Chinese and Cymraeg BA (Hons)

Bachelor's degree

In Bangor

£ 11,750 VAT inc.

Description

  • Type

    Bachelor's degree

  • Location

    Bangor (Wales)

  • Duration

    4 Years

  • Start date

    September

Chinese can be studied at joint honours level in combination with another language or a variety of other subjects, with both subjects studied in equal proportions. These courses will provide you with advanced skills in the Mandarin language and a broad range of specialised and detailed insights into Chinese culture, society and history. The degree has language at the heart of it, with core modules developing the key oral, aural and written skills every year. These modules also foster cultural awareness, which you will need for your year abroad, and later on, for the world of work.

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Location

Start date

Bangor (Gwynedd)
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LL57 2DG

Start date

SeptemberEnrolment now open

About this course


The course aims to enable understudies to: be able to produce sentences and short paragraphs using basic vocabulary and grammatical constructions.

be able to communicate in Chinese on basic everyday issues.

be able to understand the essential features of Chinese sentence structures;

be familiar with the pronunciation and tones;

be able to recognise and write basic characters, and read simple prose passages


Studying Modern Languages opens the door to a wide variety of careers. Many Bangor Modern Languages graduates have, of course, gone into teaching and translating, but just as many have embarked upon successful careers in the civil service, business and commerce, industry and the media. The skills you learn whilst studying languages – cultural awareness, communication, accuracy, planning and logical analysis – are valued highly by employers from all sectors of the economy.

260 240 points. Normally including a foreign language at A2 level.
We consider mature students on individual merit.
These degrees are aimed at students who have not already studied A level Chinese (or equivalent), but will be suitable for students who have a GCSE (or equivalent) in Chinese.

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Subjects

  • IT
  • Skills and Training
  • Chinese
  • Dissertation
  • Modern China
  • Introduction to chinese studies
  • Analytical and communication skills
  • How china
  • Sinophone context
  • Develop linguistic
  • Historical and literary material
  • History and society
  • Chinese and Cymraeg
  • Cymraeg
  • Breadth and depth
  • Language and cultural modules

Course programme

What will you study on this course? In addition to the language the syllabus includes a broad range of stimulating options. First year courses include an introduction to Chinese Studies. Second and final year options offer increasing levels of specialisation as you proceed towards your degree. They cover a wide variety of cultural, historical and literary material from various centuries that will enable you to understand both modern China and how China has become the country it is today. When students are studying modules with a primarily cultural focus, these modules will set out to equip the students with a detailed understanding of culture, history and society in a Chinese and/or Sinophone context. This will enable students to pursue specialised topics of particular interest that provide both breadth and depth. Each year you will study a total 60 credits in Chinese, and both the language and cultural modules will build over the years to provide both breadth and depth of understanding geared towards helping students to develop linguistic, analytical and communication skills by both working with others and individually. For the Chinese component of your degree, in Year 1 you will take the two compulsory modules Chinese for Beginners 1 and 2 as well as taking one of the following two optional modules: either Introduction to Chinese Studies or Themes in Eastern Religion and Philosophy. In Year 2, you will take the compulsory module Chinese Language Skills and take a second optional 20 credit module, e.g. Contemporary Chinese Studies. Year 3 is spent abroad studying at one of our partner universities in China. In your final year, you will study the compulsory module Advanced Chinese Language Skills, in addition to choosing a further 30 credits in optional modules from a list which may include: LXC 3300 Key Topics in Chinese Studies QXE 3049: Going Global LXE 3210: Press Dossier LXE 3101: Approaching Translation LXC 3113: Chinese Dissertation

Chinese and Cymraeg BA (Hons)

£ 11,750 VAT inc.