Comments about BA Hispanic Studies and Management - At the institution - Sheffield - South Yorkshire
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Objectives
The dual degree in Hispanic Studies and Management is a four year course which provides the opportunity to develop group working, presentation, problem solving, report writing and critical/higher level analytical skills in the Management half of the degree, while you study the language, society, literature and thought of Spain and Latin America. You spend the third year of your course abroad in a Spanish-speaking country.
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Practical experience
We offer an excellent range of year abroad options in Spain and Latin America
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Entry requirements
-GCE/VCE A Levels - BBB -Two GCE A Levels plus two GCE AS Levels - BB+BB -Scottish Highers - AABB (must include at least one Advanced Higher) -Scottish Advanced Highers - BBB -Irish Leaving Cert. - ABBBB -International Baccalaureate - 32 points -Core Requirements - Grade B in GCE A Level Spanish or appropriate evidence of linguistic ability required. You can take our beginner's course in Spanish and then go on to our Honours degree; for this route (or if you have good AS Level Spanish) you'll need grade B at GCE A Level in another language or equivalent evidence of linguistic ability. Grade B in GCSE Maths is also required.
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Academic title
BA Hispanic Studies and Management
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Course description
This is a list of modules that have been offered in the past. We expect similar modules to be offered for courses starting in 2009.
Typical First Year Modules
Module/Unit
-Introduction to Behaviour at Work
-Introduction to Operations Management
-Principles of Marketing
-Introduction to Management Accounting
-Spanish Advanced: Language and Culture I
-Spanish Advanced: Language and Culture II
-Spanish Beginners: Language and Culture I
-Spanish Beginners: Language and Culture II
-Financial Accounting Introduction 1
-Financial Accounting Introduction 2
-Introductory Business Statistics A
-Introductory Business Statistics B
-Management Information Systems
-Quantitative and IT Skills B
-Quantitative and Information Technology Skills A
Typical Second Year Modules
Module/Unit
-Advanced Spanish Language I
-Advanced Spanish Language II
-Business Research Methods
-Business Statistics
-Economic Principles and Management
-Financial Management
-Human Resource Management
-Information Systems Development
-Intermediate Financial Accounting
-Intermediate Management Accounting
-Introduction to Corporate Finance and Asset Pricing
-Law for Management
-Organisational Behaviour
-Principles of Consumer Behaviour
-Principles of Operations Management
-Project Management
-Cinema, Nation and Identity in the Hispanic World
-Contemporary Latin America (Cuba)
-Contemporary Latin America (Mexico)
-Cuban Culture and the Revolution
-Further Portuguese: Language and Culture I
-Further Portuguese: Language and Culture II
-Hispanic Film and Human Rights
-Intensive Catalan I
-Intensive Catalan II
-Intensive Portuguese I
-Intensive Portuguese II
-Linguistic Developments in Modern Spain
-Narrative Perspectives on Post-Civil War Spain
-Representations of Latin America
-Spain and Enlightenment
-Spanish American 20th-Century Literature I
-Spanish Language in Business Contexts
-The Novels of Benito Perez Galdos
-Troubled Times: Writers and Social Conflict in the Spain of the 1930s
Typical Third Year Modules
Module/Unit
-Hispanic Studies Year Abroad
-Hispanic Studies Year Abroad
-Hispanic Studies Year Abroad (Project)
-Hispanic Studies Year Abroad (Project)
Typical Fourth Year Modules
Module/Unit
-Business Strategy
-Advanced Spanish Language III
-Advanced Spanish Language IV
-An Introduction to Financial Derivatives
-Business Strategy
-Corporate Finance
-Corporate Social Responsibility
-Critical Perspectives in Work & Organisational Psychology
-Dissertation
-Enterprise Workshops
-Group Project in Management
-Group Project in Management
-Independent Study (Dissertation)
-Industrial Relations
-Integrated Marketing Communications
-International Business
-Language and Organisation
-Management Consulting
-Spanish Language Teaching
-Technology Management
-Catalan Advanced: Language and Culture I
-Catalan Advanced: Language and Culture II
-Contemporary Argentina
-Dissidence and Debate in Early 20th-Century Spain
-Genesis and Genre: From Novel to Play to Screen: Galdos Today
-Interpreting Skills
-Law and Culture in the Hispanic World
-Media Ethics in the Hispanic World
-Modern Peru
-Modern Uruguayan Narrative
-Musical Performance and Hispanic Culture
-Popular Culture and Society in Latin America
-Portuguese Advanced: Language and Culture I
-Portuguese Advanced: Language and Culture II
-Portuguese Advanced: Language and Culture III
-Portuguese Advanced: Language and Culture IV
-Sexual Politics in Latin American Fiction
-Spain Since 1975
-The Politics and Fiction of Crisis: 1868 - 1898
-The Rise of Popular Culture in Latin American Fiction
-Translation Studies
-Visual Culture in Spain and Latin America
-Writers Under Franco
-Writing in Exile
Also available
- BA Hispanic Studies and Politics
- BA Hispanic Studies with Czech
- BA Hispanic Studies with Japanese
- BA Hispanic Studies with Polish
