For more details on the courses, please refer to the Course Catalog
| Code | Course Title | Credit | Learning Time | Division | Degree | Grade | Note | Language | Availability |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ENG3057 | Structure of English | 3 | 6 | Major | Bachelor | English | Yes | ||
| In this course we will become familiar with the major concepts and types of facts associated with the subfield of linguistics known as syntax. Syntax concerns the knowledge that a speaker of a language has about how to construct a proper sentence that conveys a particular meaning. We will survey a range of phenomena that illustrate English sentence structures, and learn to use syntactic argumentation in order to compare possible analyses of English sentence structures. | |||||||||
| ENG3060 | British and American Literature in the Posthuman Era | 3 | 6 | Major | Bachelor | Korean | Yes | ||
| "Posthuman" is one of the most important and popular concepts in the current world, raising the questions of what is to be human and how the concept of human is being transformed and blurred by technology. This class will explore the ideas of Posthuman and its articulation in the fields of critical theory and literature. Focusing on contemporary novels, this course will help students have an understanding of the Posthuman as a lens for textual analysis. The students will also be expected to review classic American and British literature in the an attempt to analyze and compare them to today’s views. | |||||||||
| ENG3062 | Topics on British and American Literature1 | 3 | 6 | Major | Bachelor | - | No | ||
| This course examines a variety of different writers and important literary works of British and American literature and world literature written in English. This class is designed to help students understand British and American literature and develop their skills in close reading, literary analysis, discussion, and critical writing. | |||||||||
| ENG3063 | Topics on British and American Literature 2 | 3 | 6 | Major | Bachelor | - | No | ||
| This class surveys British and American literature in multiple genres and examines a variety of texts by both canonical and emergent writers. This class covers a wide range of subjects, including race, class, gender or social, historical, economic, and cultural contexts represented in literary texts. This class is designed to develop students' skills in close reading, literary analysis, discussion, and critical writing. | |||||||||
| ENG3064 | Machine Translation and Advanced English | 3 | 6 | Major | Bachelor | - | No | ||
| Machine translation is a sub-field of computational linguistics that investigates the use of software to translate text or speech from one language to another. Achievement of high-quality bilingual translation is a challenging and demanding task, and requires both improvement of a translation system and deeper understanding of natural language. This course aims to provide students with a solid understanding of features of advanced English that are profitably utilizable by language professionals as mediators of machine translation and human translation in the age of AI. Students are expected to conduct a self-directed, culminating project on issues dealt with in the class. | |||||||||
| ENG3065 | Literature of Disaster | 3 | 6 | Major | Bachelor | - | No | ||
| This course will explore literary representations of various disasters, crises, and global pandemics that the world has faced or has expected to face in the near future. By examining a wide range of literature of disaster, students will increase their understanding of key issues of the world we are living in now. | |||||||||
| ENG3066 | Postcolonial Literature and Theory | 3 | 6 | Major | Bachelor | English | Yes | ||
| This course will examine important post-colonial literary theories and post-colonial literature. This course aims to increase students’ understanding of important current global issues, especially regarding unequal power relationships between countries and races. It also aims to develop their skills in close reading, literary analysis, discussion, and critical writing. | |||||||||
| ENG3067 | Introduction to Psycholinguistics | 3 | 6 | Major | Bachelor | English | Yes | ||
| This course provides an introduction to psycholinguistics, which is the study of the mental processes involved in comprehending and producing language. Our focus in this class will be on understanding of how (i) research questions in linguistics can be operationalized experimentally and (ii) experimental results in psycholinguistics can provide insights into the theory of language, with the emphasis on the relationship between sentence processing and syntactic theory. On completion of this course, students will be able to deepen their understanding of how linguistics might fit together with other disciplines (e.g., psychology, computer science, neuroscience, etc). | |||||||||
| ENG3069 | Multi-Ethnic Literature | 3 | 6 | Major | Bachelor | Korean | Yes | ||
| This course will explore literary texts written by various immigrant and ethnic writers and examine issues of displacement/dislocation, diaspora, assimilation, hybridity, or alienation. It will examine the social, political, and historical realities of various marginalized ethic groups and increase students’ understanding of British and American society. | |||||||||
| ENG3070 | Environmental Humanities | 3 | 6 | Major | Bachelor | - | No | ||
| What is the environment? How do we humans engage with the environment? How do literature, film, photography, documentary, and other forms of narrative shape our understanding of the environment? In this course, we will explore multiple environmental issues rendered in diverse narrative forms to discuss the interconnection between humans and nonhuman physical surroundings including material elements and animals. To that end, we will extend the concept of the environment from pastoral/wild nature to the built environment in the city and discuss ecology, species, toxicity, environmental justice, climate change and the Anthropocene. Readings will include a variety of narrative genres and media as well as critical theories in environmental humanities. | |||||||||
| ENG3071 | Twentieth-Century American Novel | 3 | 6 | Major | Bachelor | Korean | Yes | ||
| This course focuses on modernistic and post-modernistic American novels written in the twentieth century. Interrogating the ways in which these novels offered significant social critiques, representations of American identity, and innovative narrative developments, we will situate texts in their historical and cultural environments. | |||||||||
| ENG3072 | Critical Theory | 3 | 6 | Major | Bachelor | - | No | ||
| The objective of this course is to examine modern critical theory and contemplate upon its significance as part of the English studies. This course will focus on contemporary texts in crucial areas of theoretical research, allowing each student to engage rigorously and extensively with theoretical practices. | |||||||||
| ENG3073 | Twentieth-Century British Novels | 3 | 6 | Major | Bachelor | - | No | ||
| What does it mean to tell stories? How shall we tell our stories, in what form and to whom? This course will examine the trajectory of British novels through diverse forms of storytelling that involve settings, humans, and nonhuman characters in narrative movements. Comparing the initial shape of the novel in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries with the changing form that restructures the narrative in twentieth-century English fiction, we will learn how the English novels have evolved to encompass the multiple forms of agency in diverse narrative forms. Topics for discussion may include imperialism, modernity, gender, race, environment, city, and postcolonial. | |||||||||
| ENG3074 | Critical Writing Workshop | 3 | 6 | Major | Bachelor | - | No | ||
| This course is designed to help students improve their ability to write for academic purposes. It covers topics essential to improve academic writing, from finding a topic and avoiding plagiarism to constructing a research proposal and a research paper. In this course, students will choose a topic in literature, develop a research topic, and write an academic essay. | |||||||||
| ENG3075 | Film and Popular Culture | 3 | 6 | Major | Bachelor | - | No | ||
| This course aims to examine the representation of social issues like race, class, and gender in films from diverse countries, including the United States. In addition, students will develop an understanding of how movies, as a facet of popular culture, commodify and consume these social conflicts. | |||||||||