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Programme
Syllabus
Second
and Third Year
Students declaring a major in Language and Communication
must, as a co-requisite, declare either a second major from
List A or a minor from List B (below)
List A
Chinese
English
French
German
Human Language Technology
Japanese Studies
Linguistics
Linguistics and Philosophy
Media and Cultural Studies
Psychology
Spanish
List
B
Arabic
Italian
Journalism and Media Studies
Korean
Portuguese
Swedish
Thai
The
Major
The major in Language and Communication consists of courses
totaling 48 credits from the following lists, of which 36
credits must be from the 'core' ourses (including the compulsory
course LCOM2001 ) and 12 credits
from the 'elective' courses to be chosen from courses offered
by at least two different departments.
The
Minor
A minor in Language and Communication consists of second-
and third-year courses totaling 24 credits from the Language
and Communication syllabus. LCOM2001
is a compulsory course; for the 12 remaining credits, one
course (6 credits) from the list of core courses has to
be chosen, and one course (6 credits) from the list of electives.
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Core
courses
The following course is compulsory for all students taking
the major:
LCOM2001.
Theories of language and communication (6 credits)
The remaining
30 credits may be selected from the following list:
ENGL2002. Language in society (6 credits)
ENGL2003. The history of English (6 credits)
ENGL2004. English syntax (6 credits)
ENGL2007. Literary linguistics (6 credits)
ENGL2030. World Englishes (6 credits)
ENGL2031. The semantics and pragmatics of English (6 credits)
ENGL2039. Language and gender (6 credits)
ENGL2046. English words (6 credits)
ENGL2047. English discourse structures and strategies (6
credits)
ENGL2048. Language and jargon (6 credits)
ENGL2049. The history of English: sociolinguistic perspectives
(6 credits)
ENGL2050. English corpus linguistics (6 credits)
ENGL2054. Race, language and identity (6 credits)
ENGL2058. Narrative prose: a linguistic investigation (6
credits)
ENGL2062. The history of Western linguistics (6 credits)
ENGL2064. Advanced English Syntax
ENGL2065. Meaning and metaphor (6 credits)
ENGL2066. Orientalism and linguistics (6 credits)
ENGL2069. Form and meaning (6 credits)
ENGL2087. Persuasion (6 credits)
ENGL2094. Cultural approaches to second language varieties
of English (6 credits)
ENGL2099. Language, identity, and Asian Americans (6 credits)
ENGL2100. Language and social interaction (6 credits)
ENGL2103. Language and new media (6 credits)
ENGL2104. Language in the USA (6 credits)
ENGL2112. An introduction to the history of English (6 credits)
ENGL2115. Theories of Language Acquisition I (6 credits)
ENGL2116. Theories of Language Acquisition II (6 credits)
ENGL2117. English phonology and morphology (6 credits)
ENGL2119. English in Hong Kong: making it your own (6 credits)
ENGL2123. Language and Identity in Hong Kong (6 credits)
ENGL2124. Language and the Law (6 credits)
ENGL3036. Research seminar in English linguistics (6 credits)
ENGL3037. Research seminar in language & society (6
credits)
LCOM2002. Language in the workplace (6 credits)
LCOM2003. Language and politeness (6 credits)
LCOM3003. LCOM Papers: writing for, editing, and producing
an academic e-journal (12 credits)
Electives
Majors must
select courses totaling 12 credits from the following list
of electives, ensuring that the courses selected are from
at least two different departments.
CHIN2138. Chinese
etymology (6 credits)
CHIN2139. Chinese phonology (6 credits)
CHIN2140. Modern Chinese language I (6 credits)
CHIN2143. Modern Chinese language II (6 credits)
CHIN2144. Functional Chinese (6 credits)
CHIN2333. Culture and translation (6 credits)
CHIN2334. Power of speech in written translation (3 credits)
CHIN2337. Journalistic translation (3 credits)
CHIN2340. Film translation workshop (6 credits)
CHIN2341. Translating writings on art (3 credits)
CLIT2005. Literary
and cultural theory (6 credits)
CLIT2007. Film culture I (6 credits)
CLIT2026. Digital culture and new media technologies I (6
credits)
CLIT2064. Hong Kong culture: Popular culture (6 credits)
CLIT2065. Hong Kong culture: Representations of identity
in literature and film (6 credits)
CLIT2072. Deconstruction (6 credits)
CLIT2088. Critical approaches to film studies (6 credits)
EUST2010. European
identity (6 credits)
EUST3013. Linguistics of the European languages (6 credits)
JAPN2016. Comparative
linguistics: Cantonese and Japanese I - Comparative phonology
(6 credits)
JAPN2027. Comparative linguistics: Cantonese and Japanese
II - Phonological transfer and pedagogy in foreign language
acquisition (6 credits)
JAPN2030. Japanese business, culture and communication (6
credits)
JAPN3021. Communication and society (6 credits)
LING2002. Conversation analysis (6 credits)
LING2003. Semantics: meaning and grammar (6 credits)
LING2004. Phonetics: describing sounds (6 credits)
LING2009. Languages of the world (6 credits)
LING2011. Language and literacy in the information age (6
credits)
LING2022. Pragmatics (6 credits)
LING2027. Phonology: An introduction to the study of sound
systems (6 credits)
LING2033. Contrastive grammar of English and Chinese (6
credits)
LING2037. Bilingualism (6 credits)
LING2041. Language and information technology (6 credits)
LING2048. Language and cognition (6 credits)
LING2050. Grammatical description (6 credits)
LING2054. Language and social interaction (6 credits)
PHIL2060. Wittgenstein
(6 credits)
PHIL2075. The semantics/pragmatics distinction (6 credits)
PHIL2230. Philosophy and cognitive science (6 credits)
PHIL2460. Philosophical Chinese (6 credits)
PHIL2510. Logic (6 credits)
PHIL2511. Paradoxes (6 credits)
PHIL2610. Philosophy of language (6 credits)
PSYC0038. Psychology
of language and bilingualism (6 credits)
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