ENG203 Appreciation of Poetry 22/04 Rebecca Yeoh
Lecturer: Rebecca Yeoh
Contact: rebeccayaoxia.yeoh@xmu.edu.my
Consultation time:
Tuesday and Thursday: 1.00-3.00 pm
(Please fix a prior appointment for consultation via email)
Will be announced soon
Assignment/Submission file names:
Always submit your assignment files with this naming format:
(Subject code)-(TaskName)-(Name of student)-IDnumber-(date)
EG: ENG110-Assignment-RebeccaYeoh-XXXXXX-211011
ENG206 Creative Writing 2022/04 Rebecca Yeoh
Lecturer: Rebecca Yeoh
Contact: rebeccayaoxia.yeoh@xmu.edu.my
Consultation time:
Tuesday and Thursday: 1.00-3.00 pm
(Please fix a prior appointment for consultation via email)
Will be announced soon
Assignment/Submission file names:
Always submit your assignment files with this naming format:
(Subject code)-(TaskName)-(Name of student)-IDnumber-(date)
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ENG110 Post-colonialism English Literature 22/04 RY
Lecturer: Rebecca Yeoh
Contact: rebeccayaoxia.yeoh@xmu.edu.my
Consultation time:
Tuesday and Thursday: 1.00-3.00 pm
(Please fix a prior appointment for consultation via email)
Texts required:
Jean Rhys: Wide Sargasso Sea
Derek Walcott: Omeros
Chinua Achebe: A Man of the People
Tsitsi Dagarembga: Nervous conditions
Arundhati Roy: The God of Small Things
Zadie Smith: White Teeth
Will be announced soon
Assignment/Submission file names:
Always submit your assignment files with this naming format:
(Subject code)-(TaskName)-(Name of student)-IDnumber-(date)
EG: ENG110-Assignment-RebeccaYeoh-XXXXXX-211011
ENG102 History of The English Language 2022/04 Mohammed Abdulkhaleq
The history of a language is the history of the people who speak it, those who read and write it, and those who come into contact with it. The course will examine the origin and development of the English language, from its earliest beginnings in the misty past, through Old English (or Anglo-Saxon), Middle English, Early Modern English, and Present-Day English, and across the post-modern World Englishes. To be able to do this, the students will be introduced to the origins of English and its changes, modern English grammar, old English, Middle English, English of Renaissance, Prescriptive Grammar, English of 19th Century, and American English. At the same time, some cultural events will be introduced in order to make it clear how those events influenced the changes in the English language and across the post-modern globe. The study of what language is and how it changes, and how these changes are grounded in parallel cultural changes, is, therefore, a subject of intrinsic value, especially to those interested in literature, linguistics, history, and cultural studies.
ENG010 Language and Social Interaction 2022/04 Mohammed Abdulkhaleq
This course explores the role of language in articulating, maintaining, and subverting power relations in society. It also explores a number of complex and sometimes not so explicit issues between language and culture. Many of these issues are drawn from anthropological linguistics and sociolinguistics, particularly the latter. We will discuss the nature of language and the cultural elements which have influenced language. Similarly, we will investigate how language has impacted different aspects of society such as culture, politics, media, gender, age, etc. We will take some modern literary works from English, including poetry, fiction and drama, and identify the traces of culture of the times they were written. Similarly, we will also examine some modern non-literary writings and identify the culture.
ENG109 Literature in a Digital Age 22/04 Jia Yang Song
This course offers a practical and theoretical introduction to the new creative and interpretive possibilities opened up by digital forms of literature. It explores what is happening to literature and its study in the digital age. Digital technologies are profoundly affecting how literature is produced, read and analyzed. It explores new theoretical perspectives on literature arising from its context: from innovative conceptions of textuality, authorship, and reading to changing understanding of the book, publishings, in and out digital forms and /or with digital methods, and for exploring a range of issues relevant to our increasingly digital textual world. Engaging with digital archives and computational techniques in literary analysis, we will ask what new insights we can gain into literature once it is digitalized. Is the digital age making literature more accessable, more inclusive and more interactive? Or will the digital age, with its many multimedia distractions, make literature obsolete? We will seek answers to these questions not only by analyzing existing literary objects, but also by making digital literary objects of their own. Students will also gain hands-on experience with and develop skills in quantative textual analysis and text.
