Translation (TRAN) as Home Major and English Language and Literature (ENG) as Second Major
Students taking TRAN as their Home Major are required to take all required courses (36 units) and four electives (12 units). Details are given below. In their Second Major programme, they are required to take 10 required courses (30 units) and four electives (12 units).
Requirements
| TRAN as Home Major | ||
| Required Courses | 36 units | |
| TRAN2005 Principles and Methods of Translation | 3 units | |
| TRAN2006 Linguistics for Translators | 3 units | |
| TRAN2027 Practical Translation | 3 units | |
| TRAN3007 Culture and Translation | 3 units | |
| TRAN3016 Professional Studies | 3 units | |
| TRAN3036 Beginning Interpreting | 3 units | |
| TRAN4005 Theories and Philosophies I | 3 units | |
| TRAN4007 Appreciation, Criticism and Evaluation | 3 units | |
| TRAN4037 Translation and Intercultural Studies | 3 units | |
| TRAN4046 Placement Portfolio I | 3 units | |
| TRAN4898 Honours Project (Translation/Thesis) | 3 units | |
| TRAN4899 Honours Project (Translation/Thesis) | 3 units | |
| Major Elective Courses | 12 units | |
| Students must choose four courses from the following groups, at lease two courses of which must be at 3000 or 4000 level: | ||
| TRAN1005 Introduction to Translation | 3 units | |
| TRAN2007 Research Methods for Translation Studies | 3 units | |
| TRAN2015 Communication and Translation | 3 units | |
| TRAN2016 English for Translators II: Written Genres | 3 units | |
| TRAN2017 Reading Chinese Literature in Translation | 3 units | |
| TRAN2025 Translating Across Media | 3 units | |
| TRAN2026 Contrastive Language Studies: English and Chinese | 3 units | |
| TRAN3005 English for Translators I: Grammar, Structure and Style | 3 units | |
| TRAN3026 Media Translation | 3 units | |
| TRAN3027 Spanish/Chinese Translation | 3 units | |
| TRAN3035 Introduction to Translation Technology | 3 units | |
| TRAN3037 Intermediate Interpreting | 3 units | |
| TRAN3045 Drama and Film Translation | 3 units | |
| TRAN3046 Introduction to Localization | 3 units | |
| TRAN4006 Theories and Philosophies II | 3 units | |
| TRAN4015 Gender and Translation | 3 units | |
| TRAN4025 Legal and Government Document Translation | 3 units | |
| TRAN4026 Literary Translation | 3 units | |
| TRAN4027 Special Topic(s) in Translation | 3 units | |
| TRAN4035 Translation of Scientific and Technological Texts | 3 units | |
| TRAN4036 Translation, Publishing and Global Circulation | 3 units | |
| TRAN4045 Intersemiotic Translation, Adaptation and Intertextuality | 3 units | |
| TRAN4047 Translation Workshop | 3 units | |
| TRAN4055 Comparative Topics in Chinese/Hispanic Cultures | 3 units | |
| TRAN4056 Community Interpreting | 3 units | |
| TRAN4057 Conference Interpreting | 3 units | |
| TRAN4066 Placement Portfolio II | 3 units | |
| ENG as Second Major | ||
| Required Courses | 30 units | |
| ENGL1005 English, Creativity, and Cultures | 3 units | |
| ENGL2005 Introduction to the Study of Language | 3 units | |
| Either | ||
| ENGL2006 Language, Culture and Society | 3 units | |
| Or | ||
| ENGL2015 Literature and Culture | 3 units | |
| ENGL2007 Literary and Comparative Studies | 3 units | |
| ENGL2016 Sounds of English around the World | 3 units | |
| ENGL2017 Stepping Stones in English Grammar | 3 units | |
| ENGL2025 The Art of Storytelling | 3 units | |
| ENGL2026 Argumentation and Persuasion | 3 units | |
