Postgraduate Certificate / Postgraduate Diploma / Master of Arts in Language Studies [with stream in Language & Law / Linguistics / Translation & Interpretation / Translation with Language Information Technology]
語文學 (語言及法律 / 語言學 / 翻譯及傳譯 / 翻譯及語言資訊科技)
深造證書 / 深造文憑 / 文學碩士

This curriculum applies to students admitted in or before 2014/15. Please click here for curriculum details for students who are to be admitted in or after 2015/16.

Programme description

Programme Structure

Credit Units

No. of units required for the Master of Arts -
No. of units required for the Postgraduate Diploma -
No. of units required for the Postgraduate Certificate -

30
24
12

1. Programme Core Courses: (21 credits)

Course Code	Course Title	Level	Credit Units	Remarks
Common Courses for MA Students
LT5901	Language, Cognition and Culture	P5	3
LT5902	Language, Ideology and Society	P5	3

Language & Law stream (required core courses)
LT5512	Fundamental Questions in Language and Law	P5	3	&
LT5513	Language in Legal Settings	P5	3
LT6504	Bilingual Legal Drafting	P6	3	∗
LT6505	Legal Translation	P6	3	∗
LT6530	Special Topics in Language and Law	P6	3	∗

Linguistics stream (required core courses)
LT5401	Phonetics and Phonology	P5	3
LT5402	Syntax and Morphology	P5	3
LT5403	Semantics and Discourse	P5	3
LT5430	Special Topics in Linguistics	P5	3
LT5510	Contrastive Studies of Chinese and English Grammar	P5	3

Translation & Interpretation stream (required core courses)
LT5603	Theory of Translation	P5	3	∗
LT5604	Translation Methodology	P5	3	∗
LT5605	Interpretation Methodology	P5	3	%
LT5606	Translating Cultures	P5	3
LT5630	Special Topics in Translation and Interpretation	P5	3	∗

Translation with Language Information Technology stream (required core courses)
LT5411	Computational Linguistics	P5	3
LT5603	Theory of Translation	P5	3	∗
LT5604	Translation Methodology	P5	3	∗
LT5620	Translation Technology	P5	3	∗
LT5628	Human-Machine Interactive Translation	P5	3	∗

No specialization
(any 8 courses other than the two common courses for MA students, or any 7 courses if one of the courses is LT6580 Master's Project.)

2. Programme Electives: (9 credits)

Course Code	Course Title	Level	Credit Units	Remarks
CAH5404	Chinese Linguistic Structures	P5	3	#
CAH5414	Cantonese Linguistics	P5	3	#
CAH5501	Chinese for Law	P5	3	#
CAH5511	Professional Chinese Writing for Legal Purposes	P5	3	#
CAH5622	Selected Readings in Chinese Language and Literature	P5	3	#
EN5112	English for Law	P5	3
LT5406	Psycholinguistics	P5	3
LT5407	Research Methodology for Applied Linguistics	P5	3
LT5408	Sociolinguistics	P5	3
LT5409	Systemic Functional Linguistics	P5	3
LT5412	Language Teaching	P5	3
LT5413	Philosophy of Language	P5	3
LT5416	Historical Linguistics	P5	3
LT5417	Language Universals and Linguistic Typology	P5	3
LT5418	Second Language Pronunciation Acquisition: from Theory to Practice	P5	3
LT5420	Language Arts and Literature	P5	3
LT5421	Corpus Linguistics	P5	3
LT5423	Quantitative Methods for Linguistic Data Analysis	P5	3
LT5431	Functional Approaches to Syntax	P5	3
LT5432	Lexical Semantics	P5	3
LT5451	Pedagogical Grammar: Chinese and English	P5	3	@
LT5452	Learning and Teaching Chinese as a Foreign Language	P5	3	@
LT5454	Grammar of Chinese	P5	3	@
LT5455	Pragmatics	P5	3
LT5456	Text Linguistics	P5	3
LT5457	Computational Lexicography	P5	3
LT5458	Computer-Assisted Language Learning	P5	3
LT5459	Terminology and Translation	P5	3
LT5460	Studies of Second Language Acquisition	P5	3
LT5461	Cognition and Language Differences	P5	3
LT5601	Stylistics and Translation	P5	3	∗
LT5615	Consecutive Interpretation	P5	3	^
LT5617	Bilingual Reading and Writing for Translators	P5	3	$
LT5621	Language and Literature in Translation	P5	3	%
LT5626	Translation and Comparative Literature	P5	3	∗
LT5627	Advanced Interpreting	P5	3	∗
LT5629	Translation Tools Development	P5	3
LT5631	Corpora and Translation	P5	3
LT5632	History of Machine Translation	P5	3
LT6422	Advanced Topics in Semantics	P6	3
LT6423	Advanced Topics in Syntax	P6	3
LT6514	Advanced Legal Translation	P6	3	∗
LT6580	Master’s Project	P6	6	$
LT6581	Project	P6	3
LW5621	Legal Systems of Hong Kong and Mainland China	P5	3
LW5910	Introduction to the Legal System of the PRC	P5	3
LW6921	Civil and Commercial Law Concepts in Hong Kong and the PRC	P6	3

Remarks
1. All Master of Arts students must take the two common courses. If they want to specialize, they must take the five core courses designated for a specific stream and three other courses, or two courses if one of them is LT6580 Master's Project. (A core course for one stream can be a non-core course / elective of the other streams). 2. Medium of Instruction/assessment & Chinese and English. ∗ English is the main medium of instruction and assessment, but Chinese is allowed in situations where English-Chinese translation and interpretation, bilingual legal drafting, or study of Chinese language, literature and culture, is involved. % English supplemented with Chinese (Cantonese/ Putonghua). # Chinese is the medium of instruction and assessment. @ Medium of instruction: English, supplemented by Putonghua Medium of assessment: English, supplemented by Chinese ^ Two clusters for the medium of instruction and assessment, namely English and Cantonese, and English and Putonghua. $ English mainly, but Cantonese/ Putonghua is allowed in situations where English-Chinese translation and interpretation or Chinese linguistic data is involved.

3. Additional Notes:

Intermediate Awards	Required Courses	Total Credits
Postgraduate Diploma in Language Studies (Language & Law / Linguistics / Translation & Interpretation / Translation with Language Information Technology) 語文學 (語言及法律 / 語言學 / 翻譯及傳譯 / 翻譯及語言資訊科技) 深造文憑	five core courses designated for a specific stream, and three other 3 credit unit courses any eight 3 credit unit courses for students graduating without a specialized stream	24
Postgraduate Certificate in Language StudiesΔ 語文學深造證書Δ	any four 3 credit unit courses	12
ΔThe stream designation is not available to graduates of Postgraduate Certificate.

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Page last updated: 18 August 2017