4-Term Pathway - Foundation Certificate for Business, Law, and Social Sciences - Transfer to Bachelor of Arts (Honours) - Chinese and English Language

Program Description Build a future by studying in the UK, with a pathway course at Kaplan International College (KIC) London. Situated in the world’s top academic city (QS Best Student Cities 2019), the College will prepare students for a university degree, and for a successful career. Study at one of the most respected international colleges in London, and progress to one of 8 universities, including the University of Westminster. The commercially well-connected University of Westminster is hugely international. Students can study alongside students from nearly 170 countries. The course places particular emphasis on employability and the contemporary cultural context, and offer high-quality teaching in all language skills. The course offers students an opportunity to study the Chinese and English languages and cultures in an integrated interdisciplinary way, exploring the connections between them and the broader historical and cross-cultural contexts in which they are produced. This course will enable students to achieve a good or high level of linguistic competence in Chinese in all four skill areas (reading, writing, listening and speaking), enhance skills in using English, and develop linguistic and cultural knowledge and understanding. Students will be able to work in different cultural situations and they will gain the transferable and cognitive skills necessary for lifelong personal and professional development. The Chinese courses are only available to beginner or intermediate entrants – intermediate entrants are students who have obtained or might be studying for an A level in Chinese, or who might have achieved the equivalent of HSK Chinese Proficiency Test Level 3. Students will develop understanding of the English language in terms of the way it is structured, its linguistic diversity in Britain and around the world as a global language, the ways in which it varies between different texts, and, at a wider level, the ways in which it reflects and contributes to wider meanings in society. Students will also have the opportunity to consider the theoretical tools of both literary analysis and language research in detail. They may have the option to spend a full academic year abroad at a partner institution and/or approved form of employment in a country where Chinese is the official language. Students can also study an optional module from a range of topics across the University in each year.