Modules for course T124 | BA/LITCH
BA English Literature & Chinese
This is a provisional list of modules to be offered on this course in the 2021–22 academic year.
The list may not be complete, and the final course content may be different.
You can also view the modules offered in the years: 2019–20; 2020–21.
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Year 1 Modules
Compulsory Modules
Semester 1
Semester 2
- LZC-1004: Chinese for Beginners 2 (20) Core
Optional Modules
20 credits from:
- LZF-1003: French for Beginners I (20) (Semester 1) or
LCF-1003: Ffrangeg i Ddechreuwyr I (20) (Semester 1) - LZG-1003: German for Beginners I (20) (Semester 1)
- LZI-1003: Italian for Beginners I (20) (Semester 1)
- LZS-1003: Spanish Begin./Intermed. 1 (20) (Semester 1) or
LCS-1003: Sbaeneg i Ddechreuwyr 1 (20) (Semester 1) - QXL-1110: Introduction to Language (20) (Semester 1)
- QXL-1112: Language, Literature & Culture (20) (Semester 2)
- LXE-1600: Transnational Cultures (20) (Semester 2)
- LXE-1700: Creating National Histories (20) (Semester 1)
40 credits from:
- QXE-1003: Intro. to Medieval Literature (20) (Semester 1)
- QXE-1004: The Literature of Laughter (20) (Semester 1)
- QXE-1014: The Gothic in Literature/Film (20) (Semester 2)
- QXE-1015: Landmarks in Literature (20) (Semester 2)
- QXE-1016: Children's Fiction (20) (Semester 2)
Year 2 Modules
Compulsory Modules
Semester 1
- LZC-2040: Chinese Language Skills (40) Core
- LXC-2200: Contemporary Chinese Studies (20) Core
Semester 2
Optional Modules
60 credits from:
- QXE-2003: Jonson to Johnson (20) (Semester 2)
- QXE-2005: Victorian Literature (20) (Semester 2)
- QXE-2013: Renaissance and Reformation (20) (Semester 1)
- QXE-2019: Modern & Contemporary Writing (20) (Semester 1) or
QXP-2019: Modern & Contemporary Writing (20) (Semester 1) - QXE-2020: The Romantic Period in Britain (20) (Semester 1)
- QXE-2024: Alfred Hitchcock (20) (Semester 2)
- UXS-2064: Film Theory (20) (Semester 2)
- QXE-2101: Beowulf to Malory (20) (Semester 2)
Year 4 Modules
Compulsory Modules
Semester 1
- LZC-3030: Advanced Chinese Lang Skills (30) Core
Semester 2
Optional Modules
30 credits from:
- LXE-3101: Approaching Translation (10) (Semester 2) or
LCE-3101: Trin a Thrafod Cyfieithu (10) (Semester 2) - LXC-3300: Key topics in Chinese Studies (20) (Semester 1 + 2)
- LXE-3400: Joint Hons Diss (English) (10) (Semester 1 + 2) or
LCE-3400: Traethawd Hir Cyd-A (Cym) (10) (Semester 1 + 2) - LXE-3444: Joint Hons Diss (Target Lang) (10) (Semester 1 + 2)
- Joint Honours students must take a dissertation module in ONE of their subjects, where available.
60 credits from:
- QXE-3012: Detective Fiction (20) (Semester 1)
- QXE-3022: Shakespeare and EM Literature (20) (Semester 2)
- QXE-3031: Welsh Writing in English (20) (Semester 2)
- QXE-3034: Arthur: legend and super hero (20) (Semester 1)
- QXE-3096: Medieval Women's Literature (20) (Semester 2)
- QXE-3099: The English Dissertation (40) (Semester 1 + 2)
- QXE-3107: EM Lit: Sex, Sects and Scandal (20) (Semester 1)
- QXE-3110: Neo-Victorian Fiction (20) (Semester 2)
- QXE-3114: Dystopian Fiction (20) (Semester 1)
- Students may not take a dissertation in both English Literature and the other discipline of the Joint Honours programme.