Religion, Philosophy and Ethics (REL) as Home Major and English Language and Literature (ENG) as Second Major
Students taking REL as their Home Major are required to take all required courses (27 units) and seven electives (21 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
| REL as Home Major | ||
| Required Courses | 27 units | |
| RELI1005 Quest For Truth and Meaning | 3 units | |
| RELI2006 Introduction to Christianity and Civilizations | 3 units | |
| RELI2007 Problems of Philosophy | 3 units | |
| RELI2015 Approaches to the Study of Religion | 3 units | |
| RELI2027 Introduction to Chinese Philosophy and Religion | 3 units | |
| RELI2035 Introduction to Ethics | 3 units | |
| RELI2036 Social Scientific Study of Religion | 3 units | |
| RELI4898 Honours Project | 3 units | |
| RELI4899 Honours Project | 3 units | |
| Major Elective Courses | 21 units | |
| Students must choose one course of each from the four study areas (12 units) and then take any three courses (9 units) from the four study areas: | ||
| Study Area A: Philosophical Studies | ||
| RELI3006 Major Streams in Chinese Philosophy | 3 units | |
| RELI3007 Philosophy, Meaning and Knowledge | 3 units | |
| RELI3027 Existentialism and Nihilism | 3 units | |
| RELI3056 Philosophy of Mind, Consciousness, and Personal Identity | 3 units | |
| RELI3065 History of Modern Western Philosophy | 3 units | |
| RELI3087 Metaphysics: Quest for Reality | 3 units | |
| RELI3095 Logic and Philosophy of Logic | 3 units | |
| RELI3096 Contemporary Analytic Philosophy | 3 units | |
| RELI4005 Philosophy of Religion | 3 units | |
| RELI4016 Selected Topics/Readings in Philosophical Studies | 3 units | |
| RELI4047 Mind in Chinese Buddhist Philosophy | 3 units | |
| RELI4076 Great Plays and Philosophy | 3 units | |
| Study Area B: Christian Studies and Comparative Religion | ||
| RELI3005 Daoist Religion | 3 units | |
| RELI3017 A Survey of Jewish and Christian Scriptures | 3 units | |
| RELI3026 Christianity, Humanism and the Contemporary World | 3 units | |
| RELI3037 Christian Spirituality | 3 units | |
| RELI3047 Islam | 3 units | |
| RELI3127 History of Christian Thought | 3 units | |
| RELI3135 Buddhism | 3 units | |
| RELI3136 Religious Rituals and Practices in Hong Kong | 3 units | |
| RELI3137 Confucianism | 3 units | |
| RELI4025 Christianity and Chinese Culture | 3 units | |
| RELI4027 Selected Topics/Readings in Christian Studies or Comparative Religion | 3 units | |
| RELI4035 Comparative Religious Themes | 3 units | |
| Study Area C: Interdisciplinary Study of Religion | ||
| RELI3075 Religion and Animal | 3 units | |
| RELI3077 Religion and Social Movements | 3 units | |
| RELI3086 Religion, Violence and Peace | 3 units | |
| RELI3097 Psychology and Religion | 3 units | |
| RELI3105 Anthropology and Religion | 3 units | |
| RELI3106 Religion and Modern Chinese Societies | 3 units | |
| RELI4015 Mysticism and Religious Experience | 3 units | |
| RELI4036 Religion and Ideology | 3 units | |
| RELI4037 Sociology of Religion and Modern Society | 3 units | |
| RELI4046 Selected Topics/Readings in Religious Studies | 3 units | |
| RELI4065 Dialogue between Religion and Modern Science | 3 units | |
| Study Area D: Ethics and Society | ||
| RELI3016 Philosophy, Morality and Society | 3 units | |
| RELI3045 Contemporary Ethical Problems: Hong Kong and Beyond | 3 units | |
| RELI3107 Chinese Moral and Political Philosophy | 3 units | |
| RELI3115 Theological Ethics | 3 units | |
| RELI3116 Islamic Values and Contemporary Society | 3 units | |
| RELI3117 Service Leadership and Meaning of Life and Death | 3 units | |
| RELI3125 Social Justice, Liberalism and Economic Equality | 3 units | |
| RELI3126 Theology, Liberalism and Sex in Chinese Societies | 3 units | |
| RELI4066 Ethics of Human Rights: Theories and Controversies | 3 units | |
| RELI4067 Environmental Ethics | 3 units | |
| RELI4075 Selected Topics/Readings in Ethics | 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 | |
| ENGL2027 Academic and Professional Writing | 3 units | |
| ENGL2097 Virtual Storytelling: Narration across Dimensions | 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 least 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 | |
| ENGL3115 Studying Hong Kong Through the Lens of 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 | |
| ENGL3315 Linguistic and Literary Portrayals of Hong Kong in English | 3 units | |
| ENGL3316 Literary and Linguistic Codes in Hong Kong Society | 3 units | |
| ENGL3317 Sociolinguistic and Cultural Immersion in Hong Kong Language and Literature | 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 | |
| ENGL4115 Tone in Human Languages | 3 units | |
| ENGL4116 Language and Power | 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 | |
| ENGL3116 Hong Kong Literature | 3 units | |
| ENGL3315 Linguistic and Literary Portrayals of Hong Kong in English | 3 units | |
| ENGL3316 Literary and Linguistic Codes in Hong Kong Society | 3 units | |
| ENGL3317 Sociolinguistic and Cultural Immersion in Hong Kong Language and Literature | 3 units | |
| ENGL3405 Shakespeare as Dramatist | 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 | |
| ENGL4117 The Human History of Amorous Deeds | 3 units | |
| ENGL4125 Literature and Religion | 3 units | |
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