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constructed through the consumption of cityscape as their everyday life experience. Concepts
relating to the postcolonial city, the cosmopolitan, the cinematic city, the fantastic city for
tourism, the technocity and the green metropolis of the future will be explored in terms of
sociocultural dynamics and changes.
After the course, students are expected to have a comprehensive understanding of how
urban space and time (history), value and meaning, milieu and community, all form a complex
structure of cultural forces that guide the very process that fashions our built environment.
Such a recognition will help students develop an awareness of how important it is for them to
reconsider urban culture in view of the imminent environmental crisis we all are facing
nowadays.

ENG 240 Literary Translation
1 Term; 3 Credits
This course studies the rhetorical features that characterize literary writing and their
representations in translation. Major types of literary writing (i.e. prose, poetry, novels and
plays) will be discussed in class with demonstration of representative literary works and their
translations. Both theoretical issues and practical techniques in literary translation will be
introduced to students of this course. By studying the techniques and topics covered by the
course, students are expected to be able to translate different literary genres with basic
competence and strengthen their sense of language and literary genres.

ENG 250 Sociolinguistics
1 Term; 3 Credits
This course introduces the major issues in sociolinguistics and examines the relationship
between human, language and society. Issues like regional, social and situational language
variation, language change, language and culture, language attitudes and identity, language
and gender, the social functions of language and language in contact will be discussed.

ENG 260 Academic Writing
1 Term; 3 Credits
This course aims to help students develop their confidence and ability to communicate
effectively in written English for academic purposes through practice in reading, evaluating and
producing academic texts. The course will focus on developing students’ competence in the
following skills:
1) critically reading and analysing academic English texts;
2) producing written texts from purpose to goal through a process approach of planning,
drafting, eliciting feedback and revising;
3) polishing and editing written texts through attention to: communicative purpose, form and
format, the accurate and appropriate use of grammar and vocabulary, and adherence to
academic writing conventions;
4) summarising, paraphrasing, quoting, citing sources and referencing.
The importance of maintaining academic honesty and of avoiding plagiarism is

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