DPT: Spanish and Business MA (Hons) (UTMAHSPABU1F)

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Year 1 Academic year: 2021/22, Starting in: September

Compulsory courses

Global Challenges for Business

Must be passed

The Business of Edinburgh

Must be passed

Course options

Selected courses must be passed

Spanish 1A

Spanish 1B

AND

Level 7 language courses cannot be taken for credits on this degree programme.

Year 2 Academic year: 2021/22, Starting in: August

Entry into Honours:
(1) Students must pass courses to the required value of 240 credits in the first two years.
(2) Students must achieve at least 50% in their compulsory courses, at the first attempt.
(3) Students must achieve 50% or more in one second year business course.
(4) All courses (including outside subjects) must be passed before embarking on the year abroad, an outside course passed at Resit in August will be acceptable.

Compulsory courses

Spanish Language 2

Must be passed 1st time at 50%

Literatures and Cultures of the Spanish-Speaking World 2

Must be passed 1st time at 50%

Course options

Students may wish to note that BUST08033 Research Methods I:Introduction to Data Analysis is a compulsory course for Business Studies degree programmes

Selected courses must be passed

Principles of Finance

Marketing

International Business: Globalisation and Trade 2A

International Business and the Multinational Enterprise 2B

Innovation and Entrepreneurship

Applications of Finance

Human Resource Management 2

Organisational Behaviour 2

Business Simulation

Business Analytics and Information Systems

Business Research Methods I: Introduction to Data Analysis

Organising for Social Change: Creating Value and Impact

Fundamentals of Programming for Business Applications

AND

Politics and Institutions of Contemporary France is only available to students who have passed French 1A or French 1B.
Scandinavian Languages 2 is available to students who have taken a Scandinavian Studies language in year one.
For LEL2 courses students must have passed: Linguistics and English Language 1 or A Brief Introduction to Language.

Selected courses must be passed

Introduction to European Cinema

Languages Beyond University

Crime and Detection in Literature

Cultural Responses to War

The Coming of Age Narrative

Dynamics of Language and Power

Migration, Diaspora, Exile: The Politics of Representation

Gender and Culture

Politics and Institutions of Contemporary France A

Culture and Society in the Catalan World

Catalan Language for Beginners

Basque Language for beginners

Transnational Russian Culture

The Golden Age of Russian Literature

Scandinavian Languages 2

Scandinavian Civilisation A: Vikings, Sagas and the Road to Enlightenment

Scandinavian Civilisation B: From National Romanticism to the Nordic Model

LEL2B: Phonetic Analysis and Empirical Methods

LEL2C: English in Time and Space

LEL2D: Cross-linguistic Variation: Limits and Theories

LEL2E: Structure and History of European Languages

Year 3 Academic year: 2021/22, Starting in: August

During 3rd year, when permitted, at least 30 weeks must be spent in the relevant country and prescribed work completed in Business Studies and the relevant language in an approved establishment. During sessions when this is not permitted students will be offered an alternative means of engagement.

Final Assessment:

One unit of assessment is allocated to every 20 credits and constitutes one 20-credit paper. The following are the twelve 20-credit papers on which the classification of the degree is based.

1. Spanish Language Paper 1 (10 credits from Language acquisition and 10 from Y4 LP1 course)
2. Spanish Language Paper 2 (10 credits from Language acquisition and 10 from Y4 LP2 course)
3. Oral for Spanish (taught and assessed in Y4)
4. Spanish Online Language Course for Year Abroad Students
5. Business Studies Long Essay
6. Business Studies Long Essay
7. MEL Year Abroad work OR MEL Dissertation Preparation (see 8)
8. MEL Long Essay OR MEL Dissertation Completion (Papers 7 & 8 are a combined grade 10% from preparation and 90% from final dissertation preparation. Credits cannot be awarded for Dissertation preparation unless the full 2 year course is completed.)
9. Spanish Hons option course
10. Further courses in Business Studies
11. Further courses in Business Studies
12. Further courses in Business Studies

Compulsory courses

Business Studies Long Essay

Language acquisition through residence/study B

Year Abroad online language learning course - Spanish

Course options

Modern European Languages Year Abroad Assessment

MEL dissertation preparation

Year 4 Academic year: 2021/22, Starting in: August

Final Assessment:

One unit of assessment is allocated to every 20 credits and constitutes one 20-credit paper. The following are the twelve 20-credit papers on which the classification of the degree is based.

1. Spanish Language Paper 1 (10 credits from Language acquisition and 10 from Y4 LP1 course)
2. Spanish Language Paper 2 (10 credits from Language acquisition and 10 from Y4 LP2 course)
3. Oral for Spanish (taught and assessed in Y4)
4. Spanish Online Language Course for Year Abroad Students
5. Business Studies Long Essay
6. Business Studies Long Essay
7. MEL Year Abroad work OR MEL Dissertation Preparation (see 8)
8. MEL Long Essay OR MEL Dissertation Completion (Papers 7 & 8 are a combined grade 10% from preparation and 90% from final dissertation preparation. Credits cannot be awarded for Dissertation preparation unless the full 2 year course is completed.)
9. Spanish Hons option course
10. Further courses in Business Studies
11. Further courses in Business Studies
12. Further courses in Business Studies