SOAS, University of London, BA (Hons), Law and South East Asian Studies

All years: Typical modules include: Introduction to European law; criminal law; obligations I - contract; obligations II - tort; public law; property law; equity; Chinese law; comparative commercial law; ethnic minorities and the law; family law; human rights; Islamic law; law and society in Africa; law and society in south Asia; property law (compulsory and core exemption); public international law. South east Asian studies Year 1: Language 1 (compulsory); introduction to south east Asia (0.5 units) - core; south east Asia on film (0.5 units) - core; 2 units in the 2nd subject. Year 2: Language 2 - compulsory; 2 half units from the following options: Thailand on screen (0.5 units); Indonesia on screen (0.5 units); war, revolution, and independence in south east Asian fiction (0.5 units); south east Asian literatures in translation (0.5 units); sex and the city in south east Asian film (0.5 units); pre-modern historical texts of Java, Bali, and the Malay world in English translation (0.5 units); the city and the countryside in south east Asian literatures in translation (0.5 units); 2 units in the 2nd subject. Year 3: Language 3; 1 unit, or 2 half units from the following options: Thailand on screen (0.5 units); Indonesia on screen (0.5 units); war, revolution, and independence in south east Asian fiction (0.5 units); sex and the city in south east Asian film (0.5 units); pre-modern historical texts of Java, Bali, and the Malay world in English translation (0.5 units); the city and the countryside in south east Asian literatures in translation (0.5 units); independent study project; another approved language or text unit; 2 units in the other subject.