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which we suggest for the consideration of the Senate of the University is that in every Department which is headed by a Professor an Honours Course should be contemplated at an early date. In all these Departments it is of great importance that provision should be made for post-graduate study. Research in the strict sense of the term must in the circumstances of the case be more practicable in some subjects than in others; in some the necessary materials may for some time be lacking, but even in the se the provision of post-graduate courses will be of importance. It is at the post-graduate stage, when students have already received their basic training in the disciplines and methods of their chosen subjects, that work can properly be done of a kind particularly suited to the special purposes of the University. The training of students to understand and
interpret western civilization and culture, particularly its British variant, to the peoples of the Far East is in our view a function of first importance which the University should fulfil. This purpost can be realised only if the re are active postgradate courses where students can be encouraged to discuss and study problems which require for their elucidation a considerable background of knowledge.
DEPARTMENT OF LNGLISH (LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE):
5. The task of the Department of English must necessarily be twofold. Special emphasis will obviously be needed on the training of students in a knowledge of the language, by methods developed in Modern Language Departments in Universities in this country. An effective mastery of spoken and written English should clearly be one of the characteristics of students who have taken a University course at Hong Kong. The use of the latest techniques will be needed for this purpose, and special attention will be necessary to phonetics. Close co-operation with the post-graduate Department of Education would be a n::tural development in this connection. The second fundamental object is the intr luction of students to a critical appreciation of western civilization and its variants, especially the British, through the study of English Literature. It is only upon the basis of a thorough training in both language and literature that students could be preparel in advancel work. One of the main lines of post-graduate work might appropriately be the comparative study of English and Chine se literary forms. We suggest that one at least of the lecturers in the Department should be a Chinese well-grounded in his own and in English literature.
DEPARTMENT OF CHINESE (LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE):
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This Department would give Chinese from oversens and sɔme non-Chinese students, an elementary training in the Chinese language, and an introduction to its literature, but its main work would be among Chine se students already well-groundel in this subject. It might also become a research centre for British sinologues, like the Ecole Francaise de l'Extreme Orient, at Hanoi. Useful work might be done on the Chinese lialects and in literary and historical research. It would certainly be surprising if this Department became a greater centre of Chinese studies than those in China itself, but in any case its staff would be essential for the purpose of comparative studies undertaken in conjunction with Departments of English Language and Literature, of Social Sciences and of Philosophy.
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