| ENGL2027 Academic and Professional Writing | 3 units | |
| ENGL3005 Research Skills in English Language and Literature | 3 units | |
| Major Elective Courses | 12 units | |
| Students must choose four courses from the following groups, at lease two courses of which must be at 3000 or 4000 level: | ||
| Group A: Language and Communication Studies | ||
| ENGL2095 Foundations of Language Studies | 3 units | |
| ENGL3007 Discourse Studies | 3 units | |
| ENGL3026 Special Topic in Language | 3 units | |
| ENGL3027 Special Topic in Linguistic Theory | 3 units | |
| ENGL3107 Acquiring and Learning a Language | 3 units | |
| ENGL3205 Components of a Word | 3 units | |
| ENGL3206 Critical Discourse Analysis | 3 units | |
| ENGL3207 Language and Intercultural Communication | 3 units | |
| ENGL3305 Studying Meaning | 3 units | |
| ENGL3306 Understanding Phonological Patterns | 3 units | |
| ENGL3307 Architecture of Grammar | 3 units | |
| ENGL4006 Advanced Topic in Language | 3 units | |
| ENGL4007 Advanced Topic in Linguistic Theory | 3 units | |
| ENGL4017 Advanced Seminar in Language and Gender | 3 units | |
| ENGL4025 Analysing Multimodal Communication | 3 units | |
| ENGL4026 Exploring Intercultural Communication through Films and Literature | 3 units | |
| ENGL4027 Exploring Bilingualism and Bilingual Education | 3 units | |
| ENGL4035 Functional Grammar | 3 units | |
| ENGL4036 Language, Communication and Advertising | 3 units | |
| ENGL4037 Language and the Workplace | 3 units | |
| ENGL4045 Language in Education | 3 units | |
| ENGL4047 Perspectives on Universal Themes | 3 units | |
| ENGL4055 Stories of English | 3 units | |
| ENGL4056 Theoretical Linguist Meets World | 3 units | |
| ENGL4057 Unravelling Syntax | 3 units | |
| Group B: Literary and Comparative Studies | ||
| ENGL2035 The Short Story | 3 units | |
| ENGL2036 Pre-Modern Drama | 3 units | |
| ENGL2076 Poetry | 3 units | |
| ENGL2077 Critical Approaches to Literature | 3 units | |
| ENGL2086 Poetry and Poetics | 3 units | |
| ENGL3015 Creative Writing | 3 units | |
| ENGL3025 Faces of Comparative Literature | 3 units | |
| ENGL3036 Chinese-Western Literary Relations | 3 units | |
| ENGL3037 Creative Writing Workshop | 3 units | |
| ENGL3045 Great Novels in English | 3 units | |
| ENGL3046 Literature and the Nobel Prize | 3 units | |
| ENGL3055 Literature and Film | 3 units | |
| ENGL3066 Modern and Contemporary Drama | 3 units | |
| ENGL3096 The Child and Literature | 3 units | |
| ENGL3105 Twentieth-Century Literature | 3 units | |
| ENGL3106 Modern and Contemporary Poetry | 3 units | |
| ENGL4016 American Popular Fiction after 1950 | 3 units | |
| ENGL4046 Hong Kong Stories in English | 3 units | |
| ENGL4065 Dystopian Fiction | 3 units | |
| ENGL4066 World Literatures | 3 units | |
| ENGL4067 Comics and Graphic Novels | 3 units | |
| ENGL4075 Special Topic in Comparative Literature | 3 units | |
| ENGL4076 21st Century Fiction | 3 units | |
| ENGL4077 Detective Fiction | 3 units | |
| ENGL4085 Special Topic in Literature | 3 units | |
| ENGL4086 Shakespeare and His Contemporaries | 3 units | |
| ENGL4087 Special Topic in Critical Theory | 3 units | |
| ENGL4095 Gender and Literature | 3 units | |
| ENGL4096 Diaspora Writing in English | 3 units | |
| ENGL4097 Gothic Literature | 3 units | |
| ENGL4105 Comparative Drama | 3 units | |
| ENGL4106 Literary Journalism | 3 units | |
| ENGL4107 Postcolonial Fiction | 3 units | |
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