About English and Finance, BA - at Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University (XJTLU)

The interdisciplinary BA English and Finance programme combines English language and finance with the aim of producing graduates who have an excellent command of English and a critical awareness of the use of language in a financial context.

Graduates of this programme, as with all XJTLU undergraduate programmes, will earn two degrees: an XJTLU degree from the Chinese Ministry of Education and a globally recognised degree from the University of Liverpool, a member of the Russell Group of leading UK universities.

Why should I study English and Finance at XJTLU?

While options for the English side of the programme are fairly open, the most popular choices for our ENF cohorts tend to be modules which give them very useful insights into the language of specialist domains such as the business and finance world.

As an ENF student you are in a strong position:

• You are an English major who has studied specialist Business/Finance modules for a substantial part of your degree
• You can choose options in mathematics, finance and economics to develop and extend your knowledge of finance-related statistical methods
• Meanwhile, your strengths in English language and linguistics provide deeper insights into the use of language across different domains.

Knowledge and skills

By the time you graduate from the BA English and Finance programme, you will:

• be able to communicate professionally in English, using the language confidently to analyse financial issues
• have the ability to apply a range of accounting and quantitative techniques
• have a good working knowledge of financial economics and financial markets.

Modules

• Year One

  UK degrees are three years long whereas in China they are four, therefore we do accept students with certain qualifications directly into Year Two, which is the start of the main academic programme. Most students, however, enter into Year One, which provides you with a range of interesting modules, language classes and core skills for your degree.

• Year Two

  Compulsory modules:

  • English Language and study skills III for business
  • Introduction to linguistics
  • Introduction to statistics
  • Introduction to financial accounting and accountability
  • Foundations of finance.

  Elective modules:

  • Sounds of English
  • Introduction to close reading: approaches to literary study
  • English as a global language
  • Introduction to corpus linguistics
  • Literary theory
  • Literature in context
  • Syntax.

  Choose:

  • Economic principles for business and markets, or
  • Maths for economics and business.

• Year Three

  Compulsory modules:

  • Theory of the firm
  • Financial management.

  Elective modules:

  • Translation
  • Technical translation
  • Interpreting
  • Language and society
  • Advertising and the media
  • Literature and gender
  • Semantics and pragmatics
  • Literature of the Enlightenment
  • Bilingualism
  • Language and mind
  • Language and gender
  • Jane Austen
  • Postcolonial literature.

  Choose:

  • Econometrics I, or
  • Corporate finance.

  and choose:

  • Securities markets, or
  • International development.

• Year Four

  Compulsory modules:

  • Business finance
  • Finance and markets
  • International economic relations.

  Elective modules:

  • Analysing text
  • Chinese linguistics
  • Historical linguistics
  • Advanced literature: British romanticism
  • Conference interpreting
  • Technoculture
  • Applied linguistics
  • Interpersonal communication in the workplace
  • Language and literature
  • Intercultural communication
  • Postmodern literature
  • Language of the law
  • The Gothic
  • Advanced literature: approaches to modern poetry
  • Final year project.

Careers

You will acquire language, business knowledge and intercultural skills that are highly sought-after in international institutions. Graduates typically pursue careers within the general domain of English and finance including administrative, managerial, accounting and consultancy positions within international organisations.

You may also be able to pursue a career as a professional translator or interpreter. Additionally, the programme provides a foundation for further graduate level study in the subjects of English language and finance.

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Entry requirements for this course

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