2016/17 Undergraduate Programme Catalogue

BA International Business and Spanish

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 Spanish 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 Spanish-speaking 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 Spanish-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 Spanish 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 Spanish, 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 & Spanish 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 Spanish and 40 credits in International Business, a 20 credit cornerstone module, plus 20 credits of discovery modules. The discovery credits may take the form of either further modules in one or both main subjects or of one or more modules chosen from other subject areas.

Compulsory modules:

Candidates will be required to study the following compulsory modules:

Optional modules:

Candidates will be required to study 20-40 credits from the following optional modules:

Discovery modules:

Candidates will be required to study 0-20 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:

Spanish - 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 Spanish 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:

Optional modules:

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

Students wishing to choose MODL2001 as one of their Spanish options must take a minimum of 60 credits in Spanish in level 2 including SPPO2010.

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

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 third year of the programme in Spain or a Spanish-speaking country, approved by the School.

Compulsory modules:

Candidates will be required to study the following compulsory module:

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:

Spanish - 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 Spanish 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:

Optional modules:

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

Candidates may only take SPPO3094 with the prior approval of the Programme Manager.

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

- 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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