Unit information: Spanish for Business in 2022/23

Unit name	Spanish for Business
Unit code	HISP30057
Credit points	20
Level of study	H/6
Teaching block(s)	Teaching Block 4 (weeks 1-24)
Unit director	Ms. Marga Menendez-Lopez
Open unit status	Not open
Units you must take before you take this one (pre-requisite units)	HISP20101 or UWLP20006 and satisfactory completion of the year abroad or other study or work placement in the country of the target language or evidence of high level of proficiency in the language.
Units you must take alongside this one (co-requisite units)	NONE
Units you may not take alongside this one	None
School/department	Department of Hispanic, Portuguese and Latin American Studies
Faculty	Faculty of Arts

Unit Information

This unit is designed for final year students who are returning from the year abroad and/or for students who have an advanced level of language.

The unit aims to reinforce and further enhance advanced language skills, focusing on, and developing students’ ability to communicate confidently and at a high level in, the varied business environments of the Spanish-speaking world.

Topics covered in this unit include:

• Application of advanced language skills to a range of business contexts
• How a business works: definition, structure and organisation
• Importing and exporting: customs unions in Europe and Latin America
• Banking, Taxes, and Credit. The Stock Market
• Entrepreneurship: creating a company, a product or a service (business planning, product design, market research, marketing and advertising)
• Teamwork: negotiating skills, collaboration, group decision-making and problem solving
• Business Intercultural Communication: Spanish and Latin American markets

The unit includes regular formative peer review activity.

Your learning on this unit

On completion of the unit, successful students will be able to demonstrate:

1. Fluency and sophistication in spoken and written business Spanish and advanced listening skills
2. Ability to think critically, organise their ideas and argue their points with relevant support, for a business context and at an advanced level
3. Intercultural awareness to facilitate international business communication, based on wide-ranging knowledge and understanding of business protocol and procedures in Spanish-speaking countries
4. Ability to pitch a product, a company or a service in Spanish, and to analyse the market, the competition and the consumer
5. Ability to design a marketing and advertising strategy in Spanish
6. Team-work and leadership skills transferable to a business environment

How you will learn

Teaching will be delivered through a combination of synchronous sessions and asynchronous activities, including seminars, lectures, and collaborative as well as self-directed learning opportunities supported by tutor consultation

How you will be assessed

1 x group presentation (summative, 50%), testing ILOs 2-6.

1 x 2500 word written assignment (summative, 50%), testing ILOs 1, 3, 4 and 6.

Resources

If this unit has a Resource List, you will normally find a link to it in the Blackboard area for the unit. Sometimes there will be a separate link for each weekly topic.

If you are unable to access a list through Blackboard, you can also find it via the Resource Lists homepage. Search for the list by the unit name or code (e.g. HISP30057).

How much time the unit requires
Each credit equates to 10 hours of total student input. For example a 20 credit unit will take you 200 hours of study to complete. Your total learning time is made up of contact time, directed learning tasks, independent learning and assessment activity.

See the Faculty workload statement relating to this unit for more information.

Assessment
The Board of Examiners will consider all cases where students have failed or not completed the assessments required for credit. The Board considers each student's outcomes across all the units which contribute to each year's programme of study. If you have self-certificated your absence from an assessment, you will normally be required to complete it the next time it runs (this is usually in the next assessment period).
The Board of Examiners will take into account any extenuating circumstances and operates within the Regulations and Code of Practice for Taught Programmes.