This a practical course designed to strengthen your understanding and application of English grammar in everyday communication. Throughout this course, you will learn to select and use the correct forms of adjectives, adverbs, articles, nouns, pronouns, prepositions, gerunds, and infinitives to convey meaning effectively in different contexts. You will also develop the skills to construct accurate and meaningful sentences using reported speech, conditionals, passive voice, relative clauses, modals, and proper word order. Additionally, you’ll explore the rules of collocation to enhance fluency and natural expression. By the end of the course, you are expected to have a good foundation in grammar and the confidence to use it in both written and spoken English.
Critical examination of the novel, including social, cultural, historical and religious context.
Key principes of effective and efficient academic writing.
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 students will examine the cultural contexts of these plays to see how these contexts are reflected in the literary works and how reality is depicted in the plays.
This course aims to help students to read more effectively by presenting and developing the various skills needed for successful reading comprehension. The content of this course is designed for advanced learners of English, including all examples of contemporary of British and American English taken from a variety of sources such as newspapers, magazines, novels, advertising materials and instructions. The students will be instructed on how to extract main ideas, how to read for specific information, how to understand text organization, how to predict, how to infer, how to deal with unfamiliar words, how to link ideas, how to understand complex sentences, how to evaluate the text and how to draw a conclusion.
This is an interdisciplinary course that explores British culture in the 20th and 21st century through the nation's history, sociology, literature and the arts, politics and mass media. It taps on students' previous experiences to examine the British popular and ethnic cultures, and howhistorical, social, religious and political movements have shaped the nation's culture. The course highlightsthe difficulty of defining what culture is with special reference to the British context, and how the different ethnic groups emigrating to Britain have contributed to its
overarching sub-cultures.
This is a very brief introduction to the most general, intriguing and illuminating points of intersection between literature and other subjects such as philosophy, art, education, politics, religion, etc. It is an interdisciplinary course which aims at highlighting the value of literature in the development of human beings. Students will be instructed to recognize and understand the interaction between literature and other social and
science subjects in the history of humankind. Through exploring the relationship between literature and other subjects, students will be helped to detect the crucial roles that literature has played in our daily life so that they may make full use of literature consciously to enrich their daily life and to solve their own and community problems.
This course is designed to introduce students to the study of literary works and cinematic forms. The link between novels, film, theatre and television will be examined. Students will explore issues pertaining to each medium as well as larger questions related to style and adaptation. In this course, selected literary wroks will be studied and films will be viewed. Additional works by selected representative literary
and film theorists as well as historians will be discussed.
This is a fundamental 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 studies for the past thousands of years from 360 BC to the present day will be briefly introduced to the students. Students will learn how different theories of literature have emerged as responses to particular issues in culture, philosophy and in society.
The course introduces students to English novels and short stories written in 18th and 19th centuries. The students will critically examine the constituent elements of the novels and the short stories, including the social, cultural, historical and religious contexts, as well as the characters, plot and setting. They will learn to write critical papers in response to the novels. They will read few novels and short stories representative of the periods.
Students will revise the basics in thesis writing, including stylesheets, citations and bibliography, and meeting up with their supervisors and revising their works. Time will be spent working out a supervision system and timeline so that students may complete their theses in time and be ready for the final submission and viva.
This course introduces students to speech sounds, mainly in the English language, and how they are linked together in a rule-governed way. They will be introduced to physical entities of sounds -- consonants, vowels, dipthongs, etc. (phonetics) and how these sounds form
linguistic units (phonology). In phonetics, speech sounds and the description of the process of how sound is made and the use of the International Phonetic System (IPA) to trascribe sounds and utterances will be learnt. In phonology, they will learn how sounds function as members of a particular linguistic system and the rules governing sounds in English.
This course introduces students to the linguistic, psycholinguistic and sociolinguistic aspects of bilingualism.
They will examine how bilingualism is defined, developed and measured. They will also investigate the psycholinguistic and neurolinguistic bases of bilingualism, and the behaviors of bilinguals.
This course will address the complexity of the contemporary aesthetic experience through a related series of questions that drive the discourse in contemporary Literature and arts: How do we open ourselves to what is unfamiliar in the arts and literature and what is the purpose in doing so? Who decides what is of value in the arts and literature and how are these determinations made? How do the arts literature respond to culture and how do they lead them? Whose voice is allowed access to speak through the arts and literature? What is the place of beauty in the arts literature and how has that concept changed over time? Just what are the arts and lilterature anyway? In this course we will look at how contemporary artists and writers have presented us with answers to these questions that are sometimes startling and difficult, sometimes pleasurable and affirming, but always provocative and engaging. The notion of the aesthetic will be examined as it pertains to experiences in nature, in the environment, in the senses, in social and cultural systems, conventions and institutions, and in works of literature and different kinds of arts. Through observation, contemplation, sensation, reading, writing, attendance at some events of literature, and heightened self-awareness, the student will engage as an aesthetic observer of and participant in the world.
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 quantitative textual analysis and text.