Programmes

Course Categories


Given the flexibility of course options in our undergraduate programme, students might wish to consider the following categories when deciding on courses.


Elective Courses that provide a firm foundation in canonical English Literary Studies

These are courses that provide a firm grounding in canonical literary studies. A concentration of these courses would especially important for students who might pursue postgraduate studies.

ENGE2130 (How to Read) Masterpieces of Literature
ENGE2310 Modern and Contemporary Drama
ENGE2370 From Romanticism to Modernism
ENGE2380 Twentieth-Century Fiction
ENGE2390 Reading Poetry
ENGE2640 Introduction to World Literature in English
ENGE2650 From the Renaissance to Enlightenment
ENGE3110 Romanticism
ENGE3120 Modernism
ENGE3500 Shakespeare
ENGE4100 Major Author(s)
ENGE4110 Love, Death, and God in English Renaissance Poetry
ENGE4120 Reading Paradise Lost
ENGE4130 Issues in Literary Criticism
ENGE4140 Topics in East/West Comparative Literature
ENGE4150 Reading Dante’s Inferno


Elective Courses aligned with contemporary trends in English Literary Studies

These are courses that reflect contemporary trends in literary studies with emphases on various topics.

ENGE1800 Drama in Performance I
ENGE1900 Heroes and Monsters: From Gilgamesh to Game of Thrones
ENGE2110 Crime Fiction
ENGE2120 Literature and Human Rights
ENGE2140 Superheroes in Graphic Novel, Comics and Film
ENGE2150 Nineteenth-Century Novels on screen
ENGE2160 American Popular Song Lyric
ENGE2170 Literature & Medicine
ENGE2190 Gods Behaving Badly: Myths and Legends from Around the World
ENGE2210 Song and Poetry: The Literature of Song and Song-Writing
ENGE2220 Existentialism and Literature
ENGE2360 Children’s Literature
ENGE2700 Drama in Performance II
ENGE2960 The World in English: an Oxford Summer Programme
ENGE3200 Literature and Art
ENGE3220 Literature and Film
ENGE3230 Gender and Literature
ENGE3250 Other Literatures in English
ENGE3260 Creative Writing
ENGE3270 Literature and Education
ENGE3280 Writing a Life Between Languages
ENGE3290 Reading and Writing Short Stories
ENGE3300 Writing for the Stage
ENGE3310 Writing for the Screen
ENGE3320 Hong Kong Literature in English
ENGE3350 Literature and Politics
ENGE3360 Special Topics in Creative Writing
ENGE3370 Writing Hong Kong
ENGE3380 The Contemporary African Novel
ENGE3390 The London Novel
ENGE3400 Introduction to Computational Literary Studies
ENGE3410 Ekphrasis: Encounters between Verbal and Visual Arts
ENGE4200 Advanced Creative Writing Workshop
ENGE4240 Special Topics in Literature
ENGE4510 Shakespeare Festival


Elective Courses that provide a firm foundation in the field of Applied English Linguistics

These are courses that reflect important specialties in the field of Applied English Linguistics. They are important pathways for students who might pursue postgraduate studies.

ENGE1520 Grammatical Structure of English
ENGE2510 English Phonetics and Phonology
ENGE2600 World Englishes and Their Cultures
ENGE2620 Acquisition of English as a Second Language
ENGE2720 Pedagogical Grammar of English
ENGE2820 English Semantics and Pragmatics
ENGE2840 Lexical Studies in English
ENGE3600 Contrastive Linguistics
ENGE3610 Psycholinguistics
ENGE3680 History of the English Language
ENGE3770 Bilingualism: Cognition and Society
ENGE3850 Acquisition of English Phonology
ENGE4610 Educational Linguistics


Elective Courses aligned with contemporary trends in Applied English Linguistics

These are courses that are more topic-based and/or are aligned with various professional specialties.

ENGE2180 Intercultural Communication and Engagement Abroad
ENGE2520 Environmental Writing
ENGE2530 Hong Kong English and its Culture
ENGE2540 Forensic Linguistics: Language as Evidence in Legal Processes
ENGE2630 Language and Society
ENGE2710 Language and Intercultural Communication
ENGE3640 English Language Teaching and Learning
ENGE3670 Language, Meaning, and Text
ENGE3690 Gender and Language
ENGE3760 Lenses into Language: Variation and Change
ENGE3800 Reading in English as a second language
ENGE3950 AI and its application
ENGE3970 Language and the Internet
ENGE3980 Data Science and Statistical Approaches to Analyzing English Data
ENGE3990 Language, Text, and Computation
ENGE4600 Linguistic Landscape: People, Place, and the City
ENGE4620 Critical Discourse Analysis
ENGE4650 Special Topics in Applied Linguistics