2017/18 Undergraduate Programme Catalogue
BA French and International Business
| Programme code: | BA-FREN&IBUS | UCAS code: | 1N63 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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 120-125 credits. Students are required to take 40-45 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) | |
| 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) |
As part of your induction to academic work, and in order to provide you with additional support in key areas of your programme, students are STRONGLY RECOMMENDED to undertake the following 5-credit Study Skills module. This module resides above the required 120 credits students take in Level 1 and as such it is not compulsory, but it draws together key guidance that augments provision elsewhere.
| MODL1500 | LCS Academic Essentials | 5 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) |
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. Students are required to take 40 credits in French and 60 credits in International Business. The remaining credits should be taken in either of the named subjects or taken as discovery modules.
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 | French 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 | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) | |
| 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 | Not running in 201718 | |
| FREN2260 | Black Atlantic: African and Caribbean Culture in French | 20 credits | Not running in 201718 | |
| FREN2280 | Culture and Society in Early Modern France | 20 credits | Not running in 201718 | |
| FREN2290 | The Short Form in French and Francophone Literature | 20 credits | Not running in 201718 | |
| 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 201718 | |
| 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.
- Not all modules will be available every year.
Candidates will be required to study 20 credits from the following optional modules:
| HIST2654 | Global Business History | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
| 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) | |
| LUBS2820 | Contemporary Topics in International Business | 10 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) |
Discovery modules:
Candidates may choose to study up to 20 credits of discovery modules in a third subject or pursue additional modules in the two named subjects.
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. Students are required to take 40 credits in French and 60 credits in International Business, including a 40 credit Final Year Project module taken on the International Business side but which will cover both named subjects. The remaining 20 credits can be taken in either of the two named subjects or as a Discovery Module.
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 French 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 at least 20 credits from the following optional modules
| FREN3045 | Antiracism in France since 1945 | 20 credits | Not running in 201718 | |
| FREN3070 | French Bilingual Liaison Interpreting | 20 credits | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) | |
| 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 | Not running in 201718 | |
| FREN3490 | Post-Holocaust Culture in France | 20 credits | Not running in 201718 | |
| 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 201718 | |
| FREN3620 | Mémoires de guerre: France and the First World War | 20 credits | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) | |
| 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 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
| 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 201718 | |
| FREN3691 | Representations of the City | 20 credits | Not running in 201718 | |
| FREN3711 | Francophone Voices - Textual and Cultural Analysis | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
| 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 | Not running in 201718 | |
| FREN3751 | Gender, Sex and Cinema in France | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
| FREN3770 | Theory and Practice in French-English Translation | 20 credits | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) | |
| 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 | Not running in 201718 | |
| FREN3845 | The Sublime and the Abject in French Literature and Thought | 20 credits | Not running in 201718 | |
| 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 201718 | |
| FREN3880 | Introduction to Professional Translation and Interpreting | 20 credits | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) | |
| MODL3800 | Linguists into Schools | 20 credits | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) |
Please note:
- The following modules are mutually exclusive: FREN3070, FREN3730 and FREN3770. Candidates may only enrol on one of these modules.
- Students wishing to choose MODL3800 as one of their French options must take a minimum of 60 credits in French in the final year including FREN3010.
- Not all modules will be available every 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) | |
| LUBS3820 | Contemporary 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 up to 20 credits of discovery modules in a third subject or pursue additional modules in the two named subjects.
Last updated: 11/08/2017
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