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2018/19 Undergraduate Programme Catalogue

BA English and Japanese

Programme code:BA-ENGL&JAPNUCAS code:QT32
Duration:4 Years Method of Attendance: Full Time
Programme manager:Dr Martin Thomas Contact address:m.thomas@leeds.ac.uk

Total credits: 490

Entry requirements:

For entry requirements for this course please visit www.leeds.ac.uk/coursefinder

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:

Programme specification:

The programme will:
- enable students to work across more than one discipline by providing the flexibility to study three disciplines at level one;
- allow the study of two disciplines to the same depth as any single honours student but with less breadth in each discipline;
- provide a basis for further advanced study in either of the disciplines or in a cognate interdisciplinary area.

General
- The distinctiveness, appeal and strength of University of Leeds joint honours programmes lie in the unusual combination of depth, breadth and flexibility which they offer, as well as in the exceptional range of degree combinations available.
- They permit students to study two disciplines, in depth and to degree level while acquiring a broader range of skills than is typically possible within a single honours degree.
- They are emphatically joint honours programmes, rather than integrated programmes: students can therefore make the links they choose from the wide choice of optional modules available within each discipline. Within certain parameters, they thus effectively make connections and devise pathways according to their own preferences, rather than being faced with a prescribed combination of modules chosen for them by others.
- The students must acquire the flexibility of mind and variety of learning techniques needed to switch between the two disciplines.
- A further element of distinctiveness is the flexibility of the programme structure, which allows joint honours students to change direction more easily, and more radically, than single honours students.
- Many of these programmes also allow the opportunity to undertake a work placement, field work or study abroad.


Year1 - View timetable

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

In Level 1 students must study 125-130 credits. Students are required to take 45 credits in English and 60-65 credits in Japanese, plus a 20 credit cornerstone module.

Compulsory modules:

Candidates will be required to study the following compulsory modules:

EAST1210Basic Japanese Language (1)20 creditsSemester 1 (Sep to Jan)
EAST1220Basic Japanese Language (2)20 creditsSemester 2 (Jan to Jun)
ENGL1000Studying and Researching English5 creditsSemester 1 (Sep to Jan)
ENGL1350Foundations of English Studies20 creditsSemester 1 (Sep to Jan)
MODL1150Worlds of Literature20 creditsSemesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun)

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

Optional modules:

Candidates are required to study one of the following modules:

ENGL1261Poetry: Reading and Interpretation20 creditsSemester 2 (Jan to Jun)
ENGL1282Drama: Reading and Interpretation20 creditsSemester 2 (Jan to Jun)

Candidates are required to take 20 credits from the following optional modules:

EAST1263Japan in War and Peace10 creditsSemester 2 (Jan to Jun)
EAST1265Japan: History and International Politics10 creditsSemester 1 (Sep to Jan)
EAST1266Japan: A Cultural History from Buddhism to Murakami Haruki10 creditsSemester 2 (Jan to Jun)
EAST1450Foundations of East Asia20 creditsSemesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun)
EAST1500Introduction to Religious and Philosophical Texts of East Asia20 creditsSemester 2 (Jan to Jun)
EAST1550Introduction to East Asian Religions20 creditsSemester 2 (Jan to Jun)

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.

MODL1500LCS Academic Essentials5 creditsSemester 1 (Sep to Jan)


Year2 - View timetable

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

Candidates will spend the second year of the programme in Japan.

Compulsory modules:

Candidates will be enrolled on the following module:

EAST9012Year Abroad in Japan120 creditsSemesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun)


Year3 - View timetable

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

In Level 2 students must study 120 credits. Students are required to take 60 credits in Japanese and 40 credits in English. The remaining credits should be taken in either of the named subjects or taken as discovery modules.

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:

EAST2212Japanese 2A: Written Communication Skills20 creditsSemesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun)
EAST2222Japanese 2B: Spoken Communication Skills20 creditsSemesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun)

Optional modules:

CORE MODULES
Candidates are required to study at least TWO of the following core modules. In addition candidates may also opt to study one or two further core modules (up to 40 credits) or choose up to 40 credits from the list of option modules below.

ENGL2025Medieval Literature20 creditsSemester 1 (Sep to Jan)
ENGL2027Eighteenth Century Literature20 creditsSemester 1 (Sep to Jan)
ENGL2028Literature of the Romantic Period20 creditsSemester 2 (Jan to Jun)
ENGL2029Renaissance Literature20 creditsSemester 1 (Sep to Jan)
ENGL3289Victorian Literature20 creditsSemester 2 (Jan to Jun)
ENGL3290American Words, American Worlds, 1900-Present20 creditsSemester 2 (Jan to Jun)

OPTION MODULES
Candidates may study further credits (up to 40 credits) from the following list of option modules, in accordance with the credit rules.

