
Optional modules:
Candidates will be required to choose 20 credits from the following optional modules
SLAV3104 | Fyodor Dostoevsky: Artist and Prophet | 20 credits | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) | |
SLAV3112 | Gender Identity in Soviet and Post-Soviet Russia | 20 credits | Not running in 201617 | |
SLAV3113 | Russian (New) Media | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
SLAV3114 | Russian Advanced Translation | 20 credits | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) | |
SLAV3116 | Imagining the Post-Soviet Realm: Popular Culture and Representation of Russia and the Newly Independent States since 1991 | 20 credits | Not running in 201617 | |
SLAV3124 | Out of the frying pan into the fire: Russian society from perestroika to the Crimean annexation (1985-2015) | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) |
Not all modules will be offered in each year.
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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