Bachelor of Arts (Honours) in Linguistics and Translation

[The scheme will cease to admit 4-year-curriculum students in 2023-24, and cease to admit senior-year students in 2025-26.]

The BALT award requires the accumulation of a minimum of 60 academic credits plus 3 training credits. To qualify for the award, BALT top-up students must complete 9 GUR credits, 30 compulsory subject credits, plus another 21 elective credits and 3 training credits by taking CBS2400 Work Integrated Education (WIE).

Area and Credit Requirement

Cluster-Area Requirements (CAR) [6 credits]

CAR (A) – English Language with English Reading and Writing Requirements
CAR (M) “Chinese History and Culture”
Students are required to fulfil the English and Chinese Reading & Writing Requirements

Service Learning [3 credits]

Students can register any service learning subjects offered by CBS or other departments of the University.

4 Essential Components of General Education E-Modules [Non-credit-bearing]

Academic Integrity
Artificial Intelligence and Data Analytics
Innovation and Entrepreneurship
National Education

Language and Communication Requirements (LCR) [3-9 credits]

Students not meeting the equivalent standard of the Undergraduate Degree LCR will be required to take the default LCR replacement subjects for BALT students including:

ENGL2000 English for Effective Communication
ENGL2001 English for Professional Communication
CBS2901 Chinese for Language Professionals

Subject Code	Subject Title	No. of Credits
CBS2400	Work Integrated Education (WIE)	3 (training credits)
CBS2904	Academic and Technical Chinese Writing	3
CBS2905	Introduction to Modern Chinese	3
CBS3802	Introduction to Interpreting	3
CBS3843	Translation for Corporate Communication	3
CBS3949	Sounds and Sound Systems of Language	3
CBS4701	Project in Language Studies	6
CBS4801	Translation Studies	3
CBS4902	Comparative and Contrastive Studies of Chinese and English Grammar	3
ENGL2003	English for Advanced Academic Writing	3

Translation

Subject Code	Subject Title	No. of Credits
CBS3446	Corporate Communication: Theory and Practice	3
CBS3842	Consecutive Interpreting	3
CBS3844	Translation for the Media in the Digital Age	3
CBS3845	Translation and Technology	3
CBS4446	Intercultural Communication in Corporate Context	3
CBS4840	Translation for Science and Technology	3
CBS4841	Translation for Legal Work	3
CBS4843 ¹	Simultaneous Interpreting	3
CBS4844	Machine Aided Translation	3
CBS4845	Literary Translation	3
CBS4846 ²	Translation Criticism	3

Linguistics

Subject Code	Subject Title	No. of Credits
CBS3947	Programming and Data Analysis for Language Studies	3
CBS3948	Semantics: Meaning in Language	3
CBS3950	Pragmatics: Language in Use	3
CBS4943	Language and Society	3
CBS4956 ³	Varieties of Chinese	3
CBS4957 ⁴	Cantonese Linguistics	3
CBS4958 ⁵	Fundamentals of Computational Linguistics	3
CBS4959 ³	Syntax	3
CBS4960 ⁶	Phonetics and Phonology	3
CBS4962 ⁷	Corpus and Language Technology for Language Studies	3

Elective Subjects in Speech Sciences Offered by BALSS(CBS)

Subject Code	Subject Title	No. of Credits
CBS3402	Psycholinguistics	3
CBS3404	Language, Cognition and the Brain	3
CBS3408	Language Acquisition	3
CBS4945	Analysis of Language Samples: Clinical Implications	3
CBS4949	Child Communication Disorders and Special Education Needs (DSLR English)	3
CBS4950	Communication Disorders Across the Life Span	3
CBS4952	Language and Speech Production: Anatomical and Physiological Perspectives	3
CBS4953	Techniques in Language Sciences	3
CBS4954	Statistics for Language Studies	3

¹ Pre-requisite subject: CBS3802
²Pre-requisite subject: CBS1402
³Pre-requisite subject: CBS2905
⁴Pre-requisite subject: CBS2905 or CBS3403
⁵Pre-requisite subject: CBS3947
⁶Pre-requisite subject: CBS3949
⁷Pre-requisite subject: CBS1902

The above subject lists are subject to revision. Offering of subjects is subject to the availability of teaching staff and viable enrolment number. The Department has the discretion on the offering semester and class quota, which is limited by classroom capacity.

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