2024/25 Undergraduate Programme Catalogue

BA Chinese and Thai Studies

Total credits: 600

Entry requirements:

Entry Requirements are available on the Course Search entry

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

Languages, Cultures and Societies

Examination board through which the programme will be considered:

Relevant QAA Subject Benchmark Groups:

Languages, Cultures and Societies
https://www.qaa.ac.uk/docs/qaa/sbs/sbs-languages-cultures-and-societies-23.pdf?sfvrsn=3c71a881_10

Programme specification:

The information on this page is accurate for students entering the programme in 2023/2024 or before. For students entering the programme from September 2024 or after, you can find the details of your programme:

BA Chinese and Thai Studies(For students entering from September 2024 onwards)

This programme equips students with the linguistic skills needed to understand a range of written, spoken and
broadcast material in Chinese and Thai, and the ability to communicate effectively with Chinese and Thai speakers. The deliberately modern bias of the programme aims to produce graduates with an all-round proficiency in Chinese and Thai, along with a range of transferable skills and insights.
Students begin both languages from scratch (although there is provision for those with some prior learning of Chinese or Thai) and follow an intensive language programme in their first year. The second year and third years are spent at a university in Thailand, and in China or Taiwan. In each case students follow a prescribed course of study in language and, where offered, non-language courses.
Students return to Leeds in their fourth year to follow advanced upper-level language and non-language modules in both subjects. By the final year of the programme students should be able to interpret relevant material in a wider sense, fitting it into the broader social, political, economic and cultural context of present-day China, Thailand and the East Asian region.
Students are expected to graduate with a sound knowledge of the Chinese and Thai languages, invaluable experience of life in Thailand and in a Chinese-speaking society, and an understanding of the wider context of the East Asian region.

Year1 - View timetable

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

Compulsory modules:

Candidates will be required to study the following compulsory modules:

Optional modules:

Candidates with no prior knowledge of Chinese will be required to study the following modules

Students with prior knowledge of Chinese will, subject to a placement test, be required to study the following modules

Candidates with no prior knowledge of Thai will be required to study the following modules

Candidates with prior knowledge of Thai will, subject to a placement test, be required to study the following modules

Year2 - View timetable

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

Candidates can choose to spend the second year of their programme in either China/Taiwan or Thailand

Optional modules:

Year3 - View timetable

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

Candidates can choose to spend the third year of their programme in either China/Taiwan or Thailand. If Year 2 is spent in Thailand, the third year will be spent in China/Taiwan. If Year 2 is spent in China/Taiwan, the third year will be spent in Thailand.

Compulsory modules:

Optional 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.

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, which includes a Final Year Project module. Students are required to take 60 credits in both Chinese and Thai: the Final Year Project module can be taken in - and count towards - either of the two languages. The remaining credits should be taken 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:

Optional modules:

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

Candidates who choose a Final Year Project in Thai will be required to choose 40 credits from the optional modules below.

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

Candidates who choose a Final Year Project in Chinese will be required to study 40 credits from the following optional modules. (Candidates are strongly recommended to take EAST3707 Buddhism: a Lived Tradition).

The following modules can be taken in and count towards either Chinese or Thai credits. Students may choose to study up to 40 credits from the modules below instead of optional Chinese/Thai EAST modules.

Last updated: 12/03/2024 11:57:27

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