 University of Cambridge - Department of East Asian Studies Undergraduate StudiesThe B.A. (Honours) Degree in Chinese Studies at Cambridge is a single subject course that, with limited exceptions in the third and fourth years, may not be taken in combination with another subject. The course is taught by scholars who are themselves engaged in research and publication and by native speakers of Chinese. Its aim is to train undergraduates in the Chinese language in its classical and modern forms, and to give them a critical sense of the Chinese traditions as it is being interpreted by modern scholarly research. The course is four years in duration, and breaks into two parts. Part I, lasting two years, aims to provide undergraduates with a thorough grounding in reading, writing and speaking modern standard Chinese (putonghua), in reading classical Chinese and in Chinese and East Asian history from ancient to modern times. It is possible, under the Cambridge system, to change subjects after Part I of the Tripos, and to take up another subject, usually at the Part I level. Undergraduates in recent years have changed to Law, Archaeology, and Social and Political sciences. Undergraduates currently reading Chinese are required to spend two terms, the second and third of the third year of their course, attending courses in at Beijing University or the Ocean University of Qingdao in the People's Republic of China. Students starting their degree in October 2008 will spend their entire third year in China. The two year course leading to Part II consists of two elements, a core curriculum in both classical and modern Chinese and a number of options. These options reflect the research interests of the teaching staff, and they give undergraduates an opportunity to study a particular period or subject within Chinese Studies at a high level of detail. A dissertation of 12,000 words, usually connected with the option, is also a requirement, and the topics chosen for these dissertations often involve undergraduates in original research. A new course, Part II General allows undergraduates who have read Part I Chinese Studies to take up Japanese to Part I level, while continuing with Chinese at Part II level as a minor subject. +44 (0) 1223 335106 Faculty of Asian & Middle Eastern Studies Sidgwick Avenue Cambridge, Cambridgeshire CB3 9DA United Kingdom Fax Fax: +44 (0) 1223 335110 Phone Phone: +44 (0) 1223 335106 Tuition charges Tuition fees: Please check website for details. Other Categories:  MANDARIN universities/ colleges |
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