English Language and Linguistics Courses
The Department offers an exciting and holistic range of courses that investigate linguistic phenomena in multicultural and international contexts. This includes linguistic patterning at the levels of word, sentence and text; how language is acquired and developed in children as well as in adults in bilingual environments or in situations of brain impairment; how language evolves and changes over time and space; how and why there are many varieties of language (for example, American, British and Singaporean English); how language is used in everyday and institutional contexts and interacts in complex ways with the situational environment, socio-cultural practices and ideology; and how the study of language interacts with other fields like literature, semiotics and popular culture. Bringing together theory, description, and application, the courses provide a firm foundation in these areas of inquiry at the introductory levels, and offer opportunities for in-Department and self-directed study at more advanced levels.
Unless otherwise stated, all level 1000–6000 courses carry 4 units.
Level 4000HM coded courses carry 5 units each (for Cohort 2020 and before).
Courses offered in AY2023/2024 Semester 1
Leslie LEE
This introductory overview of linguistics aims at equipping students with a solid foundation in the object, methods and goals of the science of spoken language, the prime tool of human communication. Through a principled analysis of patterns of sound, form and meaning at the levels of word, sentence and text, students will gain insight into what it means to say that language is a rule-governed system and an organic whole. The results of this exploration will be useful to those interested in the relationship between language and mind, society and culture.
Pre-requisite: Exempted from NUS Qualifying English Test, or passed NUS Qualifying English Test, or exempted from further CELC Remedial English courses.
Leslie LEE
This course introduces students to phonetics – which is concerned with speech sounds as physical objects – and phonology – which is concerned with the organization of speech sounds in a linguistic system. We will learn about the human speech apparatus in detail, the mechanisms that are involved in speech production, as well as the acoustic properties of speech sounds. Starting with examples from English, we will explore phonological patterns from a crosslinguistic perspective, and learn how to provide formal analyses for these patterns. The course teaches conceptual tools that will allow students to analyse the phonology of English and other languages.
Pre-requisite: EL1101E
Rebecca STARR
This course considers how variation in language use relates to broader variation in the daily experiences of individuals and groups. Students examine how language constructs cultural abstractions such as social class, gender, and power relations and how these abstractions play out in language varieties and shape their defining characteristics. The course should appeal to students who wish to explore the interaction of language and society by drawing on linguistics, sociology, anthropology, and psychology, and to understand the practical implications of language variation for language policy and language education in multilingual societies such as Singapore.
Pre-requisite: EL1101E
SHEN Zheng
Building on the knowledge of English morphology and syntax developed at Levels-1000 and 2000, this course aims to give students a deeper understanding of the morphological and syntactic structure of English, in relation to crosslinguistic patterns. With an emphasis on evidence and argumentation, the course will help students understand the interconnectedness of the analyses of apparently unrelated phenomena, and develop a sense of the organic unity of language structure. This course will provide a crucial foundation for the further study of morphology and syntax, and their applications.
Pre-requisite: EL2101
Aine ITO
The ability to use language is a uniquely human one, so effortless that it is easy to forget the very complex psychological processes underlying its use. Psycholinguistics is the study of these processes. More specifically, it investigates the processes that take place in our minds when we use language as well as how these processes develop in children. Our knowledge about these processes in healthy individuals is also informed by studying language impairment, for example in patients who have sustained brain damage, or in children with atypical language development. In this course, we will be covering these three broad areas.
Pre-requisite: EL1101E
Vincent OOI
The vast worldwide computer network collectively known as the Internet (and its graphical interface, the World Wide Web) provides a new environment and technologies of communication (e.g., Internet Relay Chat, bulletin board systems etc.) that challenge current assumptions regarding the nature of speech, writing, community and society. Since English is the principal language of the Internet, this course aims to examine the ways in which the language is being (re)formulated on the Web, especially in multilingual settings. The course focuses on the study and management of electronic language evidence on the Web.
Pre-requisite: EL1101E
Thorsten SCHRÖTER
Pragmatics is the study of language in relation to context. As such, it deals broadly with the question of how communication takes place. For example, we can ask how it is possible for someone to say ‘The door is open’ and mean it as a request (‘Close the door’). There are clearly cultural factors involved, but there also appear to be more universal principles of communication. This advanced course provides students with the opportunity to critically examine fundamental pragmatic concepts, and their theoretical relevance in explaining communicative behaviour.
