BA Management and Japanese Studies

Comments about BA Management and Japanese Studies - At the institution - Sheffield - South Yorkshire

• Objectives
  This four year course gives you a good understanding of both management, and Japanese. In the management part of the degree, you will gain a good grounding in the basic principles of management and then use this to specialise in particular areas of management like human resource management, management information systems or marketing. The Japanese side of the course combines intensive study of the Japanese language with a selection of lecture-based modules on Japan and East Asia. A year between the second and third years of the course is spent at one of our partner universities in Japan, providing an excellent opportunity to enhance your language skills and to immerse yourself in Japanese society. The language is taught intensively and covers all the basic skills of speaking, listening, reading and writing. You learn phonetic scripts (kana) from the outset, and learn the roughly 2000 Sino-Japanese characters (kanji) needed over the four years of the course. You encounter over a quarter of these in the first year. By the end of the first year you will have covered most of the core grammar of the language, and from the second year of the course you start to deal with real texts, including newspapers, and you develop compositional, summary, translation and presentational skills. The lecture-based modules cover a range of disciplines. The main focus is on contemporary social sciences, so you can choose modules on contemporary society, minorities, politics, economics, gender, modern history, business management and international relations. There are also some literature-based options, including both modern literature and the pre-modern language. The School of East Asian Studies is one of the main centres for Japanese in Europe, and is one of two universities' departments that constitute the National Centre for Japanese Studies. This course is run jointly with the School of East Asian Studies.
• Entry requirements
  Entry requirements GCE/VCE A Levels - ABB Two GCE A Levels plus two GCE AS Levels - AB+BB Scottish Highers - B/AAA Irish Leaving Cert. - AABBB BTEC Level N - 2 Distinctions and 1 Merit International Baccalaureate - 33 points Core Requirements - Grade B in Mathematics at GCSE or equivalent
• Academic title
  BA Management and Japanese Studies
• Course description
  Our students usually select from a range of compulsory and optional modules to add up to 120 credits.
  
  Some departments offer courses that don't feature optional modules whereas other courses are fully flexible.
  
  Important notice :
  
  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.
  
  This information is provided for illustration only and you should check with the department directly when applying to confirm module options.
  
  
  Typical First Year Modules
  
  Module/Unit Credits
  Japanese Language I  40
   
  Japanese Language II  40
   
  Introduction to Behaviour at Work  10
   
  Introduction to Operations Management  10
   
  Principles of Marketing  10
   
  Financial Accounting Introduction 1  10
   
  Introduction to Operations Management  10
   
  Introductory Business Statistics A  10
   
  Introductory Business Statistics B  10
   
  Management Information Systems  10
   
  Principles of Marketing  10
   
  Quantitative and IT Skills B  10
   
  Quantitative and Information Technology Skills A  10
   
  Typical Second Year Modules
  
  Module/Unit Credits
  Japanese Language III  20
   
  Japanese Language IV  20
   
  Economic Principles and Management  20
   
  Enterprise and Entrepreneurship  20
   
  Financial Management  20
   
  Human Resource Management  20
   
  Information Systems Development  20
   
  Intermediate Financial Accounting  20
   
  Intermediate Management Accounting  20
   
  Introduction to Corporate Finance and Asset Pricing  20
   
  Issues in Corporate Governance  20
   
  Law for Management  20
   
  Organisational Behaviour  20
   
  Principles of Consumer Behaviour  20
   
  Principles of Operations Management  20
   
  Project Management  20
   
  Typical Third Year Modules
  
  Module/Unit Credits
  Japan Year Abroad  120
   
  Typical Fourth Year Modules
  
  Module/Unit Credits
  Business Strategy  20
   
  Business Strategy  20
   
  Japanese Language V  20
   
  Japanese Language VI  20
   
  Work and Society in Japan  20
   
  An Introduction to Financial Derivatives  20
   
  Business Strategy  20
   
  Corporate Social Responsibility  20
   
  Critical Perspectives in Work & Organisational Psychology  20
   
  Enterprise Workshops  20
   
  Group Project in Management  20
   
  Group Project in Management  20
   
  Independent Study (Dissertation)  20
   
  Industrial Relations  20
   
  Integrated Marketing Communications  20
   
  International Business  20
   
  Management Consulting  20
   
  Technology Management  20

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