Japanese Studies and History BA

University of Sheffield

Bachelor's degree

In Sheffield

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Description

  • Type

    Bachelor's degree

  • Location

    Sheffield

  • Duration

    4 Years

  • Start date

    Different dates available

Complex, unique, endlessly fascinating, Japan embraces modernity and technology while maintaining its rich traditional culture. To truly understand Japan, you have to experience it. You have to immerse yourself in it.

We teach Japanese intensively, from scratch. You will study the phonetic scripts (kana) from the outset, picking up the 2000 Sino-Japanese characters (kanji) over the course of your degree. Other modules cover contemporary society, literature, politics, economics, gender, modern history, business management and international relations.

The history side of your course covers past societies from the Roman to the Modern period. Outside the seminar room, you'll work on projects that bring history to life, like our student-run New Histories blog and WikiAmerica.

You will spend your third year studying at one of our partner universities in Japan. More than just a chance to put what you've learned into practice, this year is an experience you won't forget.

Energised and inspired, you'll return to Sheffield for your final year. The language training continues, now at a more advanced level. Supervised by an academic, you'll research and write a dissertation on a topic of your choice.

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Sheffield (South Yorkshire)
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Western Bank, S10 2TN

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About this course

Studying Japan, China or Korea prepares our graduates for a career in the world's most dynamic region. There are also many opportunities across Europe for people with skills in Asian languages and cultures.

Our graduates work in government and diplomacy, media and the arts, non-government organisations and international business - in professions as diverse as management consultancy, accountancy, marketing, research, language teaching and translation.

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Subjects

  • Japanese Language
  • Politics
  • Understanding Japan
  • Japanese Society
  • Contemporary
  • Modern Japanese
  • History
  • Japanese Politics
  • Research
  • Project

Course programme

First year

Core modules:
  • History Workshop
  • Japanese Language 1A
  • Japanese Language 2A
  • Japanese Language 1B
  • Japanese Language 2B
Optional modules:
  • Empire: From the Ancient World to the Middle Ages
  • Paths from Antiquity to Modernity
  • The Disenchantment of the European World
  • The Making of the Twentieth Century
  • The Transformation of Britain, 1800 to the Present
Second year
  • Core modules:
  • Historians and History
  • Japanese Language 3A
  • Japanese Language 4A
  • Japanese Language 3B
  • Japanese Language 4B
Optional modules:
  • A Protestant Nation? Religion, Politics and Culture in England 1560-1640
  • Becoming America, 1690-1763
  • Coercion and Consent in the Third Reich
  • Culture in Early Modern Europe
  • European Fascism
  • Gender and Sexuality on Modern Britain, 1850 to the Present
  • Gender, Culture and Society: Britain 1689 - 1837
  • Imperial Germany, 1871-1918
  • Match of the Day: The Nika Riot of 532
  • Murder in the cathedral: the Becket Affair
  • Power and Protest in Late Medieval England, 1348-1509
  • Religion in an Age of Terror: Ancient Texts and the Making of Modern Israel.
  • Tenochtitlan, City of Blood and Flowers: Aztec society in the early sixteenth century
The Ancient Greek Economy
  • The Archaeology of Anglo-Saxon England
  • The Battle for China's Future, 1839-1949
  • The Celtic West: from the fall of Rome to the Viking Age
  • The Family in Late Antiquity: Romans, Barbarians and Christians
  • The History of American Foreign Relations
  • The Making of Modern India, 1780-1965
  • The Myth of Venice
  • The Northern Ireland 'Troubles' and Peace Process
  • The Rise of Rome and its Empire (c.500-90 BCE)
  • The Ten Commandments
  • The Welfare State in Britain, 1900-2015.
  • Tolerance and Dissent in Europe (12th - 16th Centuries)
  • Writing History
Third year

Core modules:
  • Japanese Year Abroad
Fourth year

Core modules:
  • Japanese Language 5
Optional modules:
  • Dissertation
  • A Comparative History of Revolution
  • Anarchy in the UK? Radicals, Democrats & Revolutionaries, 1830-86
  • Anarchy in the UK? Radicals, Democrats & Revolutionaries, 1830-86
  • Breaking up (in) the Carolingian Empire
  • Breaking up (in) the Carolingian Empire
  • Cannibals and Christians: Mexico and Spain, c.1492-1600
  • Cannibals and Christians: Mexico and Spain, c.1492-1600
  • Cities
  • Cultural Encounters
  • Emotions and identity in twentieth-century Britain: from stiff upper lip to Facebook
  • Emotions and identity in twentieth-century Britain: from stiff upper lip to Facebook
  • Ending the Cold War
  • Ending the Cold War
  • Fascism and Anti-Fascism in Britain, 1923-1945 I
  • Fascism and Anti-Fascism in Britain, 1923-1945 II
  • Forced into Being: How Involuntary Migration Created Ancient Israel
  • Forced into Being: How Involuntary Migration Created Ancient Israel
  • From Julius Caesar to Augustus: Rome's Revolution (89 BC-14 AD)
  • From Julius Caesar to Augustus: Rome's Revolution (89 BC-14 AD)
  • Half Slave and Half Free: The Origins of the U.S. Civil War
  • Half Slave and Half Free: The Origins of the U.S. Civil War
  • Humour and Laughter in Eighteenth-Century Britain
  • Humour and Laughter in Eighteenth-Century Britain
  • Merchants, Mariners and Migrants: The English Overseas, 1570-1624
  • Merchants, Mariners and Migrants: The English Overseas, 1570-1624
  • Resistance & Liberation in South Africa: Gandhi to Mandela
  • Resistance & Liberation in South Africa: Gandhi to Mandela
  • Short Dissertation
  • Solidarity, Sabotage, Students: Protest in Europe from 1968 to 1989
  • Solidarity, Sabotage, Students: Protest in Europe from 1968 to 1989
  • Stalinism and De-Stalinisation, 1929-1961 I
  • Stalinism and De-Stalinisation, 1929-1961 II
  • The American War in Vietnam, 1945-1975
  • The American War in Vietnam, 1945-1975
  • The Holocaust: The Destruction of European Jewry I
  • The Holocaust: The Destruction of European Jewry II
  • The Paris Commune I
  • The Paris Commune II
  • The Road to Civil War: England 1621-1642 I
  • The Road to Civil War: England 1621-1642 II
  • The Spanish Civil War I
  • The Spanish Civil War II
  • The United States and the Cold War, 1945-1975
  • The United States and the Cold War, 1945-1975
  • The Uses of History
  • The Wars of the Roses: Empire in Crisis, c.1440-1509
  • The Wars of the Roses: Empire in Crisis, c.1440-1509
  • Tools of Empire? Medicine, Science and Colonialism, 1800-1950
  • Tools of Empire? Medicine, Science and Colonialism, 1800-1950

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