Pre-requisite for EL4204: Cohort 2021 onwards: Completed 80 units, including 20 units in EL
Preclusion for EL4204: EL4204HM
Pre-requisite for EL4204HM: Cohort 2020 and before: Completed 80 units, including 28 units in EL, with a minimum GPA of 3.20 or be on the Honours track
Preclusion for EL4204HM: EL4204
Alexander SMITH
This course develops practical skills in linguistic fieldwork. The centrepiece of the course is the investigation of an unfamiliar language through structured interviews with native speakers. Students will elicit, record, transcribe, and organize linguistic data. Together we will gain a basic understanding of aspects of the grammar of the language. Students will also develop original hypotheses regarding the language’s structure, test these hypotheses, and share their findings through written reports. Ethical issues that arise in conducting linguistic fieldwork will also be discussed.
Pre-requisite for EL4212: Cohort 2021 onwards: Completed 80 units, including 20 units in EL
Preclusion for EL4212: EL3212, EL4212HM
Pre-requisite for EL4212HM: Cohort 2020 and before: Completed 80 units, including 28 units in EL, with a minimum GPA of 3.20 or be on the Honours track.
Preclusion for EL4212HM: EL3212, EL4212
Peter TAN
This course focuses on how the phenomenon of discourse might be analysed and will consider how a number of frameworks can be used in a complementary fashion to give a fuller description of discourse. These include the frameworks of register and genre; speech-act theory; co-operation; face and politeness; exchange structure and conversation analysis. This course is appropriate for students reading or intending to read English Language honours.
Pre-requisite for EL4252: Cohort 2021 onwards: Completed 80 units, including 20 units in EL
Preclusion for EL4252: EL4252HM
Pre-requisite for EL4252HM: Cohort 2020 and before: Completed 80 units, including 28 units in EL, with a minimum GPA of 3.20 or be on the Honours track
Preclusion for EL4252HM: EL4252
Mie HIRAMOTO
This course encourages you to think analytically about identity construction issues regarding gender and sexuality by focusing on language, and about the relation between language and social practice. The goals are inseparably intellectual and political: responsible scholarship and citizenship require the ability and eagerness to go beyond stereotype, common belief, and the popular press, to evaluate claims for oneself in a knowledgeable way. Through the gathering and analysis of data, you will be asked to look for questions that might be answered, problems that might be solved, and issues that might be explored.
Pre-requisite for EL4253: Cohort 2021 onwards: Completed 80 units, including 20 units in EL or 20 units in EN, and EL2151.
Preclusion for EL4253: EL4253HM
Pre-requisite for EL4253HM: Cohort 2020 and before: Completed 80 units, including 28 units in EL or 28 units in EN, and EL2151, with a minimum GPA of 3.20 or be on the Honours track.
Preclusion for EL4253HM: EL4253
Joseph PARK
Metapragmatics is the study of the reflexive character of language, or how language use that refers back to language use serves as a crucial foundation for the constitution of language. As an advanced introduction to the field of metapragmatics, this course offers students key tools for metapragmatic analysis and an understanding of the significance of language ideology for the investigation of linguistic phenomena. Through discussion of classical and current research on language ideology, it explores how metapragmatics shapes language structure and use and serves as the basis for the politics of language in everyday life.
Pre-requisite for EL4258: Cohort 2021 onwards: Completed 80 units, including 20 units in EL, and EL2151
Preclusion for EL4258: EL4258HM
Pre-requisite for EL4258HM: Cohort 2020 and before: Completed 80 units, including 28 units in EL, and EL2151, with a minimum GPA of 3.20 or be on the Honours track.
Preclusion for EL4258HM: EL4258
EL4401 (8 units)
EL4401HM (15 units)
The Honours Thesis is usually done in the final semester of a student’s pursuing an Honours degree. Students intending to read this course are expected to consult prospective supervisors the semester before they read this course and provide a research proposal. A wide range of topics is acceptable provided it highlights a language issue.
Pre-requisite for EL4401: Cohort 2021 onwards: Completed 110 units including 40 units of EL major requirements with a minimum SJAP of 4.00 and GPA of 3.50, or with recommendation by the programme committee.
Preclusion for EL4401: EL4660, EL4401HM, EL4660HM
Pre-requisite for EL4401HM: Cohort 2016 to Cohort 2020: Completed 110 units including 44 units of EL major requirements with a minimum SJAP of 4.00 and GPA of 3.50, or with recommendation by the programme committee.
Preclusion for EL4401HM: EL4660, EL4660HM, EL4401
Note: Please register for the Honours Thesis manually with the Department.
