What you'll study
The course consists of 120 credits per year. Most modules are 20 credits, meaning you’ll study six modules each year. Some longer modules, such as a dissertation, are worth more (e.g. 40 credits). In these cases, you’ll study fewer modules - but the number of credits will always add up to 120.
First year modules
You’ll undertake two core language modules at either beginners/improvers or advanced level.
Second year modules
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Compulsory
Presenting and Representing the Past
Can you trust history and historical facts? Compare the way the past has been presented and used by rulers, film-makers and artists in a variety of cultures and languages.
Contemporary Cities: Migration, Place and Belonging
Use cinema, art and literature to discover how and why contemporary cities and their societies are interpreted and imagined and engage with them in new, unexpected ways.
Chinese Language 3
Take part in practice, group work, grammar revision, and develop core skills such as translation. Reach a professionally recognised standard, no matter at what level you began.
Chinese Language 4
Practice continues in each language area with intensified emphasis on idiomatic, colloquial and formal registers in different social and cultural contexts.
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Optional
Introduction to Language Teaching
Develop basic language teaching skills, with a focus on English as a foreign language. This module is especially relevant if you plan to spend your year abroad as a teaching assistant.
CertTESOL 1
You'll cover core areas such as teacher language awareness, teaching approaches, lesson planning and classroom management, as well as gaining some teaching practice and experience.
Translating Text Types
You'll explore the translation of both technical and creative texts, looking at how you can meet your readers’ needs and expectations.
Passport Languages
Learn a new language or improve your existing language skills and intercultural competence.
America's Wars in Asia
The USA fought four major wars in Eastern Asia during the 20th century. Explore the USA's troubled relationship with Asia and the key concepts that have influenced US foreign policy.
Year abroad modules
You'll spend your third year studying at one of our partner universities in China. It gives you a fantastic opportunity to experience Chinese culture and society while improving your language skills.
Final year modules
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Compulsory
Languages and Cultures Dissertation
Hone your research, critical, analytical, writing, and independent study skills by working on a modern languages topic related to your programme of study to produce a final dissertation.
Chinese Language 5
Consolidate structures and grammar, as well as the serious development of skills in areas like translation, interpreting, textual exegesis or subtitling.
Chinese Language 6
Building on all your work and experience to date, we’ll help to set you on your way to fluent professional and social use of Chinese and becoming a career-ready global citizen.
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Optional
Popular Cultures
You'll be introduced to the complexities of the cultural world around us and, through the use of popular culture, the ways in which we speak about, consume, like and dislike culture.
Language Learning and Teaching
Following on from the Introduction to Language Teaching module, you'll look at specific approaches to language teaching in more depth.
CertTESOL 2
The final stage of the CertTESOL qualification. You'll develop your skills with further teaching practice, learner analysis and materials design and development.
Engagement and Resistance
Explore the causes and effects of social, political and economic developments. You'll look at global and local movements to show how citizens have resisted or created change.
Passport Languages
Learn a new language or improve your existing language skills and intercultural competence.
All modules are subject to availability and this list may change at any time.