Curriculum

Major Courses (60 units)
Major Required Courses		30 units
Major Elective Courses		24 units
Honours Project (Compulsory)		6 units

University Core		13 units
General Education		18 units
Free Electives		37 units
	Total	128 units

1. Major Courses (60 units)

　 The Major curriculum is divided between Major Required and Major Elective courses. All students in the Programme must take 30 units of the Major Required courses. Students must take a minimum of 24 units of Major Elective courses according to their own interests. Choice of Major Electives needs to be informed, guided and even constrained so as to avoid a random selection of courses lacking cohesion or rationale. The 6-units Honours Project plays an important part in the Major Programme, affording as it does an opportunity for the exercise of individual initiative and for the development of the ability to synthesize what has been learned in separate courses, including those outside the Major.

Major Required Courses	30 units
	ENGL 1150	English, Creativity, and Cultures	3 units
	ENGL 2005	Introduction to the Study of Language	3 units
	ENGL 2007	Literary and Comparative Studies	3 units
	Either
	ENGL 2006	Language, Culture and Society
	or		3 units
	ENGL 2015	Literature and Culture
	ENGL 2016	Sounds of English Around the World	3 units
	ENGL 2017	Stepping Stones in English Grammar	3 units
	ENGL 2025	The Art of Storytelling	3 units
	ENGL 2026	Argumentation and Persuasion	3 units
	ENGL 2027	Academic and Professional Writing	3 units
	ENGL 3005	Research Skills in English Language and Literature	3 units
	ENGL 4898-9	Honours Project	6 units

Major Elective Courses	24 units
Students must take a total of eight Major Elective Courses, at least four of which should be at 3000 or 4000 level. (If students would like to graduate under a specific concentration, they must complete at least six* electives courses within the chosen concentration, plus two additional electives courses outside the student’s chosen concentration.)*Remark: Concentrations completed within the Department curriculum do not appear on the transcript.
1	Language and Communication Studies Concentration
	Students in this Concentration choose 6 courses from the following, plus 2 other courses from outside the concentration:
	ENGL 2095	Foundations of Language Studies	3 units
	ENGL 3007	Discourse Studies	3 units
	ENGL 3026	Special Topic in Language	3 units
	ENGL 3027	Special Topic in Linguistic Theory	3 units
	ENGL 3107	Acquiring and Learning a Language	3 units
	ENGL 3205	Components of a Word	3 units
	ENGL 3206	Critical Discourse Analysis	3 units
	ENGL 3207	Language and Intercultural Communication	3 units
	ENGL 3305	Studying Meaning	3 units
	ENGL 3306	Understanding Phonological Patterns	3 units
	ENGL 3307	Architecture of Grammar	3 units
	ENGL 4006	Advanced Topic in Language	3 units
	ENGL 4007	Advanced Topic in Linguistic Theory	3 units
	ENGL 4017	Advanced Seminar in Language and Gender	3 units
	ENGL 4025	Analyzing Multimodal Communication	3 units
	ENGL 4026	Exploring Intercultural Communication Through Films and Literature	3 units
	ENGL 4027	Exploring Bilingualism and Bilingual Education	3 units
	ENGL 4035	Functional Grammar	3 units
	ENGL 4036	Language, Communication and Advertising	3 units
	ENGL 4037	Language and the Workplace	3 units
	ENGL 4045	Language in Education	3 units
	ENGL 4047	Perspectives on Univeral Themes	3 units
	ENGL 4055	Stories of English	3 units
	ENGL 4056	Theoretical Linguist Meets World	3 units
	ENGL 4057	Unravelling Syntax	3 units
	Third Language (excluding Putonghua)

2.	Literary and Comparative Studies Concentration
	Students in this Concentration choose 6 courses from the following, plus 2 other courses from outside the concentration:
	ENGL 2035	The Short Story	3 units
	ENGL 2036	Pre-Modern Drama	3 units
	ENGL 2076	Poetry	3 units
	ENGL 2077	Critical Approaches to Literature	3 units
	ENGL 2086	Poetry and Poetics	3 units
	ENGL 3025	Faces of Comparative Literature	3 units
	ENGL 3015	Creative Writing	3 units
	ENGL 3036	Chinese-Western Literary Relations	3 units
	ENGL 3037	Creative Writing Workshop	3 units
	ENGL 3045	Great Novels in English	3 units
	ENGL 3046	Literature and the Nobel Prize	3 units
	ENGL 3055	Literature and Film	3 units
	ENGL 3066	Modern and Contemporary Drama	3 units
	ENGL 3096	The Child and Literature	3 units
	ENGL 3105	Twentieth-Century Literature	3 units
	ENGL 3106	Modern and Contemporary Poetry	3 units
	ENGL 4016	American Popular Fiction after 1950	3 units
	ENGL 4046	Hong Kong Stories in English	3 units
	ENGL 4065	Dystopian Fiction	3 units
	ENGL 4066	World Literatures	3 units
	ENGL 4067	Comics and Graphic Novels	3 units
	ENGL 4075	Special Topic in Comparative Literature	3 units
	ENGL 4076	21st Century Fiction	3 units
	ENGL 4077	Detective Fiction	3 units
	ENGL 4085	Special Topic in Literature	3 units
	ENGL 4086	Shakespeare and His Contemporaries	3 units
	ENGL 4087	Special Topic in Critical Theory	3 units
	ENGL 4095	Gender and Literature	3 units
	ENGL 4096	Diaspora Writing in English	3 units
	ENGL 4097	Gothic Literature	3 units
	ENGL 4105	Comparative Drama	3 units
	ENGL 4106	Literary Journalism	3 units
	ENGL 4107	Postcolonial Fiction	3 units

2. GE study schedule for the 2018/19 intake (18 units)

Requirements	Course	2018/19Year 1	2019/20Year 2	2020/21Year 3	2021/22Year 4
University Core	University English I & II	6 units
University Chinese	3 units
Healthy Lifestyle		2 units
The Art of Persuasion		2 units
GE Programme	*Level 1 (9 units)*
History and Civilization	3 units
Values and the Meaning of Life	3 units
Quantitative Reasoning		3 units
*Level 2 (6 units)*
Interdisciplinary Thematic Courses		6 units
*Level 3 (3 units)*
GE Capstone			3 units

2. General Education (38 units) (Applicable to students admitted in or before AY 2017/18 intake)

Students are required to take a suite of GE courses in order to gain a multi-disciplinary learning experience. To foster the intended learning outcomes of the GE Programme, the 38 units required under the Programme are divided into 2 categories, Core Requirements (26 units) and Distribution Requirements (12 units), as in the table below:

Core Requirements		Distribution Requirements
	Units		Units
University English	6	Areas of Learning ^(b)
University Chinese	3	Arts	3
Public Speaking	3	Business	3
Information Management Technology ^(a)	3	Communication/Visual Arts	3
Numeracy ^(a)	3	Science/Chinese Medicine	3
Physical Education ^(a)	2	Social Sciences	3
History and Civilization ^(a)	3	Interdisciplinary ^(c)	3
Values and the Meaning of Life ^(a)	3
University Life	0
Total	26	Total	12

(a)	Each of the above denotes a category in which a list of courses will be available for students’ selection.
(b)	Students will take one course in each of the four areas outside of their own Faculty/ School/ Academy, for a total of 12 units. Students may also take interdisciplinary courses to fulfill the Distribution Requirements.
(c)	Interdisciplinary courses will be listed for two (or more) areas of learning (i.e. with two course codes starting with GDXX18XX or GDXX19XX). Students have to decide which area (outside of their own Faculty/ School/ Academy) they would like the course to fulfill.