BA Modern Languages and Economics (Portuguese)

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
- Demonstrate in-depth grasp of specialist aspects of economic systems and/or specialist topics in economic theory
- Demonstrate in-depth grasp of concepts, theories and methods in at least one field of economic theory and the flexibility to apply them and analyse complex economic issues
- Demonstrate the ability to analyse complex economic issues in individual, national or international contexts and develop policy responses to issues
- Present structured and well-researched evaluation of specialist debates within the discipline of economics
- Present solutions to economic issues that incorporate economic data in a sophisticated manner

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
- Demonstrate a broad knowledge base