2017/18 Undergraduate Programme Catalogue
BA International Business and Italian B
| Programme code: | BA-IBUS&IT/B | UCAS 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 120-125 credits. Students are required to take 60-65 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:
| ITAL1030 | Beginners Italian 1 | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
| ITAL1035 | Beginners Italian 2 | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan 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:
Candidates will be required to study 10 credits from the following optional modules
| ITAL1034 | Art and Literature in Medieval and Renaissance Italy: An Introduction | 10 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
| ITAL1040 | Italy from Fascism to the Present | 10 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) |
Candidates will be required to study 10 credits from the following optional modules
| ITAL1094 | Fictions of Fascism (B): Watching the Detectives | 10 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
| ITAL1150 | Italian Cinema: An Introduction | 10 credits | Semester 2 (Jan 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) |
Year2 - View timetable
[Learning Outcomes, Transferable (Key) Skills, Assessment]
In Level 2 students must study 120 credits. Students are required to take 60 credits in International Business and 40 credits in Italian. 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:
| ITAL2016 | Italian Language B | 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 20 credits from the following optional modules
| ITAL2023 | Introduction to Dante's Comedy | 20 credits | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) | |
| ITAL2025 | Linguistic Variety in Modern Italy | 20 credits | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) | |
| ITAL2090 | Power, Pain and Beauty: Introduction to the Art and Literature of the Italian Renaissance | 20 credits | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) | |
| ITAL2095 | The Italian Renaissance: Ideals and Realities | 20 credits | Not running in 201718 | |
| ITAL2200 | Italian Cinema: Genre and Social Change | 20 credits | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) | |
| ITAL2300 | Italy: Regions, Identities and Nation | 20 credits | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) | |
| ITAL2400 | Tall Tales: An Introduction to the Italian Short Story | 20 credits | Not running in 201718 | |
| MODL2001 | Linguists into Schools | 20 credits | Semesters 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.
- 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 Italy.
Compulsory modules:
Candidates will be required to study the following compulsory module:
| ITAL9001 | Year Abroad in Italy | 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 60 credits in International Business and 40 credits in Italian, 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:
| ITAL3010 | Italian Language 3 | 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
| ITAL3025 | Italian Terrorisms/Italian Film | 20 credits | Not running in 201718 | |
| ITAL3033 | The Making of the Italian Language: From Dante to the Present | 20 credits | Not running in 201718 | |
| ITAL3110 | Italian Cinemas/Italian Histories | 20 credits | Not running in 201718 | |
| ITAL3153 | Primo Levi: From Testimony to Fiction | 20 credits | Not running in 201718 | |
| ITAL3233 | Minority Languages and Dialects in Italy from Fascism to the Present | 20 credits | Not running in 201718 | |
| ITAL3253 | Language and Identity in Twentieth-Century Italian Novels | 20 credits | Not running in 201718 | |
| ITAL3310 | 'Giocare al Romanzo': Italo Calvino and the Novel, from Neorealism to Postmodern | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
| ITAL3340 | Bad Christmas Films: The Italian Cinepanettone | 20 credits | Not running in 201718 | |
| ITAL3350 | Specialised Uses of Italian | 20 credits | Not running in 201718 | |
| ITAL3370 | Dark Italy: Italian Crime Fiction | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
| ITAL3375 | A Year With 366 Days: A Journey Through Petrarch's Canzoniere | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
| ITAL3400 | Made in Italy. Italian for Business | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
| ITAL3450 | Family Novels: Life Stories, Gender and Social Change in Modern Italy | 20 credits | Not running in 201718 |
- 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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