BA (Hons) Chinese and English Bachelor's degree at Westminster

Gives knowledge and skills to analyse and describe English language systematically (grammar, morphology, phonology); develops theoretical awareness of spoken and written mediums; understanding of style, register and genre; introduces main historical developments of English language

Introduces core theoretical knowledge, methodologies and fundamental skills for study of language and culture; develops understanding of key terms and concepts; skills for clear written English in various registers and styles; textual and visual analysis, semiotics, and adaptation

Introduces 'keywords' historically central to study of literature; explores these in relation to specific critical approaches and theoretical understandings of literary works

Beginners and false beginners learn language skills, cultural competencies and critical abilities to function with limited linguistic and cultural autonomy in Chinese-speaking countries; language and culture taught through task-based and enquiry-based approaches; HSK levels 1-2 or 2-3

Develops practical and conceptual foundations of translation process; language-specific translation seminars on real-world texts; translation workshops covering IT skills and basic theoretical concepts for identifying and resolving translation issues

Investigates how language works in texts and produces effects; examination of writers' lexical and grammatical choices; analysis of how linguistic choices indicate character and narrator attitudes; how linguistic approaches to literary texts differ from literary scholars

Introduces study of contemporary and ancient material culture and its meaning in social, political and historical perspectives; skills of object analysis; visits to London galleries and museums; examines social and cultural lives of objects and how meaning changes with context

Learn language skills, cultural competencies and critical abilities to function with intermediate linguistic and cultural autonomy in Chinese-speaking environments; language and culture taught through task-based and enquiry-based approaches with emphasis on intercultural understanding; HSK levels 2-3 or 3-4

Overview of history of English language; focuses on specific lexical and syntactic variants throughout ages; considers texts as discourses to demonstrate varied history of English in all historical forms through present day

Examines literary, social and political concerns of Romanticism and legacies c.1790-1865; centred on 'revolution'; considers range of texts (poetry, novel, non-fictional prose, paintings) engaging with natural world, political upheaval, liberty, individualism, 'Englishness', nation, gender, sexuality, role of artist, modernity

Examines literature, society and politics of Victorian period; through close consideration of range of texts (poems, novels, visual material) considers responses to industrialisation, 'Condition of England', scientific developments, faith and doubt, psychology, gender, sexuality, imperialism, empire, decadence, fin de siècle

Introduces key debates and concepts central to understanding of memory and its relationship to culture, history and representation; sample topics include slavery and legacies, the Holocaust, 9/11

Provides tools to analyse spoken texts in terms of phonological, lexical, morphosyntactic and discourse features; texts analysed as products of discourse in particular times and places with particular purpose

Focuses on role of reader in textual interpretation; introduces topics in cognitive poetics; examines how readers combine real-world knowledge and character understanding to create discourse worlds; responds to cues in texts to build understanding

Examines how those in power use language to create narratives and values; explores how language in public space reflects values and conventions; focuses on role and purpose of social institutions and their identity; methods of critical reading and evaluating communications; applied to specific languages through seminar sessions

Blended module combining lectures, workshops and online student-to-student collaboration; introduces professional language transposition skills for communication of current affairs in globalised and digitised world; student choice of topics and management of sessions; develops interpersonal, organisational, interlingual, intermodal and intercultural competences; prepares for year abroad

Focuses on key cultural developments impacting the Chinese world through analysis of cultural artefacts; considers development of cultural and linguistic areas over time including present day; examines literature, film, testimonies, political material, music, museum pieces, artwork; supports language learning through study in target language; introduces key concepts such as gender, sexuality, race, class, language and society

Choice of three pathways: (1) Professional Transcreation Project – work on professional brief for organisation's market expansion focusing on localisation and transcreation; (2) Translation Project – extended translation and critical commentary in professional context (available to intermediate or proficient speakers); (3) Dissertation pathway – propose, research and write extended essay on topic related to language and/or culture of study; supported through pathway-specific workshops, tutorials

Designed for final year; learn language-specific structures and skills, cultural competencies and critical abilities to function with linguistic and cultural autonomy in Chinese-speaking environment; language and culture taught through task-based and enquiry-based approaches with emphasis on intercultural understanding and academic register