Major in Linguistics and Language Applications (LLA)
語言學及語言應用主修

Overview

Major requirement

1. Gateway Education

For details, please refer to the Gateway Education (GE) website.

GE Component	Required Credit Units
	Normative 4-year degree	Advanced Standing I ^Δ	Advanced Standing II (Senior-year Entry) ^ΔΔ
University Requirements
English	6	6	3
Chinese Civilisation – History and Philosophy	3	3	Not compulsory requirement
Distributional Area Requirements
A minimum of 3 credit units from each of the three distributional areas below: Area 1: Arts and Humanities Area 2: Study of Societies, Social and Business Organisations Area 3: Science and Technology	21	12	9

2. English Attainment Requirement

(In accordance with the university policy)

3. Chinese Language Requirement

From 2012 cohort onwards, students are required to satisfy the Chinese Language Requirement as follows:

	Category of student	Chinese Language Requirement
(i)	Students with an HKDSE score below 4 in Chinese, or an HKALE AS Chinese Language and Culture score below D	CHIN1001 University Chinese I (3-credit units ^∗)
(ii)	Students with an HKDSE score of 4 or above in Chinese or an HKALE AS Chinese Language and Culture score D or above, or those who have successfully completed the 3-credit unit Chinese course	NA
(iii)	Students whose qualifications do not fall within (i) and (ii) above	NA
	^∗ The 3 credit units of the Chinese course will NOT be counted towards the minimum credit units required for graduation and will NOT be included in the calculation of CGPA.

(For more background information, please refer to the University's Chinese Language Requirement.)

4. College Requirement

Normative 4-year degree	Advanced Standing I ^Δ	Advanced Standing II (Senior-year Entry) ^ΔΔ
15 credit units	9 credit units	Fully exempted

(For details of the College Requirement Courses, please refer to the College website.)

1. Foundation-year Courses
(Normative 4-year degree students are required to take all of the three courses (9 credit units). Students of Advanced Standing I ^@ are only required to take LT1202 (3 credit units) while Advanced Standing II students are given full exemption.)

Course Code	Course Title	Level	Credit Units
LT1201	Introduction to Linguistics and Language Applications	B1	3
LT1202	Discovering How Language Works in a University Setting	B1	3
LT1301	Introduction to Translation	B1	3

Course Code	Course Title	Level	Credit Units
2. Core Courses (30 credit units)
LT2203	Language in Society	B2	3
LT2204	Language and Mind	B2	3
LT2229	Fundamentals of Linguistics	B2	3
LT2231	Introduction to Language Technology	B2	3
LT3209	Syntax	B3	3
LT3210	Electronic Publishing	B3	3
LT3211	Semantics	B3	3
LT3212	Phonetics	B3	3
LT3214	Phonology	B3	3
LT3233	Computational Linguistics	B3	3

Course Code	Course Title	Level	Credit Units
3. Elective Courses (27 credit units, at least 12 credit units of which must be at B4 level)
LT2206	Fundamentals of Statistics for Language Studies	B2	3
LT2232	English Linguistics – Communicative Functions of Grammar	B3	3
LT2306	Appreciating Written Texts	B2	3
LT3199	Professional Internship I	B3	3
LT3213	Text Linguistics	B3	3
LT3215	Pragmatics	B3	3
LT3216	Chinese Linguistics	B3	3
LT3220	Corpus Linguistics	B3	3
LT3222	Machine Translation	B3	3
LT3224	Computational Lexicography	B3	3
LT3234	Language and Cognition	B3	3
LT3235	Experimental Approaches to Language Studies	B3	3
LT3326	Comparative Study of Chinese and English	B3	3
LT3345	Discovering and Managing Terms	B3	3
LT3352	Scientific and Technical Translation	B3	3
LT3354	Computer-Aided Translation	B3	3
LT3375	Consecutive Interpretation (English - Chinese)	B3	3
LT3379	Practical Translation	B3	3
LT3399	LT Study Tour	B3	3
LT4216	Advanced Topics in Linguistics	B4	3
LT4218	Advanced Topics in Computational Linguistics	B4	3
LT4223	Experimental Phonetics	B4	3
LT4225	Computer Assisted Language Learning	B4	3
LT4226	Second Language Acquisition	B4	3
LT4227	First Language Acquisition	B4	3
LT4235	Project	B4	3
LT4236	Extended Project	B4	6
LT4239	Conversation Analysis	B4	3
LT4241	Topics in Syntax	B4	3
LT4242	Topics in Semantics	B4	3
LT4243	Field and Research Methods in Linguistics	B4	3
LT4244	Sociolinguistics	B4	3
LT4245	Psycholinguistics	B4	3
LT4254	Psycholinguistics of Reading	B4	3
LT4256	Topics in Neurolinguistics and Psycholinguistics	B4	3
LT4257	Historical Linguistics	B4	3
LT4391	Undergraduate Research Project	B4	6
Asian or Global languages courses (at level 2 or above as indicated by course titles)
With effect from Semester A, 2018/2019, the credits earned from a successful completion of the Asian or Global languages courses at level 2 or above (listed below) will be counted to fulfil the major electives and the maximum credits to be counted are 3.
With effect from Semester A, 2020/2021, the Asian and Global languages courses are offered by Language Centre.
LC2931	Japanese Language - Level 2	B2	3
LC3932	Japanese Language - Level 3	B3	3
LC3933	Japanese Language - Level 4	B3	3
LC4994	Japanese Language - Level 5	B4	3
LC4995	Japanese Language - Level 6	B4	3
LC2974	Korean II	B2	3
LC3982	Korean III	B3	3
LC3983	Korean IV	B3	3
LC2402	French 2	B2	3
LC2406	Intensive French 1 and 2	B2	6
LC3403	French 3	B3	3
LC3404	French 4	B3	3
LC2502	German 2	B2	3
LC2506	Intensive German 1 and 2	B2	6
LC3503	German 3	B3	3
LC3504	German 4	B3	3
LC2602	Spanish 2	B2	3
LC2606	Intensive Spanish 1 and 2	B2	6
LC3603	Spanish 3	B3	3
LC3604	Spanish 4	B3	3

Major Requirement Summary
Major requirement
Foundation-year Courses ^@		9 credit units (Normative 4-year degree) 3 credit units (Advanced Standing I) Fully exempted (Advanced Standing II) ^@ Students of second major and students changed to the Major will be required to take one designated Foundation-year course, i.e. LT1202 (3 credit units) (only applicable to normative 4-year students and students admitted with Advanced Standing I). ASII students will be fully exempted from the Foundation-year courses.
Core Courses		30 credit units
Elective Courses		27 credit units At least 12 credit units of which must be at B4 level.

Number of Credit Units Required for the Award
	Normative 4-year degree	Advanced Standing I	Advanced Standing II (Senior-year Entry)
Min. units required for graduation	120	90	69
Max. units permitted	144	114	84