BA (Hons) Chinese and International Business Bachelor's degree at Westminster

The module offers you the opportunity to learn how global economies work and the general context in which the business organisations operate. You'll analyse the purpose, structures and ethical and environmental constraints faced by organisations across different industries. At the same time, you'll study the cultural differences within and between business organisations and as part of the learning process you'll develop research, team work and communication skills.

The module introduces the core theoretical knowledge, methodologies and fundamental skills required for the study of language and culture. This includes developing a sound understanding of key terms and concepts in addition to the skills needed to produce clear and competent written English in a range of registers and styles appropriate for undergraduate academic study. The module lectures emphasise the interconnectedness of the study of language and culture and introduce you to a variety of met

This module provides you with an introduction to marketing and its role in international business and the societies in which it is practised. It provides you with an overview of the principles underpinning marketing activities. The module aims to introduce the key concepts of marketing, an understanding of consumer behaviour, and an evaluation and application of marketing tools in the context of contemporary major global social and environmental issues.

Beginners and false beginners of Chinese will learn a range of language skills, cultural competencies and critical abilities to enable them to function with a limited degree of linguistic and cultural autonomy in Chinese-speaking countries and the learning environment. Language and culture are taught in an integrated way through task-based and enquiry-based approaches to learning. You'll achieve levels 1-2 (beginners and false beginners) or 2-3 (intermediates) on the HSK; cultural elements focus

The module aims to provide you with an introduction to finance and accounting from a managerial or user perspective (rather than from that of an accounting specialist). The module provides you with an introduction to capital investment appraisal techniques used in management and the sources of capital that a business needs. The module also provides an introduction to financial statement, financial analysis and management accounting techniques to support decision making.

This module introduces the study of contemporary and ancient material culture and examines its meaning in social, political and historical perspectives. You'll acquire skills of object analysis and visit London galleries and museums to apply them. You'll examine the social and cultural lives of objects, and how their meaning changes depending on their context and use, by assessing their production, the impact of trade, war and migration on their circulation, and their provenance and politics of

This module develops the practical and conceptual foundations of the translation process. In addition to language-specific translation seminars that focus on real-world texts of a gradually more complex but mostly factual and explicit nature, in the translation workshops, you'll be introduced to a range of translation-specific skills, including IT skills as well as basic theoretical concepts as a means of identifying, understanding and resolving translation issues in a practical manner.

You will learn a range of language skills, cultural competencies and critical abilities to enable them to function with an intermediate level of linguistic and cultural autonomy in Chinese-speaking environments. Language and culture are taught through task-based and enquiry-based approaches with special emphasis on the promotion of intercultural understanding. you'll achieve levels 2-3 (post-beginners) or 3-4 (post-intermediates) on the HSK; cultural elements focus on key events and ideas that h

This module takes a contemporary approach to examine critical issues facing companies with a presence in more than one country. Using a balance of relevant theories, international business scenarios and cases, you'll gain a more critical understanding of the challenges of international business, and learn how to develop creative and adaptive solutions.

This module develops your understanding of the impact of human behaviour on the performance of organisations globally. An analysis of the key theories, concepts and empirical evidence about contemporary work organisations will provide you with the basic analytical tools for understanding why the workplace is a domain of discord as much as harmony, of paradox just as much as rationality, and of frustration just as much as satisfaction.

The module focuses on the application of digital technologies on todays changing business world. The module explores current topics such as E-Commerce and its different types, E-Business, the Web and mobile platforms, a managerial perspective on building an E-Commerce perspective, security and payment systems, digital strategies, business and revenue models and social, mobile and local marketing tools. The module highlights the importance of the implementation of these tools and theories to busi

This module aims to develop your knowledge and interest in a wide range of concepts and techniques of financial analysis, financial forecasting and shareholder value analysis. It also examines a range of models that compete in explaining corporate distress and in describing company share valuation. These aspects of financial analysis are addressed from a global perspective, recognising the impact of the harmonisation of financial accounting and the use of International Financial Reporting Standa

In this module you will examine how those in positions of power use language to create narratives, values and beliefs held by different groups of people in the world. You will explore how language found in the public space reflects values and conventions and how this can change across different societies. The module focuses on the role and purpose of different kinds of social institutions and analyses the means through which they maintain their identity in the international public space and the

This blended module – which combines lectures, workshops, and online student-to-student collaboration – introduces professional language transposition skills relevant to the communication of current affairs in an increasingly globalised and digitised world. You take ownership of learning, choosing the topics studied and how to manage the synchronous online sessions. International collaborations develop interpersonal and organisational skills, as well as interlingual, intermodal, and intercultura

This module focuses on key cultural developments that have impacted the Arabic/Chinese/Francophone/Hispanic world (according to students' language of study) through the analysis of pertinent cultural artefacts. It considers the development of each cultural and linguistic area over time up to and including the present day. To do so, the module will identify and focus on cultural artefacts that include text, objects, and audiovisual media such as – but not exclusively – literature, film, individua

This module is about critically exploring some of the most important similarities and differences in the context of management and organisation across different countries and regions of the world. It seeks to provide a broad conceptual framework to analyse such variety in view of the institutional -as opposed to cultural- context in which management and organisation take place. This comparative framework draws on the distinction between Liberal and Coordinated market economies - or Anglo-Saxon a

The Final Year Project offers you a choice of three pathways to complete an independent project. (1) The Professional Transcreation Project pathway provides the opportunity to work on a professional brief, creating materials for an organisation's expansion into new markets, with a focus on localisation and transcreation processes. (2) The Translation Project pathway prepares you for translation in a professional context through the completion of an extended translation as well as a critical comm