Excellent Capstone Projects
English majors in their final year of studies carry out independent research on a topic approved by the Department and supervised by a teacher. The project is centered on a topic related to literature or applied linguistics. The project includes critical reflection on the research process and builds on undergraduate learning in the major. The Department nominates and recommends at most excellent capstone projects each term. These exemplary capstone projects demonstrate the excellent quality of undergraduate training offered by the Department.
Ebb & Flow: an Experimental Short Story Cycle
Fit Through or Get Knocked Down: Language Policing and Identity Authentication on Hong Kong’s LIHKG Forum
Construction and Deconstruction of Gendered Ideals of Male Proactivity and Female Restraint in the Growth of Characters in David Copperfield and Jane Eyre
On Byron’s Don Juan Considered as the Distorted Archetype of Nietzsche’s Superman (Übermensch)
Transformative Utopianism and Mikhail Bakhtin’s Theories in Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass
Formulaic Language in Academic Writing: A Study of Hong Kong Students' English Essays
Deficiency of Representation: Musical Ekphrasis of Keats’s “Ode on a Grecian Urn”
The School of Trying Again: Chen Chen’s Relational Lyric Subject and Queer Poetics of Futurity
Dear, Dear: A Coded Epistolary
Somewhere Between Flèche and Bone—Food and Consumption in Mary Jean Chan’s Queer Poetics of Postcolonial Hybridity and Lived Liminality
Investigating the Variation in the Post-alveolar Retroflex (ʈ /ɖ) among First-Generation and Second-Generation South Asians in Hong Kong
Investigating the prevalence of American English features among local CUHK students in Hong Kong
Neurodiversity in Digital Communication: Analysing Texting Habits, Perceptions, and Influential Factors on Neurodivergent Individuals
Divinely Angry: Tracing the Epic Hero through Depictions of Mênis
Facework and Conflict Management: A Qualitative Study of Pakistani Students’ Groupwork Experience in Hong Kong’s Higher Education
Investigating Language Attitudes and Identities through Hong Kong Pop Music in the 2020s: A Trilingual Genre