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

145ENGL2013.American literature I (6 credits)(This course is also offered to second and third year non-BA students for inter-Faculty broadeningpurposes.)A study of seminal texts from the period of Settlement (1620) to the Civil War (1860).(American Literature I and II may be taken together over the two semesters of the second or third yearas a 12-credit course leading to a single examination. Please see the entry for the course ENGL2025.American literature.)Assessment will be by 100% coursework.ENGL2014.American literature II (6 credits)(This course is also offered to second and third year non-BA students for inter-Faculty broadeningpurposes.)A study of seminal texts from the beginning of American Realism (c. 1860) to World War II.(American Literature I and II may be taken together over the two semesters of the second or third yearas a 12-credit course leading to a single examination. Please see the entry for the course ENGL2025.American literature.)Assessment will be by 60% coursework, 40% examination.ENGL2015.An introduction to English drama (6 credits)A discussion of styles and themes in English drama from the 17th to the 20th century. The focus will beon developments in comedy and social and historical drama.Assessment will be by 60% coursework, 40% examination.ENGL2016.Modern English drama (6 credits)A study of British drama in the 20th century.Assessment will be by 60% coursework, 40% examination.ENGL2017.The language of film (6 credits)An analysis of the distinctiveness of 'film language' as a narrative medium. The course will develop acomparison between film and the novel through close analysis of a number of historically and criticallysignificant examples. Topics will include: narrative, narration, action, subjectivity, spectacle, point ofview, style, fiction, era, ideology.Assessment will be by 60% coursework, 40% examination.ENGL2022.Women, feminism and writing I (6 credits)This course will explore questions of identity and difference as expressed in women's writing. It willprovide a general introduction to feminist literary theory and the on-going range of feministinterventions in literary and cultural studies.Assessment will be by 100% written coursework.