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Undergraduate Programmes and Admissions
The English major requirement has been reduced from 72 to 60 units. This will apply to all students admitted in 2007-08 and thereafter.
Study Scheme
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Major
Programme
(A) Applicable to students admitted in 2005-2006 and
thereafter
Students are required to complete a minimum of 72 units of courses as
follows:
(I) Required courses
In the First Year of Attendance
ENG1310, ENG1320, ENG1500, ENG1510, ENG1520, ENG1610, ENG1640,
ENG1650
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24 units |
In the Second Year of Attendance
ENG1330, ENG2370, ENG2600
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9 units |
(II) Elective courses
In the Second and Third Years of Attendance
A minimum of
39 units from the followings: |
39 units |
ENG1340, ENG1800, ENG2300, ENG2310, ENG2320, ENG2330, ENG2340,
ENG2350, ENG2360, #ENG2700, ENG2820, ENG2840, ENG2850, ENG2860, ENG2950, ENG3000,*ENG3100, ENG3110, ENG3120,*ENG3130,*ENG3140, ENG3150, ENG3160, ENG3170, ENG3180, ENG3190, ENG3200, ENG3210, ENG3220, ENG3230, ENG3240,
ENG3250, ENG3260, ENG3280, ENG3290, ENG3300, ENG3310, ENG3320, ENG3330,*ENG3500, ENG3600, ENG3610, ENG3620, ENG3630, ENG3640, ENG3650, ENG3660, ENG3670, ENG3680, ENG3690, ENG3700, ENG3710, ENG3720, ENG3730
#new course in 2008 - 2009
*re-coded from ENG4100, ENG4130, ENG4140, ENG4500 in 2008 - 2009 |
| The Major Programme requirement for second-year entrants can be viewed on
the homepage of the Academic and Quality Section,
<http://www.cuhk.edu.hk/aqs/>. |
| Note: Transfer students may be exempted from no more than two unspecified
courses. |
Special English Stream
Students accepted into the stream on
the basis of their results in their first three terms of attendance shall
complete 12 units of study:
(I) Required courses
In the Fourth Term of Attendance
ENG2910, ENG2920
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6 units |
Summer between Second and Third Years of
Attendance
ENG3810
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3 units |
In the Third Year of Attendance
ENG3820
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3 units |
(II) Elective courses
| Units completed in the Special English Stream will count towards the 72
units all English Majors are required to complete. [This means that, in addition
to ENG2910, ENG2920, ENG3810 and ENG3820, students in the Special English Stream
should take all the required courses in the "Major Programme" as well as minimum
9 courses (27 units) from among the elective courses listed under Major
Programme]. |
Minor
Programme
Students are required to complete a minimum of 21 units of courses as
follows:
In the Second Year of Attendance
ENG1330, ENG1500, ENG1610
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9 units |
Remaining Year(s) of Attendance
Any four courses coded
2000 and above
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12 units |
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Course List
Course Descriptions
| ENG1310 |
Communications for English Majors I |
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This first course in the writing sequence focuses on grammar, heuristics
(i.e., the discovery and exploration of ideas), and the fundamentals of thesis
statements and the structuring of essays. Like other courses in the sequence,
this course also aims to strengthen reading and speaking skills in addition to
writing skills. In-class discussion of the texts will be a part of the
preparation for the actual writing tasks, and in recognition of the vital role
for speaking in the course, and of the fact that productive mastery of writing
and speaking go hand and hand, an evaluation of students' oral English will be
an important component of the course. This will also be the case for the two
subsequent courses in the series. |
| ENG1320 |
Communications for English Majors II |
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| Assignments, activities and discussion in this term of the writing
sequence will emphasize organization, exploring how choices of organization at
every level, from syntactic patterns to the sequencing of paragraphs, affect a
writer's attempts to realize his or her meaning. Although students will consider
how various works of literature are organized, the main aim is to help students
organize their own writings in response to questions about literature and
language. Given that speaking in class will be a vital part of the learning
process, an evaluation of students' oral English will be an important component
of the course. Prerequisite: ENG 1310. |
| ENG1330 |
Communications for English Majors III |
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| The emphasis will fall on helping students to apply their
developing writing skills to the specific academic tasks that they are called
upon to perform throughout the curriculum. Different kinds of essays will be
examined and used as models. This course will also help students to master the
use of quotations, conventions of documentation, and other matters pertaining to
presentation of the finished academic work. The overriding aim is to help
students to present themselves and their ideas to best advantage in print. As in
the other courses in this series, an evaluation of students' oral English will
be an important component of the course. Prerequisites: ENG 1310,
1320. |
| ENG1340 |
Research and Oral Reporting |
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| This is a course designed to integrate the skills used in the
earlier communicative skills courses. In particular, students will be provided
with opportunities to express their opinions and to practise using evidence,
data and sources in the preparation of their own oral and written work. In
addition, students will gain experience in seminar-related skills by presenting
the fruits of their research to classmates through oral presentations.
