Bachelor of Arts (BA) - The University of Hong Kong

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Programme in Linguistics and Philosophy
The Department of Linguistics in collaboration with the Department of Philosophy offers a major in
Linguistics and Philosophy:
First year:
(a) Linguistics: LING1001. Introduction to linguistics
(b) Philosophy: PHIL1001. Knowledge of the world: an introduction to philosophy
or
PHIL1002. The human mind: an introduction to philosophy
or
PHIL1003. Ethics and politics: an introduction to philosophy
or
PHIL1004. Chinese and western thought: an introduction to philosophy
Second and third years (eight courses):
(c) Linguistics:
LING2003. Semantics: meaning and grammar
LING2027. Phonology: An introduction to the study of sound systems
LING2032. Syntactic theory
LING2050. Grammatical description
(d) Philosophy:
PHIL2230. Philosophy and cognitive science
PHIL2610. Philosophy of language
and any two of:
PHIL2060. Wittgenstein
PHIL2075. The semantics/pragmatics distinction
PHIL2220. The mind
PHIL2240. Consciousness in philosophy and neuropsychology
PHIL2380. Philosophy and literature
PHIL2460. Philosophical Chinese
PHIL2510. Logic
PHIL2511. Paradoxes
PHIL2520. Philosophy of logic
The remaining eight courses in a student's second/third year programme may be selected from those
offered by any department, as permitted by the regulations.
It should be noted that not all courses are offered in both departments every year.
subject to approval by the head of the department.
Choices are
Minor in Linguistics
A minor in Linguistics shall consist of 24 credit units of second and third-year courses from the
Linguistics syllabus. As a pre-requisite, students must pass the first-year course LING1001.
Introduction to Linguistics.