2022/23 Undergraduate Programme Catalogue
BA Arabic and Japanese
Programme code: | BA-ARAB&JAPN | UCAS code: | TT62 |
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Duration: | 5 Years | Method of Attendance: | Full Time |
Programme manager: | Maria Garcia Florenciano | Contact address: | M.GarciaFlorenciano@leeds.ac.uk |
Total credits: 605
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:
School of Languages, Cultures and Societies
Relevant QAA Subject Benchmark Groups:
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:
- 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 120 credits. Students are required to take 60 credits in both Arabic and Japanese.
Compulsory modules:
Students will be required to study the following compulsory modules:
ARAB1001 | Beginning Arabic 1 Pre-requisite for: ARAB1002 | 20 credits | ||
ARAB1002 | Beginning Arabic 2 | 20 credits | ||
ARAB1170 | Studying the Middle East: Culture, History, Politics and Religion | 20 credits | ||
EAST1210 | Basic Japanese Language (1) | 20 credits | ||
EAST1220 | Basic Japanese Language (2) | 20 credits |
Students with prior knowledge of Japanese may, subject to a placement test, study more advanced language modules as appropriate in their first year (40 credits from EAST2300, EAST2305, FLTU1026, FLTU1030).
Students with prior knowledge of Arabic may, subject to a placement test, study ARAB1030/ARAB3100 instead of ARAB1001/ARAB1002, as appropriate in their first year.
Optional modules:
Candidates will be required to study 20 credits from the following optional modules (and are strongly recommended to take either EAST1271 or EAST1270):
EAST1270 | Modern Japan: History and International Politics | 20 credits | ||
EAST1271 | Japanese History and Society | 20 credits | ||
EAST1450 | Foundations of East Asia | 20 credits | ||
EAST1500 | Introduction to Religious and Philosophical Texts of East Asia | 20 credits | ||
EAST1550 | Introduction to East Asian Religions | 20 credits |
Elective modules:
Year2 - View timetable
[Learning Outcomes, Transferable (Key) Skills, Assessment]
Candidates will spend the second year of their programme in Japan.
Compulsory modules:
Candidates will be required to study the following compulsory module:
EAST9012 | Year Abroad in Japan | 120 credits |
Year3 - View timetable
[Learning Outcomes, Transferable (Key) Skills, Assessment]
Candidates will spend the third year of their programme in an Arabic-speaking country.
Compulsory modules:
Candidaltes will be required to study the following compulsory module:
ARAB9001 | Arabic Year Abroad | 120 credits |
Elective modules:
ARAB9001 | Arabic Year Abroad | 120 credits |
Year4 - View timetable
[Learning Outcomes, Transferable (Key) Skills, Assessment]
In Level 2 students must study 120 credits. Students are required to take 60 credits in each of Arabic and Japanese.
Compulsory modules:
Candidates will be required to study the following compulsory modules:
ARAB2010 | Advanced Arabic Grammar and Translation | 20 credits | ||
ARAB2020 | Essential Skills in Practical Arabic Pre-requisite for: ARAB3020 | 20 credits | ||
EAST2212 | Japanese 2A: Written Communication Skills | 20 credits | ||
EAST2222 | Japanese 2B: Spoken Communication Skills | 20 credits |
Optional modules:
Candidates will be required to study 20 credits from the following optional modules:
ARAB2066 | Palestine and the Arab-Israeli Conflict | 20 credits | ||
ARAB2091 | Arab Media, Politics and Society | 20 credits | ||
ARAB2181 | Cultures of the Arab Middle East and North Africa | 20 credits | ||
ARAB2310 | Modern Middle Eastern History | 20 credits | ||
ARAB2330 | The Politics of Race, Gender, and Sexuality in the Middle East | 20 credits | ||
MODL2075 | Global Environmental Humanities | 20 credits |
NB: Not all modules will be available every year.
