The Department of English Language and Literature invites you to explore the exciting learning opportunities offered by the our undergraduate degree: the Bachelor of Arts with Honours in English, which allows you to specialise in one or more of four aspects of English studies - Literature, Linguistics, Translation and Cultural Studies. The Department also offers MPhil and PhD programmes which provide opportunities to conduct research in areas ranging from Shakespearean Studies to Environmnetal Ethics & Culture, Second Langauage Acquisition, Discourse Analysis, Translation Criticism and Gender Studies, among many others.
Starting from 2024 - 2025, the English Department will offer a newly structured programme. The programme will be primarily divided into two streams, Linguistics Stream and Literature Stream. It will take an interdisciplinary approach to the areas related to languages and communication, literary and cultural studies. For more details of our programme objectives and outcomes, click here.
Work Placement (optional):
120 hours per semester.
Types of Work Placement: Editing
For more details, click here.
Career Prospects:
Education, Publishing, Editing, Translation, Marketing and PR, Project and Art Management,
Hotel and Hospitality, Media and Journalism, Administration and Management in private and public sectors
For more details, click here.
Humans have always told stories and literature is the study of these stories. It comes in various formats such as novels, drama, movies, comics and many more. Literature tells stories about all types of people, places and even plants and animals.
We have a number of courses in the literature streams (2024 - 2025 cohort), including:
Women's Writing & Feminist Readings,
Children's Literature, Literature and Film,
Shakespeare and Renaissance Literature
Reading and Writing the Environment
For the list of the courses we offer, click here.
Shakespeare and Adaptations
Dr. Rebekah Bale, Assistant Professor
The Intersection of Humanities and Technology: Exploring the Impact of ChatGPT on Translation Tasks in Hong Kong Universities
Dr. Kacey Liu, Associate Professor
Who do we write children’s literature for?
Dr. Michelle Chan, Assistant Professor
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Can ChatGPT write as rhetorically as humans do? A discourse study of ChatGPT- and human-generated research article abstracts in Applied Linguistics
Dr. Thomas Chan, Assistant Professor
Understanding Play: Exploring Communication and Socialization through Board Game Interactions
Dr. Viggo Cheng, Assistant Professor
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Our Differences in Apologizing
Dr. Jenny Wan, Assistant Professor
The Power of Meaning Making
Dr. Ivy Wong, Assistant Professor
Narrative experimentation and the Exploration of Identity, Displacement, and Temporality
Dr. Maria Chan, Senior Lecturer
Linguistic Analysis of Trauma, Resistance and Rejection of the Status Quo in Fiction and Non-Fiction Discourse
Dr. Marjorie Cheung, Senior Lecturer
Date: 30 April 2025
Time: 10:00 - 12:15
Venue: RLB502
Date: 29 April 2025 (Tue)
Time: 4:00pm - 5:15pm
Venue: Lady Lily Shaw Hall & Mrs. Dorothy Koo and Dr. Ti Hua Koo Plaza, Hong Kong Shue Yan University
(Co-organized by HKBU CIE, HKSYU and KIMEP, Kazakhstan)
Date: 18 April 2025
Time: 12:00 - 4 pm (HK Time), 9:00am - 1:00pm (Almaty Time)
Venue: Zoom
Theme: Narratives