Japanese and Philosophy | Bachelor's degree | Languages | On Campus | 4 years | University of Leeds | United Kingdom

Japan is an important player on the world stage. This degree will combine core and optional modules so you can learn Japanese from scratch, as well as gaining an insight into the culture, History and politics of Japan and East Asia as a whole. You'll spend a year studying at a Japanese university to improve your skills, as well as studying topics from translation to Japanese cinema, Sino-Japanese relations and East Asian religions. This course is only open to non-native Japanese speakers. What's the difference between belief and knowledge? Why are we here? How do we know what we know - and can we ever know anything at all? Philosophy at Leeds explores fundamental questions about how we understand the world. Through core and optional modules you'll learn how to construct arguments and study key topics such as ethics and Logic, as well as specialist knowledge in topics from ancient and moral Philosophy to the ethics of life and death, Philosophy of language or aesthetics.