10 New Courses / Activities From this Fall term (September 2023), CLE offers the following new credit-bearing and enrichment courses: LANG1422 Chinese for Workplace Application This course is for students who have a background in Chinese. It aims to enhance their Chinese communication skills and understanding of how language plays a crucial role in various workplace contexts including meetings, branding, customer interactions, change and crisis management, and intercultural contexts. LANG1424 Chinese Writing in Cultural Contexts This course targets all students who have a background in Chinese, and with a strong interest in the study of Chinese writing and cultural issues. It aims to cultivate students’ logical expression skills in Chinese in the context of investigative study of culture. LANG5005 Communicating Research in English This course aims to help research postgraduate students to develop skills they need to understand how to successfully communicate research in English to academic, cross-disciplinary and nonspecialist audiences. The course is offered for research postgraduate students. LANG2061 Professional Writing for the Workplace This course offers students the language and communication skills and strategies to adapt their writing to any professional contexts. It increases student awareness of how writing creates change and convinces one to take action, and how audiences, contexts and genre call for different choices in language, organization, format and style. LANG2062 Professional Speaking for the Workplace This course equips students with the language and communication skills and strategies to speak and present professionally in internal and external business settings. It increases student awareness of how speaking and presenting creates change and convinces one to take action. Students will also develop ways to express themselves in multimodal settings. LANG3060 Advanced Academic Writing This course offers students advanced strategies and practice in writing texts in their academic disciplines. It increases student awareness of how disciplinary conventions, genre and rhetorical situations call for different choices in language, organization, format, citation and style. The course also develops in students the view of writing as a social process as they work with a community of writers who share ideas, give feedback and support. MILE5005 Descriptions of Language for English Teachers (in collaboration with SHSS) The foundation course provides MAILE students with a broad grounding on the nature and structure of language by introducing them to English linguistic analysis. Topics to be discussed include key subfields of linguistics: phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, and pragmatics. Highlights on the Event Spanish Food Culture, discover a Spanish City, Social Rules of Japanese Society, French and English: What They Owe Each Other, Making Friends (Cantonese), etc.
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