Modern Languages and English (Chinese)

The list shown below represents typical modules/components studied if you choose Chinese as your language pathway.

For information on typical modules for English, please check the course page.

These modules may change from time to time. Read more in our terms and conditions.

Year 1

(For students entering from September 2023 onwards)

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Compulsory Modules

All students will be required to study the following compulsory module

Code Title Credits Semester Pass for Progression
EAST1110 Modern China: History and Culture 20 Semester 1 (Sep to Jan)  
ENGL1055 Writing Matters 20 Semester 2 (Jan to Jun)  
ENGL1065 Reading Between the Lines 20 Semester 1 (Sep to Jan)  
MODL1150 Worlds of Literature 20 Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun)  

 

Optional Modules

Students with no prior knowledge of Chinese will be required to study the following modules

Code Title Credits Semester Pass for Progression
EAST1010 Basic Chinese Language 1 20 Semester 1 (Sep to Jan)  
EAST1020 Basic Chinese Language 2 20 Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) PFP

Students with prior knowledge of Chinese will, subject to a placement test, be required to study the following modules

Code Title Credits Semester Pass for Progression
EAST1460 Intermediate Chinese (1) 20 Semester 1 (Sep to Jan)  
EAST1461 Intermediate Chinese (2) 20 Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) PFP

 

Year 2

(For students entering from September 2023 onwards)

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We are currently refreshing our courses to make sure students have the best possible experience. Where there is no module code link below the full module details are not yet available. Before you are required to enrol on a module full details will be provided.

Compulsory Modules

At Level 2, students must study 120 credits. Overall, students must take 100 credits across their two subjects. Students are required to take a minimum of 40 credits in English and a minimum of 60 credits in Chinese. The remaining 20 credits may be taken as optional modules in either English or Chinese, or as discovery modules. Students will be required to study the following compulsory modules 

Code Title Credits Semester Pass for Progression
EAST2015 Chinese 2A 20 Semester 1 (Sep to Jan)  
EAST2016 Chinese 2B 20 Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) PFP
ENGL2030 Writing Environments: Literature, Nature, Culture 20 Semester 1 (Sep to Jan)  
ENGL2045 Body Language: Literature and Embodiment 20 Semester 2 (Jan to Jun)  

 

Optional Modules

Students will be required to study 20 credits from the following optional modules:

- Introduction to Cantonese - 20 Credits
- Civil Society and the Non-Profit Sector in Contemporary China - 20 Credits

Code Title Credits Semester Pass for Progression
EAST2006 China Since 1979 20 Semester 1 (Sep to Jan)  
EAST2126 Classical Chinese 20 Not running in 202425  
EAST2127 Society and Culture of Early Modern China 20 Not running in 202425  
EAST2148 Trauma Narratives in the Contemporary Sinophone World 20 Semester 1 (Sep to Jan)  
EAST2360 Chinese Cinema 20 Semester 2 (Jan to Jun)  

Students may study up to 20 credits from the following list of optional modules (Basket 1-4).

Basket 1: 

Code Title Credits Semester Pass for Progression
ENGL2029 Renaissance Literature 20 Semester 1 (Sep to Jan)  
ENGL2085 Medieval and Tudor Literature 20 Semester 1 (Sep to Jan)  

Basket 2:

Code Title Credits Semester Pass for Progression
ENGL2065 Postcolonial Literature 20 Semester 1 (Sep to Jan)  
ENGL2090 Modern Literature 20 Semester 1 (Sep to Jan)  

Basket 3:

Code Title Credits Semester Pass for Progression
ENGL2095 Other Voices: Rethinking Nineteenth-Century Literature 20 Semester 2 (Jan to Jun)  
ENGL2096 The World Before Us: Literature 1660–1830 20 Semester 2 (Jan to Jun)  

Basket 4:

Code Title Credits Semester Pass for Progression
ENGL2055 American Words, American Worlds 20 Semester 2 (Jan to Jun)  
ENGL2080 Contemporary Literature 20 Semester 2 (Jan to Jun)  

Students may take up to 20 credits from the following optional modules: 

Code Title Credits Semester Pass for Progression
HIST2260 Digital Methods for History, Art and Literature 20 Semester 1 (Sep to Jan)  
MODL2001 Linguists into Schools 20 Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun)  
MODL2015 Black Europe 20 Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun)  
MODL2070 Reception, Transmission and Translation: The Global Circulation of Literature 20 Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun)  
MODL2075 Global Environmental Humanities 20 Not running in 202425  
MODL2250 Digital Communications Across Cultures 20 Not running in 202425  

Discovery Modules

Students may study up to 20 credits of discovery modules.

Year 3

(For students entering from September 2023 onwards)

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Compulsory Modules

Students will be required to study the following compulsory module

Code Title Credits Semester Pass for Progression
MODL9500 LCS Year Abroad 120 Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) PFP

 

Year 4

(For students entering from September 2023 onwards)

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We are currently refreshing our courses to make sure students have the best possible experience. Where there is no module code link below the full module details are not yet available. Before you are required to enrol on a module full details will be provided.

