(Award available for year: Bachelor of Arts)
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
Competence Standards
1. Demonstrate effective use of the target language to analyse, appraise, and describe information, events, and ideas.
2. Demonstrate understanding of, ideas, theories and cultural/societal insights of the linguistic region(s) being studied.
3. Demonstrate comprehension to assigned materials and resources in the target language.
4. Demonstrate understanding of key facts and ideas in the study of Business.
5. Identify, explain, and evaluate debates, concepts, and principles which are features of the study of Business.
6. Design and demonstrate independent and self-guided research with the appropriate support when required.
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
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
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