ELLS Course List

TESL3063 Language Teaching Methodology

语言教学方法

This course aims to develop: students’ practical skills and techniques of teaching foreign languages; students’ ability to design and or select content and materials, and evaluate student and teacher performance.

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ENG3083 Language and Culture

语言与文化

The course aims to (1) demonstrate connections among language and culture, social life, political relations, and personal experience; (2) develop an understanding of different approaches in the fields of sociolinguistics and linguistic anthropology; and (3) foster critical perspectives on the status of English and other languages in China today.

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TESL3013 Language and Education

语言与教育

This subject aims to: explore the interplay between language and education; understand the role of language in education from both linguistic perspectives and sociolinguistic perspectives.

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ENG3203 Language and Intercultural Communication

语言与跨文化交际

This course aims to develop an understanding of communication practices between people of different cultural identities and in culturally complex professional contexts; explore the representations of different groups in the media and in professional discourse; and equip students with the strategies for how they may approach intercultural communication in an effective way.

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ENG3073 Language and Society

语言与社会

This course explores the interactive relationship between language and society. It aims to make the students aware that a second language cannot be learned effectively if the learning is separated from the social background of the target language. Though learning about the vocabulary and grammar of a language without learning anything at all about its society is in principle possible, social questions are harder to ignore as soon as one starts to consider the language as an object of research. The course focuses on the societal influence on language use and the changes in language structure, with a focus on the English language.

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ENG3213 Language in Business and Legal Communication

商务与法律语言传意

This course aims to introduce a genre-based approach to analyse and evaluate the language use in professional genres from various business and legal settings, and foster students’ writing and speaking skills for communicating with specific purposes in business and legal settings.

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TESL4053 Language-Teaching Practicum I

语言教学实习 I

This course provides students with practical experience in teaching English in a school setting (primary or secondary), under the guidance of an academic supervisor and a mentor teacher at the host school.

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TESL4063 Language-Teaching Practicum II

语言教学实习 II

This course provides students with practical experience in teaching English in a school setting (primary or secondary), under the guidance of an academic supervisor and a mentor teacher at the host school.

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ENG2193 Lexis and Morphology

词汇与词法

This course will allow students to develop awareness of how words are formed, how they cross word class boundaries, how words combine together, how languages lose and gain words, and how idioms and metaphor are key elements in the creative and effective production and comprehension of language.

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ENG4013 Major Author Study

文学名家研习

This course will focus on a single prominent fiction writer, dramatist, or poet, presenting the work in the author's biographical, historical, and critical contexts. Readings will include a representative selection of the author's works plus secondary critical and historical materials as appropriate to the author chosen.

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ENG4023 Major Genre in Literature

主要文类研习

This is a focused examination of one particular genre and its attendant sub-genres. For example, these genres could include magic realism, detective fiction, science fiction, Theatre of the Absurd, or historical fiction. Students are required to consider the various ways that texts can be understood in relation to established modes of expression and/or audience expectations. By examining the defining features of genres and sub-genres, students gain valuable knowledge about literary and cultural contexts, while at the same time developing interpretive strategies for reading texts in terms of their larger social significance.

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GCNU1023 Mathematics Around Us

生活中的数学

This course stresses the prevalence, relevance, and practicality of mathematics in the modern society especially in the context of planning and scheduling in management science, and issues concerning social choice and decision-making. Numerous real world examples are discussed. The mathematical techniques involved are taught through hands-on applications

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ENG2143 New Media Literacies

新媒体读写能力

This course aims to develop: an interdisciplinary perspective on how various new media, such as the internet, multimedia and text messaging, shape our communication practices and possibilities; the critical skills requisite to analyse and reflect on the literacy practices in various types of new media discourse, and the creative skills requisite to design multimodal forms of new media discourse for effective communication.

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ENG3233 Nonfiction Narrative Writing and Editing

非虚构叙事写作与编辑

This course focuses on nonfiction narrative writing, including literary journalism, travel writing, personal essays, and other fact-based storytelling. This course is for students who are interested in publishing as well as in careers in travel-writing, report writing, and proposal writing

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ENG4063 Off-Campus Internship Experience

校外实习

The Final Year Project (FYP) is a capstone that brings together academic and professional skills acquired in the programme. Under the guidance of a supervisor, the student will identify a suitable research or portfolio topic; find research materials; narrow the topic; read, evaluate, and interpret materials; write, edit, and polish, and, finally, document and present the work.

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