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  Chinese Linguistics and Language Acquisition > Study scheme

1. Coursework requirements

A. Applicable to students admitted in 2016-17 and thereafter

Students are required to complete a minimum of 27 units of courses for graduation.

Units
(i) Required courses:

(a) LING5101, 5102 and 5103
(b) Choose any two courses from LING5501, 5502 and 5503*.

9
6
(ii) Elective courses:

Any 12 units of courses to be chosen from the following: LING5104, 5201, 5202, 5303, 5403, 5404, 5405, 5504, 5601, 5602, 5603, 5604, 5606, 5607, 5608, 5701, 5702, 5801 and 5802.

Subject to prior approval from the Graduate Division, students are allowed to take a 3-unit course at 4000-level or above listed in the undergraduate BA programme in Linguistics to fulfill the elective requirements. Students must obtain a grade of not lower than B- for the course to be counted towards fulfillment of graduation requirement.

*Students may also choose to take all three courses in (i) (b), in which case one of them will be counted towards fulfillment of elective requirements.

 12 
 
Total:
  27

2. Other requirements

(a) Student must fulfill the Term Assessment Requirement of the Graduate School. For details, please refer the section 13.0 "Unsatisfactory Performance and Discontinuation of Studies" of the General Regulations Governing Postgraduate Studies. (http://www.gs.cuhk.edu.hk/)

(b)    Minimum cumulative GPA of 2.0.