Course offerings and time-table (2012-13)

1. Course offerings

First Semester

Introductory Courses:

List A: Historical and theoretical foundations

• ENGL1011 An introduction to the study of meaning
• ENGL1025 Understanding Narratives
• LCOM1003 Theorizing communication

List B: Critical reading, analysis and writing

• ENGL1027 Analyzing discourse
• ENGL1032 'High' and 'low' literature
• ENGL1033 Intercultural communication
• ENGL1034 Language and prejudice
• ENGL1041 Subjectivity in literature

Advanced Courses:

• ENGL2004 English syntax
• ENGL2007 Literary linguistics
• ENGL2022 Women, feminism and writing I
• ENGL2035 Reading poetry
• ENGL2039 Gender and discourse
• ENGL2048 Language and jargon
• ENGL2055 American Gothic: Haunted homes
• ENGL2075 The idea of China
• ENGL2076 Romanticism
• ENGL2079 Shakespeare
• ENGL2085 Creative writing I
• ENGL2095 The East: Asia in English writing
• ENGL2115 Theories of language acquisition I
• ENGL2126 Law, meaning, and interpretation
• ENGL3033 Research seminar in English studies
• ENGL3034 Research seminar in English literary studies
• ENGL3036 Research seminar in English linguistics
• LCOM2001 Theories of language and communication
• LCOM2007 Visual communication

Common Core Course:

• CCHU9028 Happy Endings: How a Text Ends

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Second Semester

Introductory Courses:

List A: Historical and theoretical foundations

• ENGL1015 Introduction to English linguistics
• ENGL1024 Topics in world literature
• LCOM1002 Language, communication, society, field

List B: Critical reading, analysis and writing

• ENGL1029 Drama: Comedy and renewal
• ENGL1030 Dramatic changes: Versions of Renaissance literature
• ENGL1035 Language crimes
• ENGL1036 Meaning and metaphor
• ENGL1039 Realism and representation

Advanced Courses:

• ENGL2002 Language in society
• ENGL2011 English novel II
• ENGL2078 The novel today
• ENGL2097 Imagining Hong Kong
• ENGL2099 Language, identity, and Asian Americans
• ENGL2101 Culture and society
• ENGL2117 English phonology and morphology
• ENGL2119 English in Hong Kong: Making it your own
• ENGL2125 English construction grammar
• ENGL2127 Legal discourse and the mind
• ENGL2128 Modernism
• ENGL2130 Signs, language and meaning: Integrational reflections
• ENGL2137 The profession of playwright in early modern England
• ENGL2138 Language and globalization
• ENGL3034 Research seminar in English literary studies
• ENGL3036 Research seminar in English linguistics
• LCOM2002 Language in the workplace
• LCOM3001 Cultural dimensions of language and communication
• LCOM3004 Language and communication field trip

Common Core Course:

• CCGL9038 English as a Global Language in Asian Contexts
• CCHU9016 The British Empire in Text and Image
CCHU9033 Literature and the Environment

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Summer Semester

Introductory Courses:

List B: Critical reading, analysis and writing

• ENGL1043 An Introduction to 20th-century English Poetry

 

 

2. Time-table

First Semester (updated as of October 14, 2012)
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Second Semester (updated as of January 28, 2013)
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