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324Course DescriptionsENG 3440 Literature and the Nobel Prize (3,3,0) (E)Prerequisite: ENG 1110 Introduction to the Study of Literatureor ENG 1130 Literary Appreciation or ENG1160 Narrative Art or ENG 2320 Literary WorldMasterpiecesThe course will focus on specific Nobel Prize winning literaryworks (poetry, drama, and/or fiction in English or in Englishtranslation). Literary works studied will also recognize the varietyand scope of Nobel laureate writing in different genres and acrossdifferent national or regional literary traditions.ENG 3450 Language and Gender (3,3,0) (E)This course introduces a range of current issues in the academicfield of language and gender, as well as different approaches toanalyzing the impact of gender in both spoken and written texts.Cultural variation will also be discussed. The emphasis will beon developing students’ awareness and critical thinking of genderin their own experience of language use and learning. Besidesworking on assigned materials, students will be asked to collectand analyse their own examples, using the theoretical frameworksacquired in the course.ENG 3591-2 Honours Project (3,0,3)Under the guidance of an adviser, the student will: identify asuitable research or creative topic; find research materials; narrowthe topic; read, evaluate, and interpret materials; write, edit, andpolish, and, finally, document and present the work. Creativeprojects will include a manuscript of fiction, poetry, or drama aswell as an introductory essay reflecting a scholarly understandingof the manuscript. This course is open to Year III majors inEnglish Language and Literature only.ENG 3610* Bilingualism and Bilingual (3,3,0) (E)EducationPrerequisite: ENG 1180 English Grammar and Meaning (forNon-English Majors) or ENG 1190 Introduction tothe Study of LanguageThis course takes an interdisciplinary approach to bilingualismas a social issue and as a phenomenon of individual languageuse. The course will give special attention to the managementof English as an international (foreign) and second language,including bilingual education. Bilingualism in relation to thebilingual person’s thought processes and education will also bediscussed.ENG 3640 Special Topic in Linguistics (3,3,0) (E)Prerequisite: ENG 1180 English Grammar and Meaning (forNon-English Majors), or ENG 1190 Introductionto the Study of Language and any others whichthe lecturer may designate as appropriate for theparticular topic being offeredAn in-depth study of selected themes and issues in sociolinguisticsand/or discourse studies. The selected topic may varyfrom semester to semester.ENG 3650 Special Topic in Language Studies (3,3,0) (E)Prerequisite: ENG 1180 English Grammar and Meaning (forNon-English Majors), or ENG 1190 Introductionto the Study of Language and any others whichthe lecturer may designate as appropriate for theparticular topic being offeredAn in-depth study of selected themes and issues in languagestudies. The course will allow students to study in depth aparticular theoretical framework or issue in language studies. Theselected topic may vary from semester to semester, with a focuseither on a theory/framework or on a language issue.ENG 3660 Language and Education (3,3,0) (E)Prerequisite: ENG 1180 English Grammar and Meaning (forNon-English Majors) or ENG 1190 Introduction tothe Study of LanguageThis course opens with an examination of the language aspects ofthe home to school transition. It assesses the range of discoursetypes and genres which may typically have been acquired byyoung children, such as conversation, dispute, narrative andstories. It covers issues in cultural and subcultural variations inhome-language environments and the implications for children’sdevelopment: the acquisition of literacy; entry into school androle of language in organizing school life; the conduct of lessons;the relation to learning; constitution of educational texts; andother materials. Focusing on Hong Kong issues, problemsrelative to the medium of instruction, language proficiency andschool effectiveness are addressed. The course concludes withan overview of basic policies on language in education, theirevolution and implications.ENG 3670 Discovering Grammars (3,3,0)Prerequisite: ENG 1180 English Grammar and Meaning (forNon-English Majors) or ENG 1190 Introduction tothe Study of Language; and ENG 2650 Topics inEnglish GrammarThis course introduces students to the current theories ofgrammar and to contemporary research on formal syntax. As ithas been developed in recent years, formal syntax is a theory ofthe knowledge of language, not of its use. Its concern is with thelanguage faculty, that is, the internal structure of the human mind.Knowledge of language is perceived as working according touniversal