Minor in Linguistics and Language Applications

This curriculum applies to students who declare this minor programme with effective term from Semester A, 2016-17 onwards.

This minor aims to let students learn the basics of the scientific study of language that will supplement their major curricula by:

broadening the intellectual horizons and experience on academic training of the students;
imparting to the students the basic knowledge about language;
introducing to the students areas of language applications such as discourse, language learning, or language technology

Upon successful completion of this Minor, students should be able to:

apply the knowledge of linguistics to the learning of another language;
apply the structural aspects of language to the activities that involve the use of language;
apply linguistics knowledge to the study of discourse, language acquisition or language technology

Students who study the following majors are not allowed to choose this minor:

Course Code	Course Title	Level	Credit Units
1. Core Elective Courses (3 credit units)
Choose one course out of two.
LT2201^†	Introduction to Linguistics	B2	3
LT2229	Fundamentals of Linguistics	B2	3
^† Please note that LT2201: Cannot simultaneously count towards the requirement for this Minor and the College-specified requirement of CLASS; and Cannot count as a core elective course and fulfil the Minor requirement with effect from Semester B 2020/21. The last application period for counting LT2201 as a core elective course is in Semester B 2019/20 (April 2020).

2. Elective Courses (12 credits)
LT2203	Language in Society	B2	3
LT2204	Language and Mind	B2	3
LT2231	Introduction to Language Technology	B2	3
LT2232	English Linguistics – Communicative Functions of Grammar	B3	3
LT2306	Appreciating Written Texts	B2	3
LT3209	Syntax	B3	3
LT3210	Electronic Publishing	B3	3
LT3211	Semantics	B3	3
LT3212	Phonetics	B3	3
LT3213	Text Linguistics	B3	3
LT3214	Phonology	B3	3
LT3215	Pragmatics	B3	3
LT3220	Corpus Linguistics	B3	3
LT3233	Computational Linguistics	B3	3
LT3326	Comparative Study of Chinese and English	B3	3
LT4225	Computer Assisted Language Learning	B4	3
LT4226	Second Language Acquisition	B4	3
LT4227	First Language Acquisition	B4	3
LT4239	Conversation Analysis	B4	3

Transfer credits may not account for more than half of the credits required for the Minor programme.