Programme structure: International Business Management and Spanish (BA) - what's running in 2023/24

Mandatory Unit Spanish Language HISP30101 is must pass. For further information and a definition of must pass units please see the Glossary of Terms

Unit name	Unit code	Credit points	Status	Faculty of Arts Category	Teaching Block
Spanish Language for Hispanic Studies, School of Modern Languages and Joint Degrees	HISP30101	20	Mandatory		TB-4
International Business Management and Modern Languages Independent Project	MODL30028	40	Mandatory		TB-4
Global Production, Work and Employment	EFIM30037	20	Mandatory		TB-2
Students must select 20 credits from the following list:
The Theatre of Federico Garcia Lorca	HISP30029	20	Optional		TB-1
Spanish for Business	HISP30057	20	Optional		TB-4
Political Comedy, Social Tragedy: Protest and Conflict in Spain, 1875-1923.	HISP30099	20	Optional		TB-1
Contemporary Latin American History	HISP30069	20	Optional		TB-2
The Spanish Civil War, 1936 - 1939	HISP30076	20	Optional		TB-2
Oceanic Images in Modern Chilean Culture	HISP30084	20	Optional	D	TB-2
Latin American Digital and Visual Cultures: Identity and Resistance	HISP30092	20	Optional		TB-2
The Novels of Carmen Laforet	HISP31026	20	Optional		TB-1
Intermedia Encounters in Poetry	HISP30104	20	Optional		TB-2
Communism in Europe	MODL30001	20	Optional		TB-1
Liaison Interpreting	MODL30006	20	Optional		TB-1,TB-2
Translating in a Professional Context	MODL30010	20	Optional		TB-1
Catalan Language (follow-on)	MODL30011	20	Optional		TB-4
Czech Language (follow-on)	MODL30012	20	Optional		TB-4
Sociolinguistic Anthropology: Language, Culture, and Society	MODL30016	20	Optional		TB-2
Intermediate French for second and final year	UWLP20013	20	Optional		TB-4
Intermediate Spanish for second and final year	UWLP20014	20	Optional		TB-4
Intermediate German for second and final year	UWLP20015	20	Optional		TB-4
Intermediate Japanese	UWLP30001	20	Optional		TB-4
Intermediate Mandarin Chinese	UWLP30002	20	Optional		TB-4
Advanced Japanese	UWLP30003	20	Optional		TB-4
Advanced Mandarin Chinese	UWLP30004	20	Optional		TB-4
Students must select 20 credits from the following list:
The Practice of Management	EFIM30007	20	Optional		TB-2
Corporate Social Responsibility and Sustainability	EFIM30012	20	Optional		TB-2
Operations Management	EFIM30014	20	Optional		TB-1
International Human Resource Management	EFIM30024	20	Optional		TB-1
Strategy	EFIM30030	20	Optional		TB-2
Management Accounting for Strategy	EFIM30035	20	Optional		TB-1
The Digital Economy	EFIM30040	20	Optional		TB-1
Organizational Crime and Corruption	EFIM30047	20	Optional		TB-1
International Business Management and Spanish (BA)		120

Progression/award requirements

Unit Pass Mark for Undergraduate Programmes:

• 40 out of 100 – for level C/4, I/5 & H/6 units
• 50 out of 100 – for level M/7 units

For details on the weightings for classifying undergraduate degrees, please see the Agreed Weightings, by Faculty, to be applied for the Purposes of Calculating the Final Programme Mark and Degree Classification in Undergraduate Programmes.

For detailed rules on progression please see the Regulations and Code of Practice for Taught Programmes and the relevant faculty handbook.

Please refer to the specific progression/award requirements for programmes with a preliminary year of study, the Gateway programmes and International Foundation programmes.

Exit awards

All undergraduate degree programmes allow the opportunity for a student to exit from a programme with a Diploma or Certificate of Higher Education.

• To be awarded a Diploma of Higher Education, a student must have successfully completed 240 credit points, of which at least 90 must be at level 5.
• To be awarded a Certificate of Higher Education, a student must have successfully completed 120 credit points at level 4.

Integrated Master's degrees may also allow the opportunity for a student to exit from the programme with an equivalent Bachelor's degree where a student has achieved 360 credit points, of which 90 must be at level 6, and has successfully met any additional criteria as described in the programme specification.

The opportunities for a student to exit from one of the professional programmes in Veterinary Science, Medicine, and Dentistry with an Award is outlined in the relevant Programme Regulations (which are available as an annex in the Regulations and Code of Practice for Taught Programmes).

Degree classifications:

• First Class Honours 70 and above
• Second Class Honours, First Division 60-69
• Second Class Honours, Second Division 50-59
• Third Class Honours 40-49
• Fail 39 and below

An Ordinary degree can be awarded if a student has successfully completed at least 300 credits with a minimum of 60 credits at Level 6.

The pass mark for the professional programmes in Veterinary Science, Medicine and Dentistry is 50 out of 100. The classification of a degree in the professional programmes in Veterinary Science, Medicine, and Dentistry is provided in the Regulations and Code of Practice for Taught Programmes.

Additional progress information

The alternative classified honours degree of Arts (International Business Management and Spanish) (BA) may be awarded on this programme. For further details please see the Regulations and Code of Practice for Taught Programmes