2024/25 Undergraduate Programme Catalogue

BA Modern Languages and English (Japanese) (For students entering from September 2023 onwards)

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 from September 2023. For students who entered the programme before September 2023, you can find the details of your programme: BA Modern Languages and English (Japanese)

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]

We are currently refreshing our courses to make sure students have the best possible experience. Where there is no module code link below the full module details are not yet available. Before you are required to enrol on a module full details will be provided.

Compulsory modules:

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.

Students will be required to study the following compulsory modules 

Optional modules:

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

- Japanese Cinema in the World - 20 Credits
- Nature and Technology in Japanese Literature and Film - 20 Credits
- Death and Religion in Japan - 20 Credits

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 may take up to 20 credits from the following optional modules: 

Discovery modules:

Students may study up to 20 credits of discovery modules.

Year4 - View timetable

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

We are currently refreshing our courses to make sure students have the best possible experience. Where there is no module code link below the full module details are not yet available. Before you are required to enrol on a module full details will be provided.

Compulsory modules:

Students are required to take a minimum of 40 credits in each subject. Overall, students must take 100 credits across their two subjects. 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

Students will be required to study the following compulsory modules

Optional modules:

Students will be required to study ONE of the following compulsory 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 (EITHER Basket 1 OR Basket 2).

Students who take their FYP in Japanese may take up to 20 credits from the following list of optional modules (EITHER Baskets 1 OR 2).

Basket 1:
- Advanced Japanese in Context (Social Sciences) - 20 Credits

Basket 2:
- Advanced Japanese in Context (Humanities) - 20 Credits

Students who take their FYP with English may take up to 40 credits from following list of optional modules (EITHER Basket 3 OR Basket 4).

Students who take their FYP in Japanese are required to take 40 credits from following list of optional modules (EITHER Basket 3 OR Basket 4).

Basket 3:

Basket 4:

All students may choose to take 20 credits of the following optional modules:

Discovery modules:

Students may study up to 20 credits of discovery modules.

Last updated: 02/05/2024 14:43:34

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