Chinese (Mandarin) is normally studied from beginner's level. You’ll study the Chinese language, country and culture through a range of lively options. This includes modules that explore Chinese history and literature, from the earliest times to present day. You’ll achieve a high level of communicative skill, and to further increase your career options you can take a final year module to help you develop translation and interpreting skills. You’ll have access to our excellent language resource centres which have: internet access, audio-visual facilities, computer-aided language learning software, course-related books, materials and periodicals. This ensures that you will have a broad range of options to help you increase your language understanding. If you’re concerned about pressing global crises (such as food security, environmental change, conflict, inequality) and the everyday experiences of people living in globalised communities then this is the perfect course for you. Throughout the course you’ll build a flexible personalised programme by selecting options taught by experts from across the Humanities.