2024/25 Undergraduate Programme Catalogue

BA Modern Languages and English (Japanese)

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:

The programme will meet the QAA Benchmarks defined for Languages, Cultures and Societies outlined here:

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

The programme will meet the QAA Benchmarks defined for English outlined here:

https://www.qaa.ac.uk/the-quality-code/subject-benchmark-statements/subject-benchmark-statement-english

Programme specification:

The information on this page is accurate for students entering the programme in 2022/2023 or before. For students entering the programme from September 2023 or after, you can find the details of your programme: BA Modern Languages and English (Japanese)(For students entering from September 2023 onwards)

The distinctiveness, appeal and strength of the BA Modern Languages and English at the University of
Leeds lie in the combination of depth, breadth and flexibility which it offers, as well as in the exceptional
range of degree combinations with languages available.

This programme also allows the opportunity to undertake a work placement, field work or study abroad.
The combination of English with the study of another language and cultural context allows students to
explore cultural production in multiple cultural contexts, gaining deeper and more critical cultural
insights alongside sophisticated reception and production skills in a major world language.

The programme permits 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. It is emphatically a joint
honours programme, rather than an integrated programme: 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.

Year1 - View timetable

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

Compulsory modules:

All students will be required to study the following compulsory modules

Optional modules:

Students with no prior knowledge of Japanese will be required to study the following modules:

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

Year2 - View timetable

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

Compulsory modules:

Students will be required to study the following compulsory modules

Year3 - View timetable

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

At Level 2, students must study 120 credits. Overall, students must take 100 credits across their two subjects. Students are required to take a minimum of 40 credits in English and a minimum of 60 credits in Japanese.
The remaining 20 credits may be taken as optional modules in either English or Japanese, or as discovery modules.

Compulsory modules:

Students must study the following compulsory modules:

Optional modules:

Students may study up to 20 credits from the from the following lists of optional modules (Baskets 1-4).

Basket 1:

 Basket 2:

Basket 3:

Basket 4:

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

Discovery modules:

Students may choose to take up to 20 credits of Discovery modules in a third subject or pursue additional modules in English or their chosen language.

Year4 - View timetable

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

In Level 3 students must study 120 credits. Students are required to take a minimum of 40 credits in English and in their chosen language. Overall, students must take 100 credits across their two subjects. The remaining credits should be taken in either of the named subjects or taken as Discovery modules. All students must take 40 credits as a Final Year Project module, which can be taken in - and count towards - either of their two subjects. Please note that not all modules will be available every year.

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:

Students must study the following compulsory module:

Optional modules:

Students are required to take ONE of the following Final Year Project modules.

- Students who take their FYP in English are required to take a minimum of 20 credits and may take up to 40 credits from following list of optional modules.


- Students who take their FYP in Japanese may take up to 20 credits from the following list of optional modules.

Basket 1:

- Students who take their FYP with English may take up to 40 credits from following list of optional modules (EITHER Basket 2 OR Basket 3).

- Students who take their FYP in Japanese are required to take 40 credits from following list of optional modules (EITHER Basket 2 OR Basket 3).

Basket 2:

Basket 3:

Discovery modules:

Students may choose to spend up to 20 credits of Discovery modules in a third subject or pursue additional modules in English or their chosen language.
- Finalists may only take Level 1 modules that are listed as Discovery Skills modules (skd) and only to the value of 20 credits.

Students may choose to spend up to 20 credits of Discovery modules in a third subject or pursue aditional modules in Business or their chosen language.
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: 13/06/2024 05:52:58

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