Documents containing important information on the HT should be downloaded from “Documents and Forms.”
The Independent Study course is designed to enable the student to explore an approved topic within the discipline in depth. The student should approach a lecturer to work out an agreed topic, readings, and assignments for the course. A formal, written agreement is to be drawn up, giving a clear account of the topic, programme of study, assignments, evaluation, and other pertinent details. The Head’s and/or Honours Coordinator’s approval of the written agreement is required. Regular meetings and reports are expected. Evaluation is based on 100% Continuous Assessment and must be worked out between the student and the lecturer prior to seeking departmental approval.
Pre-requisite for EL4660: Cohort 2021 onwards: Completed 100 units, including 40 units in EL, with a minimum GPA of 3.20.
Preclusion for EL4660: EL4401, XFA4404, EL4660HM, EL4401HM, XFA4404HM
Pre-requisite for EL4660HM: Cohort 2016 to Cohort 2020: Completed 100 units, including 44 units in EL, with a minimum GPA of 3.20.
Preclusion for EL4660HM: EL4401, XFA4404, EL4660, EL4401HM, XFA4404HM
Note: Please register for the Independent Study course manually with the Department.
Documents containing important information on EL4660 should be downloaded from “Documents and Forms.”
Nick HUANG
This foundational course familiarizes graduate students with the major theoretical principles and research paradigms that define the various subfields of linguistics. The course surveys the history of linguistics as a discipline, and introduces major thinkers, key linguistic concepts, significant debates, and basic research methods. Topics covered include formal linguistics, historical linguistics, sociolinguistics, discourse analysis, contact linguistics, psycholinguistics, computational linguistics, and applied linguistics. Students will complete the course with a solid understanding of the range of topics addressed and approaches used in the study of language.
Nala LEE
Typology and universals are concerned with how the pieces of languages are put together, what they contain, and how and why they interact and function as they do. Students acquire a broad overview of the grammatical make-up of languages and an understanding of an important approach in contemporary linguistics. Typology contributes to and draws on core areas of linguistics that students have studied.
Preclusion: EL5204
Remarks:
Subject Area B: Grammatical Structure and Meaning
Subject Area C: Language in Use
Aine ITO
This course explores topics in psycholinguistics such as spoken and visual word recognition, language comprehension, language production, language acquisition, and bilingual language processing. Students will also be exposed to research methods in psycholinguistics and neurolinguistics, including eye-tracking and brain potentials (EEG; Electroencephalography, or ERP; Event-Related Potentials).
Preclusion: EL5206
Remarks:
Subject Area C: Language in Use
Justina ONG
This course explores current research in second language writing and encompasses the investigation of both processes and products of writing. The course will examine theories in writing (including L1 theories) and the role theories and models plays in second language writing research. The topics addressed will include the cognitive processes in writing, the distribution of processes on writing performance, individual differences in writing (for examples, self-efficacy beliefs, motivation, and strategies), the methodology and tools researchers use to investigate the processes in writing, and the assessment of written texts.
Preclusion: EL5880B, EL5255
Remarks:
Subject Area C: Language in Use
Thorsten SCHRÖTER
This course introduces students to a range of issues, approaches and working procedures in applied linguistics, partly to familiarise students with relevant research, and more especially to engage students actively in typical processes of enquiry. Applied linguistics has evolved into a dynamically diversified, multidisciplinary field of academic and professional activity. It is characterised by theoretically and empirically informed initiatives to identify and represent clearly, investigate appropriately, and address pragmatically and critically those issues and problems in human communicative affairs that prominently involve language, language learning or language use.
Preclusion: EL5270
Remarks:
Subject Area C: Language in Use
Independent research plays an important role in graduate education. The Independent Study course is designed to enable the student to explore an approved topic in English Language in depth. The student should approach a lecturer to work out an agreed topic, readings, and assignments for the course. A formal, written agreement is to be drawn up, giving a clear account of the topic, programme of study, assignments, evaluation, and other pertinent details. The Head’s and/or Graduate Coordinator’s approval of the written agreement is required. Regular meetings and reports are expected. Evaluation is based on 100% Continuous Assessment and must be worked out between the student and the lecturer prior to seeking departmental approval.
Note:
(1) Word limit: 5,000 – 6,000 words. (2) Workload: Minimum 10 hours per week. The precise breakdown of contact hours, assignment and preparation is to be worked out between the lecturer and the student, subject to Departmental approval.
