Academic
Course Description
Core Courses:
ELS 201 Cultural Studies (3 credits)
This Cultural Studies course offers academic depth to students in exploring their concentration of study in the fields of language, education, and literature through dialogues with leading academic figures who explore cultural studies in topics related to language, education, and literature.
ELS 212 Critical Discourse Analysis (3 credits)
Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) aims at helping the students develop their presence of power dominance and/or abuse which is present in a sociey as reflected in the language use of the society members or in a discourse. The course discusses the concepts of power, the reflection of power in language, the approaches in the study of CDA, and the linguistic devices to support the study. Throughout the course, the student are given texts to clarify the concepts and practice their skill for a text analysis and choose their text to show their sensitivity in the presence of power dominance and/or abuse and conduct a critical discourse analysis.
ELS 203 Digital Humanities (3 credits)
This course provides a comprehensive introduction to the field of Digital Humanities (DH), an interdisciplinary area of study that utilizes computational tools and digital media to advance research and teaching in the humanities. We will explore the history, theories, and key debates that have shaped DH, from text encoding and data visualization to cultural analytics and digital archives. The course is designed for students in Graduate Program in English Language Studies (including APL, LIT, and AAI streams) and will focus on how digital methods can generate new research questions and analytical perspectives. A significant portion of the course will be practical, involving hands-on workshops with user-friendly DH tools. We will also pay special attention to the application of DH in the Indonesian and Southeast Asian context, considering our rich local cultural heritage as valuable data for digital exploration.
Expanded Courses:
- Applied Linguistics:
APL 204 TESOL (3 credits)
APL 206 Educational Linguistics (3 credits)
The course of Educational Linguistics is essentially a field that explores the relationships among language, learning, teaching, power, identity, and policy. Students will engage with topics ranging from second language acquisition and multiliteracies to AI-mediated communication, translanguaging, and language policy. Topics to explore include foundations of Educational Linguistics, Second Language Acquisition, language socialization and identity in educational contexts, Translanguaging, Multiliteracies, Discourse Analysis in the language classroom, Critical Discourse Analysis in educational settings, Language Policy and Planning in Education, Bilingual and Multilingual education, English as a lingua franca and World Englishes, Language Assessment, Artificial Intelligence and Technology in English Language Education. Students are also encouraged to explore current topics in Educational Linguistics and its future directions in Indonesian multilingual context.
APL 206 Assessment in ELT (3 credits)
This course provides an opportunity for students to develop a foundation in language assessment. Students will learn about the theories underlying language assessment and will apply these theories in designing and/or analyzing assessments. Strengths and weaknesses of various test item formats will be discussed. Statistical methods for analyzing language testing data will be introduced, and students will analyze test data with Excel/SPSS/R programming language.
APL 207 Research in Applied Linguistics (3 credits)
APL 208 Sociolinguistics (3 credits)
This course in nature addresses and explores diverse topics or areas of sociolinguistic studies, such as the relations between language and society; regional and social dialectology of language variation; Language variation and change; Language attitudes and politeness; Language choices and code switching; Language use, gender, and identity; Language in contact (Maintenance, shift, and death); Critical sociolinguistic approaches to language and power; Sociolinguistics and language education; and Language planning, policy, and ecology.
APL 209 Semantics and Pragmatics (3 credits)
Semantics-Pragmatics encompasses two areas of the study of meaning: meaning within the realm of linguistic system (of the English language) and meaning operating within the context of language use. The former covers topics concerning meaning; the meaning of ‘meaning’, dimensions of meaning and lexical relations; descriptive, social and expressive meaning, references, referring, denoting, and expressing, semantic roles and sentence as argument, semantic primitives/primes, Aspects, Factivity, Implication, and Modality, types and a variety of predicates, the semantics of morphological relations, meaning and cognition, and semantic changes or drifts. The latter includes pragmatic topics such as pragmatics as a linguistic concept; micropragmatics and macropragmatics, semiotic foundations of pragmatics and foundations of pragmatics in functional linguistics, Context Theory and the Foundation of Pragmatics, Deixis and indexicality, Reference and anaphora, Speech acts, Types of inference: entailment, presupposition, and implicature, Pragmatic Concept of Politeness and Face Work, introduction to internet pragmatics, presentation of self in everyday web use, Politeness on the Net, the social nature and network of the internet, virtual conversation, Self-praise online and offline, and internet pragmatics, and cyberprag-matic research and approaches to data of pragmatic research.
- Literature:
LIT 204 Comparative Literature (3 credits)
This course surveys theory and practice of comparative literature. The discipline of comparative literature emerging in the 19th century following the rise of nation states has now evolved into a discipline informed by cultural studies, postcolonial theory, and critical theory in its analytical procedure. Since theoretically this discipline is not separable from current literary theory, this course focuses on ways of comparing literature across languages and cultures to make literary studies less Eurocentric and American-centric.
LIT 205 Asian Literature in English (3 credits)
This course maps out Asian literature within the development of English as a lingua franca, believing as it does that reading and evaluating works from our own region may help promote humanistic goals in literary studies, i.e., continuous efforts to understand other people, the worlds and ourselves better. Demographic change of users and providers of English as well as growing interests in Asian literature written in and/or translated into English have all compelled us to rethink about literary studies in Indonesia. With regard to our postcolonial experiences within the cultural and political contexts of today, the use of more literary pieces from Asian (primarily Southeast Asian) in English literature studies is increasingly more important. Characteristic of postmodern age is the recognition of people as human persons; and, in this case, Asian people as multilingual and multicultural subjects.
