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

123CLIT2047.Cultures of the imagination: Disney and the world (6 credits)Disney is a worldwide phenomenon that is coming to Hong Kong. Although most people think of it asa premier example of 'globalization as Americanization', each of the sites has responded in differentways to 'Disneyfication'. The course will look at how Disney theme parks, cartoons, films, andcommercial products create new kinds of 'social imaginaries'. The course will focus on the Hong Kongdebates over the Disney project, and will compare local issues with those raised in Orlando, Paris, andTokyo.CLIT2050.Globalization and culture (6 credits)When Michael Jordan becomes the most popular sports figure in Mainland China and South Africa,does this mean that we are all becoming more alike? Or are we splitting apart, as the rise of newnationalisms in Yugoslavia and India would seem to indicate? Why has rap music become globallypopular? This course will look at a variety of contemporary phenomena from pop culture to nationalismin terms of the global processes of circulation and transformation that are changing the world we live in.Special attention will be paid to Hong Kong culture and its changing role in Asia and the world.CLIT2051.Jane Austen and popular culture (6 credits)This course will read Jane Austen's novels through the visual medium of television series, filmadaptations and the internet. It will consider the successful translation of Austen from high to popularand to global cultural form. It will study the ways in which her novels have been re-invented to reflectissues of contemporary importance such as feminism with its critique of marriage and masculinity andits call for more open expression of desire and sexuality. It will historicize this revision by analyzing thestatus of women, the role of the family and the important of courtship in Austen's original novels.CLIT2052.Chinese urban culture (6 credits)(This course is also offered to second and third year non-BA students for inter-Faculty broadeningpurposes.)With specific reference to major Chinese cities, for example Beijing, Shanghai, Taipei, and Hong Kong,the course is designed to examine how forces of modernization, colonialism and globalization havedrastically transformed these cities. It explores problems of urban culture and the changing meaning of'Chineseness' through major works of fiction, cinema, architecture and other relevant cultural texts.Although no prerequisites are required, students are advised to study CLIT2028 The City as CulturalText before taking this course.CLIT2053.Special topic I (6 credits)The course is designed to teach the work of a single writer or film director, presenting it in detail anddrawing relevant comparisons with texts and works of other authors. Or it may examine in great deptha special and focused topic in literary and cultural studies. The content of this course therefore willchange from year to year.CLIT2054.Special topic II (6 credits)The course is designed to teach the work of a single writer or film director, presenting it in detail anddrawing relevant comparisons with texts and works of other authors. Or it may examine in great deptha special and focused topic in literary and cultural studies. The content of this course therefore willchange from year to year.