2024/25 Undergraduate Programme Catalogue

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

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 from September 2024. For students who entered the programme before September 2024, you can find the details of your programme: BA Chinese and Japanese Studies

This programme equips students with the linguistic skills needed to understand a range of written, spoken and

broadcast material in Chinese and Japanese, and the ability to communicate effectively with Chinese and Japanese speakers. The deliberately modern bias of the programme aims to produce graduates with an all-round proficiency in Chinese and Japanese, 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 Japanese) and follow an intensive language programme in their first year. The second year is spent at a

university in Japan, and the third year is spent at university 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, Japanese and the East Asian region.

Students are expected to graduate with a sound knowledge of the Chinese and Japanese languages, invaluable experience of life in Japan 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:

Students will be required to study the following compulsory modules:

Students with prior knowledge of Chinese may, subject to a placement test, study more advanced language modules (EAST2550/EAST2570) instead of EAST1010/EAST1020, as appropriate in their first year.

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).

Optional modules:

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

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

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

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

Discovery modules:

Year2 - 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:

Year 2 will be spent in Japan.

Candidates will be required to study the following compulsory modules

Optional 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:

Year 3 will be spent in China or Taiwan.

Candidates will be required to study the following compulsory modules

Optional 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:

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:

- Civil Society and the Non-Profit Sector in Contemporary China - 20 Credits

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

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

Year5 - 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:

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 will be required to study 20 credits and may study up to 40 credits from the following optional modules:
- Advanced Chinese in Context (Humanities) - 20Credits
- Advanced Chinese in Context (Social Science) - 20Credits
- Advanced Japanese in Context (Social Science) - 20 Credits

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

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

Last updated: 02/05/2024 16:22:58

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