Bachelor of Science (Honours) in Language Sciences and Analytics (Senior Year Admission)

The BScLSA award requires the accumulation of a minimum of 60 academic credits plus 3 training credits. To qualify for the award, BScLSA top-up students must complete 9 GUR credits, 30 compulsory subject credits, plus another 21 elective credits and 3 training credits by taking CBS2946 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
CBS2904	Academic and Technical Chinese Writing	3
CBS2946	Work Integrated Education (WIE)	3 (training credits)
CBS3402	Psycholinguistics	3
CBS3404	Language, Cognition and Brain	3
CBS3947	Programming and Data Analysis for Language Studies	3
CBS4702 ¹	Advanced Topics in Quantitative Language Studies	3
CBS4799	Project in Language Sciences and Analytics	6
CBS4902	Comparative and Contrastive Studies of Chinese and English Grammar	3
CBS4962 ²	Corpus and Language Technology for Language Studies	3
ENGL2003	English for Advanced Academic Writing	3

Language Sciences

Subject Code	Subject Title	No. of Credits
CBS3408	Language Acquisition	3
CBS3948	Semantics: Meaning in Language	3
CBS3949	Sounds and Sound Systems of Language	3
CBS3950	Pragmatics: Language in Use	3
CBS4943	Language and Society	3
CBS4949	Child Communication Disorders and Special Education Needs	3
CBS4950	Communication Disorders Across the Life Span	3
CBS4952	Language and Speech Production: Anatomical and Physiological Perspectives	3
CBS4957 ³	Cantonese Linguistics	3
CBS4959 ⁴	Syntax	3
CBS4960 ⁵	Phonetics and Phonology	3

Language Analytics

Subject Code	Subject Title	No. of Credits
CBS3410 ¹	Python for Language Analytics	3
CBS4703 ⁶	Social Media and Social Network Analysis	3
CBS4704	Workshop on Language Analytics	3
CBS4844	Machine Aided Translation	3
CBS4953	Techniques in Language Sciences	3
CBS4954	Statistics for Language Studies	3
CBS4958	Fundamentals of Computational Linguistics	3

Elective Subjects Offered by AMA and COMP

Subject Code	Subject Title	No. of Credits
AMA3602	Applied Linear Models	3
COMP4431 ⁷	Artificial Intelligence	3

¹ Pre-requisite subject: CBS3947
² Pre-requisite subject: CBS1902
³Pre-requisite subject: CBS2905 or CBS3403
⁴ Pre-requisite subject: CBS2905
⁵ Pre-requisite subject: CBS3949
⁶Pre-requisite subject: CBS4958
⁷ Pre-requisite subject: COMP1012

The above subject list is subject to revision. Offering of subjects is subject to the availability of teaching staff and viable enrolment number. The Department has the discretion on the offering semester and class quota, which is limited by classroom capacity.

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