Prerequisites: 1310, 1320 and 1330. |
| ENG1500 |
Aspects of English Language Study |
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| This course aims to increase students' awareness of the complexity
of the English language as a system of symbols used in cognition and
communication. Basic concepts of linguistic structure (the sound system, word
structure, sentence structure and meaning) are introduced to illustrate how
language data can be analysed, and to enable students to reflect on their
linguistic experience with some sensitivity. Attention will also be drawn to
broader issues of language and society, language acquisition, as well as the
evolutionary and biological aspects of language. |
| ENG1510 |
English Phonetics and Phonology |
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| This course introduces students to basic concepts in phonetics,
the scientific study of speech, and in phonology, the study of sound patterns in
various human languages with principal emphasis on the English language.
Students will gain an understanding of the articulatory mechanisms for producing
consonants, vowels, as well as tone and intonation. They will be introduced to
the International Phonetic Alphabet, and sounds from a variety of languages. In
the phonology part of the course, students will analyse the patterns governing
the distribution of sounds in different languages. A major aim of this course is
to enable students to transcribe English words and utterances, and to develop an
appreciation of the diversity and systematicity of sound structure in human
language. |
| ENG1520 |
Grammatical Structure of English |
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| This course is designed for English majors who need some knowledge
of the grammatical structure of contemporary English, and for those who may want
to study English linguistics and English teaching courses which require such
background information. It covers basic questions such as what grammar is and
how one goes about studying the structure of English. Basic grammatical concepts
and categories as well as the constituent structure are systemically introduced
to equip students with the essential analytical tools. |
| ENG1610 |
Introduction to Literature |
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| This course will introduce students to methods of reading literary
texts from the major genres of fiction, drama, and poetry. The emphasis will be
on specific literary texts, paying attention to their language, forms,
conventions and meanings. |
| ENG1640 |
Introduction to World Literatures in English |
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| This course will complement ENG 1610 in introducing students to
the study of literature. It focuses on short stories, poems, plays and other
kinds of writing from a variety of countries. It is designed to illustrate
something of the variety, range and richness of writing currently being done in
English around the world. Many of the texts chosen will be those exploring
aspects of cross-cultural, multilingual or post-colonial experience, in which
students may find resonances with their own experience in contemporary Hong
Kong. Students will be introduced to some relevant analytical approaches and
theories on which later courses in the major will
build. |
| ENG1650 |
From the Renaissance to the Enlightenment |
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| This course introduces students to some landmarks in the history
of literature in English from the sixteenth, seventeenth, and eighteenth
centuries. Students will read at least one play by Shakespeare, become familiar
with such genres as lyric poetry and drama, and consider the literature of the
period in relation to corresponding developments in politics and religion, and
to other arts and sciences. Special attention will be given to the rise of
Western modernity, as reflected in the texts
studied. |
| ENG1800 |
Drama in Performance I |
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| This course will introduce students to what is involved in
translating a dramatic text from the page to the stage. Students will analyse
some one-act plays in English from a dramaturgical point of view, workshop them
in small groups and perform them on the stage before an audience. They will be
introduced to the adaptation of texts for performance, to the technical aspects
of casting, acting, directing and stagecraft. Emphasis will be placed on
communicative aspects of acting, including pronuciation, intonation and voice
production. Drama in Performance will complement other major courses in
communication, literature and language study. |
| ENG2300 |
Drama: From the Jacobean Period to the Restoration |
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| After surveying the origins of English drama (morality and mystery
plays, Senecan tragedy, the development of playhouses, etc.), tragedy will be
discussed with particular attention paid to the ways in which playwrights of the
period treat the theme of revenge, their tragic conception of the universe, and
the dramatic techniques they employ. The Restoration period will deal with the
heroic tragedy and the comedy of manners. Representative works by some of the
following authors will be covered: Kyd, Marlowe, Tourneur, Webster, Middleton,
Ford, Dryden, Otway, Wycherley, Etherege, Congreve,
etc. |
| ENG2310 |
Drama: From Ibsen to the Present |
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| The first section of this course studies representative plays,
English and European, of the late nineteenth century to mid-twentieth century,
and their significance in the development of modern drama. The second part of
the course studies plays of the past thirty years and their relation to
contemporary ideas about the human condition. Representative works will normally
be selected from the following authors: Ibsen, Strindberg, Shaw, Synge,
Pirandello, Brecht, Chekhov, Miller, O'Neill, Sartre, Beckett, Ionesco, Osborne,
Pinter, Fry, Wesker, Arden, Stoppard, etc. |
| ENG2320 |
Eighteenth- & Ninetheenth-Century Fiction |
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| This course introduces students to the rise and development of the
novel as a genre in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, when realism was
widely accepted as the dominant mode of representing reality through fiction.