(2) Students may take EL5660 to fulfil one Subject Area requirement, subject to department approval.
Independent research plays an important role in graduate education. The Independent Study course is designed to enable the student to explore an approved topic in Language Study in depth. The student should approach a lecturer to work out an agreed topic, readings, and assignments for the course. The Head’s and/or Graduate Coordinator’s approval is required. Regular meetings and reports are expected. Evaluation is based on 100% Continuous Assessment and must be worked out between the student and the lecturer prior to seeking departmental approval.
Note:
(1) Word limit: 7,000 – 8,000 words. (2) Workload: Minimum 10 hours per week. The precise breakdown of contact hours, assignment and preparation is to be worked out between the lecturer and the student, subject to Departmental approval.
Mie HIRAMOTO
This is a required course for all research Masters and Ph.D. students admitted from AY2004/05. The course provides a forum for students and faculty to share their research and to engage one another critically in discussion of their current research projects. The course will include presentations by faculty on research ethics and dissertation writing. Each student is required to present a formal research paper. Active participation in all research presentations is expected. The course may be spread over two semesters and will be graded “Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory” on the basis of student presentation and participation.
Courses offered in AY2023/2024 Semester 2
Nala LEE
This introductory overview of linguistics aims at equipping students with a solid foundation in the object, methods and goals of the science of spoken language, the prime tool of human communication. Through a principled analysis of patterns of sound, form and meaning at the levels of word, sentence and text, students will gain insight into what it means to say that language is a rule-governed system and an organic whole. The results of this exploration will be useful to those interested in the relationship between language and mind, society and culture.
Pre-requisite: Exempted from NUS Qualifying English Test, or passed NUS Qualifying English Test, or exempted from further CELC Remedial English courses.
Leslie LEE
This course explores language structure, in particular, patterns of sentence structure (syntax) and of meaning (semantics), from a cross-linguistic perspective. Concepts to be discussed include: grammatical categories, semantic relations, grammatical relations, constituency, and the relationship between grammar and the lexicon. A key feature of the course is its emphasis on the evidence and argumentation that bears upon the representation of structure and principles of grammar that we postulate. The course provides the foundation for the study of advanced courses investigating linguistic structure.
Pre-requisite: EL1101E or GEX1019 or GET1036
Peter TAN
The course aims to introduce how language change can take place orthographically, phonologically, grammatically and lexically. These changes do not take place at random but can be usefully accounted for by considering the socio-cultural contexts of use. The major topics covered include the history of English in Britain, English in North America and the New Englishes including Singaporean English. This course is suitable for students intending to read English Language and Linguistics as a major, as well as other interested students.
Pre-requisite: EL1101E
Rebecca STARR
This course explores the cognitive underpinnings and social consequences of bilingualism and multilingualism. Students will become familiar with multiple approaches to the study of bilingualism and investigate major questions such as how children acquire multiple languages, how those languages are stored in the brain, and how bilinguals use language in socially meaningful ways. Topics covered include bilingual acquisition, cognitive consequences of bilingualism, language mixing, and bilingual education.
Pre-requisite: EL1101E
Aine ITO
This course explores the processes underlying language comprehension, language production, and language acquisition. The topics include memory and language, effects of physical and emotional experience on language processing, individual differences (age, social factors) in language processing, code-switching and bilingual advantage.
Pre-requisite: EL1101E
Michelle LAZAR
The course aims to encourage a critical understanding of the significant role the media play in shaping our beliefs, values, and identities in contemporary social life. Topics covered: key social, cultural and political issues pertaining to texts and practices of specific types of media. These issues will be approached from an interdisciplinary perspective that brings together media, cultural, and discourse studies. Target students: those with a keen interest in the media, and who are open to interdisciplinary study.
Pre-requisite: EL1101E
Vincent OOI
With special reference to English in multilingual and multicultural settings, this course introduces students to the study of words from both lexicological (theory) and lexicographical (practice) perspectives. It aims to equip participants with a critical awareness of the notion of the word and its attendant sources of evidence, the organisation of the mental lexicon, and the publication of words in the form of print, online and standalone electronic dictionaries.
