Department of Translation, The Chinese University of Hong Kong

Prospective Students

BA in Translation and Linguistics (Double Major)

Applicable to students admitted in 2023-24

Study Scheme

Students are required to complete a minimum of 90 units of courses as follows:

1.	Faculty Package:	9 Units
	LING1000 and any two courses from:
	ANTH1020, ARTS1004, 1005, BMBL1001[a], CHES1100, CHLL1900 or 1902, CUMT1000, CURE1000, 1110, ENGE1000, FAAS1900, HIST1000, 1700, JASP1090, MUSC1000, PHIL1110, THEO1000

2.	Required Courses:
	1st Major: Translation	12 Units
(a)	TRAN1010, 1030, 2070, 2610

	2nd Major: Chinese Language and Literature
(b)	LING1001 or 1002, 1003, 2003#, 2004#, 2005#, 2006#, 2007#, 2008	24 Units

3.	Elective Courses:
	1st Major: Translation	27 Units
(a)	Students are required to complete 27 units of elective courses from the following list of courses, including at least one course from each of Electives Cluster A and Electives Cluster B:

	Electives Cluster A: Translation Studies
	TRAN3080, 3720, 4070, 4210
	Electives Cluster B: Interpreting
	TRAN2140, 2150, 2240, 2250, 3240, 4050
	Other Electives
	TRAN1120, 1130, 2020, 2050, 2110, 2120, 2130, 2840, 3170, 3180, 3270, 3280, 3620, 3800, 3810, 3820, 3830, 3844, 3845, 3850, 3860, 3870, 3880, 3890, 4800, 4840 and unselected courses from Clusters A and B.

	2nd Major: Chinese Language and Literature	12 Units
(b)	Four courses from the three areas below, with at least one course from each area:

(i)	Core Linguistics
	BMBL2001, 2002, 2003, LING3101, 3102, 3103, 3104, 3107, 3108, 4401
(ii)	Language and Mind
	BMBL4001, LING3201, 3202, 3203, 3204, 3206, 3207, 4201, 4202
(iii)	Language and Culture, and Linguistic Applications
	BMBL1001[a], 3001, 3002, LING2301, 3208, 3403, 4402

4.	Research Component/ Capstone Course/ Final Year Project:	6 Units
(a)	TRAN4900
(b)	TRAN4510 or 4520

	Total:	90 Units

Explanatory Notes:

1.	TRAN courses at 2000 and above level as well as those labeled as # will be included in the calculation of Major GPA for honours classification.

2.	Students may be required to participate in activities such as field trips and study tours that foster their learning of linguistics. Students are responsible for part of or all the costs incurred in relation to these activities.

3.	Students are encouraged to learn a modern language or take courses, as part of their free electives, in a discipline relevant to a translation area in which the student would like to specialize after graduation.

[a]	If the course is not taken to fulfill requirement 1, it may be taken as an elective course for fulfillment of requirement 3(b)(iii).

Recommended Course Pattern

1.	A student shall take at least 9 units and no more than 18 units of courses in any term within the normative study period. A student shall take no more than 6 units of courses in each summer session, and no student shall be allowed to take more than 39 units in an academic year.

2.	Sufficient units should be allowed in each term for students to fulfill the University Core Requirements, which include: (i) 5 units of Chinese; (ii) 8 units of English; (iii) 19 units of General Education; (iv) 2 units of Physical Education; (v) 1 unit of Understanding China; (vi) 1 unit of Hong Kong in the Wider Constitutional Order; and (vii) 3 units of Digital Literacy and Computational Thinking, as already listed in the template below.

3.	Programmes with different streams/concentrations are required to provide the recommended pattern for each stream/concentration.



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Course List

1st Major: Translation

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2nd Major: Linguistics

Course Code	Course Title	Units
Linguistics
LING1000	Invitation to Linguistics	3
LING1001	Exploring Grammar: Mandarin	3
LING1002	Exploring Grammar: Cantonese	3
LING1003	Exploring Grammar: English	3
LING2003#	Phonetics I	3
LING2004#	Phonology I	3
LING2005#	Syntax I	3
LING2006#	Semantics	3
LING2007#	Linguistic Argumentation I	3
LING2008	Linguistic Argumentation II	3
LING4000	Research Project II	6
LING4001	Research Project I	0
Area 1: Core Linguistics
BMBL2001	Sign Linguistics I: Phonetics and Phonology	3
BMBL2002	Sign Linguistics II: Morphology, Syntax and Semantics	3
LING1001	Exploring Grammar: Mandarin	3
LING1002	Exploring Grammar: Cantonese	3
LING3101	Morphology	3
LING3102	Phonetics II	3
LING3103	Phonology II	3
LING3104	Syntax II	3
LING3107	Comparative Grammar	3
LING3108	Language Survey in the Field	3
LING4401	Special Topics in Linguistics	3
Area 2: Language and Mind
BMBL4001	Language Acquisition of Deaf Children	3
LING3201	First Language Acquisition	3
LING3202	Psycholinguistics	3
LING3203	Language and Mind	3
LING3204	Second Language Acquisition	3
LING3206	Bilingualism	3
LING3207	Bilingual Acquisition	3
LING4201	Neurolinguistics	3
LING4202	Special Topics in Language and Mind	3
Area 3: Language and Culture, and Linguistic Applications
BMBL1001	Introduction to Sign Language and Bimodal Bilingualism	3
BMBL3001	Sign Language in Education	3
BMBL3002	Introduction to Sign Language Interpreting	3
LING2301	Sociolinguistics	3
LING3208	Language Disorders	3
LING3302	Discourse Analysis	3
LING3401	Linguistics and Information Technology	3
LING3403	Quantitative Methods for Linguistics	3
LING3405	Research Practicum I	1
LING3406	Research Practicum II	2
LING4402	Special Topics in Applied Linguistics	3

[#] Courses labeled as # will be included in the calculation of Major GPA for honours classification.