Applied to students admitted in 2018/19 or afterwards
TRAN as Home Major
Core Courses (36 units)
- TRAN 2005 Principles and Methods of Translation
- TRAN 2006 Linguistics for Translators
- TRAN 2027 Practical Translation
- TRAN 3007 Culture and Translation
- TRAN 3016 Professional Studies
- TRAN 3036 Beginning Interpreting
- TRAN 4005 Theories and Philosophies I
- TRAN 4007 Appreciation, Criticism and Evaluation / Translation Criticism
- TRAN 4037 Translation and Intercultural Studies
- TRAN 4046 Placement Portfolio I
- TRAN 4898/9 Honours Project (Translation/ Thesis)
Major Elective Courses (12 units: any 4 of the following, of which at least 2 courses should be at 3000 or 4000 level)
- TRAN 1005 Introduction to Translation
- TRAN 2007 Research Methods for Translation Studies
- TRAN 2015 Communication and Translation
- TRAN 2016 English for Translators II: Written Genres
- TRAN 2017 Reading Chinese Literature in Translation
- TRAN 2025 Translating Across Media
- TRAN 2026 Contrastive Language Studies: English and Chinese
- TRAN 2035 Translation, Museums and Intercultural Representation
- TRAN 2036 Introduction to Tibetan Culture and Language
- TRAN 2037 / 3005 English for Translators I: Grammar, Structure and Style
- TRAN 3026 Media Translation
- TRAN 3027 Spanish/Chinese Translation
- TRAN 3035 Introduction to Computer-Aided Translation / Introduction to Translation Technology
- TRAN 3037 Intermediate Interpreting
- TRAN 3045 Drama and Film Translation
- TRAN 3046 Introduction to Localization
- TRAN 3047 Religion and Translation Across Time and Space
- TRAN 4006 Theories and Philosophies II
- TRAN 4015 Gender and Translation
- TRAN 4025 Legal and Government Document Translation
- TRAN 4026 Literary Translation
- TRAN 4027 Special Topic(s) in Translation
- TRAN 4035 Translation of Scientific and Technological Texts
- TRAN 4036 Translation, Publishing and Global Circulation
- TRAN 4045 Intersemiotic Translation, Adaptation and Intertextuality
- TRAN 4047 Translation Workshop
- TRAN 4055 Comparative Topics in Chinese/Hispanic Cultures
- TRAN 4056 Community Interpreting
- TRAN 4057 Conference Interpreting
- TRAN 4066 Placement Portfolio II
ENG as Second Major
Core Courses (30 units)
- ENGL 1005 English, Creativity, and Cultures
- ENGL 2005 Introduction to the Study of Language
- ENGL 2007 Literary and Comparative Studies
- ENGL 2006 Language, Culture and Society OR ENGL 2015 Literature and Culture
- ENGL 2016 Sounds of English Around the World
- ENGL 2017 Stepping Stones in English Grammar
- ENGL 2025 The Art of Storytelling
- ENGL 2026 Argumentation and Persuasion
- ENGL 2027 Academic and Professional Writing
- ENGL 3005 Research Skills in English Language and Literature
Major Elective Courses (12 units: any 4 of the following, of which at least 2 courses should be at 3000 or 4000 level)
1. Language and Communication Studies
- ENGL 2095 Foundations of Language Studies
- ENGL 3007 Discourse Studies
- ENGL 3026 Special Topic in Language
- ENGL 3027 Special Topic in Linguistic Theory
- ENGL 3107 Acquiring and Learning a Language
- ENGL 3115 Studying Hong Kong through the Lens of Language
- ENGL 3205 Components of a Word
- ENGL 3206 Critical Discourse Analysis
- ENGL 3207 Language and Intercultural Communication
- ENGL 3305 Studying Meaning
- ENGL 3306 Understanding Phonological Patterns
- ENGL 3307 Architecture of Grammar
- ENGL 4006 Advanced Topic in Language
- ENGL 4007 Advanced Topic in Linguistic Theory
- ENGL 4017 Advanced Seminar in Language and Gender
- ENGL 4025 Analyzing Multimodal Communication
- ENGL 4026 Exploring Intercultural Communication Through Films and Literature
- ENGL 4027 Exploring Bilingualism and Bilingual Education
- ENGL 4035 Functional Grammar
- ENGL 4036 Language, Communication and Advertising
- ENGL 4037 Language and the Workplace
- ENGL 4045 Language in Education
- ENGL 4047 Perspectives on Universal Themes
- ENGL 4055 Stories of English
- ENGL 4056 Theoretical Linguist Meets World
- ENGL 4057 Unravelling Syntax
- ENGL 4115 Tone in Human Languages
- ENGL 4116 Language and Power
2. Literary and Comparative Studies
- ENGL 2035 The Short Story
- ENGL 2036 Pre-Modern Drama
- ENGL 2076 Poetry
- ENGL 2077 Critical Approaches to Literature
- ENGL 2086 Poetry and Poetics
- ENGL 3015 Creative Writing
- ENGL 3025 Faces of Comparative Literature
- ENGL 3036 Chinese-Western Literary Relations
- ENGL 3037 Creative Writing Workshop
- ENGL 3045 Great Novels in English
- ENGL 3046 Literature and the Nobel Prize
- ENGL 3055 Literature and Film
- ENGL 3066 Modern and Contemporary Drama
- ENGL 3096 The Child and Literature
- ENGL 3105 Twentieth-Century Literature
- ENGL 3106 Modern and Contemporary Poetry
- ENGL 3116 Hong Kong Literature
- ENGL 3405 Shakespeare as Dramatist
- ENGL 4016 American Popular Fiction after 1950
- ENGL 4046 Hong Kong Stories in English
- ENGL 4065 Dystopian Fiction
- ENGL 4066 World Literatures
- ENGL 4067 Comics and Graphic Novels
- ENGL 4075 Special Topic in Comparative Literature
- ENGL 4076 21st Century Fiction
- ENGL 4077 Detective Fiction
- ENGL 4085 Special Topic in Literature
- ENGL 4086 Shakespeare and His Contemporaries
- ENGL 4087 Special Topic in Critical Theory
- ENGL 4095 Gender and Literature
- ENGL 4096 Diaspora Writing in English
- ENGL 4097 Gothic Literature
- ENGL 4105 Comparative Drama
- ENGL 4106 Literary Journalism
- ENGL 4107 Postcolonial Fiction
- ENGL 4117 The Human History of Amorous Deeds
- ENGL 4125 Literature and Religion