BA Japanese Language with Management Studies (R9N2)
- Course Code UNU1R9N2401J
- Duration 4 Years
- Attendance Full Time
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As well as taking this programme from post-A level (2012 onwards), it is possible to start from beginners level in Japanese or GCSE level in Japanese. In these cases, more intensive language study is provided prior to the year abroad in year three. This more intensive study reduces slightly the number of optional modules available in year one. If you study two languages to honours level, both must be studied from A level.
This course is designed to combine the elements of language and management with scope for the study of a range of options and thereby offers a considerable degree of flexibility. Studying Japanese and the workings of business and management offers attractive prospects to students who plan to go out into the challenging and rewarding world of international commerce. With the continued pace of globalisation, opportunities are constantly increasing. Currently 60% of UK trade is now with non-English speaking countries and UK businesses lose millions every year because they cannot speak their customers’ languages. As a result, employees with advanced language skills are more valuable than ever and find correspondingly satisfying and well remunerated jobs.
The 120-credit management strand of your degree is taught in UEA’s Norwich Business School. You will acquire a general and discerning knowledge of the purpose and job of management in business and organisations, insights into the practice of management and its environment, and the ability to use the inter-relationship of theory and practice to help solve the key management issues that arise in modern business and organisational life. You will appreciate the nature and impact of managerial decisions concerning a range of management disciplines. Teaching in the Norwich Business School takes advantage of innovatory thinking, based on the School’s internationally focussed research in business and management. In your first year, you take two year-long modules: ‘Introduction to Business’, the topics covered include economics, financial and legal institutions, and types of business organisation; and ‘Introduction to Organisational Behaviour’. In your second year, you take the following two year-long modules: ‘Human Resource Management’ and ‘Principles of Marketing’. In your final year, the two year-long modules include ‘Strategic Management’. Visit the Norwich Business School website for further information
Honours Language Work
You must study Japanese but it is also possible to acquire a subsidiary language as part of the programme. The subsidiary languages we offer are listed in the next section.
In year one, students taking Japanese also take an introductory module called ‘Study, Research and Communication Skills’ which develops the core academic skills, attributes and knowledge necessary for language students to make the most of study at university. Each year, you have on average four contact-hours per week in your honours language. The language teaching is closely related to the study of contemporary society in the country (or countries) where your honours language is spoken and your experience of learning language at UEA will include a combination of lectures, seminars and conversation classes. It will cover grammar, translation from and into Japanese, reading and listening comprehension, précis and paraphrase work, the study of different styles and registers, lexical exercises and oral work. You will also spend a significant proportion of your time working independently using subject-oriented teaching dossiers, radio, TV, films, transcripts, newspapers and online resources while keeping abreast of current affairs and cultural life at home and abroad. Our Language Centre has a digital language laboratory, a viewing and editing room, an interpreting suite for advanced language training, live satellite television broadcasts, a large, multi-media self-access resources room with a wide range of DVDs and reference books, up-to-date computers linked to the internet, and translation software.
You will acquire specific expertise in the traditional language skills of reading, writing, speaking and listening, as well as transferable skills such as time management, self-discipline and self-motivation, intercultural awareness, flexibility and resourcefulness, mediation skills, IT literacy and teamwork. Language and business come together in year two when you cover business-related topics in your core language course.
Subsidiary language
Single honours language programmes allow for the study of one year of subsidiary language (starting from various levels). Subject to availability, the following languages may be studied from scratch: British Sign Language, Mandarin Chinese, French, German, Modern Greek, Italian, Russian, and Spanish, and many of these can also be studied for from GCSE level; there are also post-A level subsidiary courses in some languages. Students taking two languages to honours level can follow subsidiary language modules for a small fee outside the required programme of study.
The Third Strand
Alongside the core language and management study, students are able to choose from a wide range of modules which normally include: further management modules; other language-related modules such as Translation Issues in the Media, Subtitling and Dubbing, Intercultural Communication in Practice, Translation and Adaptation, or cultural modules such as Language and Identity, Language and Gender, Language, Culture and Intercultural Communication, or the addition of a subsidiary language to your honours language, as described above. If you take two honours languages, then you are completely focused on compulsory modules and do not have the scope for other study.
Year Abroad
Your Third Year is spent in Japan. For further information, please click on the Study Abroad tab.
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