Department of Literature in English

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Department Aims

1. To help students recognise the major features of literary or creative forms such as prose, poetry, drama and film

and to understand literary terms and concepts and apply them appropriately in appreciating, discussing and

evaluating literary or creative texts.

2. To develop students’ critical and interpretative abilities through understanding and appreciating literary or

creative texts and to enable students to articulate authentic and informed responses to literary texts.

3. To enhance one’s language skills as well as vocabulary through studying and viewing a wide range of literary

or creative texts and to develop awareness of subtleties of language and of register and appropriateness

through close interaction with a variety of literary or creative texts

4. To encourage students to explore areas of universal concerns through the discussion of literary texts that will

lead to a deeper understanding of the world and life as a whole

Extended and reading resources