BA Modern Languages and Economics (Portuguese)

Year 3

(Award available for year: Diploma of Higher Education)

Learning outcomes

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

Research Skills:
- Self-select or develop their own research questions and identity appropriate methods through which to address these
- Present a structured and nuanced argument, and communicate using terminology and concepts appropriate to the field(s) of study
- Identify and locate primary and secondary sources pertinent to the questions being addressed and critically evaluate their respective contributions
- Demonstrate dexterity and sensitivity in use of material engaging with conventions appropriate to the discipline

Language Skills and Intercultural Awareness:
- Communicate effectively and appropriately in the target language on a range of topics with a reasonable degree of grammatical accuracy
- Demonstrate awareness and appreciation of the structures and registers of the target language
- Demonstrate cultural sensitivity and an ability to respond appropriately in social contexts in which the target language is used
- Engage with different genres encountered in daily life in cultures in which the target language is spoken

Subject Knowledge:
- Show a general understanding and cultural awareness of societies in which the target language is spoken
- Identify specific aspects of literatures and social and historical issues pertaining in the cultures in which the target language is spoken and locate them within this broader background
- Make use of specialist knowledge needed to support critical understanding of the significance of major themes within the field(s) of study.
- Demonstrate in-depth grasp of one or more economic systems
- Demonstrate a grasp of the specific theories and issues relevant to one or more particular fields of economic theory
- Demonstrate the ability to analyse issues in individual, national or international contexts and their relevance for policy design
- Present structured and well-researched evaluation of key debates within the discipline of economics
- Demonstrate in-depth grasp of statistical techniques to analyse economic data

Transferable (key) skills

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

- Qualities and transferable skills necessary for employment related to the subject area(s) studied;
- Skills necessary for the exercising of personal responsibility
- Decision making

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/competencies of the discipline/profession to complex, albeit standard, situations and simple, albeit novel or atypical, instances
- Work that is often descriptive in nature but drawing on a wide variety of material
- Demonstrating basic professional competencies relevant to the discipline/s
- The ability to evaluate and criticise received opinion