Study plan Bachelor's Degree in East Asian Studies

Basic skills

• Students can apply the knowledge to their own work or vocation in a professional manner and have the powers generally demonstrated by preparing and defending arguments and solving problems within their area of study.
• Students must develop the necessary learning skills in order to undertake further training with a high degree of autonomy.
• Students have the ability to gather and interpret relevant data (normally within their study area) to issue judgments that include reflection on important issues of social, scientific or ethical.
• Students must be capable of communicating information, ideas, problems and solutions to both specialised and non-specialised audiences.
• Students must have and understand knowledge of an area of study built on the basis of general secondary education, and while it relies on some advanced textbooks it also includes some aspects coming from the forefront of its field of study.

Specific skills

• Understand texts written in one of the languages of East Asia.
• Write texts in one of the languages of East Asia.
• Understand oral texts in one of the languages of East Asia.
• Produce oral texts in one of the languages of East Asia.
• Apply knowledge of East Asian culture in order to be able to communicate.
• Knowing and comprehending the principles of the linguistic variation in the languages of East Asia.
• Understanding the referential universe of written and verbal texts in the languages of East Asia.
• Knowing, understanding, describing, analysing, and assessing the history, thought and literature of East Asia.
• Knowing, comprehending, describing and analysing the values, beliefs and ideologies of East Asia.
• Knowing and using the information and communication technology resources (ICT) in order to collect, produce, analyse and present information related to the East Asian Studies.
• Knowing and comprehending the methodological and ethical principles that ease the relations in international and intercultural contexts.
• Identifying, analysing, differentiating, summarising and explaining the principles of linguistic variation in the languages of East Asia.
• Recognising the connotations of the specific cultural references in the field of East Asia and assessing the influence in the interlinguistic and intercultural communication.
• Describing and analysing in a contrastive way the systems of business organization, administration, and management in East Asia.
• Comparing and critically assessing the different social environments in the field of East Asia.
• Knowing the history, values, beliefs and ideologies of East Asia in order to understand and critically assess social issues, phenomena, and processes related with that region.
• Know and understand politics and international relations in East Asia.
• Know and understand the characteristics of society and social processes in East Asia.
• Applying knowledge of the ethical and methodological principles in order to ease the relations in international and intercultural contexts.
• Recognising and overcoming the problems created by ethnocentrism in the intercultural communication and mediation.
• Knowing and comprehending the art and popular culture of the countries of East Asia.
• Applying knowledge of the art and popular culture to the analysis and comprehension of written texts in the languages of East Asia.
• Applying knowledge of the values, beliefs and ideologies of East Asia in order to comprehend and assess written texts in the languages of East Asia.
• Knowing the great literary, philosophical, and artistic movements of East Asia.
• Knowing and comprehending the gender inequality mechanisms and the propagation of that inequality in the societies of East Asia.
• Fostering respect of diversity and equality in the practice of interculturality.
• Knowing and comprehending the physic and human geography of East Asia.
• Students must know and comprehend the pre-modern, modern and late modern world history, especially the Asian history.
• Knowing and comprehending the cultural diversity, intercultural relationships, and problems related to ethnocentrism in connection with East Asia.
• Knowing and understanding the structures, agents, institutions and organizations that shape the political processes and international relations in connection with Asia.
• Knowing and comprehending the foundations of the cultural comparative studies.
• Differentiating the literary genres and determining its specific characteristics.
• Knowing and comprehending the pre-modern, modern and late modern history of East Asia.
• Knowing and comprehending the classical, modern and late modern thinking of East Asia.
• Knowing and comprehending the basic concepts of the functioning of markets, international trade, economic and international organizations and multinational companies on a macroeconomic and microeconomic level.
• Applying the gender perspective to the analysis of the literary production of the modern and late modern East Asia.
• Knowing and comprehending the structures and economic processes related preferably with Asia, the functioning of markets and businesses, and the regulations and operations of the different international monetary systems.
• Knowing the standards and principles needed to draw up and develop an academic work.
• Managing an academic work in the field of East Asian studies.
• Defending and arguing the obtained results in an academic work.
• Incorporating knowledge in an interdisciplinary way about linguistic, economic, political and social aspects that are related to the East Asian studies, and applying them in order to make judgements.
• Consulting, selecting and using information sources in the specific languages of East Asia.
• Carrying out a practical work in an international, multilingual and multicultural context.
• Knowing, comprehending, describing, analysing and assessing the structures and economic processes of East Asia and its inclusion in the global economy.
• Knowing and understanding the social relations, protocol and negotiation in the decision making process in East Asia.
• Knowing and comprehending the phenomenon of the internal and international migration in the societies of East Asia.
• Knowing the ethnic and cultural diversity of East Asia, the identity management policies of East Asia and their evolution.

Transversal skills

• Having interpersonal skills.
• Students must be flexible and capable of adapting to new circumstances.
• Respecting the gender equality.
• Working in teams in an international, multilingual and multicultural context.
• Working in interdisciplinary and intercultural groups.
• Solving problems of intercultural communication.
• Solving conflict situations.
• Ensuring the quality of one's own work.
• Designing and managing projects.
• Promoting the sustainable development.
• Following the characteristic code of ethics of the professional practice.
• Knowing the demands and requests of the market labour and making the most of the corresponding continued training offer and other channels of self-formation.