Pre-requisite for EL4216: Cohort 2021 onwards: Completed 80 units, including 20 units in EL
Preclusion for EL4216: EL4216HM
Pre-requisite for EL4216HM: Cohort 2020 and before: Completed 80 units, including 28 units in EL, with a minimum GPA of 3.20 or be on the Honours track
Preclusion for EL4216HM: EL4216
Peter TAN
This course highlights one way in which the disciplines within the Department (theatre, literary studies and linguistics) can be brought together in the enterprise to come to terms with dramatic discourse. The course will focus on the analysis of dramatic discourse, so that evidenced interpretations of dramatic passages may be provided. Students will be introduced to a number of frameworks, especially those used to deal with discourse such as speech-act theory, the co-operative principle, face and politeness, cognitive and critical discourse approaches. Key topics in stylistics such as foregrounding and reader response will also receive coverage.
Pre-requisite for EL4222: Cohort 2021 onwards: Completed 80 units including 20 units in EL or 20 units in TS.
Preclusion for EL4222: EL4222HM
Pre-requisite for EL4222HM: Cohort 2020 and before: Completed 80 units including 28 units in EL or 28 units in TS, with a minimum GPA of 3.20 or be on the Honours track.
Preclusion for EL4222HM: EL4222
SHEN Zheng
Fundamental importance is assigned to speakers’ introspective judgments of sentence acceptability in syntactic research. However, such judgments can be gravely compromised by instability of different kinds, which calls into question the empirical reliability of such data. In this course, students will learn objective and practical methods by which they may collect and analyse acceptability judgments. We will discuss experimental design, data visualisation, statistical analysis, and the application of experimental methods to theoretical questions. This will be a hands-on course, and students will be expected to lead discussions on primary research.
Pre-requisite for EL4880D: Cohort 2021 onwards: Completed 80 units, including (i) 20 units in EL, and (ii) EL2101 or with instructor's consent.
Preclusion for EL4880D: EL4880DHM
Pre-requisite for EL4880DHM: Cohort 2020 and before: Completed 80 units, including (i) 28 units in EL, and (ii) EL2101 or with instructor's consent, with a minimum GPA of 3.20 or be on the Honours track.
Preclusion for EL4880DHM: EL4880D
Nick HUANG
Many morphosyntactic phenomena, such as those concerning subject-verb agreement or wh-dependencies, are typically seen as reflecting abstract grammatical rules. However, linguists have often questioned the need for such rules, arguing that these phenomena can be more fruitfully understood as the product of sentence processing and cognitive constraints, such as the limits of working memory. This course introduces students to these perspectives, their underlying assumptions, and their successes and limitations. Through this course, students will also become more familiar with the logic of linguistics experiments and statistical analysis.
Pre-requisite for EL4880F: Cohort 2021 onwards: Completed 80 units, including (i) 20 units in EL, and (ii) EL2101 or with instructor's consent.
Preclusion for EL4880F: EL4880FHM
Pre-requisite for EL4880FHM: Cohort 2020 and before: Completed 80 units, including (i) 28 units in EL, and (ii) EL2101 or with instructor's consent, with a minimum GPA of 3.20 or be on the Honours track.
Preclusion for EL4880FHM: EL4880F
EL4401 (8 units)
EL4401HM (15 units)
The Honours Thesis is usually done in the final semester of a student’s pursuing an Honours degree. Students intending to read this course are expected to consult prospective supervisors the semester before they read this course and provide a research proposal. A wide range of topics is acceptable provided it highlights a language issue.
Pre-requisite for EL4401: Cohort 2021 onwards: Completed 110 units including 40 units of EL major requirements with a minimum SJAP of 4.00 and GPA of 3.50, or with recommendation by the programme committee.
Preclusion for EL4401: EL4660, EL4401HM, EL4660HM
Pre-requisite for EL4401HM: Cohort 2016 to Cohort 2020: Completed 110 units including 44 units of EL major requirements with a minimum SJAP of 4.00 and GPA of 3.50, or with recommendation by the programme committee.
Preclusion for EL4401HM: EL4660, EL4660HM, EL4401
Note: Please register EL4401 manually with the Department.
Documents containing important information on the HT should be downloaded from “Documents and Forms.”
The Independent Study course is designed to enable the student to explore an approved topic within the discipline in depth. The student should approach a lecturer to work out an agreed topic, readings, and assignments for the course. A formal, written agreement is to be drawn up, giving a clear account of the topic, programme of study, assignments, evaluation, and other pertinent details. The Head’s and/or Honours Coordinator’s approval of the written agreement is required. Regular meetings and reports are expected. Evaluation is based on 100% Continuous Assessment and must be worked out between the student and the lecturer prior to seeking departmental approval.
Pre-requisite for EL4660: Cohort 2021 onwards: Completed 100 units, including 40 units in EL, with a minimum GPA of 3.20.
