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The Department of Chinese, Translation & Linguistics offers programmes of study at both the undergraduate and postgraduate levels designed to address the growing needs of Hong Kong and other Chinese communities for language professionals well versed in areas such as Chinese, translation and interpretation, comparative cultural studies, linguistics and language technology, cultural and heritage management.

At the undergraduate level, our programmes include B.A. (Hons) in Chinese, B.A. (Hons) in Linguistics and Language Technology, B.A. (Hons) in Translation and Interpretation, B.A. (Hons) in Cultural and Heritage Management, and a non-Government funded B.A. Honours programme in Language Studies (with specialization in Chinese, Linguistics and Language Technology, Translation and Interpretation, Japanese or Korean). In addition, the Department also offers minors in Chinese for Professional Purposes, Japanese Studies and Korean Studies.

At the postgraduate level, the Department offers two non-Government funded M.A. programmes: M.A. in Language Studies (with specialization in Language and Law, Linguistics, or Translation and Interpretation) and M.A. in Chinese (with specialization in Chinese Language and Literature, or Chinese for Professional Purposes). To motivate and support our students' enthusiasm for learning, scholarships are offered to those achieving excellent academic performance.

Apart from the taught programmes mentioned above, the Department also offers research degree studies toward M.Phil. and Ph.D. degrees in the core areas of the Department.

The Department encourages and promotes research in such areas as linguistics and language technology, the study of Chinese language and literature, and translation and cross-cultural studies. Research emphases in the Department include translation (machine and human), cultural and heritage management, corpus linguistics, language and law, computer assisted language learning, phonetics, comparative literature, terminology and scholarship in Chinese and other Asian languages.

The Department's Phonetics Laboratory, which is considered one of the best equipped phonetics laboratories in the region, certainly the best in Hong Kong, has all the basic research tools of the latest speech analysis technology for carrying out research in various aspects of phonetics: acoustical, articulatory, perceptual, and physiological. The Department also maintains links with the following research centres/groups: The Halliday Centre for Intelligent Applications of Language Studies (HCLS); the Cross-Cultural Studies Group; and the Language Information Sciences Research Centre.

Last updated: 19 March 2009