Modern Languages and English (Japanese)

The list shown below represents typical modules/components studied if you choose Japanese 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 modules

Code	Title	Credits	Semester
EAST1252	Modern Japan	20	Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun)
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 Japanese will be required to study the following modules:

Code	Title	Credits	Semester	Pass for Progression
EAST1210	Basic Japanese Language (1)	20	Semester 1 (Sep to Jan)
EAST1220	Basic Japanese Language (2)	20	Semester 2 (Jan to Jun)	PFP

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

Code	Title	Credits	Semester	Pass for Progression
EAST1280	Intermediate Japanese (1)	20	Semester 1 (Sep to Jan)
EAST1281	Intermediate Japanese (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 Japanese. The remaining 20 credits may be taken as optional modules in either English or Japanese, or as discovery modules. Students will be required to study the following compulsory modules 

Code	Title	Credits	Semester	Pass for Progression
EAST2212	Japanese 2A: Written Communication Skills	20	Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun)
EAST2222	Japanese 2B: Spoken Communication Skills	20	Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep 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:

- Japanese Cinema in the World - 20 Credits
- Nature and Technology in Japanese Literature and Film - 20 Credits
- Death and Religion in Japan - 20 Credits

Code	Title	Credits	Semester
EAST2007	Japan's International Relations	20	Semester 2 (Jan to Jun)
EAST2025	Global Korea in Context: Sociocultural and Political Dynamics	20	Not running in 202425
EAST2480	Japanese Development Assistance in a Globalising World	20	Not running in 202425

Students may study up to 20 credits from the from the following lists of optional modules (Baskets 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
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 modules

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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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
EAST3285	Japanese 3: Advanced Communication 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 following list of optional modules (EITHER Basket 1 OR Basket 2).

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

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

Code	Title	Credits	Semester
EAST3155	Nature, Culture and Technology in Japan	20	Semester 2 (Jan to Jun)
EAST3355	Death and Religion in Japan	20	Semester 2 (Jan to Jun)
EAST3630	Advanced Chinese to English Translation	20	Not running in 202425

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

Code	Title	Credits	Semester
EAST3045	Southeast Asia: Politics and Economy	20	Not running in 202425
EAST3252	Modern Japanese History	20	Semester 1 (Sep to Jan)
EAST3271	East Asia's Regional Political Economy	20	Semester 1 (Sep to Jan)
EAST3350	Japanese Cinema in the World	20	Semester 1 (Sep to Jan)

Students who take their FYP with English may take up to 40 credits from following list of optional modules (EITHER Basket 3 OR Basket 4).

Students who take their FYP in Japanese are required to take 40 credits from following list of optional modules (EITHER Basket 3 OR Basket 4).

Basket 3:

Code	Title	Credits	Semester
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 4:

Code	Title	Credits	Semester
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)

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

Code	Title	Credits	Semester
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 study up to 20 credits of discovery modules.