For more details on the courses, please refer to the Course Catalog
| Code | Course Title | Credit | Learning Time | Division | Degree | Grade | Note | Language | Availability |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ENG5263 | Seminar Discussion Groups: English Literature | 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. | |||||||||
| ENG5264 | Topics in Biomedical Humanities: Biopolitics and Immunity | 3 | 6 | Major | Master/Doctor | - | No | ||
| Recently scholars have increasingly grappled with the notion of biopolitics—its definition, its birth, its processes, and its significance in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries that begin with the terror of Nazi and in which the discourse of posthumanism seeks to redefine the boundaries surrounding modern philosophical and political understanding of the human. In this course, we will investigate the nature of power, sexuality, subject, and sovereignty through reading of the selected texts of Michel Foucault, Giorgio Agamben, and Roberto Esposito, the key texts that will allow us to become familiar with the debate about biopolitics. Interrogating the ways in which these foundational texts and others posited new perspectives through with to reinterpret traditional political and moral concepts, we will evaluate the ways they offered significant social critique. | |||||||||
| ENG5267 | Topics in Interaction English Literature: Literature and Science | 3 | 6 | Major | Master/Doctor | - | No | ||
| This course addresses a fundamental antagonism between science and literature, which C. P. Snow famously calls “the two cultures.” Examining both literary and scientific texts, this course questions whether Snow’s claim is right and seeks to deepen our understanding of the relationship between science and literature. | |||||||||
| ENG5268 | Seminar in Interaction English Literature: Language and Awareness | 3 | 6 | Major | Master/Doctor | - | No | ||
| An exploration of the possibility of poetics of awareness in the poetry of representative British and American poets. | |||||||||
| ENG5270 | Literature and History | 3 | 6 | Major | Master/Doctor | - | No | ||
| This workshop will be student-centered and student-led. Students will research social, historical, economic, and cultural contexts represented in literary texts they choose and share and present their projects/interest and preliminary writing. This course will provide students with plenty of opportunity to discuss and present their projects and workshop their writing based on their independent research. | |||||||||
| ENG5271 | Topics in Environmental Humanities: Ecological Literature of the East and West | 3 | 6 | Major | Master/Doctor | - | No | ||
| This course examines how the representative writers of the East and West understand and acknowledge the environmental problems that are present both locally and globally. We will focus on the cultural differences, and the problems of appropriation and ecoimperialism. | |||||||||
| ENG5272 | Seminar in Anthropocene and Mental Health | 3 | 6 | Major | Master/Doctor | - | No | ||
| Course description: The two primary agents in the Anthropocene effecting mental health and well-being are chemical and social. The chemicals—poisons, fertilizers, preservatives, growth hormones, pollution, anti-biotics, herbicides, pesticides, and so on—in our foods, our waters, and our lives in general are beginning to take their toll not only on our physical well-being but on our psychological well-being. Cognitive and neurological development issues (such as autism) have been rising exponentially with staggering social consequences. Social agents (trauma from media reports, stress, growing awareness of irrevocable environmental changes, and so on) and are also progressively taking their toll on mental health. Both of these agents effecting mental well-being are finding more and more representation in scientific and fictional literature. This course will look at such literature with an eye to understanding changing perceptions of mental health issues in the Anthropocene. | |||||||||
| ENG5273 | Seminar in Biomedical Humanities: Posthumanism and Human | 3 | 6 | Major | Master/Doctor | - | No | ||
| AI further sparked various discourses about posthuman. Hence this course traces a different posthumanist trajectory flourishing more recently in cultural studies, animal studies, environmental studies, science studies, science fiction and various subcultures. | |||||||||
| ENG5274 | Topics in Cultural Studies | 3 | 6 | Major | Master/Doctor | - | No | ||
| The objective of this course is to examine topics in history, theory, and practice of cultural studies and/or interdisciplinary studies and contemplate upon its significance as part of the English studies. This course will focus on authors, schools, methods, genres, themes, or problems in twentieth- and twentieth-first-century cultural studies and/or interdisciplinary studies, aiming to allow each student to engage rigorously with theoretical practices. | |||||||||
| ENG5275 | Postcolonial Literature | 3 | 6 | Major | Master/Doctor | - | No | ||
| This course aims to examine the various interpretations on national identity with a theoretical background of post-colonialism. The students will read "diaspora" literature and the third world literature as well as postcolonial literary theories. | |||||||||
| ENG5276 | Twentieth-Century English Novel | 3 | 6 | Major | Master/Doctor | - | No | ||
| This course explores what is englishness in Enlgish literature, focusing on the relationship between the modern English novels based on realism and the experimental postmodern fiction. | |||||||||
| ENG5277 | Nineteenth-Century English Novel | 3 | 6 | Major | Master/Doctor | - | No | ||
| This course will discuss the relationship between the English identity and literary canon in English novels, focusing on the 19th century English novels. | |||||||||
| ENG5278 | Twenty-First Century English and American Literature | 3 | 6 | Major | Master/Doctor | - | No | ||
| In this seminar we will examine major contemporary cultural movements via twenty-first-century English literature and deal with diverse aspects of contemporary British and American society, including social and class structures and racial/ethnic and gender issues. This class will add greater complexity to how we approach literary texts and draw students into the intensity of scholarly debates about the current world. | |||||||||
| ENG5279 | Topics in Interaction English Literature: Wound and Healing, Narrative as a Testament | 3 | 6 | Major | Master/Doctor | - | No | ||
| Throughout the course, students will explore the traumatic 'wounds' manifested in English literature (mostly in novels) and look beyond the possibilities of having them recovered, by using literature as an effective medium which illustrates a minute process of recovery. | |||||||||
| ENG5280 | Neurocognitive Approaches to Second Language Acquisition | 3 | 6 | Major | Master/Doctor | 1-8 | - | No | |
| Theories of language acquisition are largely classified into two perspectives: Domain-specific and domain-general. Domain-specific perspective argues that language has a very unique, abstract and complex structure, which distinguishes language from all other kinds of information that are learned/acquired through general learning mechanism. Domain-general perspective argues that language is one kind of information among many that are learned in a general cognitive mechanism. The one originates from Chomsky and focuses on unique system of language, such as Universal Grammar, and argues unique and independent learning module from any other learning processes. The other focuses on real-time processing of information moment by moment, i.e., millisecond to millisecond processing of incoming information or stimulus for the cognitive analysis of information processing. Furthermore, recent development of non-invasive neuro-analysis that is carried on while the participants process language adds a layer of understanding of real-time language processing. This course will, therefore, combine, language theory, processing theory and empirical methodology, and neurollinguistic theory and research for a more composite understanding of language acquisition. | |||||||||