For more details on the courses, please refer to the Course Catalog
| Code | Course Title | Credit | Learning Time | Division | Degree | Grade | Note | Language | Availability |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ENG5247 | Neurolinguistics | 3 | 6 | Major | Master/Doctor | - | No | ||
| This course introduces the neural machinery behind our ability to speak and understand language. Topics discussed include the brain bases of speech perception and reading, lexical processing, syntax, and semantics. We will draw on a range of state-of-the-art functional neuroimaging techniques, as well as the study of neurological and developmental language disorders. Special attention will be given to how theories of linguistic computations and representations can inform, and be informed by, our understanding of the brain. | |||||||||
| ENG5248 | Topics in Psycholinguistics: Language and AI | 3 | 6 | Major | Master/Doctor | - | No | ||
| This course aims to understand properties of human language cognition, i.e., how it compares with the learning mechanism of AI and the algorithmic language of AI. Focus is placed on how understanding of human language cognition in cognitive neuroscience and neurolinguistics is compared with deep learning and neural network models for language. Prerequisites: Introduction to Psycholinguistics/Neurolinguistics. | |||||||||
| ENG5249 | Research Paper Workshop: English Linguistics | 3 | 6 | Major | Master/Doctor | - | No | ||
| This course is designed to help nonnative graduate students majoring English linguistics improve their ability to write for academic purposes in English. It covers topics essential to improve academic writing, from finding a topic for a research paper and avoiding plagiarism to constructing a research proposal and a research paper, producing abstracts and steps for publishing in journals. Possible assignments include analyzing published research papers from their own chosen fields and constructing their own research proposal and research paper. | |||||||||
| ENG5250 | Seminar Discussion Groups: English Linguistics | 3 | 6 | Major | Master/Doctor | - | No | ||
| A selected group study, with emphasis on individual writing and presentation, cross-disciplinary reading and discussion and/or development of collaborative research project. | |||||||||
| ENG5252 | Special project on interaction English studies | 3 | 6 | Major | Master/Doctor | - | No | ||
| In this course, students will conduct their own research project on interaction English studies as an independent study guided by their advisor. Students are expected to develop their research into a serious collaborative project with a professional/professionals at a medical or research institution or an industry. They are also to required to present their research project either at a departmental colloquium or at an academic conference outside the university. | |||||||||
| ENG5253 | Seminar in Interaction English Linguistics 1 | 3 | 6 | Major | Master/Doctor | - | No | ||
| Discussion of acvanced topics important in recent development of Interaction English Linguistics | |||||||||
| ENG5254 | Seminar in Interaction English Linguistics 2 | 3 | 6 | Major | Master/Doctor | - | No | ||
| Discussion of acvanced topics important in recent development of Interaction English Linguistics | |||||||||
| ENG5255 | Topics in Interaction English Literature: Language and MBSR | 3 | 6 | Major | Master/Doctor | - | No | ||
| A study of MBSR and other creative writings as a way of cultivating the possibility of language in the field of health and other practical areas by understanding diverse uses of language to direct our attention to self-awareness. | |||||||||
| ENG5256 | Seminar in Interaction English Literature: Literature of Disaster and Healing | 3 | 6 | Major | Master/Doctor | - | No | ||
| This seminar will provide students with plenty of opportunity to discuss and present their projects/interest and share their writing based on their independent research on literature of disaster and healing they choose. This course will be student-centered and student-led. It is designed to develop students’ skills in literary analysis, discussion, presentation, and critical writing as well as strategies for dealing with selected topics and materials. | |||||||||
| ENG5257 | Topics in Biomedical Humanities: Literature and Disease | 3 | 6 | Major | Master/Doctor | - | No | ||
| This course aims to bring literature and medicine into cross-disciplinary dialogue by examining representations of disease and body in literature, film, and medical texts. Thematic areas to be examined include the medical discourses of disease in the 19th and 20th centuries; illness as metaphor and as reality; and the significance of the body in the age of biopolitics. | |||||||||
| ENG5258 | Publication Workshop | 3 | 6 | Major | Master/Doctor | - | No | ||
| In this workshop, students will write or rework a paper for publication. This course will be student-centered and student-led. It is designed to help students identify an appropriate journal and revise their writing for a successful submission. | |||||||||
| ENG5259 | Research Methods in English Literature | 3 | 6 | Major | Master/Doctor | - | No | ||
| In this course, students will learn about basic knowledge and skills needed to write an academic paper about English literature. | |||||||||
| ENG5260 | Seminar in Environmental Humanities: Animals, Anthropocentrism, and Early English Literature | 3 | 6 | Major | Master/Doctor | - | No | ||
| This course will focus on interaction between humans and nonhumans in medieval and Renaissance poems. We will study how early English literature imagines humanity in ways that both differ from and prefigure modern forms of anthropocentrism. We will begin by reading anonymous medieval texts such as Beowulf, “The Seafarer,” and “The Owl and the Nightingale.” We will go on to study excerpts from Marie de France’s Fables, Geoffrey Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales, Philip Sidney’s Arcadia, Edmund Spenser’s The Faerie Queene, and John Milton’s Paradise Lost. | |||||||||
| ENG5261 | Topics in Environmental Humanities: Climate Change and Food | 3 | 6 | Major | Master/Doctor | - | No | ||
| ENG5262 | Research Paper Workshop: English Literature | 3 | 6 | Major | Master/Doctor | English | Yes | ||
| This course is designed to help nonnative graduate students majoring English literature improve their ability to write for academic purposes in English. It covers topics essential to improve academic writing, from finding a topic for a research paper and avoiding plagiarism to constructing a research proposal and a research paper, producing abstracts and steps for publishing in journals. Possible assignments include analyzing published research papers from their own chosen fields and constructing their own research proposal and research paper. | |||||||||