ENGL2023Power of Language20 creditsSemester 2 (Jan to Jun)
ENGL2024Language in Society20 creditsSemester 1 (Sep to Jan)
ENGL2201Writing Nature: Creative and Critical Practices20 creditsSemester 1 (Sep to Jan)
ENGL2202Imaginary Friends: the consolations and consequences of story20 creditsSemester 1 (Sep to Jan)
ENGL2203Medieval Poetry: Translation and Creative Rewriting20 creditsSemester 2 (Jan to Jun)
ENGL2204Shakespeare and Global Cinema20 creditsSemester 2 (Jan to Jun)
ENGL2206African American Narrative: Eight Major Works20 creditsSemester 2 (Jan to Jun)
ENGL2207Dialect and Heritage20 creditsNot running in 201819
ENGL32110Students into Schools20 creditsSemesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun)
ENGL32111Gender, Culture and Politics: Readings of Jane Austen20 creditsSemester 1 (Sep to Jan)
ENGL32143Disposable Lives?20 creditsSemester 2 (Jan to Jun)
ENGL32146Queens, Vikings, poets and dragons: Old English and early medieval Britain20 creditsSemester 1 (Sep to Jan)
ENGL32147Contemporary Postcolonial Texts20 creditsSemester 2 (Jan to Jun)
ENGL32148American Danger20 creditsSemester 1 (Sep to Jan)
ENGL32153Refugee Narratives20 creditsSemester 1 (Sep to Jan)
ENGL32154Prose Fiction Stylistics and the Mind20 creditsSemester 1 (Sep to Jan)
ENGL32155Crime Fiction Stylistics: Crossing Languages, Cultures, Media20 creditsSemester 2 (Jan to Jun)
ENGL32156Quiet Rebels and Unquiet Minds: writing to contemporary anxiety20 creditsSemester 2 (Jan to Jun)
ENGL32158Aesthetic Movements of the Nineteenth Century20 creditsSemester 2 (Jan to Jun)
ENGL32163Milton20 creditsSemester 2 (Jan to Jun)
ENGL32167Language of the Media20 creditsSemester 1 (Sep to Jan)
ENGL32169Contemporary South African Writing20 creditsSemester 1 (Sep to Jan)
ENGL3227Surrealism and the French Stage20 creditsSemester 1 (Sep to Jan)
ENGL3231The Poetry of Wordsworth20 creditsSemester 2 (Jan to Jun)
ENGL3233Forensic Approaches to Language20 creditsSemester 2 (Jan to Jun)
ENGL32460Writing America20 creditsSemester 1 (Sep to Jan)
ENGL3266Folklore and Mythology20 creditsSemester 2 (Jan to Jun)
ENGL32660Creative Writing20 creditsSemester 2 (Jan to Jun)
ENGL3268Transformations20 creditsSemester 1 (Sep to Jan)
ENGL32763Children, Talk and Learning20 creditsSemester 2 (Jan to Jun)
ENGL3286Fictions of Fallen Women, 1850-192220 creditsSemester 2 (Jan to Jun)
ENGL3293Victoria's Secrets: Secrecy in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture20 creditsSemester 1 (Sep to Jan)
ENGL32993Romantic Lyric Poetry20 creditsSemester 2 (Jan to Jun)
ENGL32997Keywords: The Words We Use and The Ways We Use Them20 creditsSemester 1 (Sep to Jan)
ENGL32998Writing and Gender in Seventeenth-Century England20 creditsSemester 1 (Sep to Jan)