Emphasis will be given to novelists such as: Defoe, Richardson, Fielding,
Sterne, Austen, Dickens, the Brontes, George Eliot, Hardy, and
others. |
| ENG2330 |
Twentieth-Century Fiction |
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| This course introduces students to the distinctly modern features
found in the development of the western novel in the twentieth century. Emphasis
will be put on narrative representation as a way of capturing a consciousness
specific to the modern age. Novelists to be studied will normally include:
Conrad, Joyce, Woolf, Lessing, Lawrence, Beckett, and
others. |
| ENG2340 |
Poetry: From the Renaissance to the Augustan Age |
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| The genre of poetry will be studied in the light of important
historical and literary landmarks in the Renaissance and the Augustan Age. The
following are some of the items to be covered: The Elizabethan lyric, sonnet
sequences, "metaphysical" poetry, examples from Milton, and the development of
the heroic-couplet from Dryden to Pope. |
| ENG2350 |
Poetry: From the Romantics to the Modernists |
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| The genre of poetry will be studied in the light of important
historical and literary landmarks in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The
main Romantic poets to be studied include: Wordsworth, Coleridge, Byron, Shelley
and Keats. The main Modernist poets to be included: Yeats, Pound and
Eliot. |
| ENG2360 |
Children's Literature |
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| This course will provide an outline of developments in children's
literature in England and parts of Europe through the study of some essential,
central texts as well as recent books for children. The uses of fantasy and the
educational aspects of books for children will be discussed, along with notions
of childhood and the nature of children. Through close reading of set texts
students will be able to engage in critical techniques applicable to most
literature, for the best texts for children satisfy sensitive adult readers too.
(This course is particularly suitable for students in their second and third
years of attendance) |
| ENG2370 |
From Romanticism to Modernism |
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| This course introduces students to some landmarks in the history
of literature in English from the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The
relationship of literature to such concerns as urbanization, nationalism,
empire, democracy, revolution, and the rapid growth of science and technology
will be considered, together with the emergence of new female voices in
literature. Special attention will be given to the rise of Western modernity, as
reflected in the texts studied. |
| ENG2600 |
World Englishers and Their Cultures |
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| This course will introduce students to the contemporary linguistic
and cultural development of international varieties of English. It will examine
the notion of world English in relation to the socio-cultural and economic
elements that have contributed to the world-wide diffusion of the English
language. This course will offer a linguistic survey and cultural analysis of
world Englishes, drawing examples from both oral communication and written
texts. Specific lecture topics may include post-colonial perspectives on
English, the societal function(s) of English, the societal choice of
language(s), language and identity construction, cultural variation in the
styles of communication in English, and English-related interlanguage phenomena.
The course will emphasize the role of the English language in the age of
post-colonialism and globalization. Illustrative examples will be drawn from
several regions, but primarily from East and South-east Asia, Africa and the
Caribbean. |
| ENG2700 |
Drama in Performance II |
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This course follows on
from Drama in Performance I and will follow a
similar pattern:
students will study short plays and excerpts from longer
plays,workshop them in
small groups, with the aim of performing pieces
of similar length before
an audience at the end of the course. In Drama in
Perfomrance I students
study 4 relatively recent playwrights - Ibsen,
Chekhov, Pinter, Brecht
– and learn about the origins of realism
and naturalism, as well as challenges posed to realism and naturalism by a
playwright such as as
Brecht. The plays for Drama in Performance II have
been deliberately chosen
to reflect non-realist, pre-naturalistic traditions in
Western Theatre. |
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| ENG2820 |
Pragmatics and Semantics |
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| This course will be an introduction to the study of how language
is used to communicate meanings in context. It focus will be on the pragmatic
principles underlying linguistic communication. Among the major topics covered
will be implicature, presupposition, speech acts and politeness. The course will
also introduce the semantic principles of the meanings of words and sentences,
integrated within the framework of the study of the communicative uses of
language. |
| ENG2840 |
Lexical Studies in English |
