English Literature and Chinese BA (Joint Hons)

Bachelor's degree

In Bangor

£ 11,750 VAT inc.

Description

  • Type

    Bachelor's degree

  • Location

    Bangor (Wales)

  • Duration

    4 Years

  • Start date

    September

This degree course offers the opportunity to study English Literature (50%) and Chinese (50%).

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. This course 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.

Facilities

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


A degree from the School of English Literature gives you particular skills and also skills which are common to other degrees in the Arts.

Your degree will indicate your capacity to show initiative and work without close supervision, alone or as a member of a group; you will show to an employer that you are able to work under preassure and meet deadlines.

Those students coming to study degrees such as English with Journalism or English with Songwriting will learn particular skills which will enable them, if they wish, to seek jobs in related fields.

260 240 points
We consider mature students on individual merit.

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Subjects

  • IT
  • English
  • Joint
  • Skills and Training
  • English Literature
  • Aural and written skills
  • New critical techniques
  • Develop critical capacities
  • English Literature and Chinese
  • Broad range of stimulating options
  • Increasing levels of specialisation
  • Cultural, historical and literary material
  • Modern china and how china
  • Foster cultural awareness

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 modules include an introduction to Chinese Studies. Second and finalyear options offer increasing levels of specialisation as you progress. 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.

English Literature and Chinese BA (Joint Hons)

£ 11,750 VAT inc.