BA Modern Languages and Economics (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 advanced concepts and models from a range of fields in economics
7. Discuss critically and apply independently advanced concepts and theories in selected specialist fields in economics to complex real-world economics problems
8. Critically evaluate, design, and propose policies to solve complex real-world economics problems in a national and international context
9. Identify and apply advanced mathematical and statistical concepts and techniques to solve complex real-world economics problems
10. Discuss and critically assess the relevance of scholarly debates in a range of fields in economics to solve complex real-world problems.

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. Apply skills necessary for the exercising of personal responsibility
8. Develop and apply decision-making skills
9. Evaluate your own achievement and that of others

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 programme, language pathway, and modules that you take. At Level 3, assessment methods will typically include coursework in English (essays, commentaries) 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.