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English Language & Literature

unprecedentedly transformed their everyday life experiences. Through a body of fiction, films,
TV shows, computer mediated communication devices, cybercultural forms, etc which deal
directly with new communication technologies, this class will highlight the radical effects on the
post-modernist self and on virtuality of all kinds.

ENG 320 Critical Analysis of Drama
1 Term; 3 Credits
The aim of this course is to introduce students to dramatic genre and styles in the
Western literary tradition. The course will look into the development of drama in the West,
various interpretations of the selected works, and the theatrical production and filmic
adaptation of the texts.

ENG 330 Gender, Language and Translation
1 Term; 3 Credits
This course introduces students to a theoretical paradigm which establishes
interrelations among gender, language and translation. The course first traces the different
stages of research between gender and translation in terms of translation practice, translation
history and criticism, and new concepts in translation theory. It then addresses the various
issues within feminist thinking, and the ways they could be incorporated into translation
studies. By studying this course, students will acquire in-depth knowledge about the emergent
common-ground among these three areas of studies. The ultimate outcome is for students to
construct an interdisciplinary structure for the purpose of analysing language and translation
issues from a gender perspective.

ENG 335 Popular Culture
1 Term; 3 Credits
This course aims at providing students with an introduction to contemporary debates on
how subjectivities and everyday practices of popular culture take shape in mass society. It
also delineates the ways popular culture constitutes a common and thereby important part of
our lives. By drawing upon consumer's culture, pop music, media and sports, advertisements,
films, anime and comics, theme parks, etc, this course endeavours to show to students that an
informal consciousness of class, gender and race is essential to any understanding of the
sociology of popular cultural practices, both in the West and in Hong Kong. Issues such as
postmodernism, identity politics, technoscience and media will be brought forth to bear on
popular cultural texts which are already parts of students' literacies and practices.

ENG 340 Interpreting I
1 Term; 3 Credits
This course aims to enlighten students on the acquisition of interpreting skills (E to C and
C to E) through intensive practical drills in the language laboratory and home assignments,
with emphasis mainly on listening comprehension (phonetic identification), transcription,
note-taking, short-term memory (linked thinking and educated guess), sight translation and

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