Module: Spanish Language, Business & Society

Latest Module Specifications

Current Academic Year 2025 - 2026

Module Title	Spanish Language, Business & Society
Module Code	SPA1041 (ITS: SP498)
Faculty	SALIS	School	Humanities & Social Sciences
NFQ level	8	Credit Rating	10

Description

This module is designed to introduce students to the role that ethics plays in contemporary businesses and societies. It aims to develop student’s understanding of the relationship amongst the economic, social, governmental public, and nonprofit domains. It also aims to enable students to recognise and identify a range of professional capabilities necessary for taking an active part in a sustainable society. The module will focus on developing more specialised Spanish vocabulary and also focus on improving students’ oral and written language skills

Learning Outcomes

1. Engage with and comprehend multimodal texts and videos concerned with ethical issues
2. Access and source digital publications in Spanish that can provide arguments on relevant topics and critically evaluate and manage in-depth information
3. Express, communicate and share their own views on topics related to ethics and the business world and broader areas through Spanish
4. Demonstrate a good command of a very broad lexical repertoire related to ethical issues and maintain a high degree and consistent grammatical control of complex language
5. Create new meanings constructing structured and well-argued written texts on ethical topics using first and secondary sources
6. Present a complex ethical topic orally in collaboration with peers mastering presentation and communicative skills

*Type*	*Hours*	*Description*
Workload	Full time hours per semester
Assignment Completion	50	Completion of activities and engagement with individual feedback provided by the lecturer
Lecture	30	Interactive group sessions among students and with lecturer to prepare assessment elements
Class Presentation	25	Identify and gather information about a certain topic related to business. Organise this material and prepare a group presentation accompanied by an oral commentary
Directed learning	40	Complete online exercises set. Watch Spanish materials recommended (television series, online series, Spanish news). Complete grammar exercises allocated
Independent Study	105	Further study dependent on individual areas in need of development, to be advised. A focus will be placed on exposure to aural and oral material and engagement with written production and grammar
Total Workload: 250

Section Breakdown
CRN	20847	Part of Term	Semester 2
Coursework	0%	Examination Weight	0%
Grade Scale	40PASS	Pass Both Elements	Y
Resit Category	RC1	Best Mark	N
Module Co-ordinator	Iker Erdocia Iniguez	Module Teacher

Type	Description	% of total	Assessment Date
Assessment Breakdown
Presentation	Group research and oral presentation	40%	n/a
Completion of online activity	Reading comprehension and written production	30%	n/a
Completion of online activity	Audiovisual comprehension and written production	30%	n/a

Reassessment Requirement Type
Resit arrangements are explained by the following categories; RC1: A resit is available for both^* components of the module. RC2: No resit is available for a 100% coursework module. RC3: No resit is available for the coursework component where there is a coursework and summative examination element. ^* ‘Both’ is used in the context of the module having a coursework/summative examination split; where the module is 100% coursework, there will also be a resit of the assessment

Pre-requisite	None
Co-requisite	None
Compatibles	None
Incompatibles	None

All module information is indicative and subject to change. For further information,students are advised to refer to the University's Marks and Standards and Programme Specific Regulations at: http://www.dcu.ie/registry/examinations/index.shtml

Indicative Content and Learning Activities

Indicative Content and Learning Activities
Topics will cover aspects such as applied ethics, globalization, business, human resources, entrepreneurship, fair trade, digital economy, freedom of speech, COVID-19, etc. Students will engage with aural and written stimuli in order to complete associated tasks. These will include interpreting an infographic, reading articles and pieces of academic research, watching videos, answering questions and expressing their opinions in relation to a variety of material. Supplementary online exercises will also be used that students complete in their own time and which give automatic feedback and provide links to additional resources

Indicative Reading List

Books:
None

Articles:
None

Other Resources

1: Materials will be available through Loop,