BA Modern Languages and Business (Japanese)

Year 4

(Award available for year: Bachelor of Arts)

Learning outcomes

On completion of the year students should have provided evidence of being able to:

Research Skills:
- Produce an autonomous piece of extended research work (the Final-Year Project), responding to guidance and feedback from a supervisor
- Present a structured, sustained argument, and communicate using terminology and concepts appropriate to the field(s) of study
- Evaluate and critically synthesize aspects of recent enquiry in the field(s) of study
- Reflect on, and work in accordance with, the ethical considerations raised in the research process

Language Skills and Intercultural Awareness:
- Communicate fluently and appropriately, maintaining high degree of grammatical accuracy, in the target language
- Demonstrate a consolidated and extended knowledge and understanding of complex structures and registers of the target language
- Demonstrate cultural sensitivity and an ability to see the world's societies and cultures from multiple perspectives
- Show advanced engagement with multiple genres to support effective work and functioning in another country

Subject Knowledge:
- Show a broad understanding and cultural awareness of societies in which the target language is spoken
- Demonstrate depth of engagement with specific aspects of literatures and social and historical issues pertaining in the cultures in which the target language is spoken
- Make use of specialist knowledge to engage critically with current debates in the field(s) of study
- Further demonstrate advanced knowledge of business theories, concepts and practices
- Demonstrate a confident understanding of themes in business scholarship, with the ability to identify and conceptualise the critical factors involved, critically review existing evidence in order to support an interpretation
- Research, evaluate, interpret, discuss and source a wide range of scholarly material at thesis level depth
- Demonstrate professional-level written and oral communication of management concepts and arguments, source from a wide range of evidence; contribute to and expand on class discussion
- Demonstrate a confident and complex understanding of business challenges; explore and test a range of viable solutions; propose innovative strategies based on research and knowledge
- Exhibit professional-level standards in self-knowledge, self-reflection and personal development strategies
- Work highly effectively in teams, demonstrating excellent interpersonal skills and excellent ability to function sensitively and productively when working with others
- Demonstrate excellent awareness of ethics, integrity and responsibility in undertaking business activities
- Demonstrate excellent awareness of globalisation and the importance of cultural insight in business
- Reflect critically on their own learning experiences, skills and development needs in a work-based setting

Transferable (key) skills

Students will have had the opportunity to acquire, as defined in the modules specified for the programme:

- The transferable/key/generic skills necessary for employment related to the area(s) studied
- The exercise of initiative and personal responsibility
- The deployment of decision making skills in complex and unpredictable situations
- The communication of information, ideas, problems and solutions in a variety of ways to a variety of audiences
- The ability to undertake appropriate further training of a professional or equivalent nature

Assessment

Achievement will be assessed by a variety of methods in accordance with the learning outcomes of the modules specified for the year/programme and will include:

- Demonstrating the ability to apply a broad range of aspects of the discipline/s
- Work that draws on a wide variety of material
- The ability to evaluate and criticise received opinion
- Evidence of an ability to conduct independent, in depth enquiry within the discipline/s
- Work that is typically both evaluative and creative