Chinese Studies

Learn Chinese and get to know China – it is becoming a key part of our world.

What will you learn?

Follow-up Master’s Degree Studies in Chinese Studies focus on contemporary China (the PRC, Taiwan, and China’s ‘diaspora’) as a meeting place of traditional Chinese and Western influences, where various projects related to the identity of modern China are being shaped. Studying this field leads students to an understanding of these processes at the level of the political and social formation of modern China, as well as on the level of discourse practices. An integral part of the study is the on-going, intensive learning of the Chinese language.

The Follow-up Master’s Degree in Chinese Studies assumes a knowledge of Chinese language, history and culture at the level of Bachelor’s Degree in Chinese Studies.

Main study areas:

1) The study of contemporary Chinese society and politics - the transformation of political institutions, political regimes and ideologies and their impact on the life of Chinese society.

2) Studying discourse practices in modern China (political thought, Chinese Marxism, modern Chinese literature, popular culture, religion, Chinese medicine, martial arts, film, etc.) to clarify the origin of these phenomena, their social and cultural context and meaning for modern Chinese identity.

3) The intensive study of Modern Chinese. The basics of the courses are Practical Chinese for Master’s Degree I-IV, complemented by other courses developing specific skills (intensive one-to-one conversation, translation seminars, written Chinese, conference presentation in Chinese).

Practical training

No information available

Career opportunities

Graduates find employment in positions of co-ordinators of Chinese-Czech projects, foreign trade, diplomacy, translation and interpreting and as Chinese language teachers.

Admission requirements

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Application guide

Deadlines

Study options

Single-subject studies

Students have a pre-defined list of required courses, which are supplemented with selective and elective courses. The student pays full attention to the single field of study chosen.

Combined studies

Combinations with programmes from Faculty of Arts

Combinations with programmes from Faculty of Economics and Administration

  • Chinese Studies (major), full-time studies
    + Economics (minor) – Faculty of Economics and Administration

Courses

An example of your study plan:

Single-subject studies

Combined studies

Chinese Studies (major), full-time studies
 + Andragogy (minor) – Faculty of Arts

Chinese Studies (major), full-time studies
 + Archaeology (minor) – Faculty of Arts

Chinese Studies (major), full-time studies
 + Pedagogy (minor) – Faculty of Arts

Chinese Studies (major), full-time studies
 + Philosophy (minor) – Faculty of Arts

Chinese Studies (major), full-time studies
 + Economics (minor) – Faculty of Economics and Administration

Chinese Studies (major), full-time studies
 + Aesthetics and Cultural Studies (minor) – Faculty of Arts

Chinese Studies (major), full-time studies
 + Ancient Greek Language and Literature (minor) – Faculty of Arts

Chinese Studies (major), full-time studies
 + Ancient History (MA) (minor) – Faculty of Arts

Chinese Studies (major), full-time studies
 + Archival Studies (minor) – Faculty of Arts

Chinese Studies (major), full-time studies
 + Auxiliary Historical Sciences (minor) – Faculty of Arts

Chinese Studies (major), full-time studies
 + Baltic Studies (minor) – Faculty of Arts

Chinese Studies (major), full-time studies
 + Computational Linguistics (minor) – Faculty of Arts

Chinese Studies (major), full-time studies
 + Culture Management (minor) – Faculty of Arts

Chinese Studies (major), full-time studies
 + Czech Language and Literature (minor) – Faculty of Arts

Chinese Studies (major), full-time studies
 + Ethnology (minor) – Faculty of Arts

Chinese Studies (major), full-time studies
 + French literature and linguistics (minor) – Faculty of Arts

Chinese Studies (major), full-time studies
 + General Linguistics (minor) – Faculty of Arts

Chinese Studies (major), full-time studies
 + History (minor) – Faculty of Arts

Chinese Studies (major), full-time studies
 + Information and Library Studies (minor) – Faculty of Arts

Chinese Studies (major), full-time studies
 + Italian Language and Literature (minor) – Faculty of Arts

Chinese Studies (major), full-time studies
 + Latin Language and Literature (minor) – Faculty of Arts

Chinese Studies (major), full-time studies
 + Literature and Intercultural Communication (minor) – Faculty of Arts

Chinese Studies (major), full-time studies
 + Mediterranean Studies (minor) – Faculty of Arts

Chinese Studies (major), full-time studies
 + Modern Greek Language and Literature (minor) – Faculty of Arts

Chinese Studies (major), full-time studies
 + Musicology (minor) – Faculty of Arts

Chinese Studies (major), full-time studies
 + Portuguese Language and Literature (minor) – Faculty of Arts

Chinese Studies (major), full-time studies
 + Slavonic Studies (minor) – Faculty of Arts

Chinese Studies (major), full-time studies
 + Social pedagogy and counselling (minor) – Faculty of Arts

Chinese Studies (major), full-time studies
 + Spanish Language and Literature (minor) – Faculty of Arts

Chinese Studies (major), full-time studies
 + Study of Religions - M.A. programme (minor) – Faculty of Arts

Chinese Studies (major), full-time studies
 + Theatre Studies (minor) – Faculty of Arts

Chinese Studies (major), full-time studies
 + Theory and History of Film and Audiovisual Culture (minor) – Faculty of Arts

Chinese Studies (major), full-time studies
 + Theory of Interactive Media (minor) – Faculty of Arts

Follow-up studies

Graduates of the Follow-up Master’s Degree in Chinese Studies are equipped to continue their studies on a doctoral programme focusing on China, either in the Czech Republic and abroad.

Study information

Provided by Faculty of Arts
Type of studies Follow-up master's
Mode full-time Yes
combined No
Study options single-subject studies Yes
single-subject studies with specialization No
major/minor studies Yes
Standard length of studies 2 years
Language of instruction Czech

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Mgr. Bc. Magdaléna Rychetská, M.A.

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