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• +Graduate Chinese ACHIN90005

  Offered:Semester 1Year:2019

  This is a language subject for postgraduate students in Chinese. The level of study, content, and assessment in the subject will be determined by the Coordinator after placement testing and/or consultation with the students. Students will either be placed in an appropriate stream of language stud...

• +Chinese 6CHIN10018

  Offered:Semester 2Year:2019

  This subject is designed for students to develop their ability to communicate in Chinese at a beginning-advanced level and their analytical skills of the Chinese language through engaging with a range of topics concerning contemporary Chinese society and culture. Their linguistic competence will ...

• +Chinese 4CHIN10016

  Offered:Semester 2Year:2019

  This is a post-elementary subject in Chinese. It covers basic grammatical structures and students should know up to 700 Chinese characters as well as furthering their knowledge of Chinese cultural practices by the end of the semster.

• +Chinese 1CHIN10005

  Offered:Semester 1Year:2019

  Students will develop their ability to communicate and understand in simple Chinese by engaging with the following key cultural situations in Chinese society such as situations relating to the use of names, family relationships, social exchanges which deploy different forms of address, and engagi...

• +Classic Chinese CivilisationCHIN30001

  Offered:Semester 2Year:2019

  In this subject students will be introduced to the distinctive characteristics of Chinese civilization from a comparative East-West framework. The focus will be on how the ancient Chinese found solutions to universal human problems, such as how to set up social and political organizations, the op...

• +Chinese 8CHIN10004

  Offered:Semester 2Year:2019

  This subject is for students who have a an intermediate level of Chinese language skills and minimal literacy skills. It aims to help students make the transition from beginning level textbook Chinese to a more advanced level where they can not only deal with original Chinese materials intended f...

• +Chinese Economic DocumentsCHIN30012

  Offered:Semester 1Year:2019

  This subject is a reading course on Chinese economic and business documents. Students will be given a guided introduction to a variety of economic documents, including official policy statements, statistical material, newspaper reports and comments, and information drawn from the world wide web. ...

• +Chinese 9CHIN10001

  Offered:Semester 1Year:2019

  This is a subject for the background speakers of Chinese who have limited literacy in Chinese and for background speakers of English who have developed their skills in Chinese language. Students will develop their ability to communicate in Chinese at an advanced level and conduct discussion on a ...

• +Seminars in Theoretical LinguisticsLING40004

  Offered:Not offered inYear:2019

  This subject is a course of advanced seminars in theoretical linguistics, whose topic will vary from year to year. The subject will take a formal theoretical approach with the particular topic for the seminar being phonology, morphology, syntax or semantics. Students who complete this subject sho...

• +Current Topics in Applied LinguisticsLING90029

  Offered:Not offered inYear:2019

  This elective will cover advanced topics in applied linguistics, with the focus to vary each year. Possible topics to be covered include (but are not limited to): validity in language testing, feedback in second language writing, interlanguage pragmatics, socialization and identity, narrative enq...

• +Reading DialogueCWRI40012

  Offered:Not offered inYear:2019

  This subject will introduce students to advanced dialogic techniques in relation to a range of genres including short story, novel and script. The exploration of the mechanics of dialogue will be cast against the historical evolution of modern and postmodern modes of dialogue so that students wi...

• +Second Language PragmaticsLING90034

  Offered:Not offered inYear:2019

  This subject provides an overview of research in second language pragmatics. It covers research methods in second language pragmatics, learners’ developmental pathways, effects of individual learner differences and learning contexts on pragmatics learning, teaching and assessment of second langua...

• +Seminars in Descriptive LinguisticsLING40009

  Offered:Not offered inYear:2019

  This subject is a course of advanced seminars in descriptive linguistics, whose topic will vary from year to year. Topics studied in the past have included gesture in interaction and grammaticalisation. Students who complete this subject should demonstrate an understanding of the topic being stud...

• +Discourse Analysis and RepresentationLING40003

  Offered:Not offered inYear:2019

  This subject involves the advanced study of major theories and methods of discourse analysis and representation, through consideration of both classic and recent approaches, and through practice at applying particular methods of analysis.

• +Audio Visual PreservationCUMC90020

  Offered:Not offered inYear:2019

  This subject will provide students with an introduction to the identification and preservation of the most common audio visual recording formats: motion picture film, magnetic media, audio recording technologies, and video; and provide an overview of the care of collections comprising audio visua...

• +The Grammar of EnglishLING90035

  Offered:Not offered inYear:2019

  This subject is a systematic examination of the major elements of English grammar using principles of linguistic analysis. The subject is delivered through a ‘blended learning’ approach, with a mixture of online and intensive on-campus teaching modes, and extensive resources, including video inte...

• +Contemporary Italy Study AbroadITAL30005

  Offered:Not offered inYear:2019

  This subject provides students with a three-week intensive language and culture experience in Prato, Tuscany. The focus of the subject will be an exploration of aspects of conteporary Italy including language, culture, society, politics and the Arts. Students will be involved in a range of collab...

• +Popular Cultures in IndonesiaINDO30003

  Offered:Not offered inYear:2019

  This subject focuses on two areas, namely the location of a particular study of popular culture within the broader study of cultures, and questions of aesthetic and political values with specific reference to Indonesian contexts. Students will examine critically selected analyses of different gen...

• +Italian FictionsITAL30006

  Offered:Not offered inYear:2019

  This subject will introduce students to the study of significant literary and/or visual and written texts, and may include the study of particular genres, authors, critical methodologies, literary and cultural schools or movements, cultural and/or literary developments in a particular century. To...

• +Romanticism, Feminism, RevolutionENGL20020

  Offered:Not offered inYear:2019

  This subject maps the intertwined (and sometimes antagonistic) trajectories of Romanticism and early Feminism, as they emerge in Britain in the wake of the American and French Revolutions. Drawing on prose, poetry and drama from this period (including texts by Byron, Blake, Bronte, Hays, Radcliff...