Chinese and Creative Studies 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: To be able to produce sentences and short paragraphs using basic vocabulary and grammatical constructions.
To be able to communicate in Chinese on basic everyday issues.
To be able to recognise and write basic characters, and read simple prose passages; be able to produce sentences and short paragraphs using a range of vocabulary and grammatical constructions, and translate more complex sentences and short texts from English into Chinese and vice versa;
To be able to read short Chinese texts;
To be able to conduct simple dialogues on a selection of more sophisticated topics.


Creative Studies and Media courses have seen graduates involved in both academe and in industry, including work in:

Creative Writing, Professional Writing and Publishing;
Performance and the Theatre, both on and behind the stage;
Print and/or Broadcast Journalism;
Actors, presenters and in television programme production;
Advertising and the Marketing industries;
Radio, as presenters, as well as in programme production;
Digital, Web and New Media production;
Multi media industries.

260 240 points. Normally including a foreign language at A2 level.
English language requirements: overall IELTS score of at least 6.0 (with no individual element below 5.5).

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Subjects

  • IT
  • Skills and Training
  • Key Topics in Chinese Studies
  • Going Global
  • Press Dossier
  • Approaching Translation
  • Chinese Dissertation
  • Advanced Chinese Language Skills
  • Chinese Studies
  • Chinese Language Skills

Course programme

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

Additional information

Research and practice Our courses combine elements of research and practice. You have the opportunity to create and produce in all media fields under the supervision of staff that have many years of experience working in the media. We have excellent links with theatre companies, newspapers and the television industry. BBC Wales’ television and radio centre is literally next door, and there are many independent producers nearby. Students will be able to take advantage of the new Pontio centre, which includes a theatre, a cinema, a design and innovation centre, and spacious lecture rooms. Our students play a prominent role in many creative projects, such as Student Cut Films, two student newspapers – Seren and Llef – and a radio station, Storm FM.

Chinese and Creative Studies BA (Hons)

£ 11,750 VAT inc.