BA Business Management and Modern Languages & Cultures
Entry requirements
A Level: ABB IB: 33, typically with 5 in a Higher Level modern foreign language; 32, typically with 5 in a Higher Level modern foreign language, and B in the extended essay
About this course
BA in Business Management and Modern Languages & Cultures, a business management and modern languages degree centred on global perspectives in commercial operations and cultural studies. Core topics include Research Methods, Environmental Analysis, Critical & Analytical Thinking, and Global & Comparative Perspective. The programme combines management theory with language acquisition across multiple European languages, incorporating a compulsory third year spent studying or working abroad. The first year introduces foundational concepts through compulsory modules such as Why Money Matters, Why Organisations Matter, and Business, Economics and Society, alongside chosen language and culture study. The second year progresses with core modules including Leadership, Influence and Collaboration, Marketing: Creating Customer Value, and Strategic Choices, alongside further language advancement. The third year is spent abroad on a work or study placement, allowing total linguistic and cultural immersion. The final year involves advanced language proficiency, a Project in Languages and Cultures, and optional modules such as Humans, AI and Business, Global Business and Geopolitics, and Work, Wellbeing and Performance.
Modules
- Why Money Matters
- Why Organisations Matter
- Business, Economics and Society
- French Advanced
- Understanding Modern French and Francophone Cultures
- French Beginner Intensive
- Understanding German and Dutch Histories and Cultures
- German Advanced
- German Beginner Intensive
- Dutch Beginner
- Russian Beginner Intensive
- Russian Advanced
- Russian and Czech Cultures in the Age of Empire and beyond
- Czech Beginner
- Spanish Advanced
- Understanding Spanish, Catalan and Portuguese Histories and Cultures
- Spanish Beginner Intensive
- Catalan Beginner
- Portuguese Beginner
- Euro-Visions: Imagining and Questioning Europe
- Language at Work
- Resist! The Art of Protest in Berlin and Amsterdam
- You will also have the option to select 20 credits of Languages for All modules in your chosen language.
- Leadership, Influence and Collaboration
- Marketing: Creating Customer Value
- Strategic Choices
- French Higher Advanced
- French Intermediate Intensive
- German Intermediate Intensive
- German Higher Advanced
- Dutch Intermediate
- Russian Intermediate
- Russian Higher Advanced
- Czech Intermediate
- Spanish Intermediate Intensive
- Spanish Higher Advanced
- Catalan Intermediate
- Portuguese Intermediate
- Language and the Self
- Translation
- Revolutions and Revolutionary Trends
- You will also have the option to select 20 credits of Languages for All modules in your chosen language.
- French Year Abroad
- Germanic Studies Year Abroad
- Hispanic Studies Year Abroad
- Russian and Slavonic Studies Year Abroad
- Project in Languages and Cultures
- French Proficient
- German Proficient
- Dutch Proficient
- Russian Proficient
- Czech Proficient
- Spanish Proficient
- Catalan Proficient
- Portuguese Proficient
- Optional modules
- Social Approaches to Multilingualism
- Comparative Critique of Consumer Culture
- Tales of Cities. Mapping and Marketing the Urban as a Site of Encounter and Conflict
- Migration and its Representations Across Cultures
- Global Careers in Languages
- Music and Performance
- You will also have the option to select 20 credits of Languages for All modules in your chosen language.