This course will (1) examine the changing nature of language, and how creativity forms and transforms the English language and different cultures in English; (2) question and challenge students’ perceptions of language, culture and creativity; (3) reflect on how creativity has played a role in the production of literary and everyday texts; and (4) lay a foundation^* for linguistic and literary and cultural studies in Hong Kong.

*This foundation course if neither an introduction to literature nor an introduction to Linguistics; it is a broad spectrum introduction to the English department and to creative criticism and production both without and within Hong Kong.