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| This course aims at introducing students to some of the
interesting discoveries in lexical studies in English. The purpose of this
course is to develop students' sensitivity to the English lexicon and its
intrinsic relationship with English semantics and syntax. Students will be
acquainted with the lexical relations among words, understand the nature and
pervasiveness of figurative language, learn the major word-building processes in
English and be able to identify major word classes. Students will also be
introduced to basic strategies and processes that they can employ to learn and
use vocabulary in English. They will be led to designing small projects of their
own to investigate different areas of the English
lexicon. |
| ENG2850 |
Phonological Studies in English |
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| This course follows on from ENG1510, and will study in greater
detail the sound patterns in the English language and how speech sounds function
and are structured in English. Specifically, the course deals with segmental
phonology, the suprasegmental aspects, including stress, rhythm and intonation,
and the phonological processes underlying speech acquisition and
production. |
| ENG2860 |
Advanced Grammatical Studies in English |
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This course follows on from ENG1520, and will take a closer, more detailed
look at the working of the grammatical system in English as well as the major
principles and processes underlying sentence formation in English. This course
will draw insights from a range of grammatical approaches, and will not be bound
to one specific approach. This course should be of interest to students hoping
to work in such professional fields as language education, language pathology,
literary criticism and translation, where the syntactic features of a writer's
prose style are important. (Not for students who have taken
ENG3720.) |
| ENG2910 |
Literature Seminar (Special English Stream) |
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This course will focus on selected topics in literature, which will involve
intensive study and some independent research on the part of students. The
classes will emphasize active student participation and give ample opportunity
for student leadership of discussion. Because the course will be laying the
foundations for ENG 3810, topics will vary from year to year, depending on the
courses offered in the following summer. For example, they will include
Shakespeare and his Stage and two of the following: Jane Austen in Context, The
Brontes and their World and Virginia Woolf in
Context. |
| ENG2920 |
Applied English Linguistics Seminar (Special English
Stream) |
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| This course will focus on selected topics in Applied English
Linguistics, which will involve intensive study and some independent research on
the part of students. The course will prepare students for ENG 3810, which will
take place in an English-speaking country in the following summer. From the
generation of research ideas, to the collection and analysis of data, to the
final write-up, students will experience the various stages of a research
project. In particular, they will learn how to do a literature review, interview
subjects across cultures, and analyse primary data. This interactive course will
encourage students to learn, reflect on, discuss, analyse, and apply their new
knowledge and research skills in an English-speaking cultural
setting. |
| ENG2950 |
Introduction to the Theatre |
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| The students spend two weeks in the U.K. attending plays, visiting
sites relevant to their study of English literature, as well as museums and art
galleries. The aim is to enrich and broaden the students' linguistic and
cultural understanding. The impact of the study tour will be optimized by
thorough preparation, a policy of English usage during the study tour and a
series of writing tasks focused on the plays attended and cultural sites
visited, including a reflective Tour Journal, all of which will be assessed on
their return. Pre-departure discussions will prepare the students for every
aspect of the tour. |
| ENG3000 |
Issues in Comparative Literature |
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| This course examines the field of comparative literature through a
variety of readings in English and Chinese. It aims to introduce students to the
main theories and methodologies of comparative literature and offers practical
exercises in the application of these various approaches. After a preliminary
discussion of the definition and scope of the field, other areas touched upon
are: influence/reception studies; period/ movement studies; genre/style studies;
thematology/myth studies; interdisciplinary studies (e.g., literature and the
other arts, literature and psychology, literature and linguistics, literature
and literary theory.) |
| ENG3100 |
Major Author(s) |
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An intensive study of life, the imaginative character, and the works of a
single author or authors who have played major roles in the development of
Western literature. Authors studied may vary from year to year.
