Modules for course T124 | BA/LITCH
BA English Literature & Chinese
These are the modules currently offered on this course in the 2020–21 academic year.
You can also view the modules offered in the years: 2019–20; 2021–22.
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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) - LXE-3102: Culture and the Body (10) (Semester 1)
- 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.