English Courses

Chinese culture is rich, layered, and endlessly debated — and writing about it well takes real skill. This course trains you to read cultural arguments critically, and to write clear, coherent, well-supported responses of your own.

• hands-on and blended, built around communicative practice 
• personalised feedback that turns good ideas into polished academic writing
• critiquing and presenting on published articles, building a fully annotated bibliography, and learning to communicate your own focus to scholars in the field.

• Written assignment:
  Draft 1 to compare and justify the selection of two articles/sources;
  Final annotated bibliography of three articles.  
• Academic speaking: Seminar discussion in groups of 5 to analyse and critique academic texts
• Final reflection on the research process throughout the semester
• Blended learning tasks 

MA in Chinese Culture students

Student testimonials

• "This course has been a tremendous help to my academic writing and it has encouraged me to think critically."
• "This is a great course that really helped me learn a lot about academic English."
• "I learned a lot of skills related to English academic writing and applied them in the course assignments."
• "The course helped me to apply critical thinking to my research."
• "The course was well organised. The midterm assignment required us to critique and present an English-language article, while the final assignment focused on writing an annotated bibliography. These assignments required me to have professional-level writing skills and attention to detail."

Course outcomes

• Communicating own disciplinary focus to scholars of Chinese culture
• Understanding and producing linguistic, rhetorical and stylistic conventions of professional academic genres
• Developing critical and analytical interpretations of argumentative texts