principles and according to parametric variation acrosslanguages. This course will help students familiarize with theexplanatory aims of syntactic theorizing.ENG 3680 Discourse Analysis (3,3,0) (E)This course examines conversations from various perspectives,including conversational analysis, ethnography of communicationand critical discourse analysis. Selected types of English discoursewill be analysed according to the system constraints and the ritualconstraints of communication, and according to the role of scriptsin discourse.ENG 3710 Single Author Forum: Prose (3,3,0)FictionPrerequisite: Any one Literature-in-Depth courseThis course will focus on a single prominent fiction writer,presenting the work in the author’s biographical, historical, andcritical contexts. Readings will include a representative selectionof the author’s works plus secondary critical and historicalmaterials as appropriate to the author chosen.ENG 3720 Single Author Forum: Poetry (3,3,0)Prerequisite: ENG 1110 Introduction to the Study of LiteratureThis course will focus on a single prominent poet, presenting thework in the author’s biographical, historical, and critical contexts.Readings will include poems written over the span of the poet’scareer plus secondary critical and other relevant materials.ENG 3730 Single Author Forum: Drama (3,3,0)Prerequisite: ENG 1110 Introduction to the Study of LiteratureThe course explores the work of a single author, placing thework in the playwright’s political, social and theoretical contexts.While the emphasis is on the dramatic canon of the dramatist inquestion, due cognizance will be taken of influences and parallelsin other genres and in the writings of other authors. The notionof the play as stage performance is important to the study of thiscourse, and the course involves some practical theatrical work.Students will be encouraged to draw and discuss comparisonsbetween texts, ideas and performance approaches. Readings willinclude representative plays plus secondary critical and otherrelevant materials.ENG 3740 Functional Approaches to (3,3,0)GrammarPrerequisite: ENG 1150 English Grammar and MeaningThis course introduces ideas and argumentations concerning thesemantic and pragmatic correlates of morpho-syntactic structures.Aspects of propositional semantics and discourse coherence arein focus which are felt to be problematic and therefore interestingto Hong Kong students who have to manage discourse in English.These aspects are: grammatical relations in argument structures,
clause structures of the English language resulting from differentclasses of complement-taking verbs, the shapes of the noun phraseas resulting from information states, and the factors influencingthe finiteness of the verb.ENG 3750 Special Topic in Comparative (3,3,0) (E)LiteraturePrerequisite: ENG 1110 Introduction to the Study of Literatureor others as may be required depending upon thetopic offeredThe selected topic will be determined by the individual instructor,and will focus on a disciplinary or interdisciplinary concernrelevant to the study of comparative literature, e.g. Homosexualityin Literature, Western Influence and Modern Chinese Poetics, andother topics related to comparative literary study.ENG 3760 The Child and Literature (3,3,0)Prerequisite: ENG 1110 Introduction to the Study of LiteratureThis course seeks to examine a wide variety of literature forand about children. It hopes to encourage students to identifyand articulate currents of thought in the texts they encounter, toexplore the manner of the expression, and to make comparisonswhere appropriate. Finally, and to a limited degree, the coursealso endeavours to locate its study within an educational context,regarding literature not only as literature but as a medium ofinstruction as well.ENG 3770 Literature and Film (3,3,0) (E)Prerequisite: ENG 1110 Introduction to the Study of LiteratureThis course will allow students to examine critically the process ofstorytelling across different media. Emphasis will be put on theroles played by the narrator and the camera in shaping readers’/audience’s understanding. It will explore the inter-relationshipbetween literature and film, and examine how the word and theimage (re)present reality.ENG 3780 Great Novels in English (3,3,0)Prerequisite: ENG 1110 Introduction to the Study of Literatureor ENG 1130 Literary Appreciation or ENG 1160Narrative ArtThis course involves close analysis of selected novels in theEnglish language, and considers the historical, social, politicaland/or philosophical contexts of the novels studied. Thedevelopment of the novel is introduced and narrative techniquesand theories considered.ENG 3820 Chinese-Western Literary (3,3,0) (E)RelationsPrerequisite: ENG 2820 Comparative Literature: Theory andMethodologyThis course provides