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

127CLIT2069.The making of modern masculinities (6 credits)Using cross-cultural materials taken from a wide range of media such as films, fiction, magazines,paintings, TV and advertising, this course engages in a multidisciplinary study of the formation ofdifferent types of masculinities in the modern world.CLIT2070.Heidegger and everydayness (6 credits)As one of the most important Western thinkers of the 20 th century, Heidegger addresses fundamentalquestions of human existence in ways that speak directly to our everyday experiences. For instance,why do we sometimes feel that life is meaningless, and how do we try to avoid this feeling? This coursewill introduce you to some of Heidegger’s core ideas through a study of his masterpiece Being and Time,which has had a profound impact not only on philosophy but also on literary theory. Students will learnboth about Heidegger and the intellectual tranditions he challenged.CLIT2071.Introduction to cultural studies (6 credits)(This course is also offered to second and third year non-BA students for inter-Faculty broadeningpurposes.)What are the defining texts which see culture as inherently problematic, and which ask us how we canread the texts of ‘high culture’? This course will look at those founding texts which have encouragedcritical reading of cultural texts and will ask how they coincide with moments of cultural and politicalcrisis. It will help give a sense of what is meant by studying literature through cultural studies.CLIT2072.Deconstruction (6 credits)This course examines the method of deconstruction around such issues as truth, power, subjectivity,modernity, postmodernity, and so on. Readings include texts by Derrida himself and by some otherthinkers (e.g. Nietzsche, J. L. Austin, Habermas).Third YearCLIT3003.Chinese modernism (6 credits)This course studies the various responses to modernism in the socio-cultural context oftwentieth-century China. With examples from selected works of poetry, fiction and drama, it will studyissues such as the relationships between modernisation and literary modernity, modernism and massculture, modernism and history, modernism and Marxism.CLIT3004.East Asian and Western fiction: crisis and modernization (6 credits)This comparative East-West course will examine the relation between major cultural crises andproblems of modernization as revealed in representative twentieth-century works of fiction. It willanalyse the writers' efforts to re-authenticate individual and social meanings and actions in an urban,industrial society which tends to deprive the individual of cultural memories.