Bachelor of Arts (Honours) in Linguistics and Translation (Senior Year Admission)

[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

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