2024/25 Undergraduate Programme Catalogue

BA Chinese (Modern)

Total credits: 480

Entry requirements:

Entry Requirements are available on the Course Search entry

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:

Relevant QAA Subject Benchmark Groups:

Languages, Cultures and Societies

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 (Modern)(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 the ability to communicate effectively with Chinese speakers. The deliberately modern bias of the programme aims to produce graduates with an all-round proficiency in Chinese along with a range of transferable skills and insights.

Students begin the language from scratch (although there is provision for those with A-level Chinese or equivalent) and follow an intensive language programme in their first year. The second year is spent at a university in China or Taiwan where students follow a prescribed course of study in language, and in some cases non-language courses.

Students return to Leeds in their third year to follow advanced upper-level language and non-language modules. 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 and the East Asian region.

Students are expected to graduate with a sound knowledge of the Chinese language, invaluable experience of life in a Chinese-speaking society, and an understanding of the wider context of the Sinophone world.

Year1 - View timetable

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

Compulsory modules:

Candidates will be required to study the following compulsory module

Optional modules:

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

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

Candidates will be required to study a minimum of 20 and may study up to 40 credits from the following optional modules:

Candidates may study up to 20 credits from the following optional modules

Discovery modules:

Candidates may study up to 20 credits of discovery modules

Year2 - View timetable

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

The Year Abroad will be spent in China or Taiwan.

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 study between 40-60 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.

Students may also choose to study the below module as long as they are not already enrolled onto Linguists into Schools.

Discovery modules:

Candidates can choose to study upto 20 credits of discovery modules.

Candidates can choose to study up to 20 credits of Discovery modules.

Candidates may choose to study up to 20 credits of discovery modules or take the above FOAH module.

Year4 - View timetable

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

At Level 3, students must study 120 credits. All students must take 40 credits as a Final Year Project (FYP) 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:

All students will be required to study the following compulsory module:

Optional modules:

All students will be required to study ONE of the following Final Year Project (FYP) modules:

Students are required to take a minimum of 40 credits and may take up to 60 credits from the following list of optional modules.
Students may not take modules that they have already taken at level 2 or from another list of optional modules.

Discovery modules:

All students may take up to 20 credits of discovery modules in a third subject or pursue additional modules from the above list of optional modules.
Finalists may only take Level 1 modules that are listed as Discovery Skills modules (skd) and only to the value of 20 credits.    

Last updated: 03/07/2024 05:54:50

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