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

EAST2006China Since 197920 creditsSemester 1 (Sep to Jan)
EAST2007Japan's International Relations20 creditsNot running in 201819
EAST2008The Making of Modern Thailand20 creditsSemester 2 (Jan to Jun)
EAST2009Classics of Chinese Literature and Thought20 creditsSemester 2 (Jan to Jun)
EAST2360Chinese Cinema20 creditsSemester 1 (Sep to Jan)
EAST2470Japanese Literature in Translation: Gender and Sexuality in Modern Japan20 creditsSemester 2 (Jan to Jun)
EAST2480Japanese Development Assistance in a Globalising World20 creditsSemester 1 (Sep to Jan)
EAST3015Religion in China20 creditsSemester 2 (Jan to Jun)
EAST3020Civil Society and the Non-Profit Sector in Contemporary China20 creditsSemester 1 (Sep to Jan)
EAST3252Modern Japanese History20 creditsSemester 2 (Jan to Jun)
EAST3256Narratives of Japanese Modernity: Fiction and Film20 creditsNot running in 201819
EAST3271East Asia's Regional Political Economy20 creditsSemester 1 (Sep to Jan)
EAST3350Japanese Cinema in the World20 creditsSemester 2 (Jan to Jun)
EAST3602Sino-Japanese Relations: Past and Present20 creditsSemester 1 (Sep to Jan)
EAST3604Korea: Politics, Economy and International Relations20 creditsNot running in 201819
EAST3702Religion in Japan20 creditsSemester 2 (Jan to Jun)
EAST3703South East Asia in the Global Context20 creditsSemester 1 (Sep to Jan)

NB: Not all modules will be available every year.

Discovery modules:

Candidates may choose to study up to 20 credits of discovery modules in a third subject or pursue additional modules in the two named subjects.


Year4 - View timetable

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

In Level 3 students must study 120 credits. Students are required to take 60 credits in Japanese and 40 credits in English, including at least 20 credits as a Final Year Project module which can be taken in and count towards either of the named subjects. The remaining 20 credits can be taken in either of the two named subjects or as a Discovery Module.

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:

EAST3285Japanese 3: Advanced Communication Skills20 creditsSemesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun)

Optional modules:

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

ENGL3041Final Year Project40 creditsSemesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun)
MODL3310Final Year Project: Extended Essay20 creditsSemesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun)
MODL3320Final Year Project: Translation20 creditsSemesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun)

CORE MODULES
Candidates must take a minimum of 40 credits in English at Level 3. Candidates are required to study at least ONE of the following core modules and can also opt to study further core modules:

ENGL3024Modern Literature20 creditsSemester 1 (Sep to Jan)
ENGL3025Postcolonial Literature20 creditsSemester 1 (Sep to Jan)
ENGL3026Contemporary Literature20 creditsSemester 2 (Jan to Jun)
ENGL3027Shakespeare20 creditsSemester 2 (Jan to Jun)

OPTION MODULES
Candidates must take a minimum of 40 credits in English at Level 3. 20 of these credits must be taken from the list of core modules above. Candidates may study further credits from the following list of option modules, in accordance with the credit rules. NB Candidates may only choose a Level 2 core English module (modules beginning ENGL2XXX) from the list below if all of their remaining final year credits (100) are at Level 3, ie. SUBJ3XXX.

