Modern Languages and English (Thai)

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

Students will be required to study the following compulsory modules

Code Title Credits Semester Pass for Progression
EAST1450 Foundations of East Asia 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 Thai will be required to study the following modules

Code Title Credits Semester Pass for Progression
EAST1703 Basic Thai Language and Culture 1 20 Semester 1 (Sep to Jan)  
EAST1704 Basic Thai Language and Culture 2 20 Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) PFP

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

Code Title Credits Semester Pass for Progression
EAST1510 Introduction to East Asian Religions and Philosophies 20 Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun)  
EAST1704 Basic Thai Language and Culture 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 Thai. The remaining 20 credits may be taken as optional modules in either English or Thai, or as discovery modules. Students will be required to study the following compulsory modules 

Code Title Credits Semester Pass for Progression
EAST2008 The Making of Modern Thailand 20 Semester 2 (Jan to Jun)  
EAST2704 Intermediate Thai Language and Culture 1 20 Semester 1 (Sep to Jan)  
EAST2705 Intermediate Thai Language and Culture 2 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 may study up to 20 credits of the following optional modules
- 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)  
EAST2127 Society and Culture of Early Modern China 20 Not running in 202425  
EAST2128 Contemporary East Asian Culture 20 Semester 2 (Jan to Jun)  
EAST2480 Japanese Development Assistance in a Globalising World 20 Not running in 202425  
EAST2605 Topics in Contemporary Asia Pacific Societies 20 Semester 1 (Sep to Jan)  

Students may study up to 20 credits 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 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 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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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 must study the following compulsory module:

Code Title Credits Semester Pass for Progression
EAST3710 Advanced Thai Language and Culture 20 Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) PFP

 

Optional Modules

Candidates 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 Thai may take up to 20 credits from the following list of optional modules (EITHER Basket 1 OR Basket 2).

Basket 1:

Code Title Credits Semester Pass for Progression
EAST3015 Religion in China 20 Semester 2 (Jan to Jun)  
EAST3035 Energy Security: Global and Asian Perspectives 20    
EAST3155 Nature, Culture and Technology in Japan 20 Semester 2 (Jan to Jun)  
EAST3707 Buddhism: A Lived Tradition 20 Semester 1 (Sep to Jan)  

Basket 2:

Code Title Credits Semester Pass for Progression
EAST3020 Civil Society and the Non-Profit Sector in Contemporary China 20 Semester 1 (Sep to Jan)  
EAST3271 East Asia's Regional Political Economy 20 Semester 1 (Sep to Jan)  
EAST3355 Death and Religion in Japan 20 Semester 2 (Jan to Jun)  
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 3 OR Basket 4).

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

Basket 3:

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 4:

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)  

All 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.