Preclusion for EL4660: EL4401, XFA4404, EL4660HM, EL4401HM, XFA4404HM
Pre-requisite for EL4660HM: Cohort 2016 to Cohort 2020: Completed 100 units, including 44 units in EL, with a minimum GPA of 3.20.
Preclusion for EL4660HM: EL4401, XFA4404, EL4660, EL4401HM, XFA4404HM
Note: Please register for the Independent Study course manually with the Department.
Documents containing important information on EL4660 should be downloaded from “Documents and Forms.”
BAO Zhiming
The course covers the foundational knowledge of the sound pattern of human language. Major topics include how speech sounds are made and transmitted, and how they pattern, drawing data primarily from English and other familiar languages. Students will learn the conceptual tools and technical skills in the analysis of speech data.
Remarks:
Subject Area A: Sounds and Sound Patterns
Mie HIRAMOTO
This course surveys major approaches and current issues relevant to the study of language in society. It aims to familiarize students with a range of theoretical and conceptual frameworks they may refer to in addressing sociolinguistic questions across a variety of sites and to provide general principles that they may consider when engaged in the study of language in social context. For this purpose, it will critically discuss classical and contemporary research to explore the historical background, prevailing assumptions, methodological perspectives, and analytic strengths of different approaches to language in society, and consider recent developments in the field.
Remarks:
Subject Area C: Language in Use
Vincent OOI
This course takes an empirical approach to linguistic investigation: it bases claims largely on computer-aided analyses of electronic datasets that are either manually built with linguistic purposes in mind or those that are readily found on the Web. With special reference to English, relevant topics will be introduced to suit particular needs; the corpus‐linguistic methodology blends well with various linguistic levels, including grammar, lexis and discourse. This course does not assume any expert computing knowledge; while no computer programming will be introduced, participants will receive hands‐on training in the use of standard corpus‐linguistic programs.
Preclusion: EL5216
Remarks:
Subject Area C: Language in Use
Justina ONG
This course will explore approaches to analysing both written and spoken discourses. Students will learn the analytical tools used to describe features of both modes of discourses. They will be encouraged to explore current research in discourse analysis. There may be a specific focus on particular kinds of discourse (classroom, computer-mediated, media, legal, political, etc.), depending on the expertise and interest of the lecturer. Students will be encouraged to collect and analyse their own data for the assignment.
Preclusion: EL5251
Remarks:
Subject Area C: Language in Use
Rebecca STARR
The study of variation and change in language employs quantitative statistical methods to account for phenomena in real-world language data. This course familiarises students with the major questions and methodologies of variationist research in sociolinguistics and corpus linguistics. Students will learn about the stylistic, social, and linguistic factors that influence how language is produced and perceived, and explore how data drawn from speech, texts, social media, and experimental methods are used to investigate variation. This course will prepare students to pursue independent research incorporating quantitative methods.
Preclusion: EL5252
Remarks:
Subject Area C: Language in Use
Independent research plays an important role in graduate education. The Independent Study course is designed to enable the student to explore an approved topic in English Language in depth. The student should approach a lecturer to work out an agreed topic, readings, and assignments for the course. A formal, written agreement is to be drawn up, giving a clear account of the topic, programme of study, assignments, evaluation, and other pertinent details. The Head’s and/or Graduate Coordinator’s approval of the written agreement is required. Regular meetings and reports are expected. Evaluation is based on 100% Continuous Assessment and must be worked out between the student and the lecturer prior to seeking departmental approval.
Note:
(1) Word limit: 5,000 – 6,000 words. (2) Workload: Minimum 10 hours per week. The precise breakdown of contact hours, assignment and preparation is to be worked out between the lecturer and the student, subject to Departmental approval.
(2) Students may take EL5660 to fulfil one Subject Area requirement, subject to department approval.
Independent research plays an important role in graduate education. The Independent Study course is designed to enable the student to explore an approved topic in Language Study in depth. The student should approach a lecturer to work out an agreed topic, readings, and assignments for the course. The Head’s and/or Graduate Coordinator’s approval is required. Regular meetings and reports are expected. Evaluation is based on 100% Continuous Assessment and must be worked out between the student and the lecturer prior to seeking departmental approval.
Note:
(1) Word limit: 7,000 – 8,000 words. (2) Workload: Minimum 10 hours per week. The precise breakdown of contact hours, assignment and preparation is to be worked out between the lecturer and the student, subject to Departmental approval.