BA East Asian Studies
Entry requirements
A Level: ABB IB: 33; 32, with B in a Global Politics or Environmental Systems & Societies based extended essay
About this course
BA in East Asian Studies, a Chinese degree centred on the interdisciplinary exploration of regional societies, languages, and cultures. Core topics include Programming, Research Methods, Historical Research, Critical & Analytical Thinking, Ethics & Professional Practice, Design & Creative Practice, and Global & Comparative Perspective. Students have the opportunity to complete a year abroad at partner institutions such as Nanjing University. During the first year, students build foundational knowledge through modules like Key Questions in East Asian Studies, Arts, History and Culture in East Asia, and Politics, Economy and Society in East Asia, alongside language training paths in Chinese, Japanese, or Korean. The second year continues language development and core thematic studies through modules such as East Asia Inc: Business, Competition and Innovation, Film, Television and Screen Cultures in East Asia, and International Relations in East Asia: Power, Identity and Security. In the final year, students complete a compulsory East Asian Dissertation and can choose from optional modules covering specialized topics like Digital Platforms and Alternative East Asia, History, Memory and Heritage in East Asia, and Curating East Asia: Culture, Media and Creative Practice.
Modules
- Key Questions in East Asian Studies
- Arts, History and Culture in East Asia
- Politics, Economy and Society in East Asia
- Korean Intensive 1c
- Korean Intensive 1a
- Korean Intensive 1b
- Japanese Intensive 1c
- Japanese Intensive 1a
- Japanese Intensive 1b
- Chinese Intensive 1c
- Chinese Intensive 1a
- Chinese Intensive 1b
- Chinese Intensive Accelerated 1a
- Chinese Intensive Accelerated 1b
- Chinese Intensive Accelerated 1c
- Inventing Traditions in China, Japan and Korea
- Korean 1
- Japanese 1
- Chinese 1
- Thinking Cross-culturally
- China Year Abroad
- Korean Intensive 2a
- Korean Intensive 2b
- Korean Intensive 2c
- Global Citizenship and East Asia: Responding to Contemporary Challenges
- Chinese Intensive 2a
- Chinese Intensive 2b
- Chinese Intensive 2c
- Japanese Intensive 2a
- Japanese Intensive 2b
- Japanese Intensive 2c
- East Asia Inc: Business, Competition and Innovation
- Film, Television and Screen Cultures in East Asia
- Music and Sound in East Asia
- International Relations in East Asia: Power, Identity and Security
- Everyday East Asia: Ethnographic Approaches
- Twentieth-Century East Asian History: Dynamism, Destruction and Dissent
- Mapping East Asia
- Korean 2
- Chinese 2
- Japanese 2
- East Asian Studies Year Abroad
- Global Citizenship and East Asia: Responding to Contemporary Challenges
- Chinese Intensive Accelerated 2a
- Chinese Intensive Accelerated 2b
- Mapping East Asia
- East Asia Inc: Business, Competition and Innovation
- Twentieth-Century East Asian History: Dynamism, Destruction and Dissent
- Film, Television and Screen Cultures in East Asia
- Music and Sound in East Asia
- International Relations in East Asia: Power, Identity and Security
- Everyday East Asia: Ethnographic Approaches
- East Asian Dissertation
- Digital Platforms and Alternative East Asia
- History, Memory and Heritage in East Asia
- Contemporary East Asian Literature in Translation
- Transnational Activism Beyond East Asia
- Curating East Asia: Culture, Media and Creative Practice
- East Asian Futures: Sustainability and Transformation
- Interrogating Identity in East Asia
- Reading Early East Asian Sources and Contexts
- Korean 3
- Chinese 3
- Japanese 3