Course Catalogue - Asian Studies

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Asian Studies

SCQF Level 07 (10 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
ASST07021		Korean Language Beginner 1	Not delivered this year	20
ASST07020		Korean Language Beginner 2	Not delivered this year	20

SCQF Level 08 (39 courses)

Code	Availability	Course Name	Period	Credits
ASST08051	SS1	Academic Skills for Asian Studies	Semester 1	20
ASST08001	SV1	Chinese 1	Full Year	40
ASST08018	SV1	Chinese 2A	Full Year	40
ASST08019		Chinese 2B	Not delivered this year	40
ASST08050	SV1	Chinese 2C	Full Year	40
ASST08064	SS1	Doing research in Chinese Studies	Full Year	20
ASST08070	SS1	Intermediate Chinese Language Modern and Traditional	Full Year	20
ASST08048		Intermediate Japanese Language	Not delivered this 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		Japanese Language 1	Not delivered this year	40
ASST08047		Japanese Language 2	Not delivered this year	40
ASST08059	SV1	Japanese Language Beginner	Semester 1	20
ASST08066	SV1	Japanese Language Beyond University	Full Year	20
ASST08060	SV1	Japanese Language Lower Intermediate	Semester 1	20
ASST08060	SV1	Japanese Language Lower Intermediate	Semester 2	20
ASST08069	SV1	Japanese Language Mid-Intermediate	Semester 1	20
ASST08069	SV1	Japanese Language Mid-Intermediate	Semester 2	20
ASST08058	SV1	Japanese Language Post Beginner	Semester 1	20
ASST08058	SV1	Japanese Language Post Beginner	Semester 2	20
ASST08057	SV1	Japanese Language Pre-Intermediate	Semester 1	20
ASST08057	SV1	Japanese Language Pre-Intermediate	Semester 2	20
ASST08068	SV1	Japanese Language Upper Intermediate	Semester 2	20
ASST08065	SS1	Kanji: A linguistic and cultural introduction	Semester 1	20
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
ASST08063	SV1	Politics of Everyday Life in Modern Korea	Semester 2	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		Sanskrit 1	Not delivered this year	40
ASST08012		Sanskrit 2	Not delivered this year	40
ASST08052	SV1	Society and culture in pre-modern East Asia	Semester 2	20
ASST08067	SS1	Supernatural Japan: Doing Japanology through Yokai	Semester 2	20
ASST08040		Thinking Through Japan	Not delivered this year	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 (52 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
ASST10099		Buddhism 3A	Not delivered this year	20
ASST10100		Buddhism 3B	Not delivered this year	20
ASST10149	SV1	China and Japan: National Development, International Relations, and Transnational Convergence	Semester 2	20
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		Chinese History and Thought 4B (modern)	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	SS1	Chinese Literature 4B (modern)	Semester 2	20
ASST10093	SV1	Chinese Oral	Full Year	0
ASST10138		Chinese Silent Cinema: 1920-1935	Not delivered this year	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
ASST10145	SS1	Exploring Japanese Fiction 4	Semester 2	20
ASST10156	SV1	Global Cities: Seoul and comparative perspectives	Semester 2	20
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		Japanese Cyberpunk: Non-Western futuristic fantasy in popular visual genres	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 1	20
ASST10147	SS1	Japanese Year Abroad (Single)	Full Year	60
ASST10129	SS1	Japanese Year Abroad 3 (Combined)	Full Year	60
ASST10120		Japanese-Chinese Relations: History and Contemporary Issues	Not delivered this year	20
ASST10154	SV1	Korean History, Culture, and Society	Semester 1	20
ASST10155	SV1	Korean Politics and International Relations	Semester 1	20
ASST10140		Korean-Japanese Relations: Historical and Contemporary Issues	Not delivered this year	20
ASST10141	SS1	Language Communities and Variation in Japanese	Semester 1	20
ASST10151	SV1	Media and Visual Culture in Modern China	Semester 1	20
ASST10110		Modern Japanese Literature 4	Not delivered this year	20
ASST10112		Modern Japanese Society	Not delivered this year	20
ASST10152	SV1	Political Economy of Korean Development	Semester 2	20
ASST10126	SS1	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
ASST10144	SV1	The Buddhist Brush: Discursive and Graphic Expressions of Japanese Buddhism	Semester 2	20
ASST10150	SS1	The Contemporary Chinese Life Cycle: Ethnographic Perspectives	Semester 2	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
ASST10153	SV1	Unwritten Korea: Understanding Korean Society and Culture through Contemporary Arts and Films	Semester 1	20

