Bachelor's Degree in East Asian Studies

Basic skills

The overall aim is for students to acquire the specific linguistic, cultural and instrumental knowledge and skills needed to solve the problems that arise in situations of contact between cultures. The specific aims are to acquire a basic knowledge of social, economic and political structures, and customs, beliefs, ideologies and cultures of East Asia, underpinned by a command of the languages studied.

• Develop critical thinking and reasoning and know how to communicate effectively both in the mother tongue and in other languages.
• Develop independent learning strategies.
• Respect the diversity and plurality of ideas, persons and situations.
• Generate innovative and competitive proposals for research and professional activities.

Specific skills

• Know and understand phonetic, morphological, lexical, syntactic and pragmatic structures of East Asian languages.
• Know, understand, describe, analyse and assess the history, thought and literature of East Asia.
• Know, understand, describe and analyse the values, ideologies and beliefs of East Asia, as well as the methodological and ethical principles fostering relationships in international and intercultural contexts.
• Identify, analyse, differentiate, summarise and explain the principles that govern variation in East Asian languages.
• Recognise connotations behind specific cultural references and evaluate their influence in interlingual and intercultural communication. Apply these skills to social relations, protocol and negotiations during decision-making processes with the aim of facilitating relations within international and intercultural contexts.
• Transmit clearly and precisely in one's own language information on topics expressed in a working language of East Asia, both orally and in writing.
• Apply linguistic, cultural and thematic skills to understand and analyse texts written in East Asian languages.
• Know and understand the art and culture of East Asian countries. Applying knowledge of the values, ideologies and beliefs, and being familiar with the important literary, philosophical and artistic movements when analysing and comprehending texts written in one of the East Asian languages.
• Know and understand gender inequality mechanisms and how they are reproduced in East Asian societies, and promote respect towards diversity and equality as an intercultural exercise.
• Know and comprehend premodern, modern and contemporary history, as well as classical, modern and contemporary thought of East Asia.
• Interdisciplinary integration of skills regarding the linguistic, economic, political and social aspects related to the studies of East Asia, and their application when formulating opinions.
• Know and understand the phenomenon of internal and international migration, ethnic and cultural diversity, and identity management policies in East Asia and its evolution.

Transversal skills

• Interpersonal skills.
• Be flexible and able to adapt to new situations.
• Respect gender equality.
• Work in teams within an international multilingual and multicultural context.
• Work in interdisciplinary and intercultural teams.
• Solve intercultural communication problems.
• Resolve conflict situations.
• Ensure the quality of one's own work.
• Design and manage projects.
• Promote sustainable development.
• Abide by a professional code of conduct.
• Know the demands of the labour market and take advantage of continuous training offers and opportunities for independent learning.

Knowledge

• Describe the physical and human geography, and the historical, political and economic circumstances in East Asian countries based on the gender perspective.
• Describe the major schools of thought, and literary and artistic movements, applying the gender perspective in the East Asian context.
• Identify the structures, agents, institutions, and organisations that make up the historical, social, political, international, and economic relations processes in relation to East Asia.
• Recognise the social and cultural characteristics as well as developments in the thought, literature, and art of East Asian countries.
• Recognise the social, economic and environmental implications of the design and implementation of new technologies for their sustainable use.
• Identify the graphic, lexical, morphosyntactic, pragmatic, and phonological characteristics of Chinese, Japanese, and Korean, as well as their historical development.
• Recognise the referential universe of East Asian art and popular culture in written and oral texts.
• Identify the main research methodologies and techniques for the preparation of an academic project.

Skills

• Analyse social phenomena (internal and international migration, ethnic and cultural diversity, and mechanisms of gender inequality) in order to critically interpret social and cultural processes and issues related to the region.
• Identify the principles governing linguistic variation in East Asian languages.
• Apply linguistic and cultural knowledge taking into account social relations and protocol and decision-making in East Asia to be able to communicate in professional contexts.
• Assess the labour market context to design projects and identify new career opportunities.
• Apply the key concepts and different theoretical frameworks of geography and history, economics and business, anthropology, sociology, politics, international relations, culture and thought in the analysis of the region.
• Relate the values, beliefs, discourses and ideologies of East Asia with the social phenomena and cultural processes of the region.
• Critically debate East Asian issues using non-sexist language.
• Assess the historical, cultural, and economic circumstances that create and perpetuate gender inequality and its social reproduction.
• Differentiate the characteristics of different textual genres of the specialty language (Chinese, Japanese, Korean) to understand the communicative intention and meaning of written texts.

Competences

• Communicate consistently in one of the East Asian languages (Chinese, Japanese, Korean).
• Develop clear and coherent academic work on linguistic, economic, political and social aspects related to East Asia following the writing standards and academic methodological principles established for different audiences.
• Implement the sustainable, professional and critical use of ICT resources to encourage the efficient consultation and collection of sources, and for the clear analysis and presentation of information in relation to East Asian studies, fostering professional autonomy and critical thinking in this use.
• Manage intercultural communication and mediation by recognising and overcoming the problems of ethnocentrism and promoting respect for diversity and equality in intercultural and interdisciplinary contexts.
• Integrate East Asian-specific knowledge into the professional analysis and interpretation of societies in the region.
• Interpret the great artistic, literary and philosophical trends and movements of East Asia in the context of global studies, applying the gender perspective in the interpretation.