BA Japanese Studies with Spanish

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• Objectives
  Japan is an exciting country, maintaining fascinating traditional culture while fully embracing modernity and technology. Aspects of its culture, ranging from cinema, literature and manga to martial arts, continue to be an important influence on the West The four-year degree course combines intensive study of the Japanese language with Spanish and a selection of lecture-based modules on Spain, Latin America, Japan and East Asia. The third year of the course is spent at one of our partner universities in Japan, providing an excellent opportunity to enhance your language skills and to immerse yourself in Japanese society. The Japanese language is taught intensively from scratch, covering all the necessary skills: speaking, listening, reading and writing. You learn the phonetic scripts (kana) from the outset, and learn the roughly 2000 Sino-Japanese characters (kanji) needed over the four years of the course. You encounter over a quarter of these in the first year. By the end of the first year you will have covered most of the core grammar of the language, and from the second year of the course you start to deal with real texts, including newspapers, and you develop compositional, summary, translation and presentational skills in the language. The Japan-related lecture-based modules cover a range of disciplines, so you can choose modules on contemporary society, literature, cinema, minorities, politics, economics, gender, modern history, business management or international relations. There are also some modules dedicated to reading Japanese literature in the original language, including both modern literature and the pre-modern language. On the Spanish side you develop your written and oral fluency in Spanish, supported by small-group learning on a weekly basis and by language laboratory, video and satellite TV facilities as well as weekly classes with native speakers. The School of East Asian Studies is one of the main centres for Japanese in Europe, and is one of two universities' departments that constitute the National Institute of Japanese Studies.
• Entry requirements
  Entry requirementsGCE/VCE A Level - ABB Two GCE A Levels plus two GCE AS Levels - BB+BB Scottish Highers - AABB-ABBB Irish Leaving Cert. - ABBBB International Baccalaureate - 33 points Core Requirements - Grade B in GCE A Level Spanish
• Academic title
  BA Japanese Studies with Spanish
• Course description
  Our students usually select from a range of compulsory and optional modules to add up to 120 credits.
  Some departments offer courses that don't feature optional modules whereas other courses are fully flexible.
  
  Important notice :
  
  This is a list of modules that have been offered in the past. We expect similar modules to be offered for courses starting in 2009.
  
  This information is provided for illustration only and you should check with the department directly when applying to confirm module options.
  
  
  Typical First Year Modules
  
  Japanese Language I  40
   
  Japanese Language II  40
   
  Spanish Advanced: Language and Culture I  20
   
  Spanish Advanced: Language and Culture II  20
   
  Typical Second Year Modules
  
  Contemporary Japanese Society  20
   
  Japanese Language III  20
   
  Japanese Language IV  20
   
  Advanced Spanish Language I  10
   
  Advanced Spanish Language II  10
   
  Business and the Economy of Japan  20
   
  Evolution of the Japanese Language  20
   
  Issues in Modern Japanese History  20
   
  Japan's Minorities  20
   
  Literature and Society in Contemporary Japan  20
   
  Postwar Japanese Politics  20
   
  Cinema, Nation and Identity in the Hispanic World  10
   
  Contemporary Latin America (Cuba)  10
   
  Contemporary Latin America (Mexico)  10
   
  Cuban Culture and the Revolution  10
   
  Further Portuguese: Language and Culture I  10
   
  Further Portuguese: Language and Culture II  10
   
  Hispanic Film and Human Rights  10
   
  Intensive Catalan I  10
   
  Intensive Catalan II  10
   
  Intensive Portuguese I  10
   
  Intensive Portuguese II  10
   
  Linguistic Developments in Modern Spain  10
   
  Narrative Perspectives on Post-Civil War Spain  10
   
  Representations of Latin America  10
   
  Spain and Enlightenment  10
   
  Spanish American 20th-Century Literature I  10
   
  Spanish Language in Business Contexts  10
   
  The Novels of Benito Perez Galdos  10
   
  Troubled Times: Writers and Social Conflict in the Spain of the 1930s  10
   
  Typical Third Year Modules
  
  Japan Year Abroad  120
   
  Typical Fourth Year Modules
  
  Japanese Language V  20
   
  Japanese Language VI  20
   
  Spanish as a Subsidiary Subject: Language III  10
   
  Spanish as a Subsidiary Subject: Language IV  10
   
  Dissertation  20
   
  East Asian Dissertation  20
   
  Gendering Japan  20
   
  Japan in the World  20
   
  Readings in Contemporary Japanese Literature  20
   
  Spanish Language Teaching  20
   
  The Japanese Written Language Since 1800  20
   
  The Modern Japanese Novel (In translation)  20
   
  Work and Society in Japan  20
   
  Dissidence and Debate in Early 20th-Century Spain  10
   
  Genesis and Genre: From Novel to Play to Screen: Galdos Today  10
   
  Law and Culture in the Hispanic World  10
   
  Media Ethics in the Hispanic World  10
   
  Modern Peru  10
   
  Modern Uruguayan Narrative  10
   
  Musical Performance and Hispanic Culture  10
   
  Popular Culture and Society in Latin America  10
   
  Sexual Politics in Latin American Fiction  10
   
  The Politics and Fiction of Crisis: 1868 - 1898  10
   
  The Rise of Popular Culture in Latin American Fiction  10
   
  The Spanish-American New Narrative  10
   
  Translation Studies  10
   
  Visual Culture in Spain and Latin America  10
   
  Writers Under Franco  10
   
  Writing in Exile  10

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