CONCENTRATIONS

The English Language and Literature Programme balances the study of the English Language and Literature written in English. The Programme enhances students' English proficiency and communication skills, and strengthens their bilingual and bicultural competence, allowing them to study language and cultural issues from a global perspective.
 
Students may concentrate their study on one of these three areas in their second and third years of study:

The Literature-in-Depth Concentration provides students with a strong foundation in literature.  Students will study how fiction, drama, poetry have developed through time.  By reading masterpieces of literature written in English, students become familiar with foreign values and tradition as well as the universal issues shared by people worldwide.  In the process, students also develop their analytical and problem-solving skills and learn the subtleties of English writings.

The Language-in-Depth Concentration provides students with an understanding of the structure of language, in particular the English language, and how language functions when people speak or write. It challenges students not to take language for granted, but to understand and appreciate what they know implicitly and sub-consciously. Consequently, they can develop a mastery of English through explicit design and informed choices.

The Stylistics and Comparative Literature Concentration allows students to study the interrelations of different literatures, especially Chinese and Western literatures. The stylistics component enables students to analyse literature through its language use. Students will also be introduced to various critical approaches to the study of literature and they will be encouraged to take a global approach to cross-cultural issues.

CURRICULUM (click here for details)

CAREER PROSPECTS
 
The English Language and Literature Programme is not a vocational programme. The vigorous training in the Programme allows our graduates

• to cope with changes in a creative, imaginative and critical way
• to communicate effectively in both written and oral English
• to work comfortably as a team-member in inter-cultural and/or inter-national settings
• to apply the knowledge and skills they learned to their work

Some graduates of the English Language and Literature Programme proceed to postgraduate study in Hong Kong or overseas.

Other graduates move into careers such as:

• administration
• banking
• business
• civil service
• journalism
• public relations
• marketing or translation
• mass communication
• teaching
• tourism