Students
are allowed to take this course more than once, and gain the units each time
they pass the course. However, students cannot take courses with the same course
code more than once in a single term. |
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| ENG3110 |
Romanticism |
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| This course will address itself to the origin of romanticism, its
development, and application as a conceptual model; it will involve the study of
romantic poetry in the English tradition, with reference to some major themes
such as nature, time, love and death. |
| ENG3120 |
Modernism |
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| This course introduces students to modernism as a literary and
historical movement which attempted to redefine the major concepts of art, the
role of artist and the value of aesthetics as offered and established by
tradition. Emphasis will be put on the historical factors and implications of
this significant cultural change from tradition to modernity. Works to be
discussed may be drawn from poetry, drama, fiction, as well as other creative
and critical forms of discourse. |
| ENG3130 |
Issues in Literary Criticism |
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| This course will acquaint students with a number of basic concepts
of theoretical positions in literary criticism by reading and analysing certain
seminal texts taken from the modern age. Specific topics of investigation
include: a) language and structure; b) meaning and interpretation; and c) text
and context. Discussion of these topics will lead to a greater understanding of
the primary features, strategies and implications of the main currents in
contemporary critical theory such as structuralism/semiotics, reader response,
hermeneutics, psychoanalysis, feminism and socio-cultural
criticism. |
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| ENG3140 |
Topics in East/West Comparative Literature |
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| This course will investigate some critical concepts and literary
theories within the context of East-West Comparative Literature. In this special
context the advantages, problems and validity of applying Western theoretical
models to Chinese literature such as Romanticism, Tragedy, Comedy and
Bildungsroman will be considered. |
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| ENG3150 |
Literary Stylistics |
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| This course will be an introduction to literary stylistics, which,
to put it at its simpliest, is the application of linguistics to the study of
literature. Its aim will be to give some sense of the distinctiveness of
literary uses of language in both poetry and prose. Non-literary as well as
literary stylistics will have to be studied, so that an awareness of both the
continuities and discontinuities between literary and nonliterary uses of
language can be developed. The main theme of this course will be that while
literature cannot be defined in terms of any distinctive language patterns, the
study of language patterns which are central to or typical of it can give real
insight into its nature. |
| ENG3160 |
Major Concepts in American Literature |
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| From year to year the readings and the themes emphasized in this
course will vary. Among the themes that enter more or less prominently into
varying interpretations of American Literature are egalitarianism, democracy,
egotism, restlessness, regionalism, humour, lawlessness, hostility to
traditional forms and ways of doing things, homoeroticism, and (especially in
the twentieth century) the city, materialism, and the perils of the machine.
Nineteenth-century writers who may be represented include Hawthorne, Poe,
Emerson, Thoreau, Whitman, Melville, Dickinson, Twain and James.
Twentieth-century writers who may be represented include Cather, Frost,
Anderson, Stevens, William Carlos Williams, Pound, Ransom, Cummings, Fitzgerald,
Faulkner, Hemingway, Tennessee Williams, Miller, Mailer, Updike, Robert Lowell
and Sylvia Plath. |
| ENG3170 |
Major Concepts in European Literature |
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| This course introduces students to some seminal European texts of
the nineteenth century. Topics for discussion include; a) realism (e.g. Balzac,
Flaubert, Turgenev, Shaw) as an aesthetic form capable of reflecting society and
its concerns; b) symbolist poetry (e.g. Baudelaire, POE, Mallarme, Yeats) as an
important source for Anglo-American modernism; c) other major writers' works
expressing some of the major issues of the century (e.g. Dickens, Dostoievsky,
Nietzsche, Tolstoy, Georges Sand, George Eliot, Thomas
Hardy). |
| ENG3180 |
Major Concepts in World Literature |
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| This course invites students to cross cultures by comparing or
contrasting certain themes as they are expressed in major representative works
of the West and the East. Its starting point will be the Middle Ages in Europe
and the T'ang Dynasty in China, leading into the twentieth century. Some
attention will also be given to India and Japan. Among the themes considered
will be the transcendent and the immanent, fate and free will, death and
rebirth, reward and punishment, faith and reason, revolution and reformation,
classicism and romanticism, capitalism and communism, male and female, war and
peace. |
| ENG3190 |
Literature and Culture |
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| This course investigates the basic concepts and issues relevant to
a critical understanding of the relationship between literature and culture in
the context of socio-historical changes. Selected literary works will be read as
the expression of cultural problems and cultural analysis attempted in the light
of its broader implications for literary interpretation. While the specific
topic may vary from year to year, some typical examples are: popular culture,
postmodern culture, third world culture, revolutionary culture, culture and
resistance, comparative culture. |
| ENG3200 |
Literature and Art |
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| This course may range from a concentrated study of specific topics
to considerations of general principles in aesthetics/philosophy. Under this
course heading, various inter-disciplinary or comparative studies of literature
and other subjects can be offered, for example, literature and
painting/sculpture, literature and architecture, literature and music, and
others. |
| ENG3210 |
Literature and Religion |
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| This course will approach the relations between literature and
religion with regard to both 'form' and 'content'. Its first section will
concentrate on overal questions about the nature of language patterns and uses
in both religious and literary contexts. There are a number of very striking
similarities here, and we will ask what these say about the nature of both
religion and literature. This course's second and final section will concentrate
on applying insights about religious and literary forms of language and their
uses to the study of particular literary, and to some extent religious, texts.
