BA ENGLISH AND FINANCE

English and Finance

Overview

The interdisciplinary BA English and Finance programme offers academic subjects related to English and language studies and courses on finance, mathematics and economics. The aim is to produce graduates who not only understand how finance works but also have an excellent command of languages and a critical awareness of the use of languages in financial and professional contexts.

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).

Why should I study English and Finance at XJTLU?

  • Gain fundamental knowledge in the fields of finance and business studies
  • Choose from optional modules in mathematics, finance and economics and acquire statistical methods
  • Gain critical insights into how language works in different cultures and work-settings and use such insights to enhance communication and work efficiency
  • Have specialised knowledge in English and language studies along with Finance — an ability highly valued by employers
  • 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.

Knowledge and skills

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

Upon the completion of this interdisciplinary programme, our graduates can pursue a wide range of professional and academic careers. This certainly opens more doors for our graduates and gives them a huge advantage to compete in today's globalised world.

Yan Zhao

Programme director

Modules

*Programme modules listed are illustrative only and subject to change. XJTLU students are advised to log in to the e-Bridge Portal to view the effectuated module structure.

Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University offers a wide range of courses in the first year, including English for academic purposes (EAP), mathematics and physics, and humanities and social sciences. Click to learn more.

Core Modules

  • 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

Core Modules

  • 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

Core Modules

  • International Economic Relations

  • Business Finance

  • 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

XJTLU provided me with good English and communication abilities, helping me to quickly fit into the international working environment in London, where I currently work.

Shuangning Lu

Alumna, BA English and Finance, China

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.

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