Certificat de studii superioare în managementul afacerilor și limbi străine

Knowledge and understanding

You’ll be able to demonstrate:

• A broad knowledge and understanding of the main concepts, theories and principles associated with business management
• The ability to communicate fluently and appropriately with competent speakers of at least one language, in addition to English, in a broad variety of oral and written contexts, including academic ones, maintaining a good degree of grammatical accuracy and appropriate style.
• A broad knowledge and understanding of aspects of the societies of the countries where your chosen language is spoken (including literature, cultures, linguistic contexts, politics, geography, and social and economic structures).
• Good intercultural communicative competence, including an awareness and understanding of the cultures and societies associated with each language and the ability to describe the similarities and dissimilarities between cultures and societies and your own.

Cognitive skills

You’ll be able to demonstrate your ability to:

• Synthesise, evaluate and challenge information, arguments and assumptions from different sources, by the theories, concepts and principles of business management
• Select and apply your knowledge and understanding to a good range of the principal professional skills, techniques, practices and/or materials associated with business management.
• Start developing an appreciation of the potential uncertainty, ambiguity and limits of knowledge in business management.
• Make use of a good variety of written, spoken and multimodal texts for different audiences in your chosen modern language and/or English, employing appropriate reading and listening strategies.
• Write short texts of different types in your chosen modern language and/or English, following appropriate structures and conventions, including academic language, selecting and making use of written and spoken sources.
• Make spoken presentations on particular topics, using appropriate styles and techniques, and take part in spoken interactions likely to arise whilst travelling in an area where the language is spoken in your chosen modern language, using appropriate discourse strategies.
• Interpret and evaluate evidence in the light of alternative explanations, arguments and theories.

Practical and/or professional skills

You’ll be able to demonstrate your ability to:

• Start engaging, as appropriate, with practical and professional skills and demonstrate an awareness of relevant responsible and ethical issues in business management.
• Gather and process information from a variety of paper, audio-visual and electronic sources, in English and your chosen modern language.
• Make judgements and construct arguments, supported by evidence, and appropriately referenced.

Key skills

You’ll be able to:

• Identify, interpret and solve problems appropriate to business management.
• Use a combination of formal, logical planning processes and an understanding of context to identify relevant information and risks and be able to identify alternative strategies and resources.
• Collaborate with others to achieve joint outcomes.
• Demonstrate the ability to independently find, evaluate and use a range of information, data or tools accurately.
• Adopt a range of numerical skills and digital practices (including the use of tools/resources), as appropriate to business management and language learning.
• Recognise and use effective learning strategies.

This certificate has only one stage, comprising 120 credits:

• In Stage 1, you’ll study a 60-credit introductory business management module. You’ll choose your language and study two 30-credit language modules.

Stage 1 (120 credits)

French

You'll choose one from:

• Exploring languages and cultures (L161)
• Introduction to French studies (beginners) (L102)

You'll study both of the following:

• An introduction to business and management (B100)
• French Studies 1 (intermediate) (L112)

German

You'll choose one from:

• Exploring languages and cultures (L161)
• Introduction to German studies (beginners) (L103)

You'll study both of the following:

• An introduction to business and management (B100)
• German Studies 1 (intermediate) (L113)

Spanish

You'll choose one from:

• Exploring languages and cultures (L161)
• Introduction to Spanish studies (beginners) (L106)

You'll study both of the following:

• An introduction to business and management (B100)
• Spanish Studies 1 (intermediate) (L116)

Assessment

Our assessments are all designed to reinforce your learning and help you show your understanding of the topics. The mix of assessment methods will vary between modules.

Computer-Marked Assignments

• Usually, a series of online, multiple-choice questions.

Tutor-Marked Assignments

• You’ll have a number of these throughout each module, each with a submission deadline.
• They can be made up of essays, questions, experiments or something else to test your understanding of what you have learned.
• Your tutor will mark and return them to you with detailed feedback.

End-of-Module Assessments

• The final, marked piece of work on most modules.
• Modules with an end-of-module assessment won’t usually have an exam.

Exams

• Some modules end with an exam. You’ll be given time to revise and prepare.
• You’ll be given your exam date at least 5 months in advance.
• Most exams take place remotely, and you will complete them at home or an alternative location.
• If a module requires you to take a face-to-face exam, this will be made clear in the module description, and you will be required to take your exam in person at one of our exam centres.