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UNDERGRAD
DESCRIPTION
STUDY PROGRAMME
1ST YEAR
2ND/3RD YEAR
COMMON CORE COURSES
COURSES NOT
OFFERED 2011-2012
POSTGRAD
MASTER OF ARTS
MPhil/PhD

SECOND/THIRD YEAR COURSES

First semester:
[Timetable]

CLIT2007*: Film Culture I

CLIT2025*: Visual Cultures

CLIT2045: Colonialism/postcolonialism

CLIT2066: Postmodernism

CLIT2069: The making of modern masculinities

CLIT2075: Modern poetry: Hong Kong and beyond

CLIT2089*: Culture and 'queer' theory

CLIT2090*: Orientalism, China, and globalization

CLIT2094: Introduction to critical theory and cultural studies

CLIT2096*: Ethics of film and literature

CLIT3019: Internship in Comparative Literature and cultural sectors

CLIT3020: Independent Research

*These courses are also offered to non-BA students for inter-faculty broadening purposes

Second semester:
[Timetable]

CLIT2001: Comparative Studies of Narratives: Telling Stories across Cultures, Genres, and Media

CLIT2008*: Film Culture II

CLIT2050*: Globalization and culture

CLIT2061*: Narratives of the past in the contemporary moment

CLIT2065*: Hong Kong culture: Representations of identity in literature and film

CLIT2074: Film and ideology in contemporary China

CLIT2087*: Modern Chinese culture and society: Rebellions and revolutions

CLIT2088: Critical approaches to film studies

CLIT2093*: 20th Century fashion and the making of the modern women

CLIT3019: Internship in Comparative Literature and cultural sectors

CLIT3020: Independent Research

CLIT3021: Advanced studies in theory and cultural analysis

*These courses are also offered to non-BA students for inter-faculty broadening purposes

Cross Listed courses
The following
courses can be taken to satisfy the major and minor requirements in Comparative Literature. Please refer to the Department of History website for updated information on these specific courses)

HIST2082 Europe and its Other (6 credits)
HIST2083 Gender, Sexuality, and Empire (6 credits)
HIST2084 Sexing the Spirit
: the History of the Modern Feminist Challenge to Christianity (6 credits)
HIST2085 The History of Modern Sexual Identity and Discourse (6 credits)
HIST2119 Changing Lives: Women's History from the Fin-de-siècle to the Interwar Period (6 credits)
LLAW3141 Law and Film (6 credits)