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Asian Studies
SCQF Level 07 (8 courses)
Code
Availability
Course Name
Period
Credits
ASST07008
SV1
Foundation Japanese Language 1
Semester 1
20
ASST07008
SV1
Foundation Japanese Language 1
Semester 2
20
ASST07016
SV1
Foundation Japanese Language 2
Semester 2
20
ASST07017
Foundation Japanese Language 3
Not delivered this year
20
ASST07019
SV1
Foundation Korean Language 1
Semester 1
20
ASST07019
SV1
Foundation Korean Language 1
Semester 2
20
ASST07018
SV1
Foundation Korean Language 2
Semester 2
20
ASST07003
SV1
Introductory Chinese Language
Semester 1
20
ASST07003
SV1
Introductory Chinese Language
Semester 2
20
ASST07006
SV1
Introductory Chinese Language 2
Semester 2
20
ASST07014
Introductory Chinese Language 3
Not delivered this year
20
SCQF Level 08 (28 courses)
Code
Availability
Course Name
Period
Credits
ASST08051
SS1
Academic Skills for Asian Studies
Full Year
20
ASST08001
SV1
Chinese 1
Full Year
40
ASST08018
SV1
Chinese 2A
Full Year
40
ASST08019
SV1
Chinese 2B
Full Year
40
ASST08050
SV1
Chinese 2C
Full Year
40
ASST08048
SV1
Intermediate Japanese Language
Full Year
40
ASST08053
SV1
Introduction to Japanese Literature
Semester 2
20
ASST08002
Japanese 1
Not delivered this year
40
ASST08006
Japanese 2A
Not delivered this year
40
ASST08046
SV1
Japanese Language 1
Full Year
40
ASST08047
SV1
Japanese Language 2
Full Year
40
ASST08034
Modern China in Literature and Film
Not delivered this year
40
ASST08035
Modern China in Literature and Film (VS1)
Not delivered this year
20
ASST08038
Modern China in Literature and Film (VS2)
Not delivered this year
20
ASST08055
SV1
Modern China in Literature and Film A
Semester 1
20
ASST08054
SV1
Modern China in Literature and Film B
Semester 2
20
ASST08042
SV1
Modern East Asian History A
Semester 1
20
ASST08043
SV1
Modern East Asian History B
Semester 2
20
ASST08041
SV1
Politics and the Economy of Japan
Semester 1
20
ASST08045
Practical Japanese 1
Not delivered this year
0
ASST08044
SS1
Practical Japanese 2- Year Abroad Preparation
Flexible
0
ASST08056
SV1
Pre-modern East Asian history and the forces that shaped it
Semester 1
20
ASST08049
SS1
Researching Japan: Skills, Methods and Critiques
Full Year
40
ASST08011
SV1
Sanskrit 1
Full Year
40
ASST08023
Sanskrit 1: (VS1)
Not delivered this year
20
ASST08012
Sanskrit 2
Not delivered this year
40
ASST08052
SV1
Society and culture in pre-modern East Asia
Semester 2
20
ASST08040
SV1
Thinking Through Japan
Semester 2
20
SCQF Level 09 (4 courses)
Code
Availability
Course Name
Period
Credits
ASST09003
Chinese History 3
Not delivered this year
20
ASST09001
SV1
Chinese Literature 3
Full Year
20
ASST09002
SV1
Chinese Special Subject 3
Full Year
20
ASST09004
SS1
Japanese Studies on the Year Abroad
Full Year
20
SCQF Level 10 (63 courses)
Code
Availability
Course Name
Period
Credits
ASST10135
Appproaches to translation from and into Japanese 4: 2 (combined)
Not delivered this year
20
ASST10136
Approaches to translation from and into Japanese 4
Not delivered this year
10
ASST10134
Approaches to translation from and into Japanese 4: 1 (combined)
Not delivered this year
10
ASST10099
SV1
Buddhism 3A
Semester 1
20
ASST10100
SV1
Buddhism 3B
Semester 2
20
ASST10036
Buddhism 4
Not delivered this year
40
ASST10077
SV1
Chinese 3 Year Abroad
Full Year
80
ASST10096
SV1
Chinese 3 Year Abroad (Combined degrees)
Full Year
60
ASST10108
SV1
Chinese History and Thought 4A (pre-modern)
Semester 2
20
ASST10109
SV1
Chinese History and Thought 4B (modern)
Semester 2
20
ASST10062
Chinese Language 1C
Not delivered this year
20
ASST10095
SV1
Chinese Language 4B
Full Year
10
ASST10094
SV1
Chinese Language 4a
Full Year
10
ASST10106
SV1
Chinese Literature 4A (pre-modern)
Semester 1
20
ASST10107
SV1
Chinese Literature 4B (modern)
Semester 1
20
ASST10093
SV1
Chinese Oral
Full Year
0
ASST10138
SV1
Chinese Silent Cinema: 1920-1935
Semester 1
20
ASST10081
SV1
Chinese Special Subject 4
Flexible
20
ASST10113
Classical Japanese Fiction 4
Not delivered this year
20
ASST10131
