Category:Asian Studies
Study mode:At the institution
BA Persian Studies Course description
BA (Hons) Persian Studies allows you to achieve near-native proficiency in modern Persian and to study the language within its cultural and historical context. Students start as beginners and go through to an advanced level...
Category:Asian Studies
Study mode:At the institution
BA Japanese Studies This four-year course aims to provide students with a firm grounding in the Japanese language along with understandings of Japan in historical, cultural social and global contexts.
Students will be studying Japanese throughout the course....
Category:Asian Studies
Study mode:At the institution
BA (Hons) Islamic Studies and Muslim Societies The programme is an interdisciplinary degree designed to study Islam and Muslim societies in their cultural, social, economic, political and religious dimensions. It is intended to offer new perspectives on Muslim...
Category:Asian Studies
Study mode:At the institution
BA Chinese Studies The four-year course aims to provide students with a firm grounding in Mandarin Chinese and in contemporary Chinese culture, society, economy and politics as well as China's changing relations with the West.
Students will study Mandarin Chinese...
Category:Asian Studies
Study mode:At the institution
South Asian Studies MA Course description
South Asia is an important geo-political region in today's world. It includes India, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Nepal and Bhutan. Transnational South Asian communities span the UK, North America, East...
Category:Asian Studies
Study mode:At the institution
Middle Eastern Studies MA -develop and enhance the knowledge and skills of suitably qualified students who are seeking a high level training in the disciplines, whether with a view to employment in which this knowledge and skills will be advantageous, or whether...
Category:Asian Studies
Study mode:At the institution
Contemporary China MA The programme will have a truly contemporary perspective, considering literature produced from 1970 to the present day but with particular focus on the period since 1990. Course description
The MA Contemporary Literature and Culture is...
Category:Asian Studies
Study mode:At the institution
Arab World Studies MA -develop student's interest in and knowledge of the historical and contemporary Arab World from a range of disciplinary perspectives.
-provide a thorough grounding in modern critical theoretical approaches to Arab World Studies, Middle Eastern...
Category:Asian Studies
Study mode:At the institution
Arab World Studies Integrated MA/PhD This programme is offered by the newly-established Centre for the Advanced Study of the Arab World (CASAW), involving the Universities of Edinburgh, Manchester and Durham.
The programme is offered as either 1 year intensive...