ENGL2023Power of Language20 creditsSemester 2 (Jan to Jun)
ENGL2024Language in Society20 creditsSemester 1 (Sep to Jan)
ENGL2025Medieval Literature20 creditsSemester 1 (Sep to Jan)
ENGL2027Eighteenth Century Literature20 creditsSemester 1 (Sep to Jan)
ENGL2028Literature of the Romantic Period20 creditsSemester 2 (Jan to Jun)
ENGL2029Renaissance Literature20 creditsSemester 1 (Sep to Jan)
ENGL32111Gender, Culture and Politics: Readings of Jane Austen20 creditsSemester 1 (Sep to Jan)
ENGL32143Disposable Lives?20 creditsSemester 2 (Jan to Jun)
ENGL32146Queens, Vikings, poets and dragons: Old English and early medieval Britain20 creditsSemester 1 (Sep to Jan)
ENGL32147Contemporary Postcolonial Texts20 creditsSemester 2 (Jan to Jun)
ENGL32148American Danger20 creditsSemester 1 (Sep to Jan)
ENGL32153Refugee Narratives20 creditsSemester 1 (Sep to Jan)
ENGL32154Prose Fiction Stylistics and the Mind20 creditsSemester 1 (Sep to Jan)
ENGL32155Crime Fiction Stylistics: Crossing Languages, Cultures, Media20 creditsSemester 2 (Jan to Jun)
ENGL32156Quiet Rebels and Unquiet Minds: writing to contemporary anxiety20 creditsSemester 2 (Jan to Jun)
ENGL32158Aesthetic Movements of the Nineteenth Century20 creditsSemester 2 (Jan to Jun)
ENGL32163Milton20 creditsSemester 2 (Jan to Jun)
ENGL32167Language of the Media20 creditsSemester 1 (Sep to Jan)
ENGL32169Contemporary South African Writing20 creditsSemester 1 (Sep to Jan)
ENGL3227Surrealism and the French Stage20 creditsSemester 1 (Sep to Jan)
ENGL3231The Poetry of Wordsworth20 creditsSemester 2 (Jan to Jun)
ENGL3233Forensic Approaches to Language20 creditsSemester 2 (Jan to Jun)
ENGL32460Writing America20 creditsSemester 1 (Sep to Jan)
ENGL3266Folklore and Mythology20 creditsSemester 2 (Jan to Jun)
ENGL32660Creative Writing20 creditsSemester 2 (Jan to Jun)
ENGL3268Transformations20 creditsSemester 1 (Sep to Jan)
ENGL32763Children, Talk and Learning20 creditsSemester 2 (Jan to Jun)
ENGL3286Fictions of Fallen Women, 1850-192220 creditsSemester 2 (Jan to Jun)
ENGL3293Victoria's Secrets: Secrecy in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture20 creditsSemester 1 (Sep to Jan)
ENGL32993Romantic Lyric Poetry20 creditsSemester 2 (Jan to Jun)
ENGL32997Keywords: The Words We Use and The Ways We Use Them20 creditsSemester 1 (Sep to Jan)
ENGL32998Writing and Gender in Seventeenth-Century England20 creditsSemester 1 (Sep to Jan)
ENGL3314Imagining Posthuman Futures20 creditsNot running in 201819
ENGL3321Angry Young Men and Women: Literature of the Mid-Twentieth Century20 creditsSemester 2 (Jan to Jun)
ENGL3339Lost in Fiction: The Metafictional Novel from "Don Quixote" to "House of Leaves"20 creditsSemester 2 (Jan to Jun)
ENGL3342Millennial Fictions20 creditsSemester 2 (Jan to Jun)
ENGL3365Theatricalities: Beckett, Pinter, Kane20 creditsSemester 2 (Jan to Jun)
ENGL3394Bowie, Reading, Writing20 creditsSemester 2 (Jan to Jun)
ENGL3396Fictions of the End: Apocalypse and After20 creditsSemester 1 (Sep to Jan)
ENGL3398Medical Humanities: Representing Illness, Disability, and Care20 creditsSemester 1 (Sep to Jan)
ENGL3402Home Bodies: Domestic Animals in Contemporary Literature20 creditsNot running in 201819
ENGL3410Modernist Sexualities20 creditsSemester 1 (Sep to Jan)
ENGL3680Postcolonial London20 creditsSemester 1 (Sep to Jan)
ENGL3999Literature of the 1890s20 creditsSemester 1 (Sep to Jan)

Candidates will be required to study 40 credits from the following optional modules:

EAST3012Chinese Oral and Performance Traditions20 creditsSemester 1 (Sep to Jan)
EAST3015Religion in China20 creditsSemester 2 (Jan to Jun)
EAST3252Modern Japanese History20 creditsSemester 2 (Jan to Jun)
EAST3256Narratives of Japanese Modernity: Fiction and Film20 creditsNot running in 201819
EAST3271East Asia's Regional Political Economy20 creditsSemester 1 (Sep to Jan)
EAST3281Advanced Japanese in Context 1: Politics and International Relations20 creditsNot running in 201819
EAST3284Advanced Japanese in Context 4: Literature20 creditsSemester 1 (Sep to Jan)
EAST3286Advanced Japanese in Context: Culture and Identity20 creditsNot running in 201819
EAST3287Advanced Japanese in Context 5: Japanese Diplomacy and Foreign Policy in Historical Context20 creditsSemester 2 (Jan to Jun)
EAST3288Advanced Japanese in Context 6: Japanese Religion and Culture in Historical Context20 creditsNot running in 201819
EAST3350Japanese Cinema in the World20 creditsSemester 2 (Jan to Jun)
EAST3580Advanced Japanese in Translation20 creditsSemester 2 (Jan to Jun)
EAST3602Sino-Japanese Relations: Past and Present20 creditsSemester 1 (Sep to Jan)
EAST3604Korea: Politics, Economy and International Relations20 creditsNot running in 201819
EAST3702Religion in Japan20 creditsSemester 2 (Jan to Jun)
EAST3703South East Asia in the Global Context20 creditsSemester 1 (Sep to Jan)
FOAR3150Religion and Violence20 creditsSemesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun)

- Students may only choose up to 20 credits of modules, which are not level-3 coded modules (eg EAST3XXX) in the final year.
- NB: Not all modules will be available every year.

Discovery modules:

Candidates may choose to study up to 20 credits of discovery modules in a third subject or pursue additional modules in the two named subjects.

Last updated: 07/02/2019

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