Course List
ENG3153 English Through Media
媒体中的英语
The course aims to : (1) help students improve their English proficiency through media; (2) expose students to different methods of language learning using different types of media; (3) teach students to think critically about various forms of media in English; and (4) teach students to think critically about how media represents language and culture.
Check DetailsENG3203 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.
Check DetailsENG3233 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
Check DetailsENG4123 Editing and Publishing Practicum I
编辑与出版实习 I
The course is devoted to the content-related aspects of the publication process so as to prepare students to take Editing and Publishing Practicum II, which focuses on the production-related aspects of the publication process. Herein, the students will seek out and assess critically works for publications with the objective of designing a publication in Editing and Publishing Practicum II. The students will be asked in the process to produce original literary and/or non-literary works with the aim of understanding the writing and submission processes from the writer, editor, and publisher’s perspectives. Further, the students will demonstrate through a research project their knowledge of the publishing industry, including developments in critical and editorial assessment tools and in publishing standards.
Check DetailsENG2163 British Literature: the Empire and the Crisis of Identity
英国文学：帝国与认同 危机
This course provides an overview of British literature, touching on major themes, texts, and contexts. Students will read widely and gain perspectives on the cultural history of Britain. 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. Instructors must cover areas from the recommended readings below.
Check DetailsENG2173 American Literature: Traditions of Democracy and Dissent
美国文学：民主与异议的传统
This course provides an overview of American literature, touching on major themes, texts, and contexts. Students will read widely and gain perspectives on the cultural history of America. Through writing tasks, students will also be asked to reflect on the literature they have read as well as explore the various ways of interpreting literary texts. Instructors should cover areas from the recommended readings below.
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 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 DetailsENG3163 Dramatic Words: Theatre and Performance
戏剧语言：剧场与表演
This course will require students to read, analyse, and perform dramatic works in English. The course will build on students’ previous knowledge of dramatic form and performance techniques, to advance knowledge by analysing major genres and generic conventions within the discipline, such as comedy, tragedy, realism, theatre of the absurd, etc., in order to further enhance and strengthen students’ drama education and understanding. The course will examine significant classical and contemporary works from key Western dramatists, comparatively read via a particular generic frame. It will explore theories and styles of drama and place the specific readings in their social, political, and theoretical contexts. At the same time, it will develop understanding of creative processes and performance techniques associated with the production of plays.
Check DetailsENG3173 Contemporary Literary Theory and Criticism
当代文学理论与批评
This course will introduce students to some of the principal approaches to literary interpretation and critical theory. Students will be expected to read short selections of theoretical texts, and to investigate the application of critical approaches to literature. One aim of the course will be to provoke students to engage with diverse schools of critical theory from the biographical, comparative, and psychoanalytic to Marxist, gender critical, and postcolonial theories. Students will respond to weekly writing prompts on the critical theories and/ or literatures with the objective of producing reflective, interpretative, creative, and argumentative pieces.
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 DetailsENG2183 English Phonetics and Phonology
英语语音学与音系学
This course aims to introduce students to basic concepts in phonetics and phonology, and the sounds and sound system of English; develop students’ recognition and production of the sounds of various English dialects; and develop their ability to analyse phonological phenomena and phonological structure.
Check DetailsTESL2003 First and Second Language Acquisition
母语与第二语言的习得
This course aims to introduce students to central issues in language acquisition; help them to understand the processes of language acquisition and foster their ability to conduct a meaningful project which relates to language acquisition.
Check DetailsTESL3033 Curriculum Development and Materials Design
课程编制发展与材料分析
This course aims to (1) help students understand the concepts of development, process, change and evaluation in curriculum and materials design, with particular reference to ELT; (2) help them explore the factors affecting curriculum development and their impact on materials design; and (3) help them explore the role of the teacher in curriculum development.
Check DetailsTESL3063 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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