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Course List and Course Description

Major Required Courses

ENGL1005English, Creativity, and Cultures
ENGL2005Introduction to the Study of Language
ENGL2006Language, Culture and Society
ENGL2007Literary and Comparative Studies
ENGL2015Literature and Culture
ENGL2016Sounds of English Around the World
ENGL2017Stepping Stones in English Grammar
ENGL2025The Art of Storytelling
ENGL2026Argumentation and Persuasion (to be replaced by ENGL2097 effective Semester 2)
ENGL2027Academic and Professional Writing
ENGL2097Virtual Storytelling: Narration across Dimensions
ENGL3005Research Skills in English Language and Literature
ENGL4898 and ENGL4899Honours Project

Major Elective Courses

Language and Communication Studies

ENGL3007Discourse Studies
ENGL3026Special Topic in Language
ENGL3027Special Topic in Linguistic Theory
ENGL3107Acquiring and Learning a Language
ENGL3115 Studying Hong Kong through the Lens of Language
ENGL3205Components of a Word
ENGL3206Critical Discourse Analysis
ENGL3207Language and Intercultural Communication
ENGL3305Studying Meaning
ENGL3306Understanding Phonological Patterns
ENGL3307Architecture of Grammar
ENGL3315Linguistics and Literary Portrayals of Hong Kong in English
ENGL3316Literary and Linguistics Codes in Hong Kong Society
ENGL3317Sociolinguistic and Cultural Immersion in Hong Kong Language and Literature
ENGL3415Foundations of Language Studies
ENGL3416Internship in English Studies: From Classroom to Workplace
ENGL4006Advanced Topic in Language
ENGL4007Advanced Topic in Linguistic Theory
ENGL4017Advanced Seminar in Language and Gender
ENGL4025Analyzing Multimodal Communication
ENGL4026Exploring Intercultural Communication Through Films and Literature
ENGL4027Exploring Bilingualism and Bilingual Education
ENGL4035 Functional Grammar
ENGL4036 Language, Communication and Advertising
ENGL4037 Language and the Workplace
ENGL4045 Language in Education
ENGL4047Perspectives on Universal Themes
ENGL4055Stories of English
ENGL4056 Theoretical Linguist Meets World
ENGL4057 Unravelling Syntax
ENGL4115 Tone in Human Languages
ENGL4116 Language and Power
Third Language (excluding Putonghua)

Literary and Comparative Studies

ENGL2105 Internship in English Studies: From Classroom to Workplace
ENGL3015 Creative Writing
ENGL3025 Faces of Comparative Literature
ENGL3036 Chinese-Western Literary Relations
ENGL3037 Creative Writing Workshop
ENGL3045 Great Novels in English
ENGL3046 Literature and the Nobel Prize
ENGL3055 Literature and Film
ENGL3066 Modern and Contemporary Drama
ENGL3096 The Child and Literature
ENGL3105 Twentieth-Century Literature
ENGL3106 Modern and Contemporary Poetry
ENGL3116 Hong Kong Literature
ENGL3315Linguistics and Literary Portrayals of Hong Kong in English
ENGL3316Literary and Linguistics Codes in Hong Kong Society
ENGL3317Sociolinguistic and Cultural Immersion in Hong Kong Language and Literature
ENGL3405 Shakespeare as Dramatist
ENGL3407 Critical Approaches to Literature
ENGL3417 Poetry and Poetics
ENGL3425 Poetry
ENGL3426 Pre-Modern Drama
ENGL3427 The Short Story
ENGL4016 American Popular Fiction after 1950
ENGL4046 Hong Kong Stories in English
ENGL4065 Dystopian Fiction
ENGL4066 World Literatures
ENGL4067 Comics and Graphic Novels
ENGL4075 Special Topic in Comparative Literature
ENGL4076 21st Century Fiction
ENGL4077 Detective Fiction
ENGL4085 Special Topic in Literature
ENGL4086 Shakespeare and His Contemporaries
ENGL4087 Special Topic in Critical Theory
ENGL4095 Gender and Literature
ENGL4096 Diaspora Writing in English
ENGL4097 Gothic Literature
ENGL4105 Comparative Drama
ENGL4106 Literary Journalism
ENGL4107 Postcolonial Fiction
ENGL4117 The Human History of Amorous Deeds
ENGL4125 Literature and Religion
ENGL4127 Introducing African Literatures