DEGREE REGULATIONS & PROGRAMMES OF STUDY 2023/2024

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Asian Studies

SCQF Level 07 (17 courses)

Code	Availability	Course Name	Period	Credits
ASST07022	SV1	Foundation Business Chinese 1		20
ASST07023	SV1	Foundation Business Chinese 2		20
ASST07024	SV1	Foundation Chinese Language 1		20
ASST07024	SV1	Foundation Chinese Language 1		20
ASST07025	SV1	Foundation Chinese Language 2		20
ASST07026	SV1	Foundation Chinese Language 3		20
ASST07028	SV1	Foundation Chinese Language 4		20
ASST07027	SV1	Foundation English-Chinese Translation		20
ASST07008	SV1	Foundation Japanese Language 1		20
ASST07008	SV1	Foundation Japanese Language 1		20
ASST07016	SV1	Foundation Japanese Language 2		20
ASST07017		Foundation Japanese Language 3	Not delivered this year	20
ASST07019	SV1	Foundation Korean Language 1		20
ASST07018	SV1	Foundation Korean Language 2		20
ASST07003		Introductory Chinese Language	Not delivered this year	20
ASST07006		Introductory Chinese Language 2	Not delivered this year	20
ASST07014		Introductory Chinese Language 3	Not delivered this year	20
ASST07021		Korean Language Beginner 1	Not delivered this year	20
ASST07020		Korean Language Beginner 2	Not delivered this year	20

SCQF Level 08 (40 courses)

Code	Availability	Course Name	Period	Credits
ASST08051	SS1	Academic Skills for Asian Studies		20
ASST08001	SV1	Chinese 1		40
ASST08018	SV1	Chinese 2A		40
ASST08019		Chinese 2B	Not delivered this year	40
ASST08050	SV1	Chinese 2C		40
ASST08064	SS1	Doing research in Chinese Studies		20
ASST08070	SS1	Intermediate Chinese Language Modern and Traditional		20
ASST08048		Intermediate Japanese Language	Not delivered this year	40
ASST08053	SV1	Introduction to Japanese Literature		20
ASST08002		Japanese 1	Not delivered this year	40
ASST08006		Japanese 2A	Not delivered this year	40
ASST08046		Japanese Language 1	Not delivered this year	40
ASST08047		Japanese Language 2	Not delivered this year	40
ASST08059	SV1	Japanese Language Beginner		20
ASST08066		Japanese Language Beyond University	Not delivered this year	20
ASST08060	SV1	Japanese Language Lower Intermediate		20
ASST08060	SV1	Japanese Language Lower Intermediate		20
ASST08069	SV1	Japanese Language Mid-Intermediate		20
ASST08069	SV1	Japanese Language Mid-Intermediate		20
ASST08058	SV1	Japanese Language Post Beginner		20
ASST08058	SV1	Japanese Language Post Beginner		20
ASST08057	SV1	Japanese Language Pre-Intermediate		20
ASST08057	SV1	Japanese Language Pre-Intermediate		20
ASST08068	SV1	Japanese Language Upper Intermediate		20
ASST08065		Kanji: A linguistic and cultural introduction	Not delivered this year	20
ASST08034		Modern China in Literature and Film	Not delivered this year	40
ASST08035		Modern China in Literature and Film (VS1)	Not delivered this year	20
ASST08038		Modern China in Literature and Film (VS2)	Not delivered this year	20
ASST08055	SV1	Modern China in Literature and Film A		20
ASST08054	SV1	Modern China in Literature and Film B		20
ASST08042	SV1	Modern East Asian History A		20
ASST08043	SV1	Modern East Asian History B		20
ASST08041	SV1	Politics and the Economy of Japan		20
ASST08063	SV1	Politics of Everyday Life in Modern Korea		20
ASST08045		Practical Japanese 1	Not delivered this year	0
ASST08044	SS1	Practical Japanese 2- Year Abroad Preparation		0
ASST08056	SV1	Pre-modern East Asian history and the forces that shaped it		20
ASST08049	SS1	Researching Japan: Skills, Methods and Critiques		40
ASST08011		Sanskrit 1	Not delivered this year	40
ASST08012		Sanskrit 2	Not delivered this year	40
ASST08071	SV1	Seoul, Shanghai and Edinburgh: Peoples, cultures, and spaces		20
ASST08052	SV1	Society and culture in pre-modern East Asia		20
ASST08067	SS1	Supernatural Japan: Doing Japanology through Yokai		20
ASST08040		Thinking Through Japan	Not delivered this year	20

SCQF Level 09 (4 courses)

Code	Availability	Course Name	Period	Credits
ASST09003		Chinese History 3	Not delivered this year	20
ASST09001		Chinese Literature 3	Not delivered this year	20
ASST09002	SV1	Chinese Special Subject 3		20
ASST09004	SS1	Japanese Studies on the Year Abroad		20

