With a prestigious history dating back to its original establishment in 1888 in Guangzhou, China, Lingnan University (LU) is the only liberal arts university in Hong Kong emphasizing both the merits and close interrelationship of teaching and research. Like many American liberal arts colleges and the colleges of Oxford and Cambridge in the UK, LU believes that the ethos of liberal arts education requires limited student numbers and an intimate campus setting.
For postgraduates, student-centered learning, one of the key values of liberal arts education, ensures close and supportive thesis supervision, while at the same time encouraging candidates to exercise intellectual creativity in their research endeavors.
LU has earned a strong reputation through encouraging and requiring staff research, on the premise that far from depleting energies to be spent on teaching, research actually nourishes and inspires outstanding teaching.
For research postgraduate programmes, Lingnan graduates are expected to possess the following attributes in terms of knowledge, skills and attitude:
Knowledge:
- systematic understanding of a field or fields of scholarship
- original contributions to the field
Skills:
- competence in research and analysis
- ability to critically assess intellectual claims, theories and arguments
- capacity to produce a thesis that contributes to the knowledge and understanding of the field of learning within which the subject of the thesis falls
Attitude:
- commitment to applying the knowledge acquired in the chosen field and conducting further research in an ethical and socially responsible manner.
English:
Linguistics:
- Corpus linguistics
- Critical discourse analysis
- Discourse analysis
- Discourses and popular culture mediated by technologies
- Language and communication
- Language and new media
- Metaphor Studies
- Sociolinguistics
- Technology and language education
- World Englishes
Literature:
- American literature
- American studies
- Children's literature
- Contemporary fiction, drama and poetry
- Critical theories
- Cross-cultural studies of literature
- Environmental humanities
- Global literatures in English
- Literatures of the Asian diaspora
- Poetry and politics
- Postcolonial theory and fiction
- Semiotics
- Tragic drama and discourse on tragedy
- Translation studies
- Transpacific literature
- Travel writing
- Twentieth-century US literature