ENG106 Topics in Professional Communication 22/04 Jia Yang Song
This course is designed to help graduate students improve their ability to communicate professionally to a variety of national and international/intercultural audiences for a variety of purposes, and to manage through communications. On the one hand, this course useS professional writing in cross-cultural contexts as its starting point. Students will learn the tools they need to adapt their writing in varied professional, cross-cultural contexts and to translate it into effective verbal presentations in these settings. In particular, students will develop an awareness of professional language, written conventions, and multimodal communication, including verbal, written, and digital/visual modes. Students will learn skills in rhetorical analysis, which will enable them to adapt to multifaceted professional writing scenarios in the future. They will apply these skills in the context of case studies and other examples that will address challenges professionals must problem-solve using written communication. On the other hand, it covers a variety of styles of public speaking, informal and formal debate and negotiation in different situations. It emphasizes the practical skill of public speaking, including techniques to lessen speaker anxiety, and the use of visual aids to enhance spearker presentations. It emphasizes the practical skill of debate, including analyzing and organizing materials, voice control, expressive voice and gestures to make debate more effective. It emphasizes the practical skill of negotiation, including preparation, negotiating, and post-negotiating implementation and evaluation. This course combines both knowledge and theories of verbal and non-verbal professional communication.
ENG201 Appreciation of Drama 22/04 Jia Yang Song
This course will introduce students to some classic plays from different times in Britain and America. The focus is to introduce the participants to this literary genre, examining the plot, characters, theme, setting, scene, dialogue, conflict, rhetorical and linguistic devices, and dramatic forms, such as tragedy, comedy, theatre of the absurd, etc. The participants will examine the cultural contexts of these plays to see how these contexts are reflected in the literary works and how reality depicted in the plays.
Topics on Individual Authors 2022/04 2222003
Lecturer's Name:
Nursyahirah binti Saiful Maznan
Course Name and Course Code:
Topics on Individual Authors, ENG207
Course Description:
This course introduces students to British and American influential poets, novelists and play and screen writers and their most important
works. It covers those celebrities in the history of literature from 1880s to present. It examines the socio-economic and cultural environments
during which their works were written.
Course Timeline:
15 weeks
Academic Writing 2022/04 2222003
Lecturer's Name:
Nursyahirah binti Saiful Maznan
Course Name and Course Code:
Academic Writing, ENG107
Course Description:
This course introduces students key principle of effective and efficient academic writing. It provides techniques, guidelines and suggestions to
improve students' academic writing. Argumentation in different academic disciplines, particularly social sciences will be highlight in this
course. Students will learn to make claims, provide evidence, explore underlying assumptions and anticipate and make counter arguments
based on the audiences the writing or visuals are for. This course will give students hands-on experience in drafting, organizing and revising
academic writing. They will learn about making their writing or visuals audience-centered.
Course Timeline:
15 Weeks
Introduction to Theory of Literature 2022/04 2222003
Lecturer's Name:
Nursyahirah binti Saiful Maznan
Course Name and Course Code:
Introduction to Theory of Literature, ENG103
Course Description:
This is a starting course for students to acquire some basic skills needed to engage with theoretically informed writing in literary studies.
Students will be introduced the nature of literature and the methods of analyzing literature. Critical perspectives and theoretical languages
that have informed literary study for the past thousands years from 360 BC to present will be briefly introduced to the students. The students
will learn how different theories of literature have emerged as responses to particular issues in culture, philosophy and in society.
Course Timeline:
15 weeks
A History of The English Language 2021/09 Mohammed Abdulkhaleq
The history of a language is the history of the people who speak it, those who read and write it, and those who come into contact with it. The course will examine the origin and development of the English language, from its earliest beginnings in the misty past, through Old English (or Anglo-Saxon), Middle English, Early Modern English, and Present-Day English, and across the post-modern World Englishes. To be able to do this, the students will be introduced to the origins of English and its changes, modern English grammar, old English, Middle English, English of Renaissance, Prescriptive Grammar, English of 19th Century, and American English. At the same time, some cultural events will be introduced in order to make it clear how those events influenced the changes in the English language. and across the post-modern globe. The study of what language is and how it changes, and how these changes are grounded in parallel cultural changes, is, therefore, a subject of intrinsic value, especially to those interested in literature, linguistics, history, and cultural studies.
An Introduction to Theory of Literature 2021/09 Mohammed Abdulkhaleq
This is a starting course for students to acquire some basic skills needed to engage with theoretically informed writing in literary studies. Students will be introduced to the nature of literature and the methods of analyzing literature. Critical perspectives and theoretical languages that have informed literary study for the past thousands of years from 360 BC to the present will be briefly introduced to the students. The students will learn how different theories of literature have emerged as responses to particular issues in culture, philosophy and in society.
Introduction to Linguistics 2021/09 Mohammed Abdulkhaleq
This course introduces students to the scientific study of human language. It covers the structure of language, including signs, sounds, formation of words, sentence structure, meaning, language use, language change and variation in language, language acquisition, language planning, maintenance of language, and language loss. Students will be able to examine their own language and learning of the second and even third language. . It also covers a brief introduction to Applied Linguistics so that the students will know about this branch of linguistics.
Task Listening 2021/09 Rebecca Yeoh
Lecturer: Rebecca Yeoh
Contact: rebeccayaoxia.yeoh@xmu.edu.my
Consultation time:
Monday and Thursday: 2.00 - 4.00 pm
(Please fix a prior appointment for consultation via email)