The religious dimension of the course will relate mainly to Judaeo-Christian
forms of religion, but attention will also be given to other, particularly of
course Chinese, forms of religion. |
| ENG3220 |
Literature and Film |
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| The aim of this course is to familiarize students with the kindred
relationships between film and literature as well as their essential mediumistic
differences such as film and the novel, film and drama/theatre, film and poetry,
etc. Their similar or different uses of time and space, and problems of
adaptation will be discussed in some works which have both filmic and literary
versions. (Not for students who have taken
UGD214D.) |
| ENG3230 |
Gender and Literature |
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| This course explores critically the relationship between gender
and literature in specific sociocultural contexts. Some basic arguments in the
feminist perspectives on literary study will be introduced and selected works by
both male and female writers discussed. While topics may vary from year to year,
some typical examples are: the representation of woman, gender identity and
difference, literature and desire, sexuality and imagination, and writing under
patriarchy. |
| ENG3240 |
Special Topics in Literature |
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An intensive study of a major issue in literary studies. Topic(s) will be
defined from year to year by the Department of English.
Students are
allowed to take this course more than once, and gain the units each time they
pass the course. However, students cannot take courses with the same course code
more than once in a single term. |
| ENG3250 |
Other Literatures in English |
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| This course aims to introduce students to the study of writers
working in English but with a different cultural or linguistic background. Works
and authors studied will vary from year to year. |
| ENG3260 |
Creative Writing |
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| This course aims at stimulating the students' imagination while at
the same time improving their writing skills. Students will have a large measure
of freedom in their approach to numerous short assignments, but will be
encouraged to experiment and write in a wide variety of genres and
styles. |
| ENG3280 |
Writing A Life Between Languages |
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| This course aims first to introduce students to autobiography, one
of the most popular forms of writing in the contemporary world. It will raise
such questions as, why has this kind of narrative been so attractive to writers
in cross-cultural situations, such as Chinese-Americans? The course will focus
specifically on a group of (mainly American) immigrant autobiographers who write
about the experience of living between a first language and English. They raise
a range of fascinating questions about language and identity. Students will be
asked to reflect on these questions and on the similarities and differences
between these writers' lives and their own experience in Hong Kong. The course
will aim to teach students how to approach, analyze and theorize about
autobiographical narratives. Students will be given opportunity to develop their
analytical skills in essay-type responses to the prescribed texts. They will
also be given opportunity to develop their narrative skills in their own
life-writing, using the prescribed texts as models. Both forms of written
exercise are designed to extend, as well as test, students' understanding of
autobiography as a genre. |
| ENG3290 |
Reading and Writing Short Stories |
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| This course follows ENG3260 but is not dependent on it. It
provides an introduction to the craft of writing short stories. Students will
read and analyze a range of short stories of diverse styles and forms from the
beginnings of the genre to the present day. Particular attention will be given
to contemporary stories written in Hong Kong. Students will be encouraged to use
these texts as models for their own creative responses. The course aims both to
deepen and broaden students' understanding of the short story genre as well as
to offer them the opportunity of gaining practical expertise in creative
writing. |
| ENG3300 |
Writing for the Stage |
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| This course is a play-writing seminar and workshop and aims to
deepen students?understanding of drama as well as giving them practical
experience in creating original theatrical works. In a seminar setting, the
class will read and analyze some works of modern English-language playwrights,
as well as practice various styles and genres of drama during in-class writing
exercises. The students will engage in intensive reading and critique of one
another𠏋 work and spend time writing and rewriting independent assignments such
as dialogues, monologues, and scenes, culminating in the creation of a one-act
play that will be performed in either a staged production or dramatic reading at
the end of the term. |
| ENG3310 |
Writing for the Screen |
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| This course is a film-writing seminar and workshop, which gives
students both theoretical understanding of how films (both feature and short)
work and practical experience in creating original short screenplays, as well as
a grounding for longer works. The class will read film screenplays, as well as
analysis of film and the screenwriting process. Students will also watch and
analyze short films, scenes from longer works, and entire feature films (which
will be screened outside of class hours). They will practice various elements of
the film-writing process and engage in intensive reading and critique of one
another𠏋 work. Besides weekly short writing assignments, the students will work
on two short film screenplays𤤖ne an adaptation of a literary work and the other
a completely original piece. Each student will then produce, or participate in
the production of, one of these film scripts as a short
video. |
| ENG3320 |
Hong Kong Literature in English |
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| Students will study Hong Kong literature in English in its
colonial and postcolonial contexts. Works from different genres will be
discussed to explore the following issues: the representation of Hong Kong and
its people, the question of identity, the agency of its people, the impact of
modernity and postmodernity, and the ideas of home and exile. Students'
analytical and critical skills will be sharpened to enhance their understanding
of literary works, their awareness of the dynamic interrelationships between
literature and social-political forces, and their appreciation of the meeting
points between Hong Kong literature in English and Hong Kong literature in
Chinese. |
| ENG3330 |
Reading Poetry |
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| This course provides an introduction to the art of reading
poetry. We will read and analyze a range of poems of diverse styles and forms from the
Renaissance to the present day so as to stimulate students' creative and critical
responses to poetry. We will also read and analyze contemporary poetry written in Hong
Kong, Malaysia and Singapore. While this is not a course on creative writing, it
nonetheless explores, among other topics, the role of the imagination, the act of
writing, the purposes of poetry, the notions of tradition and of the individual talent, for these are issues with which poets engage, whether directly or indirectly, in their
poems. |
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| ENG3500 |
Shakespeare |
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| This course introduces students to the playwright William
Shakespeare, English Literature's foremost dramatic poet. By reading a number of
Shakespeare's plays, drawn from the genres of comedy, history, tragedy and
romance, students will achieve an understanding of Shakespeare's language, his
modes of characterization, his methods of creating dramatic situations, and his
representative themes. Students will also study the relationship of
Shakespeare's scripts to their original Elizabethan and Jacobean performance
contexts. Time permitting, attention will also be given to the performance
history of Shakespearean drama and the continuing importance of that drama in
twentieth-century world theatre. |
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| ENG3600 |
Contrastive Linguistics |
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| How can one compare two languages with respect to their sound
system, lexical-semantic structure, sentence patterns, and pragmatic properties?
