Undergraduate Degrees

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 French and/or Spanish 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 growth of the European Community, 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 are: 'Strategic Management’ and a choice of one from 'Behavioural Aspects of Marketing' and 'Business Skills for Managers'. Visit the Norwich Business School website for further information

Honours Language Work

In year 1 and 2 you study both French and Spanish to a high level.  Each year, you have on average 8 contact-hours per week.  The language teaching is closely related to the study of contemporary society in the countries where your Honours languages are 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 French and/or Spanish, 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 in French and Spanish, a large, multi-media self-access resources room with a wide range of French and Spanish 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. In the case of French Honours language, the second year course prepares you for the 'Diplôme de Français des Affaires’, an international qualification offered by the Chambre de Commerce de Paris.

If you take two Honours languages, then you are completely focused on compulsory modules and do not have the scope for other study, but if you would prefer a wider range of options then consider a single honours language programme.

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, Japanese, 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.

The Third Strand

Alongside the core language and management study, students taking either Single Honours language programme 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, Translation and Adaptation, French Language in Action, or cultural modules such as Popular Culture in Latin America, France Through the Eye of the Lens, Spain Through the Eye of the Lens, An Introduction to Latin American Film, Aspects of the French Language, Language and Identity, Language and Gender or the addition of a Subsidiary language to your Honours language, as described above.

Year Abroad

Your Third Year is spent in a country where French or Spanish is spoken. For further information, please click on the Study Abroad tab.

Course Organiser:Dr. Roger Baines

The School of Language and Communication Studies is a small, lively School where we offer flexible undergraduate degree programmes with an emphasis on language competence and on issues relating to contemporary language and translation. Our graduates are highly employable and enter an extremely wide range of professions using their well-developed language and communication skills, and intercultural sensitivity.

Our MA graduates are equally successful professionally. Courses at this level enable flexible planning in the combination of core and optional modules and in the range of possible dissertation topics, while the Faculty of Arts and Humanities provides a rich interdisciplinary environment designed to encourage dialogue and the cross-fertilisation of ideas.

New for 2012-13

We’re always working to build on our strengths here in LCS, improving your student experience – and your prospects. Here are some new Key Features for 2012-13 that you won’t yet find in our brochure:

• Smaller groups in language classes – as few as 10 – mean even better quality learning.
• New high-spec professional interpreter training facilities – helping to keep you ahead of the game.
• Employability boost – extra timetabled sessions to develop your skills and employability profile for a range of professions using language skills right from the start of your degree course.

Find out what our undergraduate students say or check out our Facebook page for 2013 applicants where you can ask our current students questions about studying and living here:

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Year Abroad

Your Third Year is spent in a country where French or Spanish is spoken. It is normally spent in one of three ways: (1) by working as a language assistant teaching English; (2) by doing other suitable work; (3) by studying at a foreign university, either as an exchange student or as a temporary student. If you are taking Spanish and French from A level, you will normally split the year between two countries where those languages are spoken. If you are taking one of the languages from below A level, you will normally spend your year in a country where the weaker language is spoken and the summer in a country where your stronger language is spoken.

Language assistantships, usually teaching English in a secondary school, provide a useful opportunity to gain some experience of teaching. You become a paid employee of the education authority abroad. Generally, foreign schools want you to stay for a whole academic year, thus an assistantship will not normally be suitable for students studying French and Spanish who need to divide their time abroad between two separate countries.
Students who wish to find a work placement are encouraged to do so and are given support and advice in doing this. However, it is not a requirement of the course. The University is not in a position to act as an employment bureau but we do have a number of contacts with companies which employ our students each year and make the details of these vacancies available and give you support and advice when you apply. Generally, we approve a job provided it involves the use of your foreign language for a wide range of purposes and that most of your colleagues will be native speakers.

As regards study at a foreign university, we have Erasmus exchange schemes and well established links with many universities in France and Spain: (France) Clermont Ferrand, Corsica, Lyon III, Nancy II, Pau, Toulouse II, and Tours; (Spain) Alicante, Castilla La Mancha, Alcalá de Henares, Granada, Salamanca, Toledo and Zaragoza, as well as the Universidad de Guadalajara and the Universidad de las Americas in Mexico.

