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Degree Programme Table: East Asian Studies with Japanese Studies (MSc) (PTMSCEASJS1F)

Jump to: Year 1

Year 1 Academic year: 2024/25, Starting in: September

Notes:
Students may take Optional courses outside the DPT within LLC without the approval of their Programme Director. Before choosing an Optional Course outside the School of LLC, the approval of the Programme Director must be obtained.

For the award of MSc East Asian Studies with Japanese Studies, students must take 60-100 credits from the option courses specific to that degree.

Compulsory courses

You must take these courses
Doing Research on East Asia: Key Concepts, Approaches and Issues

Must be taken during Semester 1

ASST11127 20 credits
MSc East Asian Studies Dissertation

Must be taken during Block 5 (Sem 2) and beyond

ASST11126 60 credits

Course options

Group A

Select exactly 100 credits in this group.

Course options specific to the award of MSc East Asian Studies with Japanese Studies

Select between 60 and 100 credits of the following courses
Notes:
For the award of MSc East Asian Studies with Japanese Studies, students must take 60-100 credits from this course collection.
Buddhism and the Statutory State in Eighth and Ninth Century East Asia
ASST11073 20 credits
Radical Japan: culture, politics and protest in Japan's "Long 1960s" (PG Version)
ASST11095 20 credits
Language Communities and Variation in Japanese
ASST11096 20 credits
Japanese Performing Arts (PG Version)
ASST11097 20 credits
Exploring Japanese Fiction (PG version)
ASST11105 20 credits
China and Japan: National Development, International Relations, and Transnational Convergence
ASST11114 20 credits
AND

General course options for all MSc East Asian Studies degrees

Select between 0 and 40 credits of the following courses
Contemporary Chinese Literature (MChS)
ASST11010 20 credits
Buddhism and the Statutory State in Eighth and Ninth Century East Asia
ASST11073 20 credits
Chinese Religions: Confucianism, Daoism and 'Popular Religion'
ASST11076 20 credits
Radical Japan: culture, politics and protest in Japan's "Long 1960s" (PG Version)
ASST11095 20 credits
Language Communities and Variation in Japanese
ASST11096 20 credits
Japanese Performing Arts (PG Version)
ASST11097 20 credits
Exploring Japanese Fiction (PG version)
ASST11105 20 credits
Media and Visual Culture in Modern China
ASST11106 20 credits
Korean History, Culture, and Society
ASST11107 20 credits
Unwritten Korea: Understanding Korean Society and Culture through Contemporary Arts and Films
ASST11108 20 credits
Korean Politics and International Relations
ASST11109 20 credits
Global Cities: Seoul and comparative perspectives
ASST11110 20 credits
Political Economy of Korea's Development
ASST11112 20 credits
China and Japan: National Development, International Relations, and Transnational Convergence
ASST11114 20 credits
China from 1978 to 2018: Reflecting on 40 Years of Reform and Opening
ASST11115 20 credits
The Contemporary Chinese Life Cycle: Ethnographic Perspectives
ASST11118 20 credits
Korean Language Beginner 2
ASST11119 20 credits
Korean Language Beginner 1
ASST11120 20 credits
The Politics of Culture in Modern China
ASST11128 20 credits
Nations and Nationalism
PGSP11146 20 credits
International Relations Theory
PGSP11156 20 credits
International Security
PGSP11162 20 credits
International Political Economy
PGSP11171 20 credits
Ethnopolitical Conflict
SCIL11036 20 credits
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