Languages and Cultures Undergraduate Courses
Most courses that run across the full year are available to all visiting students - whether at SOAS for the full year, term 1 only or terms 2&3 only. However, full year language courses are not open to students at a beginner's level if they start in term 2.
Africa Department
| Course Title | Level (1,2 or 3) | Taught in | Course Code |
|---|---|---|---|
| African Language Literatures | 2/3 | across the full year | 155 900 677 |
| Amharic 1 | 1 | across the full year | 155 900 832 |
| Amharic 2 | 2/3 | across the full year | 155 900 378 |
| Contemporary African Literature | 2/3 | across the full year | 155 900 839 |
| Culture In Africa | 1 | across the full year | 155 900 838 |
| Hausa 1 | 1 | across the full year | 155 900 834 |
| Hausa 2(a) Intermediate | 2 | across the full year | 155 900 324 |
| Hausa 2(b) Survey of Hausa Literature | 2 | across the full year | 155 900 818 |
| Hausa 3(a) Advanced | 3 | across the full year | 155 900 327 |
| Hausa 3(b) Selected Texts | 3 | across the full year | 155 900 603 |
| History In African And Caribbean Literature | 2/3 | across the full year | 155 901 013 |
| Language In Africa | 1 | across the full year | 155 900 867 |
| Perspectives On African Experience | 3 | across the full year | 155 900 933 |
| Religion In Africa | 2/3 | across the full year | 155 901 151 |
| Representation And Transformation In South African Drama And Film | 2/3 | across the full year | 155 901 165 |
| Somali 1 | 1 | across the full year | 155 900 831 |
| Somali 2 | 2 | across the full year | 155 900 811 |
| Swahili 1 | 1 | across the full year | 155 900 985 |
| Swahili 2a Intermediate | 2 | across the full year | 155 900 986 |
| Swahili 2b Introduction To Swahili Literature | 2 | across the full year | 155 900 987 |
| Swahili 3 | 3 | across the full year | 155 900 635 |
| Swahili 4 | 3/4 | across the full year | 155 900 636 |
| The Structure of Bantu Languages | 2/3 | across the full year | 155 901 257 |
| Theory and Practice of Swahili Translation | 2/3 | across the full year | 155 901 259 |
| Yoruba 1 | 1 | across the full year | 155 900 833 |
| Yoruba 2 | 2 | across the full year | 155 900 935 |
| Zulu 1 | 1 | across the full year | 155 900 840 |
| Zulu 2 | 2 | across the full year | 155 900 851 |
Department Of China And Inner Asia
Department Of Japan And Korea
Department Of Linguistics
| Course Title | Level (1,2 or 3) | Taught in | Course Code |
|---|---|---|---|
| Advanced Syntax | 3 | term 1 | 152 900 033 |
| Current Issues in Phonology | 3 | term 2 | 152 900 041 |
| Dynamic Syntax | 3 | term 2 | 152 900 093 |
| General Linguistics | 1 | across the full year | 152 900 069 |
| Historical Linguistics | 2/3 | term 1 | 152 900 037 |
| Intermediate Phonology | 2 | term 1 | 152 900 062 |
| Intermediate Semantics | 3 | term 1 | 152 900 088 |
| Intermediate Syntax | 2 | term 1 | 152 900 032 |
| Introduction to Arabic Linguistics | 2/3 | term 1 | 152 900 095 |
| Introduction To Grammatical Structure | 1 | across the full year | 152 900 071 |
| Introduction To Phonology | 1 | across the full year | 152 900 070 |
| Issues In Semantics | 3 | term 2 | 152 900 021 |
| Language, Society And Communication | 2/3 | term 1 | 152 900 083 |
| Meaning and Interpretation | 2 | term 1 | 152 900 100 |
| Morphology | 2/3 | term 1 | 152 900 036 |
| Psychology Of Language | 2/3 | term 2 | 152 900 082 |
| Topics In Lexical Semantics | 2 | term 2 | 152 900 065 |
| Topics In The Structure Of Chinese | 3 | term 1 | 152 900 066 |
Department Of The Near And Middle East
| Course Title | Level (1,2,3 or 4) | Taught in | Course Code |
|---|---|---|---|
| Advanced Modern Turkish Language | 3 | across the full year | 155 900 548 |