If you are a highly proficient native or near-native speaker of French or Spanish, then you are normally exempted from the compulsory year abroad for that language and spend your first year studying a completely different language from our wide range of subsidiary languages. In your following two years your compulsory language strand consists of final year level modules in your native language. If you are studying two languages to Honours level and one of these is your native language, then you will spend a year abroad in a country where your non-native language is spoken.

For more information on the study abroad options, please take a look at the Faculty of Arts and Humanities  Study Abroad website.

Entry Requirements

A Level:

ABB

International Baccalaureate:

32

Scottish Advanced Highers:

ABB

Irish Leaving Certificate:

AABBBB

Access Course:

Please contact the University for further information.

HND:

Please contact the University for further information.

European Baccalaureate:

75%

Students for whom English is a Foreign language

We welcome applications from students from all academic backgrounds. We require evidence of proficiency in English (including writing, speaking, listening and reading). Recognised English Language qualifications include:

• IELTS: 6.5 overall (minimum 6.0 in all components)
• TOEFL: Internet-based score of 88 overall (minimum 18 in the Listening and Writing components; 19 in the Reading component; and 21 in the Speaking component)
• PTE: 62 overall with minimum 55 in all components

If you do not meet the University's entry requirements, our INTO Language Learning Centre offers a range of university preparation courses to help you develop the high level of academic and English skills necessary for successful undergraduate study.
 

Interviews

The School does not currently interview all applicants for undergraduate entry as standard, however we do offer the opportunity to meet with an academic individually on a Visit Day in order to gain a deeper insight into the course(s) you have applied for.

Gap Year

We welcome applications from students who have already taken or intend to take a gap year.

Deferred Entry

We also welcome applications for deferred entry, believing that a year between school and university can be of substantial benefit. You are advised to indicate your reason for wishing to defer entry and may wish to contact the appropriate Admissions Office directly to discuss this further.

Special Entry Requirements

It is generally expected that you should have at least a Grade B at A Level, or its equivalent, in the language or languages that you intend to take at honours level.

Intakes

The School's annual intake is in September of each year.

Alternative Qualifications

If you have alternative qualifications that have not been mentioned above then please contact the University directly for further information.

GCSE Offer

Students are required to have Mathematics and English at Grade C or above at GCSE level.

Assessment

For the majority of candidates the most important factors in assessing the application will be past and future achievement in examinations, academic interest in the subject being applied for, personal interest and extra-curricular activities and the confidential reference. We consider applicants as individuals and accept students from a very wide range of educational backgrounds and spend time considering your application in order to reach an informed decision relating your application. Typical offers are indicated above. Please note, there may be additional subject entry requirements specific to individual degree courses.

Fees and Funding

University Fees and Financial Support: UK/EU Students

Further information on fees and funding for 2012 can be found here

University Fees and Financial Support: International Students

The University will be charging International students £11,700.00 for all full time School of Language and Communication Studies undergraduate programmes which start in 2012.

Please click to access further information about fees and funding for International students.

Applications need to be made via the Universities Colleges and Admissions Services (UCAS), using the UCAS Apply option.

UCAS Apply is a secure online application system that allows you to apply for full-time Undergraduate courses at universities and colleges in the United Kingdom. It is made up of different sections that you need to complete. Your application does not have to be completed all at once. The system allows you to leave a section partially completed so you can return to it later and add to or edit any information you have entered. Once your application is complete, it must be sent to UCAS so that they can process it and send it to your chosen universities and colleges.

The UCAS code name and number for the University of East Anglia is EANGL E14.

Further Information

If you would like to discuss your individual circumstances with the Admissions Office prior to applying please do contact us:

Undergraduate Admissions Office (Language and Communication Studies)
Tel: +44 (0)1603 591515
Email: admissions@uea.ac.uk

Please click here to register your details online via our Online Enquiry Form.

International candidates are also actively encouraged to access the University's International section of our website.