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. International Relations is the study and understanding of the changing world we live in. It explores relations between states, peoples, social movements, and cultural and religious communities. Its major focus is diplomatic relations – war, peace, conflict and cooperation – but also international communication, terrorism, the role of the media, and protest and resistance to established power. This course will help you develop a greater awareness of the complexity and connectedness of the processes that shape our worlds. This opens up careers in a wide range of fields in the public and private sectors, fostering the skills, imagination, understanding and flexibility which employers demand. Our research feeds directly into the course, which means you’ll be learning about the latest issues from world-renowned experts. Our teaching is informed by regionally aligned research strengths in: Asia-Pacific, the Middle East, North Africa, the Indian subcontinent and Europe.