SS1
Contemporary Japanese Cinema
Semester 1
20
ASST10058
Dissertation in South and East Asian Religion
Not delivered this year
40
ASST10145
SS1
Exploring Japanese Fiction 4
Semester 2
20
ASST10097
Hinduism 3A
Not delivered this year
20
ASST10098
Hinduism 3B
Not delivered this year
20
ASST10035
Hinduism 4
Not delivered this year
40
ASST10065
SS1
Japanese 3 Dissertation (Preparation)
Full Year
20
ASST10066
SS1
Japanese 4 Dissertation (Completion)
Full Year
20
ASST10121
SV1
Japanese 4 Oral
Full Year
0
ASST10116
Japanese Buddhist Writers from the Early Heian Period to the Late Edo Period
Not delivered this year
20
ASST10142
SS1
Japanese Cyberpunk: Non-Western futuristic fantasy in popular visual genres
Semester 2
20
ASST10130
Japanese Language 1A
Not delivered this year
20
ASST10128
SS1
Japanese Language 3
Full Year
20
ASST10133
SS1
Japanese Language 4
Full Year
10
ASST10125
Japanese Language 4A
Not delivered this year
10
ASST10122
Japanese Language 4B
Not delivered this year
10
ASST10123
Japanese Language 4B-1 (combined)
Not delivered this year
10
ASST10124
Japanese Language 4B-2 (combined)
Not delivered this year
20
ASST10117
SS1
Japanese Performing Arts 4
Semester 1
20
ASST10143
SV1
Japanese Religions in the Modern Era
Semester 2
20
ASST10147
SS1
Japanese Year Abroad (Single)
Full Year
60
ASST10129
SS1
Japanese Year Abroad 3 (Combined)
Full Year
60
ASST10127
SS1
Japanese Year Abroad 3 (Single)
Full Year
80
ASST10120
SV1
Japanese-Chinese Relations: History and Contemporary Issues
Semester 2
20
ASST10140
SV1
Korean-Japanese Relations: Historical and Contemporary Issues
Semester 2
20
ASST10141
SS1
Language Communities and Variation in Japanese
Semester 1
20
ASST10110
Modern Japanese Literature 4
Not delivered this year
20
ASST10112
Modern Japanese Society
Not delivered this year
20
ASST10126
SV1
Politics and Policy in Contemporary China
Semester 1
20
ASST10139
SS1
Radical Japan: culture, politics and protest in Japan¿s ¿Long 1960s¿
Semester 2
20
ASST10132
SS1
Representations of history in the cinema of Communist China
Semester 2
20
ASST10089
Sanskrit 3 Language 1
Not delivered this year
40
ASST10101
Sanskrit 3 Language 2
Not delivered this year
40
ASST10103
Sanskrit 4 Language 1
Not delivered this year
40
ASST10105
Sanskrit 4 Language 2
Not delivered this year
40
ASST10102
Sanskrit Special Subject
Not delivered this year
40
ASST10104
Sanskrit Special Subject
Not delivered this year
40
ASST10037
Sanskrit: Related Language (1) Pali
Not delivered this year
40
ASST10072
Short Essay on an Aspect of Japanese Culture
Not delivered this year
10
ASST10091
Short essay on an aspect of Japanese culture: 2
Not delivered this year
10
ASST10144
The Buddhist Brush: Discursive and Graphic Expressions of Japanese Buddhism
Not delivered this year
20
ASST10119
The Development of Social and Political Thought in Modern Japan
Not delivered this year
20
ASST10148
SS1
Translation from Japanese to English
Full Year
10
ASST10146
Translation from Japanese to English 4
Not delivered this year
20
SCQF Level 11 (64 courses)
Code
Availability
Course Name
Period
Credits
ASST11067
SS1
Approved Residence in China July - December (20 credits)
Semester 1
20
ASST11073
Buddhism and the Statutory State in Eighth and Ninth Century East Asia
Not delivered this year
20
ASST11086
SS1
China and South East Asian International Relations
Semester 2
20
ASST11056
China's International Politics
Not delivered this year
20
ASST11039
Chinese Business and Technology Innovation II
Not delivered this year
20
ASST11089
SS1
Chinese Language 1A
Semester 1
40
ASST11041
SS1
Chinese Language 1B
Semester 2
40
ASST11017
Chinese Language 1D
Not delivered this year
20
ASST11059
SS1
Chinese Language Advanced 1
Semester 2
40
ASST11058
SS1
Chinese Language Advanced 2
Semester 2
40
ASST11061
SS1
Chinese Language Intermediate 1A
Semester 1
40
ASST11060
SS1
Chinese Language Intermediate 1B
Semester 2
40
ASST11063
Chinese Language Intermediate 1C
Not delivered this year
20
ASST11062
Chinese Language Intermediate 1D
Not delivered this year
