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

118CLIT2004.Modern European drama: drama, carnival and comedy (6 credits)In this course, which continues from the first Drama course, and which thinks of 'modern drama' aslinked with the history of the modern subject from the sixteenth-century onwards, we examine texts byShakespeare, Aphra Behn and Moliere, Brecht, Beckett, and Heiner Muller to look at ways in whichdrama contests the single subject position.CLIT2005.Literary and cultural theory I (6 credits)This course is aimed at introducing some basic concepts of contemporary Western literary and culturaltheory. We will examine the postmodern polemics against truth and objectivity, and see how this isrelated to our reading of literary and cultural texts.CLIT2006.Literary and cultural theory II (6 credits)This course is a continuation of CLIT2005.CLIT2007.Film culture I (6 credits)(This course is also offered to second and third year non-BA students for inter-Faculty broadeningpurposes.)This course focuses on the construction of meaning in cinema and the development of film language. Itfirst investigates the major structural components of the narrative film text, such as narrative structure,mise-en-scène, the camera eye, editing and sound, then proceeds to introduce the major cinematicmovements in film history and discuss some film classics in relation to the topics covered.CLIT2008.Film culture II (6 credits)(This course is also offered to second and third year non-BA students for inter-Faculty broadeningpurposes.)This course seeks to investigate critical methodologies for reading film texts with a particular emphasison psychoanalytic, feminist, and postcolonial theories. The approach will be cross-cultural andinter-disciplinary. Film texts will be examined in relation to questions of gender, sexual difference,sexuality, and subjectivity. The films to be examined may include some Hollywood classics as well asAsian melodramas.CLIT2013.Feminist cultural studies I (6 credits)(This course is also offered to second and third year non-BA students for inter-Faculty broadeningpurposes.)This course introduces students to the writings of some major contemporary feminists and their criticalanalysis of the construction of the images and roles of women. Cross-cultural materials taken from bothprint and non-print media will be used to illustrate feminist issues.CLIT2014.Feminist cultural studies II (6 credits)(This course is also offered to second and third year non-BA students for inter-Faculty broadeningpurposes.)Using cross-cultural materials, this course explores the relation of women to popular culturalproductions and practices such as shopping, reading gossip columns, romantic fiction and films, TVsoap opera and others.