a synoptic view of literature from a worldperspective. The course will explore European and Chinesewriters of several centuries. Their works will be analysed in termsof literary influence, borrowings, and adaptations. The coursewill also address the international appeal and significance of thereadings.ENG 3830 Literature and Translation (3,3,0)Prerequisite: ENG 1110 Introduction to the Study of Literatureand ENG 1190 Introduction to the Study ofLanguageThe course focuses on the inter-relationship between literatureand translation. Using literary texts in English and Chinese, thecourse addresses the differences between the two languages, thedifferences between the Chinese and Anglo-American cultures,and the role translation plays in cross-cultural studies. Readingswill include poetry, drama, and fiction as well as critical essays.ENG 3850 Special Topic in Literature (3,3,0) (E)Prerequisite: ENG 1110 Introduction to the Study of Literatureor others as may be required depending upon thenature of the course offeredThis course provides senior students with an opportunity to studyand discuss selected topics of an advanced nature in literaryand critical studies. The selected topic will be determined bythe individual instructor and will focus on a disciplinary orinterdisciplinary concern relevant to the study of literature, e.g.literature and art, new literatures in English, Asian Americanliterature, postmodernism, and other issues related to literarystudy.ENG 3860 Styles and Structures (3,3,0)Prerequisite: ENG 1110 Introduction to the Study of Literature;or ENG 1180 English Grammar and Meaning (forNon-English Majors) or ENG 1190 Introduction tothe Study of LanguageThis course introduces students to theories and features of stylesand structures of literary and non-literary texts characteristicof the English language in various periods. Selected textsrepresentative of past and contemporary writers will be analysedfrom the perspective of style, structure and meaning.ENG 3870 American Literature (3,3,0)Prerequisite: ENG 1110 Introduction to the Study of LiteratureThis course aims to familiarize students with the historicalcauses of American literature, its major movements and specificqualities. The course concentrates on literature of the Americasand how it reflects American historical, geographical and culturalcircumstances. It conveys the changes in thought and concernsof Americans through reading works of various periods andexplores the changing ideological context of American writingand the emergence of new voices. It also seeks to developsome appreciation of the quality of American literature and itsinnovations.ENG 3920 Twentieth-Century Literature (3,3,0) (E)Prerequisite: ENG 1110 Introduction to the Study of Literatureor ENG 1130 Literary Appreciation or ENG 1160Narrative ArtThe course provides students with the opportunity to exploresignificant 20th-century works of fiction, including novels and/or collections of short stories. Students will be encouragedto consider literary works in context—in relation to a givenauthor’s wider canon and with regard to the work of his orher contemporaries. Particular emphasis will be placed on thepolitical, social and theoretical underpinnings of texts underconsideration, and students will be invited to draw comparisonsbetween the content and contexts of such texts.ENG 3930 Twentieth-Century Poetry (3,3,0)Prerequisite: ENG 1110 Introduction to the Study of LiteratureThis course introduces students to the new styles, courses andpoetic imperatives that emerged in the 20th century. The courseconsiders poets both as individual talents and as participants inpoetic schools and movements. Selections may include Englishlanguage poetry written anywhere in the world as well as somepoetry in translation.ENG 3940 Shakespeare and His (3,3,0)ContemporariesPrerequisite: ENG 1110 Introduction to the Study of LiteratureThe course focuses on selected Elizabethan and Jacobean plays,and examines the evolution of ideas and writing in Shakespeare’sage. Emphasis is placed on the theoretical, political and socialbackground to practical movements in dramatic and other writing.The notion of the play as stage performance is important to thestudy of this course. It should be noted that while the focus ofthis course is likely to be theatre, due cognizance will be taken ofother genres.ENG 3950 Creative Writing Workshop (3,3,0) (E)Prerequisite: ENG 2720 Creative WritingThe course continues the work initiated in ENG 2720 CreativeWriting. The major emphasis is on the workshop sessions inwhich students will discuss and write their own short stories,poems and plays. Students can choose to write on one or morethan one genre. Through creative writing—a sincere expression325Course Descriptions
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