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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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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.
Check DetailsTESL3003 Bilingualism and Bilingual Education
双语与双语教育
This course aims to explore the co-existence of languages in society; study the relation of bilingualism to cognitive development and cognitive style; deal with the social-psychological implications of bilingualism; understand the issues of medium of instruction, code-mixing and code-switching.
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评估与评价
This course aims to help students understand the general principles of language assessment and evaluation; help them understand different types of language tests and a variety of test questions; help them understand recent developments in language testing techniques and scoring systems; help them learn some basic skills of preparing language assessment.
Check DetailsTESL3073 Genre and Multiliteracies
语类与多元读写能力
This course aims to: (1) introduce a functional linguistics approach to the analysis of a range of written and multimodal texts; (2) develop the knowledge and ability to construct effective academic texts; (3) explore the principles and practice of the genre-based approach to writing instruction; and (4) develop purposeful scaffolding techniques using a range of linguistic and multimodal resources.
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学生写作的错误分析与反馈
This course aims to develop: an understanding of the types of errors and level of errors that Chinese EFL learners produce; an awareness of some common lexico-grammatical errors produced by Chinese EFL learners; and the skills for identifying and correcting common lexico-grammatical errors produced by Chinese EFL learners.
Check DetailsTESL4013 English for Specific Purposes
英语作为特别用途
This course introduces the principles, considerations and practices. It aims to help students understand the characteristics and variations of language use in professional settings; help them master the skills of identifying the learners’ special needs; familiarise them with the use of computer concordances in language analysis and materials development for ESP.
Check DetailsTESL4043 Computer Assisted Language Learning
电子化语言学习
This course aims to: (1) explore the role of Computer Assisted Language Learning (CALL) in language teaching and learning; (2) equip students with the necessary skills and knowledge to integrate the CALL component into the curriculum.
Check DetailsTESL4063 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.
Check DetailsPOLS1003 Foundations of Political Science
政治学导论
This is a first year, first semester course which introduces to students a comprehensive review of the field of political science. Basic concepts, political theories and methodologies, political institutions, political parties are all examined. The subfields of comparative politics and international relations are also integral parts of this course so as to lay down the foundation for further studies. Political developments in Europe, America and Asia are frequently employed as examples to the introduction of political ideas.
Check DetailsPOLS1013 Foundations of World Geography
世界地理导论
This course intends to familiarize Year 1 GIR students with basic concepts of world geography - and in particular human geography - which are essential for them to better make sense of the transnational socio-political and economic dynamics assessed in Year 2-Year 4 major courses. The course will introduce students to contemporary geography with particular focus on population, migration, linguistic and religious identities, nations, states, socio-economic development.
Check DetailsPOLS2013 Foundations of International Relations
国际关系学导论
This is a second-year, first-semester course which introduces students to the basic concepts, methods and processes of International Relations by focusing on four major “perspectives” that have framed analytical work in the field, namely “Realism-Power Politics”, “Dominance-Dependence”, Transnationalism-Interdependency” and “Cultural Interactionism”. International Relations seek to build upon and integrate the disciplinary foundations students obtained in their first-year Political Science and Political Economy subjects.
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政治经济学导论
Political economy, with its roots in the European 17th and 18th centuries, was the forebear of what developed in the twentieth century into the two separate disciplines of political science and economics. However, it has become defined in the last twenty years as that sub-discipline of political science and economics which examines the relationship of the individual to society, the economy, and the state with a particular focus on state-market interactions and intersections. It is the study of relations and choices, of structures and institutions, of scales from the personal and local to the national, international, and global. Its originators include John Locke, Thomas Hobbes, Adam Smith, Karl Marx, and Max Weber. Including choice theory and market theory, system theory, development theory and public policy theory, contemporary political economy examines the historic and human behavioural linkages among values/morals, politics, economic reality and economic reasoning. Its prime question concerns the role of politics in the economy and the effects and constraints of the economy on the power and functions of politics and of the state.
Check DetailsPOLS2033 Introduction to Research Methods
研究方法导论
This course is designed to enhance students’ ability to perceive, evaluate and understand political and social phenomena through a systematic introduction to a wide range of approaches, methods and theories of political science. Basic research procedures and academic writing are the other foci of the course. Students are encouraged to analyse and explain the current political development of Europe, America, Asia and other regions with the help of particular perspectives and research methods.
Check DetailsPOLS3013 China and the World
中国与世界
This course is designed to provide Government and International Studies majors with knowledge of Chinese foreign policies during the Cold War and Post-Cold War era. Being a socialist country with a strong nationalistic posture, how China situates herself in the world arena, and shifts her foreign policies from pro-Soviet stance (1950s) to isolation (1960s) then opening up to the West (1970s), will be thoroughly examined. The efforts of constructing a “Chinese Theory of International Relations” by the Chinese policy analysts will also be studied.
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