ELLS Course List
ENG3123 Posthuman Futures: Science Fiction Since 1960
后人类未来：1960 年以来的科幻小说
This course will introduce the genre of science fiction by providing an overview of its early roots in popular culture (including its influence on film and comics), before turning focus to the post-New Wave era of sci-fi, and its impact upon the Western academy. From canonic works of the 1960s by Philip K. Dick and Ursula K. Le Guin, to lesser-known examples from as recently as the last decade, this module seeks to showcase the cutting edge of the genre, exploring various subgenres such as cyberpunk, splatterpunk and slipstream, in order to challenge preconceived notions of what constitutes modern science fiction. In addition, the course will explore the recent schools of critical thought underpinning science fiction studies, such as posthumanism and transhumanism, in order to build upon existing critical knowledge and further understanding of and engagement with contemporary critical discourse.
Check DetailsENG2113 Pragmatics and Discourse Analysis
语用学与话语分析
This course aims to develop an awareness of how meaning is related to linguistic form and how it is conveyed in context, and to equip students with the discourse-analytic tools and skills for studying how language, both spoken and written, enacts social and cultural perspectives and identities.
Check DetailsENG2053 Professional and Technical Writing
专业英文与实用英文写作
This course focuses on how to write persuasively and skilfully, and at the same time how to evaluate and productively revise and edit written work. This course is an intensive, practical examination of ways to write powerful, audience-driven documents in a variety of business, professional, and technical contexts. Students will also learn how to make effective presentations supported with appropriate documentary and visual aids.
Check DetailsTESL4083 Research Skills in Language Studies and TESOL
语言研习与英语教学研究技巧
This course aims to (1) prepare students to undertake research in a language classroom or to more formally study some language-teaching/language-learning practices; (2) develop the basic research skills in data-gathering and data analysis; and (3) develop students’ ability to read applied linguistic research critically.
Check DetailsENG4133 Research Skills in Literary Studies
文学研习研究技巧
The course seeks to guide students of literature in English in the development of the skills needed to conduct research in literary studies. Students will be given the opportunity to adapt these strategies and tools to diverse modes of verbal and written communication. Students will further be engaged in scholarly conversations on research in literary studies and on several inter-connected areas including critical theory, literary interpretation, research methods, and analytical writing. The course presents a solid preparation for those who are about to undertake a final year project and for those students wishing, as well, to pursue post-graduate study in a variety of disciplines and/ to enhance their appreciation of research as a life long endeavour.
Check DetailsENG3243 Research Writing
研究与写作
This course will offer students the opportunity to learn and apply research skills to a real-world problem or challenge culminating in the production of a piece of research conforming to rigorous academic and professional standards. The focus of this course is on developing writing and research skills simultaneously, allowing students to expand critical thinking while engaging in writing tasks.
Check DetailsENG3043 Rhetoric, Argumentation and Debate
修辞与辩论
This course focuses on developing academic and professional writing skills through intensive reading, discussion, and writing tasks. Students will write in various modes, developing an awareness of style, diction, and voice in their writing. They will learn how to write persuasively and skilfully, and at the same time how to evaluate and productively revise and edit written work.
Check DetailsGCCH1023 Selected Themes in Chinese History and Civilisation
中国历史与文明专题
This course aims to provide students with (1) knowledge on the various aspects of China’s unique cultural qualities and achievements from past to present; (2) a rich vocabulary for them to be able to illustrate the historical eras of Chinese civilization; (3) the ability to critically analyse various cultural phenomena by looking at a wide spectrum of traditional Chinese ways of life; and (4) the awareness, interests and curiosities in Chinese history and civilization from a cultural perspective.
Check DetailsGCNU1003 Speaking of Statistics
统计漫谈
This course provides students with an understanding of fundamental statistical techniques commonly used in social science, business, and science today. The emphasis is on statistical thinking, concepts and data analysis. Students are required to solve a variety of problems using statistical packages.
Check DetailsENG2043 Speech and Oral Communications
演讲与口语交际
This course focuses on basic oral communication theory, problems of listening, interviewing, speech evaluation, and developing poise and confidence. Students will learn effective oral communication skills in a variety of speaking situations, such as in small groups and in front of a public audience. At the same time, they will develop argumentative skills by forming and evaluating persuasive speeches. The course also focuses on the principles of effective listening skills in a variety of speaking situations in and out of the classroom.
Check DetailsENG2093 The Short Story
短篇小说
The short story offers a basic introduction to this important genre of literature. Students focus on the critical evaluation of representative short stories by diverse authors from around the world. In doing so, students will be encouraged to identify and articulate currents of thought in the texts they encounter, to explore the manner of the expression, and to make comparisons where appropriate. The course will proceed chronologically and examine precursors of short fiction and then the development of modern and postmodern writing.
Check DetailsENG3063 Travel Writing and the Language of Tourism
游记与旅游用语
This course will examine the profound relationship between language and the experiences of travel: how travel narratives create, reinforce and challenge the “truths” about places, peoples and cultures. Besides being introduced to different types of travel writing and the scope of politics in representation, students will examine the language used within tourism industries. They will discover the different ways of and reasons for writing about a journey. Students will also take a few short trips to the Zhuhai and Guangdong area in order to experience an ethnic neighbourhood or a cultural milieu that is not familiar to them. Through short travel narratives, students will also practise the skills in story-telling and narration that are necessary to convey adventure and sensory impressions while expressing a well-informed respect for the subject of their stories.
Check DetailsGCCH1003 University Chinese
大学国文
This course aims to (1) help students to master advanced knowledge and skills in Chinese listening, speaking, reading and writing; (2) teach some of the advanced features of Chinese literature, and the interrelationship between literature, society and culture in ancient and contemporary China, and (3) develop students’ ability to analyse, evaluate and appreciate literary writings.
Check DetailsENG3003 World Literature in English
世界英语文学
This course provides an overview of world literature in English, touching on major themes, texts, and contexts. Students will read widely and gain perspectives on the diverse field of world literature in English. Through writing tasks, students will also be asked to reflect on the literature they have read as well as explore various ways of interpreting literary texts. This course will place particular emphasis on the relationship between literature, the colonial past, and the postcolonial present.
Check DetailsENG3193 Writing for New Media
新媒体写作
This course focuses on composing new media works using established web-based technologies. Students will build on the writing skills they have developed in Professional and Technical Writing to produce polished non-fiction works that communicate effectively online with public audiences.
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