20
ASST11076
Chinese Religions: Confucianism, Daoism and 'Popular Religion'
Not delivered this year
20
ASST11091
SS1
Chinese Silent Cinema: 1920-1935
Semester 1
20
ASST11099
SS1
Chinese Studies Review Exercise 1
Semester 1
5
ASST11100
SS1
Chinese Studies Review Exercise 2
Semester 2
5
ASST11101
SS1
Chinese Studies Review Exercise 3
Semester 2
5
ASST11102
SS1
Chinese Studies Review Exercise 4
Semester 2
5
ASST11010
SS1
Contemporary Chinese Literature (MChS)
Semester 2
20
ASST11057
SS1
Contemporary Japanese Cinema
Semester 1
20
ASST11011
SS1
Dissertation (Master of Chinese Studies)
Block 5 (Sem 2) and beyond
60
ASST11087
East Asian Cultural Relations
Not delivered this year
20
ASST11084
SS1
East Asian International Relations
Semester 1
20
ASST11105
SS1
Exploring Japanese Fiction (PG version)
Semester 2
20
ASST11048
Financial Analysis (for MChS)
Not delivered this year
20
ASST11046
SS1
Introduction to Chinese Society and Culture II
Semester 1
20
ASST11051
SS1
Japanese Cyberpunk: Non-Western futuristic fantasy in popular visual genres
Semester 2
20
ASST11070
Japanese Language 1B
Not delivered this year
20
ASST11052
Japanese Language for Academic Purposes
Not delivered this year
20
ASST11097
SS1
Japanese Performing Arts (PG Version)
Semester 1
20
ASST11053
Japanese Performing Arts II: Global Context
Not delivered this year
20
ASST11074
SS1
Japanese Religions in the Modern Era
Semester 1
20
ASST11090
SS1
Japanese-Chinese Relations: History and Contemporary Issues
Semester 2
20
ASST11031
SS1
Keywords of Chinese Modernity
Semester 1
20
ASST11092
SS1
Korean Politics and International Relations: History and Contemporary Issues
Semester 1
20
ASST11096
SS1
Language Communities and Variation in Japanese
Semester 1
20
ASST11032
SV1
Literary Criticism and History in Modern China
Semester 1
20
ASST11098
SS1
MSc Chinese Society and Culture Dissertation
Block 5 (Sem 2) and beyond
60
ASST11083
SS1
MSc East Asian Relations Dissertation
Block 5 (Sem 2) and beyond
60
ASST11025
SS1
MSc by Research in Chinese Studies Dissertation
Block 5 (Sem 2) and beyond
60
ASST11020
SS1
MSc by Research in Japanese Dissertation
Block 5 (Sem 2) and beyond
60
ASST11030
MSc by Research in Japanese Dissertation II
Not delivered this year
140
ASST11026
MSc by Research in Sanskrit Dissertation
Not delivered this year
60
ASST11069
SS1
MSc in Japanese Society and Culture Dissertation
Block 5 (Sem 2) and beyond
60
ASST11078
Mahayana and Vajrayana in India
Not delivered this year
20
ASST11022
Media Culture in Modern China
Not delivered this year
20
ASST11088
SS1
Modern Japanese Literature (Level 11)
Semester 2
20
ASST11055
SV1
Politics and Economics in the PRC after 1978
Semester 2
20
ASST11095
SS1
Radical Japan: culture, politics and protest in Japan's "Long 1960s" (PG Version)
Semester 2
20
ASST11066
Research Methods and Problems in Chinese Studies
Not delivered this year
10
ASST11082
SS1
Research Methods and Problems in Chinese Studies (20 Credits)
Semester 2
20
ASST11103
SS1
Research Skills and Methods for Asian Studies 1
Semester 1
20
ASST11104
SS1
Research Skills and Methods for Asian Studies 2
Semester 2
20
ASST11081
SS1
Research Skills and Methods in Chinese Studies
Semester 1
20
ASST11075
SS1
State, Society and National Identity in Japan after 1989
Semester 1
20
ASST11080
Terminology, Topics and Methods in the Study of Asian Religions
Not delivered this year
20
ASST11071
SS1
The Buddhist Brush: Discursive and Graphic Expressions of Japanese Buddhism
Semester 2
20
ASST11072
The Development of Social and Political Thought in Modern Japan
Not delivered this year
20
ASST11079
The Origins of Buddhism in India
Not delivered this year
20
ASST11094
SV1
The Role of Sub-State Actors in East Asian Politics
Semester 2
20
ASST11085
The Rule of Law and Human Rights in East Asia
Not delivered this year
20
ASST11093
SV1
U.S. Foreign Policy in East Asia
Semester 1
20
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Part-year visiting students only - VV
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