Candidates will be required to study 20 credits from the following optional modules:
EAST2006 | China Since 1979 | 20 credits | ||
EAST2007 | Japan's International Relations | 20 credits | ||
EAST2008 | The Making of Modern Thailand | 20 credits | ||
EAST2009 | Classics of Chinese Literature and Thought | 20 credits | ||
EAST2127 | Society and Culture of Early Modern China | 20 credits | ||
EAST2128 | Contemporary East Asian Culture | 20 credits | ||
EAST2148 | Trauma Narratives in the Contemporary Sinophone World | 20 credits | ||
EAST2360 | Chinese Cinema | 20 credits | ||
EAST2470 | Japanese Literature in Translation: Gender and Sexuality in Modern Japan | 20 credits | ||
EAST2480 | Japanese Development Assistance in a Globalising World | 20 credits | ||
EAST2605 | Topics in Contemporary Asia Pacific Societies | 20 credits | ||
EAST3015 | Religion in China | 20 credits | ||
EAST3020 | Civil Society and the Non-Profit Sector in Contemporary China | 20 credits | ||
EAST3252 | Modern Japanese History | 20 credits | ||
EAST3271 | East Asia's Regional Political Economy | 20 credits | ||
EAST3350 | Japanese Cinema in the World | 20 credits | ||
EAST3602 | Sino-Japanese Relations: Past and Present | 20 credits | ||
MODL2075 | Global Environmental Humanities | 20 credits |
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, which includes a Final Year Project Module. Students are required to take 60 credits in both Arabic and Japanese: the Final Year Project module can be taken in - and count towards - either of the two languages. The remaining credits should be taken either as optional modules in the other language to the Final Year Project or as MODL modules.
Compulsory modules:
Candidates will be required to study the following compulsory modules:
ARAB3020 | Advanced Skills in Arabic Language | 20 credits | ||
EAST3285 | Japanese 3: Advanced Communication Skills | 20 credits |
Optional modules:
Candidates are required to study ONE of the following Final Year Project modules.
MODL3300 | Final Year Project: Dissertation | 40 credits | ||
MODL3340 | Final Year Project: Extended Translation | 40 credits | ||
MODL3350 | Final Year Project: Digital Documentary (Podcast) | 40 credits |
Candidates who choose to complete their Final Year Project in Japanese will be required to choose 40 credits from the options below.
ARAB3010 | Arabic Stylistics | 20 credits | ||
ARAB3072 | Islam and Modernity | 20 credits | ||
ARAB3110 | Middle Eastern Politics: Regimes, Societies and Conflict | 20 credits | ||
ARAB3190 | Performing Islam: Piety and Environment in Dialogue | 20 credits | ||
ARAB3888 | Advanced Media Arabic: Translation Skills in Text Typology | 20 credits |
Candidates who choose to complete their Final Year Project in Arabic will be required to choose 40 credits from the options below.
EAST3012 | Chinese Oral and Performance Traditions | 20 credits | ||
EAST3015 | Religion in China | 20 credits | ||
EAST3148 | Trauma Narratives in the Contemporary Sinophone World | 20 credits | ||
EAST3150 | Women and Family in Chinese Society | 20 credits | ||
EAST3252 | Modern Japanese History | 20 credits | ||
EAST3271 | East Asia's Regional Political Economy | 20 credits | ||
EAST3281 | Advanced Japanese in Context 1: Politics and International Relations | 20 credits | ||
EAST3286 | Advanced Japanese in Context: Culture and Identity | 20 credits | ||
EAST3287 | Advanced Japanese in Context 5: Japanese Diplomacy and Foreign Policy in Historical Context | 20 credits | ||
EAST3289 | Advanced Japanese in Context 4: Literature | 20 credits | ||
EAST3350 | Japanese Cinema in the World | 20 credits | ||
EAST3355 | Death and Religion in Japan | 20 credits | ||
EAST3470 | Japanese Literature in Translation: Gender and Sexuality in Modern Japan | 20 credits | ||
EAST3525 | Globalising China and the Developing World | 20 credits | ||
EAST3580 | Advanced Japanese in Translation | 20 credits | ||
EAST3602 | Sino-Japanese Relations: Past and Present | 20 credits | ||
FOAH3150 | Religion and Violence | 20 credits |
Candidates may only choose up to 20 credits of modules which are not level-3 coded modules (eg EAST3XXX) in the final year.
The following modules can be taken in and count towards either Arabic or Japanese credits. Students may choose to study up to 40 credits from the modules below instead of ARAB/EAST optional modules.
MODL3200 | Representing the Holocaust: Transgression and the Taboo | 20 credits | ||
MODL3410 | Contemporary World Literature | 20 credits | ||
MODL3600 | Material Cultures and Cultures of Consumption | 20 credits | ||
MODL3610 | Adventures of the Imagination: Crime and the Fantastic Across Continents | 20 credits | ||
MODL3620 | Decolonial Approaches | 20 credits | ||
MODL3630 | Social Movements across Cultures | 20 credits | ||
MODL3650 | Minoritised Languages, Dialects and Cultures from Past to Present | 20 credits | ||
MODL3800 | Linguists into Schools | 20 credits |
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