The English side offers three pathways (you will choose one to pursue): the Linguistics pathway, the Literature pathway, and the Interpreting and Translation pathway. Regarding the other side, i.e., Finance, you will study economics, finance and financial mathematics alongside students in XJTLU’s International Business School Suzhou (IBSS).
By the time you graduate from the BA English and Finance programme, you will have:
The ability to communicate professionally and effectively in English, using English confidently to discuss and evaluate financial issues
The skills to apply a range of accounting and quantitative techniques
A good working knowledge of financial economics and financial markets
Insights into how language works in a wide range of social, literary, or financial and commercial contexts
Sharpened awareness of how languages may be used in multicultural work-places
Introduction To The Practice Of Statistics
Introduction to Literary Studies
Literature in Context
AI-Empowered Translation Skills
Introduction to Translation and Interpreting
Optional Modules
Essentials of Economics
Foundations of Finance
Sounds of English
Introduction to Linguistics: Grammar
History of English
Introduction to Linguistics: Spoken & Written Discourse
Financial Management
Enlightenment: Literature and Philosophy (1690-1795)
Postcolonial Literature
Language and Society
Language Acquisition
Translation: Theory and Practice
Interpreting
Optional Modules
Econometrics I
International Development
Intermediate Microeconomics
Corporate Finance
Securities Markets
Literature and Gender
Jane Austen
Tragedy in the Age of Shakespeare
Modern British Fiction on Page and Screen
The Short Story
Contemporary Western Approaches to Literature
Romanticism: Nature, Mind, and Society (1780-1840)
Language and Media
Bilingualism
Language and Gender
Semantics and Pragmatics
Cognitive Linguistics
Psycholinguistics
Corpus Linguistics
Language Documentation
Syntax
Morphology
Language Studies for Translation
Sight Translation
Translation and AI Technology
Translation and Culture
Translation and Journalism
Literary Translation
Translation and Computation
Finance and Markets
Postmodern Literature (1945-present)
Literature of Modernity (1900-1940)
Analyzing text
Intercultural Communication
Technology-Enhanced Audiovisual Translation
Translation Workshop I
Optional Modules
Final Year Project
Health Humanities
Literature: Final Year Project
Climate Change and Literature
Utopia: The History of an Idea
Final Year Project
Chinese Linguistics
Historical Linguistics
Translation and Interpreting: Final Year Project
Conference Interpreting
Translation and Society
Careers
Graduates from this programme will be well-prepared for positions such as administrative, managerial, accounting and consultancy positions within international organisations, international school teachers, or professional translators or interpreters.
Our graduates in the past have chosen to pursue a variety of postgraduate programmes (e.g. MBA, Marketing, Finance, Education, or Applied Linguistics) in prestigious institutions all over the world such as Cambridge, Warwick Business School, LSE, or Georgetown University in the United States.