SCQF Level 10 (51 courses)

Code	Availability	Course Name	Period	Credits
ASST10135		Appproaches to translation from and into Japanese 4: 2 (combined)	Not delivered this year	20
ASST10136		Approaches to translation from and into Japanese 4	Not delivered this year	10
ASST10099		Buddhism 3A	Not delivered this year	20
ASST10100		Buddhism 3B	Not delivered this year	20
ASST10157		Buddhism and the Statutory State in Eighth and Ninth Century East Asia	Not delivered this year	20
ASST10149		China and Japan: National Development, International Relations, and Transnational Convergence	Not delivered this year	20
ASST10077	SV1	Chinese 3 Year Abroad		80
ASST10096	SV1	Chinese 3 Year Abroad (Combined degrees)		60
ASST10108		Chinese History and Thought 4A (pre-modern)	Not delivered this year	20
ASST10109		Chinese History and Thought 4B (modern)	Not delivered this year	20
ASST10095	SV1	Chinese Language 4B		10
ASST10094	SV1	Chinese Language 4a		10
ASST10106	SV1	Chinese Literature 4A (pre-modern)		20
ASST10107	SS1	Chinese Literature 4B (modern)		20
ASST10093	SV1	Chinese Oral		0
ASST10138	SV1	Chinese Silent Cinema: 1920-1935		20
ASST10081	SV1	Chinese Special Subject 4		20
ASST10113		Classical Japanese Fiction 4	Not delivered this year	20
ASST10131		Contemporary Japanese Cinema	Not delivered this year	20
ASST10145		Exploring Japanese Fiction 4	Not delivered this year	20
ASST10156	SV1	Global Cities: Seoul and comparative perspectives		20
ASST10065	SS1	Japanese 3 Dissertation (Preparation)		20
ASST10066	SS1	Japanese 4 Dissertation (Completion)		20
ASST10121	SV1	Japanese 4 Oral		0
ASST10128	SS1	Japanese Language 3		20
ASST10133	SS1	Japanese Language 4		10
ASST10125		Japanese Language 4A	Not delivered this year	10
ASST10122		Japanese Language 4B	Not delivered this year	10
ASST10123		Japanese Language 4B-1 (combined)	Not delivered this year	10
ASST10124		Japanese Language 4B-2 (combined)	Not delivered this year	20
ASST10117		Japanese Performing Arts 4	Not delivered this year	20
ASST10143		Japanese Religions in the Modern Era	Not delivered this year	20
ASST10147	SS1	Japanese Year Abroad (Single)		60
ASST10129	SS1	Japanese Year Abroad 3 (Combined)		60
ASST10120		Japanese-Chinese Relations: History and Contemporary Issues	Not delivered this year	20
ASST10154	SV1	Korean History, Culture, and Society		20
ASST10155	SV1	Korean Politics and International Relations		20
ASST10140		Korean-Japanese Relations: Historical and Contemporary Issues	Not delivered this year	20
ASST10141		Language Communities and Variation in Japanese	Not delivered this year	20
ASST10158		Literature and Performance in Modern Japan	Not delivered this year	20
ASST10151		Media and Visual Culture in Modern China	Not delivered this year	20
ASST10110		Modern Japanese Literature 4	Not delivered this year	20
ASST10152	SV1	Political Economy of Korean Development		20
ASST10126		Politics and Policy in Contemporary China	Not delivered this year	20
ASST10139		Radical Japan: culture, politics and protest in Japan's Long 1960s	Not delivered this year	20
ASST10132		Representations of history in the cinema of Communist China	Not delivered this year	20
ASST10144		The Buddhist Brush: Discursive and Graphic Expressions of Japanese Buddhism	Not delivered this year	20
ASST10150		The Contemporary Chinese Life Cycle: Ethnographic Perspectives	Not delivered this year	20
ASST10119		The Development of Social and Political Thought in Modern Japan	Not delivered this year	20
ASST10148	SS1	Translation from Japanese to English		10
ASST10153	SV1	Unwritten Korea: Understanding Korean Society and Culture through Contemporary Arts and Films		20

SCQF Level 11 (65 courses)

