Chinese and Italian B BA

A Joint Honours degree allows you to study the same core topics as students on each Single Honours course, but you’ll take fewer options and discovery modules so you can fit in both subjects. You’ll study one of our Cornerstone modules in Year 1 to draw your two subjects together, and apply your knowledge and skills to a major research project in either subject in your final year.


Chinese

In your first year core modules will develop your Chinese language skills. You’ll also choose from optional modules introducing Chinese history, culture and religious traditions. Then you’ll spend a year studying in China to improve your language skills and experience the local culture, and return to advanced language classes over the next two years. You’ll also choose from optional modules from Cantonese to Sino-Japanese relations.


Italian B

Core modules in your first year will develop your Italian language skills and introduce you to Italian culture and history. You will spend time abroad in Italy, before you return to continue your language study and also choose from optional modules such as Dante or regional identities in Italy. A variety of optional modules alongside these will allow you to continue pursuing your own interests. Your time abroad will bring a new perspective to advanced language classes in your final year.


Modules

Year 1

Compulsory modules

• Basic Chinese Language 1
• Basic Chinese Language 2
• Beginners Italian 1
• Beginners Italian 2

Optional modules

• History and Culture of Imperial China
• History and Culture of Early Imperial China
• History and Culture of Late Imperial China
• Modern China
• Art and Literature in Medieval and Renaissance Italy: An Introduction
• Italy from Fascism to the Present
• Fictions of Fascism (B): Watching the Detectives
• Italian Cinema: An Introduction
• LCS Academic Essentials

Year 2
Compulsory modules

• Year Abroad in China

Year 3

Compulsory modules

• Chinese 2A
• Chinese 2B
• Italian Language B

Optional modules

• China Since 1979
• Japan's International Relations
• The Making of Modern Thailand
• Classics of Chinese Literature and Thought
• Research Placement
• Introduction to Dante's Comedy
• Linguistic Variety in Modern Italy
• Power, Pain and Beauty: Introduction to the Art and Literature of the Italian Renaissance
• Linguists into Schools

Year 4

Compulsory modules

• Year Abroad in Italy

Year 5

Compulsory modules

• You are required to study one Final Year Project module

• Chinese 3: Advanced Skills
• Italian Language 3

Optional modules

• Classics of Chinese Literature and Thought
• Chinese Oral and Performance Traditions
• Religion in China
• Civil Society and the Non-Profit Sector in Contemporary China
• Chinese Linguistics: Theory and Practice
• 'Giocare al Romanzo': Italo Calvino and the Novel, from Neorealism to Postmodern
• Dark Italy: Italian Crime Fiction
• A Year With 366 Days: A Journey Through Petrarch's Canzoniere
• Made in Italy. Italian for Business
• Family Novels: Life Stories, Gender and Social Change in Modern Italy
• Final Year Project: Dissertation
• Final Year Project: Extended Essay
• Final Year Project: Translation
• Final Year Project: Extended Translation
• Final Year Project: Digital Documentary
• Linguists into Schools