LIT 206 Critical Theory (3 credits)
This course focuses on a number of current approaches to literature and culture. It examines diverse literary theories under major twentieth-century theories. In particular it will examine major critical theory such as Structuralism, Post-structuralism, Psychoanalytic criticism, Marxist criticism, New Historicism, Gender studies,
Postcolonial criticism, Narratology an Ecocritical theory.
LIT 207 Research in English Literature (3 credits)
This course introduces students to the structure and vocabulary of research in English Literature. It examines topics, urgencies and significant issues with which literary research in English Studies can cover and recover. Hence, it attempts to respond to the sometimes-vexing question on what literature scholarship can do for the betterment of one’s society.
LIT 208 Postcolonial Literature (3 credits)
The emergence of English as a lingua franca has made British Literature (thus include literatures from ex- colonized countries) irrelevant when examined without competing histories of race, ethnicity, gender, disability, post-coloniality, and sexuality nation, gender and class within today’s multiplicity of socio- political, historical and ideological contexts. This course will examine afresh selected canonical works from Shakespeare to the more recent “British” literary texts. These texts will be explored in conjunction with authors and texts from non-western literary traditions to see their postcolonial trajectories.
LIT 209 Children Literature (3 credits)
This course focuses on recognizing literature for children and young adults and its use and application in teaching English to young learners. Recognition of good and diverse literature for children and young adults is necessary so students will be able to plan a course for diverse young learners using diverse books.
- Applied AI in Language Studies:
AAI 204 Foundations of AI in Language Studies (3 credits)
AAI 205 Data Science for Language Research (3 credits)
AAI 206 Advanced AI Application in Language Education (3 credits)
AAI 207 Research in AAILS (3 credits)
AAI 208 AI and Second Language Acquisition Research (3 credits)
AAI 209 Ethics and Equity in AI-Driven Education (3 credits)
Elective Courses:
APL 210 Multilingualism (3 credits)
This course provides students of English Language Studies with a comprehensive, critical, and theoretically grounded introduction to Multilingualism as a subfield of Applied Linguistics. Drawing on current scholarship across psycholinguistics, sociolinguistics, language policy, and language pedagogy, the course examines the given state and fact of multilingualism as the default condition of most of the world's language users, notably Indonesians, and as a lens through which fundamental questions about language, mind, identity, and society can be re-examined.
Students of English Language Studies will explore and examine the conceptual and empirical extent of the field — including multilingualism, plurilingualism, translanguaging, code-switching, linguistic repertoire, and multicompetence — and situate these concepts in relation to active debates about language learning, cognitive development, language policy, digital communication, and English as a global lingua franca and World Englishes. The course emphasises students’ close engagement with primary and contemporary multilingual research literature, preparing them for independent scholarly inquiry in this rapidly evolving field.
APL 211 Phonetics and Morphophonology (3 credits)
This course deals with both practical and theoretical aspects of English sounds and their combination into meaningful linguistic units (morpheme, words, phrases and sentences). Description of sounds is presented through phonetic symbols and the physical nature of their production. As sounds interact with one another in their lexical realization, discussion on the interaction covers the realization in the form of morpheme, words, phrases and sentences. The features under discussion include both segmental and suprasegmental aspects.
APL 212 Syntax (3 credits)
English Syntax aims at helping the students develop their knowledge to understand and analyze a sentence and text. The course material consists of two parts, namely Systemic Functional Grammar (SFG) and Transformational Grammar. With the knowledge on SFG the students are expected to be able to analyze a sentence using the ideational, interpersonal, and textual meta functions and analyze the meaning of a text. With the knowledge of Transformational Grammar, the students are expected to be able to explain the process of the production and understanding of a sentence and analyze a sentence to show its D-structure, S-structure, and the transformation from the D-structure to the S-structure.
APL 213 Statistics for Research (3 credits)
Statistics for Research, an elective course, is an introductory graduate course in using quantitative methods for inquiry in the social and behavioral sciences. Students will be exposed to the fundamental concepts and procedures of descriptive and inferential statistics. Students will develop competence in reading and understanding statistics topics from sources such as texts, dissertations, journals, or technical reports. The course assumes no prior knowledge of statistics.
LIT 210 American Literature (3 credits)
This course examines the aspects, spirit of the age, and context of American literature from the colonial to the present time. Formerly growing out of British literature, American literature gradually developed in its way in the process of responding critically to natural, social, and cultural challenges. Conclusively, all national literary pieces are both reflections and refractions of the given social and cultural environment of the day. Familiarity with diverse literary works helps cultivate communal care, psychological maturity, spiritual depth, social solidarity, and global-local awareness.
LIT 211 Classical to Contemporary Drama (3 credits)
LIT 212 Literature and Ecology (3 credits)
LIT 213 Gender and Literature (3 credits)
AAI 210 AI-Driven Curriculum Design and Evaluation (3 credits)
AAI 211 Machine Learning for NLP in Language Studies (3 credits)
Thesis:
THE 301 Graduate Research Project (GRP)
THE 302 Thesis