2018/19 Undergraduate Programme Catalogue

BA Chinese and Thai Studies

Total credits: 605

Entry requirements:

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School/Unit responsible for the parenting of students and programme:

School of Languages, Cultures and Societies

Examination board through which the programme will be considered:

School of Languages, Cultures and Societies

Relevant QAA Subject Benchmark Groups:

Area Studies

Programme specification:

TThe programme will:

- Allow students to study the disciplines of Chinese and Thai to the same depth as Single Honours students of the disciplines, but with less breadth in each. This means that Joint Honours students will normally be required to take compulsory and a subset of the optional modules that are also part of the corresponding Single Honours degree programmes, and that they will be assessed on those modules using criteria identical to those applied to Single Honours students. Joint Honours students will reach the same levels of fluency and accuracy in their target language(s) as Single Honours students.
- At Levels Two and Three, allow students to choose, within certain parameters, optional modules from the full range available within each discipline, and thereby devise pathways of their own choosing.
- Require students to undertake two periods of residence abroad: a Year Abroad in a Chinese-speaking country at the end of Level One, followed by a Year Abroad in a Thai-speaking country, or vice versa. Both periods of residence abroad will normally take the form of courses of study.
- Allow students the option at Level Three of undertaking an autonomous research project in either discipline, potentially linking the two disciplines by bringing knowledge and understanding gained in one discipline to bear in the other.
- Require students to acquire the flexibility of mind and variety of learning techniques needed to switch between the two disciplines.
- Provide a basis for further advanced study in either Chinese or Thai, or in a cognate interdisciplinary area.
- Have the flexibility to allow students to change programme upon successful completion of Level One, subject to approval. It is normally possible to switch from Joint Honours Chinese & Thai Studies into Single Honours in Chinese or Thai.

Year1 - View timetable

[Learning Outcomes, Transferable (Key) Skills, Assessment]

In Level 1 students must study 120-125 credits. Students are required to take 60 credits in Chinese and 60 credits in Thai Studies.

Compulsory modules:

Candidates will be required to study the following compulsory modules:

Students with prior knowledge of Chinese will, subject to a placement test, study more advanced language modules, as appropriate in their first year.

Optional modules:

Students will be required to choose 20 credits from the following group of Chinese modules. They are strongly
recommended to take at least one of EAST1070 and EAST1080. Please note that EAST1051 is mutually exclusive with both EAST1052 and EAST1053

Candidates will be required to study 20 credits from the following group of Thai modules:

Candidates may not select a module from this list that they have selected in the Chinese list above.

Please note that EAST1051 is mutually exclusive with both EAST1052 and EAST1053

As part of your induction to academic work, and in order to provide you with additional support in key areas of your programme, students are STRONGLY RECOMMENDED to undertake the following 5-credit Study Skills module. This module resides above the required 120 credits students take in Level 1 and as such it is not compulsory, but it draws together key guidance that augments provision elsewhere.

Year2 - View timetable

[Learning Outcomes, Transferable (Key) Skills, Assessment]

Candidates will spend the second and third years of their programme studying in China and Thailand.

Compulsory modules:

Optional modules:

Candidates will be required to study one of the following Year Abroad modules:

Year3 - View timetable

[Learning Outcomes, Transferable (Key) Skills, Assessment]

Candidates will spend the second and third years of their programme studying in China and Thailand.

Compulsory modules:

Optional modules:

Candidates will be required to study one of the following Year Abroad modules:

Candidates may not select a module that they have taken in earlier in the programme.

Year4 - View timetable

[Learning Outcomes, Transferable (Key) Skills, Assessment]

In Level 2 students must study 120 credits and are required to take 60 credits in each of Chinese and Thai Studies.

In order to be eligible for an honours degree, students must meet the normal Rules for Award by passing all modules which
are designated to be passed for award or progression and by passing the required number of credits at each level as specified in the Curricular Regulations (at least 200 credits at level 2 or above, of which at least 100 should be at level 3).

Compulsory modules:

Candidates will be required to study the following compulsory modules:

Optional modules:

Candidates will be required to study 20 credits from the following optional modules:

- The research project undertaken as part of FOAR2000 must relate to East Asian Studies.
- NB: Not all modules will be available every year.

Year5 - View timetable

[Learning Outcomes, Transferable (Key) Skills, Assessment]

In Level 3 students must study 120 credits. Students are required to take 60 credits in Chinese and 60 credits in Thai Studies, including at least 20 credits as a Final Year Project module which can be taken in and count towards either of the named subjects.

In order to be eligible for an honours degree, students must meet the normal Rules for Award by passing all modules which
are designated to be passed for award or progression and by passing the required number of credits at each level as specified in the Curricular Regulations (at least 200 credits at level 2 or above, of which at least 100 should be at level 3).

Compulsory modules:

Candidates will be required to study the following compulsory modules:

Optional modules:

Candidates are required to study ONE of the following Final Year Project modules.

Candidates who choose a Final Year Project on the Chinese half of their programme will be required to study 20 credits from among any of the modules on Option List A or Option List B.

Candidates who choose a Final Year Project on the Thai half of their programme will be required to study 40 credits in total – 20 credits from Optional Modules List A and 20 credits from Optional Modules List B.

LIST A

LIST B

- Candidates may not take a module from this group that they have taken in another group/year.
- Not all modules will be available every year.

Candidates will be required to study upto 20 credits from the following optional modules. (They are strongly recommended to take EAST3707 Buddhism: a Lived Tradition)

- Not all modules will be available every year.

Last updated: 07/02/2019

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