Approved Courses for Research Degree Students (EN)

Department of English

PhD students are required to fulfill the stipulated core course and electives requirements.

Code	Course Title	Credits	2024-2025 Semester / Term
EN8001	English Department Research Students' Seminar I	2	A & B / B & A
EN8002	English Department Research Students' Seminar II	2	A & B / B & A
EN8014	English for Academic Research and Publication in Social Sciences and Humanities	3	B
EN8930	Independent Studies *	2	A / B

Code	Course Title	Credits	2024-2025 Semester / Term
EN8015	Research Methods in English Studies	3	A

Code	Course Title	Credits	2024-2025 Semester / Term
EN5315	Analysing Specialised Texts for Applied Purposes #	3	A
EN5450	Survey of Literary Genres #	3	A
EN5461	Language in Its Social Context #	3	A
EN5464	English Phonetics and Phonology #%	3	-
EN5465	Second Language Acquisition #	3	A
EN5466	Testing and Evaluation in Language Studies #%	3	-
EN5490	English Grammar #	3	B
EN5491	Discourse Analysis #	3	A
EN5495	Spoken Language Interactivity #	3	B
EN6483	Drama-Based Pedagogy #%	3	-
EN6494	New Literacies and Language Teaching #	3	B
EN6495	Approaches to Language Teaching #	3	B
EN6505	Curriculum Design in Language Studies #%	3	-
EN6508	Critical Approaches to Literature #	3	A
EN6509	World Literatures in English #	3	B
EN6510	Asian and Asian Diaspora Literature in English #%	3	-
EN6511	Teaching English for Academic Purposes #%	3	-
EN6512	Special Topics in English Studies #%	3	-
EN6513	Fantasy and Literature #	3	B
EN6517	Literature and the City #%	3	-
EN6519	Studies in Literature and Film #	3	A
EN6520	The Graphic Novel #	3	A
EN6521	Discourse, Ideology and Power #%	3	-
EN6522	Corpus Linguistics in English Studies #%	3	-
EN6523	Studies in Short Fiction #	3	B
EN8016	Self-Directed Research in English Studies *%	3	-

# Subject to approval by the program leader on a case-by-case basis
* Courses for students of EN only
% Courses not to be offered in 2024-2025

Updated in August 2024