SCQF Level 11 (65 courses)

Code	Availability	Course Name	Period	Credits
ASST11067	SS1	Approved Residence in China July - December (20 credits)	Semester 1	20
ASST11073	SV1	Buddhism and the Statutory State in Eighth and Ninth Century East Asia	Semester 2	20
ASST11114	SV1	China and Japan: National Development, International Relations, and Transnational Convergence	Semester 2	20
ASST11086		China and South East Asian International Relations	Not delivered this year	20
ASST11115	SV1	China from 1978 to 2018: Reflecting on 40 Years of Reform and Opening	Semester 2	20
ASST11089	SS1	Chinese Language 1A	Semester 1	40
ASST11041	SS1	Chinese Language 1B	Semester 2	40
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
ASST11076	SS1	Chinese Religions: Confucianism, Daoism and 'Popular Religion'	Semester 2	20
ASST11091		Chinese Silent Cinema: 1920-1935	Not delivered this year	20
ASST11100	SS1	Chinese Studies Review Exercise 2	Semester 1	5
ASST11101	SS1	Chinese Studies Review Exercise 3	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
ASST11084	SS1	East Asian International Relations	Semester 1	20
ASST11105	SS1	Exploring Japanese Fiction (PG version)	Semester 2	20
ASST11110	SV1	Global Cities: Seoul and comparative perspectives	Semester 2	20
ASST11046	SS1	Introduction to Chinese Society and Culture II	Semester 1	20
ASST11051		Japanese Cyberpunk: Non-Western futuristic fantasy in popular visual genres	Not delivered this year	20
ASST11116	SV1	Japanese Language Beyond University (PG)	Full Year	20
ASST11052		Japanese Language for Academic Purposes	Not delivered this year	20
ASST11097	SS1	Japanese Performing Arts (PG Version)	Semester 1	20
ASST11074	SS1	Japanese Religions in the Modern Era	Semester 1	20
ASST11090		Japanese-Chinese Relations: History and Contemporary Issues	Not delivered this year	20
ASST11031	SS1	Keywords of Chinese Modernity	Semester 1	20
ASST11107	SV1	Korean History, Culture, and Society	Semester 1	20
ASST11120	SV1	Korean Language Beginner 1	Semester 1	20
ASST11120	SV1	Korean Language Beginner 1	Semester 2	20
ASST11119	SV1	Korean Language Beginner 2	Semester 2	20
ASST11109	SV1	Korean Politics and International Relations	Semester 1	20
ASST11092		Korean Politics and International Relations: History and Contemporary Issues	Not delivered this year	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
ASST11113	SS1	MSc Korean Studies Dissertation	Block 5 (sem 2)	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
ASST11111	SS1	MSc by Research in Korean Studies Dissertation	Block 5 (sem 2)	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
ASST11106	SV1	Media and Visual Culture in Modern China	Semester 1	20
ASST11088		Modern Japanese Literature (Level 11)	Not delivered this year	20
ASST11112	SV1	Political Economy of Korea's Development	Semester 2	20
ASST11055		Politics and Economics in the PRC after 1978	Not delivered this year	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		Research Methods and Problems in Chinese Studies (20 Credits)	Not delivered this year	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		Research Skills and Methods in Chinese Studies	Not delivered this year	20
ASST11117	SV1	Social Policy in China since 1978	Semester 2	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
ASST11118	SS1	The Contemporary Chinese Life Cycle: Ethnographic Perspectives	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		The Role of Sub-State Actors in East Asian Politics	Not delivered this year	20
ASST11085		The Rule of Law and Human Rights in East Asia	Not delivered this year	20
ASST11093		U.S. Foreign Policy in East Asia	Not delivered this year	20
ASST11108	SV1	Unwritten Korea: Understanding Korean Society and Culture through Contemporary Arts and Films	Semester 1	20