English Language and Chinese BA (Joint Hons)

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