English
Applicable to students admitted in 2026-27.
Description
Students are required to complete a minimum of 18 units of courses, with at least 6 units at 3000 or above level, as follows:
1. Required Courses: 6 units
ENGE1500, 1610
Show 2 course(s) →
| Code | Title | T1 | T2 | Prerequisites |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ENGE 1500 | Introduction to English Linguistics | — | ||
| ENGE 1610 | Introduction to Literature | — |
2. Elective Courses: 12 units
Four ENGE courses at 2000 and above level, with at least 6 units at 3000 and above level
Show 106 course(s) →
| Code | Title | T1 | T2 | Prerequisites |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ENGE 2110 | Crime Fiction | — | ||
| ENGE 2130 | (How to Read) Masterpieces of Literature | — | ||
| ENGE 2140 | Superheroes in Comics and Film | — | ||
| ENGE 2150 | Nineteenth-Century Novels on Screen | — | ||
| ENGE 2160 | American Popular Song Lyrics | — | ||
| ENGE 2170 | Literature and Medicine | — | ||
| ENGE 2190 | Gods Behaving Badly: Myths and Legends from Around the World | — | ||
| ENGE 2210 | Song and Poetry: The Literature of Song and Song-Writing | — | ||
| ENGE 2220 | Existentialism and Literature | — | ||
| ENGE 2310 | Modern and Contemporary Drama | — | ||
| ENGE 2360 | Children's Literature | — | ||
| ENGE 2370 | From Romanticism to Modernism | — | ||
| ENGE 2380 | Twentieth-Century Fiction | — | ||
| ENGE 2390 | Reading Poetry | — | ||
| ENGE 2510 | English Phonetics and Phonology | — | ||
| ENGE 2530 | Hong Kong English and its Culture | — | ||
| ENGE 2540 | Forensic Linguistics: Language as Evidence in Legal Processes | — | ||
| ENGE 2600 | World Englishes and Their Cultures | — | ||
| ENGE 2620 | Acquisition of English As a Second Language | — | ||
| ENGE 2630 | Language and Society | — | ||
| ENGE 2640 | Introduction to World Literature in English | — | ||
| ENGE 2700 | Drama in Performance II | — | ||
| ENGE 2710 | Language and Intercultural Communication | — | ||
| ENGE 2720 | Pedagogical Grammar of English | Prerequisite: ENGE1520 (only applicable to the 334 new curriculum). | ||
| ENGE 2820 | English Semantics and Pragmatics | — | ||
| ENGE 2840 | Lexical Studies in English | — | ||
| ENGE 2960 | The World in English: an Oxford Summer Programme | — | ||
| ENGE 3100 | Communications for English Majors III | Prerequisites: ENGE1310 and 1320. | ||
| ENGE 3110 | Romanticism | — | ||
| ENGE 3120 | Modernism | — | ||
| ENGE 3200 | Literature and Art | — | ||
| ENGE 3220 | Literature and Film | — | ||
| ENGE 3250 | Other Literatures in English | — | ||
| ENGE 3260 | Creative Writing | — | ||
| ENGE 3280 | Writing a Life Between Languages | — | ||
| ENGE 3290 | Reading and Writing Short Stories | — | ||
| ENGE 3320 | Hong Kong Literature in English | — | ||
| ENGE 3360 | Special Topics in Creative Writing | — | ||
| ENGE 3370 | Writing Hong Kong | — | ||
| ENGE 3410 | Ekphrasis: Encounters between Verbal and Visual Arts | — | ||
| ENGE 3430 | Reading Alice Munro and Writing Life-Stories | — | ||
| ENGE 3500 | Shakespeare | — | ||
| ENGE 3600 | Contrastive Linguistics | — | ||
| ENGE 3610 | Psycholinguistics | Not for students who have taken PSYC3430. | ||
| ENGE 3640 | English Language Teaching and Learning | — | ||
| ENGE 3670 | Language, Meaning, and Text | — | ||
| ENGE 3690 | Gender and Language | — | ||
| ENGE 3780 | Methods in Applied Linguistics Research | — | ||
| ENGE 3900 | Professional Internship in English Studies | — | ||
| ENGE 3940 | AI and Language | — | ||
| ENGE 3950 | AI and its Application | — | ||
| ENGE 3970 | Digital Discourse and Social Media | — | ||
| ENGE 4100 | Major Author(s) | — | ||
| ENGE 4200 | Advanced Creative Writing Workshop | At least one of the following: ENGE3260 Creative Writing.ENGE3290 Reading and Writing Short Stories.ENGE3360 Special Topics in Creative Writing.OR ENGE3370 Writing Hong Kong. | ||