| Advanced Turkish/English/Turkish Translation | 3/4 | across the full year | 155 900 913 |
| Akkadian Texts 1 | 2 | across the full year | 155 900 937 |
| Akkadian Texts 2 | 3 | across the full year | 155 900 938 |
| Akkadian Texts 3 | 3/4 | across the full year | 155 900 939 |
| Arabic 100 | 1 | across the full year | 155 901 202 |
| Arabic 200 | 2 | across the full year | 155 901 203 |
| Arabic 300 | 3 | across the full year | 155 901 204 |
| Arabic 4 | 4 | across the full year | 155 900 899 |
| Arabic Cinema (I) | 2/3 | term 1 | 155 901 208 |
| Biography and Traditions of the Prophet Mohammed | 2 | across the full year | 155 901 337 |
| Cinemas of the Middle East | 3 | term 2 | 155 901 383 |
| Classical Persian Poetry | 2/3 | across the full year | 155 901 372 |
| Classical Persian Prose Texts | 2 | across the full year | 155 900 334 |
| Elementary Georgian | 1 | across the full year | 155 900 813 |
| Elementary Hebrew | 1 | across the full year | 155 900 916 |
| Elementary Persian Texts | 2 | across the full year | 155 901 155 |
| Elementary Qur'anic Arabic | 1 | across the full year | 155 901 365 |
| Elementary Written Persian | 1 | across the full year | 155 901 053 |
| Elementary Written Turkish | 1 | across the full year | 155 901 051 |
| History Of Zionism | 2/3 | across the full year | 155 901 168 |
| Intensive Modern Hebrew | 1 | across the full year | 155 900 894 |
| Intensive Turkish Language | 1 | across the full year | 155 901 194 |
| Intermediate Modern Turkish Language | 2 | across the full year | 155 900 547 |
| Intermediate Qur'anic Arabic | 2 | across the full year | 155 901 374 |
| Introduction To Arabic Culture | 1 | across the full year | 155 901 205 |
| Introduction to Arabic Dialects | 2/3 | across the full year | 155 901 396 |
| Introduction To Classical Arabic Literature | 3 | across the full year | 155 901 236 |
| Introduction to Early Islamic Texts | 2 | across the full year | 155 901 115 |
| Introduction To Israeli Culture | 1 | across the full year | 155 900 947 |
| Introduction To Israeli Literature | 2 | across the full year | 155 901 248 |
| Introduction To Modern Arabic Literature | 2 | across the full year | 155 900 901 |
| Introduction to Sufism | 2 | across the full year | 155 901 375 |
| Introduction to the Study of the Qur'an | 1 | across the full year | 155 901 343 |
| Introductory Hittite | 1 | across the full year | 155 900 109 |
| Islamic Intellectual Tradition | 3/4 | across the full year | 155 901 338 |
| Islamic Texts | 3/4 | across the full year | 155 900 356 |
| Israeli History And The Israel-Palestine Conflict | 2/3 | across the full year | 155 901 167 |
| Language and Oral Literature of an Arabic Vernacular | 4 | across the full year | 155 901 376 |
| Literatures Of The Near And Middle East | 2/3 | across the full year | 155 900 991 |
| Medieval Arabic Thought | 4 | across the full year | 155 901 377 |
| Middle Persian | 1 | across the full year | 155 901 282 |
| Modern Hebrew Language: Advanced | 4 | across the full year | 155 900 714 |
| Modern Hebrew Language: Intermediate | 2/3 | across the full year | 155 900 713 |
| Modern Persian Poetry | 2/3 | across the full year | 155 901 379 |
| Nation and Nationalism in Middle Eastern Fiction (in Translation) | 2 | across the full year | 155 901 380 |
| Old Georgian | 3 | across the full year | 155 900 816 |
| Persian Language 1 | 1 | across the full year | 155 901 242 |
| Persian Language 2 | 2 | across the full year | 155 900 801 |
| Persian Language 3 | 3 | across the full year | 155 900 802 |
| Persian Poetry in Translation | 2/3 | across the full year | 155 901 277 |
| Politics and Aesthetics in Modern Arabic Literature | 4 | across the full year | 155 901 382 |