What can be achieved with such an analysis? This course introduces students to
the comparative study of languages, drawing from research findings in language
typology, language universals, and language acquisition. This course will focus
on the basic characteristics of English and Chinese, and some salient contrasts
between them. The approach is largely descriptive without assuming prior
knowledge of theoretical syntax. Students will have an opportunity to apply to
English and Chinese, in relation to problems of translation and language
teaching/learning. |
| ENG3610 |
Psycholinguistics |
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| This course is designed to introduce to students some major
psycholinguistic topics in the comprehension and production of the English
language. It begins with a discussion on the history of psycholinguistics and
its nature of inquiry, and then examines the mental processes involved in
perceiving, understanding and producing
speech/language. |
| ENG3620 |
Acquisition of English as a Second Language |
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| This course focuses on the development and processes underlying
the acquisition of English as a second language. Learning a language involves
learning a complex set of phonological, syntactic and semantic rules of grammar.
How do learners accomplish this? Major theories of language acquisition will be
surveyed and empirical data will be discussed and analysed. Students will have
opportunities to collect and analyse data first-hand from language
learners. |
| ENG3630 |
Sociolinguistics: Language, Culture and Society |
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| Language, culture and society are intimately connected, each one
influencing the others. This relationship between language, culture and society
is the concern of Sociolinguistics. Topics covered will include multilingualism;
code-mixing; language maintenance; language planning; language variation;
language attitudes; language policy in education. Examples will be drawn from
different languages and cultures, but special focus will be on the English
language. Hong Kong issues will be given particular
consideration. |
| ENG3640 |
English Language Teaching and Learning |
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| This course is designed for students who are interested in the
teaching and learning of English as a foreign/second language in the
Chinese/Hong Kong context. It begins with a macro view of the language teaching
process. This is followed by a short history of English/foreign language
teaching, in which various language teaching approaches and methods will be
reviewed and critically evaluated. The third part of this course will examine
and discuss some skills-based approaches to language teaching in the Hong Kong
context. Interesting issues related to English teaching in Hong Kong, e.g.,
error correction, medium of instruction in the English classroom, memorisation
and motivation, will be discussed. |
| ENG3650 |
Special Topics in Applied Linguistics |
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This course examines language planning and policy (LPP) issues in Asian countries, with a special focus on the relationship between language, culture, and identity. It provides historical accounts of LPP in a wide variety of contexts and reviews current research and developments. In particular, the course explores how policies are closely tied to sociocultural, geopolitical, and economic forces. The interplay between globalization/ internationalization and nationalization/ localization and the formation of hybrid identities are analyzed. The rise of English as the lingua franca of international communication is problematized in relation to local cultures, language politics, and identities. Students have the opportunity to explore LPP in an Asian context of their choice and present their findings in a conference-like setting. This course is suitable for local and international students.
Students are allowed
to take this course more than once, and gain the units each time they pass the
course. However, students cannot take courses with the same course code more
than once in a single term. |
| ENG3660 |
Issues in Contemporary Linguistics |
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This course will focus on some topic of interest which are not discussed in
other courses in the regular programme. Topics to be introduced depend on the
availability of expertise, and will be related to the form, use or acquisition
of the English language. Students are expected to develop an in-depth
understanding of the topic through reading and discussion of related research
and papers and data analysis.