| ENGE 4240 | Special Topics in Literature | — | ||
| ENGE 4610 | Educational Linguistics | — | ||
| ENGE 4650 | Special Topics in Applied Linguistics | — | ||
| ENGE 4700 | Independent Research Project | — | ||
| ENGE 4701 [1] | Independent Research Project 1 | — | ||
| ENGE 4702 [5] | Independent Research Project 2 | Pre-requisite(s): ENGE4701 Independent Research Project. | ||
| ENGE 5010 | Theoretical Linguistics | For students in MA English (Applied English Linguistics) or MPhil English (Applied English Linguistics). | ||
| ENGE 5200 | What is Fiction? | For students in MA English (Literary Studies) or MPhil English (Literary Studies). | ||
| ENGE 5210 | Advanced Studies in Literature | For students in MA English (Literary Studies) or MPhil English (Literary Studies). | ||
| ENGE 5220 | Literature and Pedagogy | For students in MA English (Literary Studies) or MPhil English (Literary Studies). | ||
| ENGE 5230 | Major Author(s) | For students in MA English (Literary Studies) or MPhil English (Literary Studies). | ||
| ENGE 5240 | Creative Writing | For students in MA English (Literary Studies) or MPhil English (Literary Studies). | ||
| ENGE 5250 | Children's Literature | For students in MA English (Literary Studies) or MPhil English (Literary Studies). | ||
| ENGE 5260 | Life Writing | For students in MA English (Literary Studies) or MPhil English (Literary Studies). | ||
| ENGE 5270 | Major Contemporary Novels | For students in MA English (Literary Studies) or MPhil English (Literary Studies). | ||
| ENGE 5280 | Aspects of Contemporary Poetry | For students in MA English (Literary Studies) or MPhil English (Literary Studies). | ||
| ENGE 5290 | Modern Drama | For students in MA English (Literary Studies) or MPhil English (Literary Studies). | ||
| ENGE 5300 [6] | MA Final Project | For students in MA English (Literary Studies). | ||
| ENGE 5310 | Science Fiction and Utopia | For students in MA English (Literary Studies) or MPhil English (Literary Studies). | ||
| ENGE 5320 | American Literature | For students in MPhil English (Literary Studies) or MA English (Literary Studies). | ||
| ENGE 5330 | Modernist Literature | For students in MA English (Literary Studies) or MPhil English (Literary Studies). | ||
| ENGE 5340 | Distant Readings | For students in MA English (Literary Studies) or MPhil English (Literary Studies). | ||
| ENGE 5410 | Psycholinguistics | For students in MA English (Applied English Linguistics) or MPhil English (Applied English Linguistics). | ||
| ENGE 5420 | Sociolinguistics | For students in MA English (Applied English Linguistics) or MPhil English (Applied English Linguistics). | ||
| ENGE 5430 | Second Language Acquisition | For students in MA English (Applied English Linguistics) or MPhil English (Applied English Linguistics). | ||
| ENGE 5440 | Language and Intercultural Communication | For students in MA English (Applied English Linguistics) or MPhil English (Applied English Linguistics). | ||
| ENGE 5450 | Corpus Linguistics | For students in MA English (Applied English Linguistics) or MPhil English (Applied English Linguistics). | ||
| ENGE 5460 | Natural Language Processing for Applied Linguistics and Education | For students in MA English (Applied English Linguistics) or MPhil English (Applied English Linguistics). | ||
| ENGE 5520 | Evaluation and Testing | For students in MA English (Applied English Linguistics) or MPhil English (Applied English Linguistics). | ||
| ENGE 5540 | Research Methods in Applied Linguistics | For students in MA English (Applied English Linguistics) or MPhil English (Applied English Linguistics). | ||
| ENGE 5550 | English for Specific Purposes | For students in MA English (Applied English Linguistics) or MPhil English (Applied English Linguistics). | ||
