Bachelor of Arts (Hons) in English
Programme Structure for 2024-2025 Year One Entry
First Year
| Language Requirement | No. of Credits | |
| CHI 101-2 | First Year Chinese I & II ( Alternative Chinese courses will be offered to non-Chinese speaking students) |
8 |
| Department Core Requirement | ||
| ENG 101-2 | English Skills I & 2 | 3 |
| ENG 120 | Introduction to Literature | 3 |
| ENG 103 | Applied Language Studies | 3 |
| ENG 104 | Critical Analysis of Literature | 3 |
| ENG 160 | Introduction to Linguistics | 3 |
| ENG 181-2 | Oral English I & II | 3 |
| Department Electives (Choose 1 course) | ||
| ENG 140 | Comparative Studies of Languages and Cultures | 3 |
| ENG 184 | Women's Writing & Feminist Readings | 3 |
| General Education | 6 | |
Second Year
| Department Core Requirement | No. of Credits | |
| ENG 201 | Comparative Literature | 3 |
| ENG 202 | Introduction to English Phonetics | 3 |
| ENG 203 | Victorian Literature | 3 |
| ENG 214 | Exploring English Grammar | 3 |
| ENG 270 | Discourse Analysis | 3 |
| Department Electives (Choose 2 courses) | ||
| ENG 213 | Commercial Translation | 3 |
| ENG 220 | Intercultural Communication | 3 |
| ENG 221 | English Lexical Studies | 3 |
| ENG 222 | The Language of Film | 3 |
| ENG 233 | The Language of Poetry | 3 |
| ENG 234 | City Culture and H.K. Urbanscape | 3 |
| ENG 250 | Sociolinguisitics | 3 |
| ENG 273 | Children's Literature | 3 |
| ENG 283 | Literature and Film | 3 |
| ENG 284 | Modern Drama | 3 |
| ENG 285 | Work Placement | 3 |
| General Education | 6 | |
| Free Electives | 6 | |
Third Year
| Department Core Requirement | No. of Credits | |
| ENG 301 | The Modernist Movement in Literature | 3 |
| ENG 302 | Syntax and Semantics | 3 |
| ENG 303 | Research Methods in English Studies | 3 |
| ENG 385 | Shakespeare and Renaissance Literature | 3 |
| Department Electives (Choose 4 courses) | ||
| ENG 285 | Work Placement | 3 |
| ENG 320 | Critical Analysis of Drama | 3 |
| ENG 321 | Literature, Film and Society | 3 |
| ENG 322 | Computational Text Analysis | 3 |
| ENG 323 | Literature in Dialogue | 3 |
| ENG 324 | Signs and Symbols in Western and Visual Communication | 3 |
| ENG 330 | Gender, Language and Translation | 3 |
| ENG 350 | Psycholinguistics | 3 |
| ENG 360 | Work Placement (Education) | 3 |
| ENG 361 | Pedagogical Grammar | 3 |
| ENG 364 | Second Language Acquisition and Teaching | 3 |
| ENG 388 | American Literature | 3 |
| ENG 389 | Travel Writing and Culture | 3 |
| ENG 450 | English in Global Communication | 3 |
| Free Electives | 6 | |
Fourth Year
| Department Core Requirement | No. of Credits | |
| ENG 484 | Romantics and Romantics Sceptics | 3 |
| ENG 486 | Issues in Pragmatics | 3 |
| ENG 490 or ENG 401 ENG 480 |
Honours Project or Special Topics in Applied Linguistics AND Special Topics in Literature |
6 |
| Department Electives (Choose 3 courses) | ||
| ENG 322 | Computational Text Analysis | 3 |
| ENG 323 | Literature in Dialogue | 3 |
| ENG 350 | Psycholinguistics | 3 |
| ENG 361 | Pedagogical Grammar | 3 |
| ENG 406 | Reading and Writing the Environment | 3 |
| ENG 410 | Understanding Multilingual Communication | 3 |
| ENG 420 | Language, Cognition, and Education | 3 |
| ENG 440 | Language, Communication, and Globalization | 3 |
| ENG 450 | English in Global Communication | 3 |
| ENG 460 | 21st Century Fiction | 3 |
| ENG 479 | Science Fiction in Literature and Films | 3 |
| Free Electives | 3 | |