Students are allowed to take this course
more than once, and gain the units each time they pass the course. However,
students cannot take courses with the same course code more than once in a
single term. |
| ENG3670 |
Discourse Analysis |
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| This course introduces some major approaches to discourse analysis
and basic principles and tools in discourse analysis. A range of key notions,
e.g. structure and function, cohesion and coherence, relevance, text and
context, discourse and communication, and writing and speech will be discussed.
The relevance of discourse analysis to foreign/second language teaching will
also be discussed. |
| ENG3680 |
History of the English Language |
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| This Course presents an overview of the origins and development of
the English language from its earliest beginnings to the present day. The
development of the language through its different stages is outlined: Old
English, Middle English, Early Modern English, Present Day English. The
influence of the social and historical background is exemplified throughout the
course. The positive values of English as an international language are compared
with the dangers of linguistic and cultural
imperialism. |
| ENG3690 |
Gender and Language |
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| This course will provide an introduction to the relationship
between gender and language use. Drawing from empirical and theoretical studies
in sociolinguistics, psycholinguistics, and discourse analysis, this course will
address a range of issues. Examples of key issues include the acquisition of
gender-differentiated language, gender and conversational interaction (e.g.
extralinguistic constructions of gender or politeness, hedging or
interruptions), sexism in language, gender images, and the relationships between
language, gender and other social constructs such as class, culture, and
ethnicity. Prerequisite: ENG3630 or with permission of instructor. |
| ENG3700 |
Independent Research Essay |
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| An Independent research on a topic approved by the Department and
conducted under the supervision of a teacher. It may be an essay in literature
or linguistics or both. Prior approval from the Department required. Student's
proposal for this course must be submitted to the Department two weeks before the term begins. Late submission will not be considered. (Not for
students who have taken ENG3820.) |
| ENG3710 |
Communication Across Cultures |
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| This experiential course, which is intended for non-native
speakers, introduces the fundamentals of intercultural communication, with
particular reference to Sino-Western interactions. Specifically, it emphasizes
the application of intercultural communication theory to practical communication
problems that can occur when people from different cultures interact. By
understanding how differences in cultures, attitudes, and values affect
behaviour, students can use English more effectively across cultures. Topics
include communication and culture, cultural diversity in perception and world
view, language, thought, and culture, cultural variations in language
expressions and the structure of conversations, nonverbal communication, and
cultural influences on interaction in variety of
contexts. |
| ENG3720 |
Pedagogical Grammar |
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| This course is designed for students who are interested in
refreshing their working knowledge of English grammar, with emphasis on the
grammatical structures proven problematic in the teaching and learning of
English as a foreign language (EFL). The course is aimed at developing students'
ability to relate and apply the grammatical structures of English covered in the
course to teaching in specific classroom situations or under specific syllabus
frameworks. Some theoretical issues in pedagogical grammar will be reviewed and
discussed. The course should be of interest and use to students who wish to
enter the English language teaching (ELT) profession. (Not for students who have
taken ENG 2860.) |
| ENG3730 |
Communication in Second Language Classrooms |
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| This course focuses on the dynamics of communication in second
language instructional settings, with special emphasis on the Hong Kong context.
Students will examine variables that influence the nature of communication,
including teachers' control over the patterns of classroom interaction and
students' use of language for classroom learning and second language
acquisition. The aim of the course is to better understand the ways in which the
nature of classroom communication affects how and what second language students
learn. This interactive course will consist of lectures, projects, and the
analysis of videotaped English language lessons and cases (problem-based
narratives of local teaching situations). |
| ENG3810 |
Fieldwork (Special English Stream) |
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| Fieldwork will consist of a range of integrated activities that
build on ENG 2910 and ENG 2920 and provide the framework for the research that
will be written up in ENG 3820 Research Essay. These activities will take place
in an English-speaking country in a summer term of five to six weeks between
students' second and third years of study. Students will participate in language
enhancement, coursework, guided research, performances of Shakespeare's plays,
visits to sites relevant to their special interests and cultural enrichment
activities. |
| ENG3820 |
Research Essay (Special English Stream) |
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| In the Research Essay students write up the research they have
begun in ENG 2910 or ENG 2920 and ENG 3810 in the Special English Stream.
Students must have their topic formally approved by the Department at least two weeks before the beginning of term. Each student admitted to the
course will be assigned a supervisor. (Not for students who have taken ENG
3700.) |
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Department of English, 3/F Fung King Hey Bldg, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin, NT, HONG KONG
Contact Ms. Tracy Liang, Tel: (852) 2609-7006, Fax: (852) 2603-5270, email: english@cuhk.edu.hk |
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