BA Modern Languages and Business (Portuguese)(For students entering from September 2024 onwards)

Year 4

(Award available for year: Bachelor of Arts)

Learning outcomes

On successful completion of Level 3, you will be able to
1. Understand and communicate complex events and ideas drawn from everyday and specialised domains in the target language (in written and oral forms), and fully participate in everyday conversations and technical discussions
2. Recognise, analyse, and evaluate basic and advanced communicative resources of the target language: vocabulary, grammar, and script (if relevant)
3. Appraise and question the social norms and cultural values that frame the societies in which the target language is spoken by critically examining cultural material originating from those societies
4. Investigate further knowledge of the history, culture, and society of the countries where the target language is spoken by critically examining cultural and historical material originating from those societies
5. Apply creatively and independently the strategies to analyse and contextualise from the target culture conveyed in written and audio-visual formats (books, films, digital media content)
6. Critically assess and apply a range of business theories, and analyse and propose solutions for a range of business practices internationally
7. Discuss and critically evaluate a range of topics and debates in business scholarship
8. Conduct independent research in business studies by reviewing existing scholarship and empirical evidence to support your analysis and conclusion
9. Develop a critical understanding of business challenges in their wider economic, societal, and environmental contexts, exploring and testing a range of viable solutions and proposing evidence- and research-based strategies
10. Critically assess and devise solutions to the ethical questions that organisations face, including, for example, questions of social and environmental responsibility
11. Appraise and critically reflect on globalisation and the importance of cultural insight to understand how organisations and businesses operate
12. Assess and devise strategies to meet the requirements and structures of different business sectors internationally

Skills Learning Outcomes
1. Actively seek, critically evaluate, and use creatively a range of sources of information and knowledge
2. Critically assess and construct sustained arguments supported by evidence and reasoning to challenge received knowledge and propose new ideas
3. Communicate effectively new information and knowledge in written and oral forms or through digital media
4. Critically reflect on, evaluate, and use creatively digital resources and tools to collect and communicate new information and knowledge
5. Work independently on a large individual project to a deadline
6. Make connections across perspectives and disciplines to propose new ideas and strategies
7. Develop and deploy skills necessary for the exercising of personal responsibility
8. Develop and deploy decision-making skills

Assessment

You will be working towards the subject specific and skills learning outcomes by engaging with a variety of approaches to assessment, which will depend on the language pathway and modules that you take. At Level 3, assessment methods will typically include coursework in English (essays, commentaries, reports) and the target language (short assignments collected in portfolios), oral presentations in English or the target language, exams in the target language that might include elements of English (for example, translation tasks), group projects, the production of podcasts and other digital artefacts. At Level 3, all students will work on one major independent research project. Assessment will be both formative and summative and will be supported with feedback throughout.