| ENGE 5560 | Second Language Teaching | For students in MA English (Applied English Linguistics) or MPhil English (Applied English Linguistics). | ||
| ENGE 5570 | Discourse and Pragmatics | For students in MA English (Applied English Linguistics) or MPhil English (Applied English Linguistics). | ||
| ENGE 5580 | Second Language Writing | For students in MA English (Applied English Linguistics) or MPhil English (Applied English Linguistics). | ||
| ENGE 5590 | Computer Applications in Second Language Teaching | For students in MA English (Applied English Linguistics) or MPhil English (Applied English Linguistics). | ||
| ENGE 5600 | Special Topics in Applied English Linguistics | For students in MA English (Applied English Linguistics) or MPhil English (Applied English Linguistics). | ||
| ENGE 5610 | Issues in Contemporary Applied English Linguistics | For students in MA English (Applied English Linguistics) or MPhil English (Applied English Linguistics). | ||
| ENGE 5620 | The Acquisition and Teaching of L2 Pronunciation | For students in MA English (Applied English Linguistics) or MPhil English (Applied English Linguistics). | ||
| ENGE 5630 | Cognitive Linguistics and Its Applications in Language Teaching | For students in MA English (Applied English Linguistics) or MPhil English (Applied English Linguistics). | ||
| ENGE 5640 [6] | Research Project in Applied English Linguistics | Pre-requisite = ENGE5540 and For students in MA in English (Applied English Linguistics). | ||
| ENGE 5660 | Digital Literacies: Theory, Research, and Practice | For students in MA English (Applied English Linguistics) or MPhil English (Applied English Linguistics). | ||
| ENGE 5670 | Language Policy and Planning (LPP) | For students in MA English (Applied English Linguistics) or MPhil English (Applied English Linguistics). | ||
| ENGE 5680 | Social Dimensions of Second Language Acquisition | For students in MA English (Applied English Linguistics) or MPhil English (Applied English Linguistics). | ||
| ENGE 5690 | Second Language Reading Research and Teaching | For students in MA English (Applied English Linguistics) or MPhil English (Applied English Linguistics). | ||
| ENGE 5710 | Critical Approaches in Literary Studies | For students in MA English (Literary Studies) or MPhil English (Literary Studies). | ||
| ENGE 5720 | Comparative Approaches in Literary Studies | For students in MPhil English (Literary Studies) or MA English (Literary Studies). | ||
| ENGE 5750 | Special Topic(s) in Genre Studies | For students in MA English (Literary Studies) or MPhil English (Literary Studies). | ||
| ENGE 5850 | Special Topic(s) in Literary History | For students in MA English (Literary Studies) or MPhil English (Literary Studies). | ||
| ENGE 5950 | Special Topic(s) in Critical Studies | For students in MA English (Literary Studies) or MPhil English (Literary Studies). | ||
| ENGE 8000 | M.Phil. Guided Research | For students in MPhil English (Applied English Linguistics) or MPhil English (Literary Studies). | ||
| ENGE 8100 [6] | Ph.D. Guided Research | For students in PhD English (Applied English Linguistics) or PhD English (Literary Studies). | ||
| ENGE 8200 [6] | Ph.D. Thesis Research | For students in PhD English (Applied English Linguistics) or PhD English (Literary Studies);Prerequisite: ENGE8100. |
Explanatory Notes
1.This Minor Programme is not applicable to students who major in English Major Programme, English and History Double Major Programme, History and English Double Major Programme, the Bachelor of Arts (English Studies) and Bachelor of Education (English Language Education).
2.No more than 9 units of courses taken to fulfill the requirements of the students’ Major Programme(s) and other Minor Programme(s) respectively can be used to fulfill the requirement of this Minor Programme.