BA International Business and Modern Languages

at University of Exeter

Course content

The modules we outline here provide examples of what you can expect to learn on this degree course based on recent academic teaching. The precise modules available to you in future years may vary depending on staff availability and research interests, new topics of study, timetabling and student demand.

You may take option modules as long as any necessary prerequisites have been satisfied, where the timetable allows and if you have not already taken the module in question or an equivalent module.

Year 1
 

• The International Business Context
• Discovering Management
• Language, Culture, and International Relations
• French Language
• French Language for Beginners
• German Language
• German Language for Beginners
• Italian Language
• Italian Language for Beginners
• Beginners Chinese
• Portuguese Language for Beginners
• Contemporary Russian Written and Oral
• Russian Language for Beginners
• Spanish Language
• Spanish Language for Beginners

Year 2
 

• International Business
• Organisational Behaviour
• Intercultural Communication
• French Language, Written and Oral
• Intermediate French
• German Language, Written and Oral
• Intermediate German
• Italian Language, Written and Oral
• Italian Language
• Intermediate Chinese (One)
• Intermediate Portuguese
• Contemporary Russian Written and Oral I
• Intermediate Russian
• Spanish Language, Written and Oral
• Spanish Language (ex-beginners)
• Spanish Language for Beginners

Placement year
 

• This degree includes a compulsory year abroad with the option to study at a partner university, undertake a year-long work placement, or combine both.
• Your placement year will take place in your third year, before returning to complete your degree at Exeter in your fourth and final year of study.

Final year
 

• Advanced French Language Skills
• Advanced German Language Skills
• Advanced Italian Language Skills
• Advanced Chinese Language Skills
• Advanced Portuguese Language Skills
• Advanced Russian Language Skills
• Advanced Spanish Language Skills
• Advances in International Business and Management
• Intercultural Communication in a Global World

A-Level    
 

• AAA
• The required Modern Foreign Language is dependent on the level chosen

IB
 

• 36/666    
• The required Modern Foreign Language is dependent on the level chosen

BTEC
 

• DDD    
• The required Modern Foreign Language is dependent on the level chosen

GCSE
 

• B/5    
• GCSE Grade B/5 in English language and Mathematics (or GCE AL/AS Mathematics or Further Mathematics or Pure Mathematics or Core Mathematics). Language Requirements – Minimum GCSE Language Grade B/5

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Access to HE
 

• 30 L3 credits at Distinction Grade and 15 L3 credits at Merit Grade.
• Dependent on level chosen the required L3 credits in Modern Foreign Language subject area

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Contextual Offer
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• A-Level: ABB
• IB: 32/655
• BTEC: DDM

• UK students: £9,250 per year
• International students: £19,500 per year

We anticipate that most graduates will move on to business-oriented careers – management, marketing, finance, etc – but that they will pursue these careers across the globe for a much broader range of international companies than usual.