Code	Availability	Course Name	Period	Credits
ASST11067		Approved Residence in China July - December (20 credits)	Not delivered this year	20
ASST11073		Buddhism and the Statutory State in Eighth and Ninth Century East Asia	Not delivered this year	20
ASST11114	SV1	China and Japan: National Development, International Relations, and Transnational Convergence		20
ASST11086		China and South East Asian International Relations	Not delivered this year	20
ASST11115		China from 1978 to 2018: Reflecting on 40 Years of Reform and Opening	Not delivered this year	20
ASST11089		Chinese Language 1A	Not delivered this year	40
ASST11041		Chinese Language 1B	Not delivered this year	40
ASST11059		Chinese Language Advanced 1	Not delivered this year	40
ASST11058		Chinese Language Advanced 2	Not delivered this year	40
ASST11061		Chinese Language Intermediate 1A	Not delivered this year	40
ASST11060		Chinese Language Intermediate 1B	Not delivered this year	40
ASST11076		Chinese Religions: Confucianism, Daoism and 'Popular Religion'	Not delivered this year	20
ASST11091		Chinese Silent Cinema: 1920-1935	Not delivered this year	20
ASST11100		Chinese Studies Review Exercise 2	Not delivered this year	5
ASST11101		Chinese Studies Review Exercise 3	Not delivered this year	5
ASST11010		Contemporary Chinese Literature (MChS)	Not delivered this year	20
ASST11057		Contemporary Japanese Cinema	Not delivered this year	20
ASST11011		Dissertation (Master of Chinese Studies)	Not delivered this year	60
ASST11084		East Asian International Relations	Not delivered this year	20
ASST11105		Exploring Japanese Fiction (PG version)	Not delivered this year	20
ASST11110		Global Cities: Seoul and comparative perspectives	Not delivered this year	20
ASST11046		Introduction to Chinese Society and Culture II	Not delivered this year	20
ASST11116		Japanese Language Beyond University (PG)	Not delivered this year	20
ASST11052		Japanese Language for Academic Purposes	Not delivered this year	20
ASST11097		Japanese Performing Arts (PG Version)	Not delivered this year	20
ASST11074		Japanese Religions in the Modern Era	Not delivered this year	20
ASST11090		Japanese-Chinese Relations: History and Contemporary Issues	Not delivered this year	20
ASST11031		Keywords of Chinese Modernity	Not delivered this year	20
ASST11107		Korean History, Culture, and Society	Not delivered this year	20
ASST11120	SV1	Korean Language Beginner 1		20
ASST11120	SV1	Korean Language Beginner 1		20
ASST11119	SV1	Korean Language Beginner 2		20
ASST11109		Korean Politics and International Relations	Not delivered this year	20
ASST11092		Korean Politics and International Relations: History and Contemporary Issues	Not delivered this year	20
ASST11096		Language Communities and Variation in Japanese	Not delivered this year	20
ASST11098		MSc Chinese Society and Culture Dissertation	Not delivered this year	60
ASST11083		MSc East Asian Relations Dissertation	Not delivered this year	60
ASST11113	SS1	MSc Korean Studies Dissertation		60
ASST11025	SS1	MSc by Research in Chinese Studies Dissertation		60
ASST11020	SS1	MSc by Research in Japanese Dissertation		60
ASST11111	SS1	MSc by Research in Korean Studies Dissertation		60
ASST11069		MSc in Japanese Society and Culture Dissertation	Not delivered this year	60
ASST11078		Mahayana and Vajrayana in India	Not delivered this year	20
ASST11106		Media and Visual Culture in Modern China	Not delivered this year	20
ASST11088		Modern Japanese Literature (Level 11)	Not delivered this year	20
ASST11121	SS1	Playing East Asia		20
ASST11112		Political Economy of Korea's Development	Not delivered this year	20
ASST11055		Politics and Economics in the PRC after 1978	Not delivered this year	20
ASST11095		Radical Japan: culture, politics and protest in Japan's "Long 1960s" (PG Version)	Not delivered this year	20
ASST11066		Research Methods and Problems in Chinese Studies	Not delivered this year	10
ASST11082		Research Methods and Problems in Chinese Studies (20 Credits)	Not delivered this year	20
ASST11103		Research Skills and Methods for Asian Studies 1	Not delivered this year	20
ASST11104	SS1	Research Skills and Methods for Asian Studies 2		20
ASST11081		Research Skills and Methods in Chinese Studies	Not delivered this year	20
ASST11117		Social Policy in China since 1978	Not delivered this year	20
ASST11075		State, Society and National Identity in Japan after 1989	Not delivered this year	20
ASST11080		Terminology, Topics and Methods in the Study of Asian Religions	Not delivered this year	20
ASST11071		The Buddhist Brush: Discursive and Graphic Expressions of Japanese Buddhism	Not delivered this year	20
ASST11118		The Contemporary Chinese Life Cycle: Ethnographic Perspectives	Not delivered this year	20
ASST11072		The Development of Social and Political Thought in Modern Japan	Not delivered this year	20
ASST11079		The Origins of Buddhism in India	Not delivered this year	20
ASST11094		The Role of Sub-State Actors in East Asian Politics	Not delivered this year	20
ASST11085		The Rule of Law and Human Rights in East Asia	Not delivered this year	20
ASST11093		U.S. Foreign Policy in East Asia	Not delivered this year	20
ASST11108	SV1	Unwritten Korea: Understanding Korean Society and Culture through Contemporary Arts and Films		20
CLLC11087		Gender, Revolution and Modernity in Chinese Cinema	Not delivered this year	20