School of Modern Languages & Cultures | BA Chinese Studies with Year Abroad (with Foundation Year)

BA Chinese Studies with Year Abroad (with Foundation Year) at Durham University

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Immerse yourself in Chinese Language and Culture. Develop your Chinese language skills and spend a year in China.

This is multidisciplinary degree will develop advanced knowledge and understanding of Chinese Language & Culture.

You will study a core language module in each of your three years spent in Durham. You don’t need to have any previous knowledge of Chinese, but a pathway is available if you already have an A-level or equivalent qualification in Chinese.

You will also have the chance to choose from a selection of other modules relevant to the Study of China from other Departments. This includes Anthropology, School of Education, School of Government & International Affairs, Economics, and Theology & Religion. In addition, you may choose to take additional language modules, including European Languages, Japanese and Korean.

You will spend your third year studying the Chinese Language at a university in China. This is an amazing opportunity to experience Chinese culture first-hand and to put your language learning into practice and context.

In your final year, you will bring together all your learning and experience to write a dissertation on an aspect of Chinese Studies.

A degree in Modern Languages & Cultures will provide you with an impressive portfolio of cultural knowledge, transferable skills and real-world experiences that is valued by employers worldwide. In particular, the year abroad which, as well as developing language abilities, can also greatly enhance your intercultural, problem-solving and communication skills.

With the UK as a whole producing fewer linguists, proficiency in languages coupled with the intellectual rigour and cultural understanding acquired during your degree will make you highly employable in a wide range of careers both in the UK and internationally. These include occupations such as interpreting, translation and teaching, media and the arts but also working across wider industry in research, administration, human resources, sales and business development and the financial services.

The study of Visual Arts & Film will help you build up future-proof skills.

In a world that increasingly demands visual literacy and is rapidly changing through technologies like AI, it is hard to predict what specialised skills will be needed in future.

For this reason, our programme seeks to enable you to be a nimble thinker and writer, moving across disciplines and geographical areas while still being rigorous In your academic work.

You will cultivate new active learning strategies, understand how to work in teams in the more practice-related elements of the course, develop an ability to solve complex problems, and display creativity, originality and initiative in the range of outputs the course demands. All of these are the kinds of skills identified in the World Economic Forum's Future of Jobs Report in 2020.

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