Compulsory Modules

Students are required to take a minimum of 40 credits in each subject. Overall, students must take 100 credits across their two subjects. All students must take 40 credits as a Final Year Project module, which can be taken in - and count towards - either of their two subjects Students will be required to study the following compulsory modules

Code Title Credits Semester Pass for Progression
EAST3275 Chinese 3: Advanced Skills 20 Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) PFP

 

Optional Modules

Students will be required to study ONE of the following compulsory Final Year Project modules

Code Title Credits Semester Pass for Progression
ENGL3005 Textual Editing Project 40 Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) PFP
ENGL3041 Final Year Project 40 Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) PFP
MODL3300 Final Year Project: Dissertation 40 Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) PFP
MODL3340 Final Year Project: Extended Translation 40 Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) PFP
MODL3350 Final Year Project: Digital Documentary (Podcast) 40 Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) PFP

Students who take their FYP in English are required to take a minimum of 20 credits and may take up to 40 credits from the following list of optional modules (EITHER Basket 1 OR Basket 2)

Students who take their FYP in Chinese may take up to 20 credits from credits from the following list of optional modules (EITHER from Basket 1 OR Basket 2)

Basket 1:
- Advanced Chinese in Context (Social Sciences) - 20 Credits

Code Title Credits Semester Pass for Progression
EAST3015 Religion in China 20 Semester 2 (Jan to Jun)  
EAST3148 Trauma Narratives in the Contemporary Sinophone World 20 Semester 1 (Sep to Jan)  
EAST3630 Advanced Chinese to English Translation 20 Not running in 202425  

Basket 2:
- Advanced Chinese in Context (Humanities) - 20 Credits

Code Title Credits Semester Pass for Progression
EAST3020 Civil Society and the Non-Profit Sector in Contemporary China 20 Semester 1 (Sep to Jan)  
EAST3120 Classical Chinese 20 Not running in 202425  
EAST3271 East Asia's Regional Political Economy 20 Semester 1 (Sep to Jan)  
EAST3525 Globalising China and the Developing World 20 Not running in 202425  

Students who take their FYP with English may take up to 40 credits from the following list of optional modules (EITHER Basket 4 OR Basket 5).

Students who take their FYP in Chinese are required to take 40 credits from the following list of optional modules (EITHER Basket 4 OR Basket 5).

Basket 4:

Code Title Credits Semester Pass for Progression
ENGL3031 Sex and Suffering in the Eighteenth-Century Novel 20 Semester 1 (Sep to Jan)  
ENGL3033 Writing and Gender in Seventeenth-Century England 20 Semester 1 (Sep to Jan)  
ENGL3034 Romantic Lyric Poetry 20 Semester 1 (Sep to Jan)  
ENGL3059 South African Writing: Apartheid and After 20 Not running in 202425  
ENGL3062 Charles Dickens Then & Now 20 Semester 2 (Jan to Jun)  
ENGL3063 Haunted Hinterlands: Wyrd Works and Folk Horror Fictions 20 Semester 1 (Sep to Jan)  
ENGL3114 Forming Victorian Fiction 20 Semester 1 (Sep to Jan)  
ENGL3163 Milton 20 Semester 2 (Jan to Jun)  
ENGL3321 Angry Young Men and Women: Literature of the Mid-Twentieth Century 20 Semester 1 (Sep to Jan)  
ENGL3365 Theatricalities: Beckett, Pinter, Kane 20 Not running in 202425  
ENGL3386 Telling Lives: Reading and Writing Family Memoir 20 Semester 1 (Sep to Jan)  
ENGL3579 Law and Literature: Transgression, Justice, and Interpretation 20 Semester 2 (Jan to Jun)  
ENGL3680 Postcolonial London 20 Semester 1 (Sep to Jan)  

Basket 5:

Code Title Credits Semester Pass for Progression
ENGL3006 Remixing the Renaissance 20 Not running in 202425  
ENGL3008 Writing Modern Sexualities 20 Semester 2 (Jan to Jun)  
ENGL3027 Shakespeare 20 Semester 2 (Jan to Jun)  
ENGL3061 Heart Disease in Contemporary Literature 20 Not running in 202425  
ENGL3066 The Public Poet (Creative Writing) 20 Not running in 202425  
ENGL3100 Digital Englishes 20 Not running in 202425  
ENGL3153 Refugee Narratives 20 Semester 2 (Jan to Jun)  
ENGL3314 Imagining Posthuman Futures 20 Not running in 202425  
ENGL3391 September 11 in Fact and Fiction 20 Semester 2 (Jan to Jun)  
ENGL3396 Fictions of the End: Apocalypse and After 20 Semester 2 (Jan to Jun)  
ENGL3402 Home Bodies: Domestic Animals in Contemporary Literature 20 Not running in 202425  
ENGL3407 Shakespeare and Global Cinema 20 Semester 1 (Sep to Jan)  
ENGL3461 Imagining the United States: Citizenship, Domesticity and Slavery 20 Semester 2 (Jan to Jun)  

Students may choose to take 20 credits of the following optional modules:

Code Title Credits Semester Pass for Progression
MODL3200 Representing the Holocaust: Transgression and the Taboo 20 Semester 1 (Sep to Jan)  
MODL3410 Contemporary World Literature 20 Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun)  
MODL3600 Material Cultures and Cultures of Consumption 20 Not running in 202425  
MODL3610 Adventures of the Imagination: Crime and the Fantastic Across Continents 20 Semester 1 (Sep to Jan)  
MODL3620 Decolonial Approaches 20 Semester 1 (Sep to Jan)  

Discovery Modules

Students may take up to 20 credits of discovery modules.