| Quran And Hadith Studies | 3/4 | across the full year | 155 900 734 |
| Reading Classical Arabic Historians | 4 | across the full year | 155 901 334 |
| Structure of Abkhaz | 2/3 | across the full year | 155 901 176 |
| The Muslim World: Unity In Diversity | 2 | across the full year | 155 901 258 |
Department Of South Asia
| Course Title | Level (1,2,3 or 4) | Taught in | Course Code |
|---|---|---|---|
| Basic Pali | 1 | across the full year | 155 900 948 |
| Bengali Language 1 | 1 | across the full year | 155 900 491 |
| Bengali Language 2 | 2 | across the full year | 155 900 492 |
| Directed Readings in a South Asian Literature or Culture (Nepali) | 2/3 | term 1 | 155 901 300 |
| Directed Readings in a South Asian Literature or Culture (Urdu) | 2/3 | term 1 | 155 901 301 |
| Hindi Language 1 | 1 | across the full year | 155 900 501 |
| Hindi Language 2 | 2 | across the full year | 155 901 183 |
| Hindi Language 3 | 3 | across the full year | 155 901 269 |
| Hindi Language 4 | 4 | across the full year | 155 901 384 |
| Imagining Pakistan: Culture, Politics, Gender | 2/3 | across the full year | 155 901 391 |
| Introduction to Prakrit | 2/3 | term 1 | 155 901 323 |
| Modern Bengali Texts | 2 | across the full year | 155 900 186 |
| Nepali Language 1 | 1 | across the full year | 155 900 535 |
| Nepali Language 2 | 2 | across the full year | 155 900 609 |
| Nepali Language 3 | 3 | across the full year | 155 901 283 |
| Punjabi Language 1 | 1 | across the full year | 155 901 246 |
| Readings In Contemporary Hindi | 2 | across the full year | 155 901 185 |
| Readings in Prakrit | 2/3 | term 2 | 155 901 324 |
| Sanskrit Language 1 | 1 | across the full year | 155 901 303 |
| Sanskrit Language 2 | 2 | across the full year | 155 901 304 |
| Selected Texts from the Sanskrit Epic | 2 | across the full year | 155 900 787 |
| Society, Culture and Politics in Nepal | 2 | across the full year | 155 901 305 |
| South Asian Culture | 1 | across the full year | 155 900 812 |
| South Asian Literature in English | 2 | across the full year | 155 900 927 |
| Urdu Language 1 | 1 | across the full year | 155 900 512 |
| Urdu Language 2 | 2 | across the full year | 155 900 513 |
| Urdu Literacy | 2/3 | across the full year | 155 901 247 |
Department Of South East Asia
| Course Title | Level (1,2,3 or 4) | Taught in | Course Code |
|---|---|---|---|
| Burmese Language 1 | 1 | across the full year | 155 900 910 |
| Burmese Language 2 | 2 | across the full year | 155 900 997 |
| Burmese Language and Texts | 3 | across the full year | 155 900 998 |
| Cultural Foundations Of Indonesia | 2 | term 1 | 155 901 308 |
| Indonesia on Screen | 2/3 | term 2 | 155 901 354 |
| Indonesian Language 1 | 1 | across the full year | 155 900 448 |
| Indonesian Language 2 | 2 | across the full year | 155 901 022 |
| Indonesian Language 3 | 3 | across the full year | 155 901 023 |
| Indonesian Language 4 | 4 | across the full year | 155 901 024 |
| Indonesian Literature: Literature of The Revolution | 2 | term 2 | 155 901 309 |
| Introduction To South East Asia | 1 | term 1 | 155 901 320 |
| Sex and the City in South East Asian Film | 2/3 | term 2 | 155 901 319 |
| South East Asia On Film | 1 | term 2 | 155 901 318 |
| Thai Cultural Texts | 2 | across the full year | 155 901 352 |
| Thai Language 1 | 1 | across the full year | 155 901 366 |
| Thai Language 2 | 2 | across the full year | 155 901 367 |
| Thai Language 4 | 4 | across the full year | 155 901 357 |
| The City and the Countryside in South East Asian Literatures | 3 | term 1 | 155 901 326 |
| Vietnamese Language 1 | 1 | across the full year | 155 900 704 |
| Vietnamese Language 2 | 2 | across the full year | 155 900 705 |
| Vietnamese Language And Texts | 3 | across the full year | 155 901 049 |
