2020/21 Undergraduate Programme Catalogue

BA East Asian Religions and Cultures and Japanese (No longer recruiting)

Total credits: 485

Entry requirements:

For entry requirements for this course please visit: 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:

Examinations Committee of School of Languages, Cultures and Societies

Relevant QAA Subject Benchmark Groups:

Theology and Religious Studies:
https://www.qaa.ac.uk/docs/qaa/subject-benchmark-statements/sbs-theology-religious-studies.pdf?sfvrsn=bd96f781_12
Languages, Cultures and Societies:
https://www.qaa.ac.uk/docs/qaa/subject-benchmark-statements/sbs-languages-cultures-and-societies-15.pdf?sfvrsn=2098f781_12

Programme specification:

The programme will:

address the QAA benchmarks for area studies and religious studies and specifically will:
- enable student to work across more than one discipline by providing the flexibility to study two disciplines at level one;
- at Levels Two and Three, allow students to choose, within certain parameters, optional modules from the full range
- give students at Level Three the opportunity to undertake an in-depth piece of independent research in the realms of the religious and philosophical traditions of East Asia.
- available within each discipline, and thereby devise pathways of their own choosing;
- provide a basis for further advanced study in either of the disciplines or in a cognate interdisciplinary area;
- Have the flexibility to allow students to change programme upon successful completion of Level One, subject to approval.

Year1 - View timetable

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

In Level 1 students must study 120-125 credits.

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:

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

- Candidates may not take a module from this group that they taken in another group/year.

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 required to study the following compulsory module:

Year3 - View timetable

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

In Level 2 students must study 120 credits.

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 take the following modules over levels 2 and 3:

NB: Not all modules will be available every year.

Candidates will be required to study 20 credits form 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.

Candidates can choose to take up to 40 credits of discovery modules or they may take further modules from the following list:

NB: Not all modules will be available every year.

Discovery modules:

Candidates may choose to take up to 20 credits of Discovery Modules.

Year4 - View timetable

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

In Level 3 students must study 120 credits including a Final Year Project. Students will be required to study 40 credits in East Asian Religions and Cultures and 60 credits in Japanese. Finalists may only take level 1 modules which are listed as discovery skills modules (skd) and only to the value of 20 credits.

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 will be required to study all of the following modules over Levels 2 and 3. Candidates must therefore take any module(s) they did not take in Level 2.

NB: Not all modules will be available every year.

Candidates will be required to study 40 credits form the following options:

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

Candidates can choose to take up to 20 credits of discovery modules or they may take further modules from the following list:

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

Discovery modules:

Candidates may choose to take up to 20 credits of Discovery Modules.

Last updated: 24/05/2021 09:25:57

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