Students in the English Study Program will take courses across three main categories: Language Skills, Literature and Cultural Studies, and Linguistics, along with other mandatory courses required by the Faculty and University. For more detailed information, please refer to the provided Study Plan.
LANGUAGE SKILLS
Basic Grammar
This course discusses the identification, elaboration, and reproduction of word formations and the use of words, phrases, independent clauses, compound sentences, basic sentence patterns, tenses, and sentence forms, along with their components or parts of speech.
Intermediate Grammar
This course is the continuation of the previous grammar course, focusing on discussing and practicing the use of tenses, finite and non-finite verbs, determiners, preparatory it, preparatory there, question tags, and dependent clauses.
Upper Intermediate Grammar
This course is the final grammar course that discusses and practices the use of pre-modifier expansions such as determiners, complex sentences, compound sentences, phrasal verbs, non-finites especially active/present participles, passive/past participles, and infinitives (bare and to), as well as subjunctives and conditionals.
Reading General Interests
This course discusses effective reading skills by paying attention to pre-reading, scanning, skimming, and grammatical construction activities as discussed in the Basic Grammar course to understand the relationship between discourse components and introduce various vocabulary-building techniques including recognizing words in sentences.
Reading for Gist
This course practices the ability to identify the main ideas and supporting ideas of written texts and to create summaries for various types of texts by paying attention to pre-reading, scanning, and skimming activities.
Reading Text of Various Modes
This course practices reading skills effectively by paying attention to pre-reading, scanning, skimming, and grammatical construction activities to understand the relationship between components of discourse at an intermediate level and continuing to develop vocabulary and expression-building skills with an emphasis on terms and jargon in various fields.
Reading Scientific Texts
This course practices the skills of effectively reading academic scientific texts from various fields of science, whether in the form of scientific journal articles, research reports, or books, effectively by paying attention to pre-reading, scanning, and skimming activities to understand the relationship between components of discourse at an advanced level as well as skills in overcoming problems with new or unique words, terms, and expressions.
Oral Skills: General Interest
This course practices the ability to understand spoken English discourse at an intermediate level with an emphasis on the ability to identify words and sentences and the relationships between them in a dialogue or monologue through the application of the material discussed in Intermediate Grammar and the phonological phenomena of English, especially the phonemes typical of English, stress-rhythm patterns, linking, and intonation as well as other suprasegmental aspects.
Oral Skills: Specific Interest
This course practices the ability to understand spoken English discourse at an intermediate level with an emphasis on the ability to identify words and sentences and the relationships between them in a dialogue or monologue through the application of the material discussed in Upper Intermediate Grammar and the phonological phenomena of English, especially the phonemes typical of English, stress-rhythm patterns, linking, and intonation as well as other suprasegmental aspects with a focus on the ability to conclude and respond to ideas.
Oral Skills: Inferring and Responding
This course practices the ability to read oral discourse in English at an advanced level effectively with an emphasis on the ability to infer ideas in a dialogue or monologue through the application of material discussed in Upper Intermediate Grammar and contextual considerations.
Paragraph Writing
This course focuses on aspects such as creating phrases and clauses by paying attention to the grammatical conventions as discussed in the Intermediate Grammar course, creating simple descriptive, narrative, and argumentative compositions, developing main sentences into paragraphs, developing types of paragraphs, preparing outlines, and reading texts as support to create one’s own by using the principles of citation that avoid plagiarism.
Essay Writing
This course focuses on the practice of writing descriptive, narrative, and argumentative by applying at least the grammatical forms and patterns discussed in the Grammar courses and utilizing readings of various writings as references by paying attention to the principles of citation that avoid plagiarism.
Writing for Professional Purposes
This course aims to apply practice writing for all professional purposes such as copywriting, business letter formatting, report writing, and journalistic writing.
Paper Presentation
This course practices the skills of conveying persuasive and argumentative ideas through a thorough paper research-based by providing effective support for the main idea by utilizing visual aids and multimedia technology in conducting presentations.
Integrated Language Skills
This course helps students to present and defend arguments orally in parliamentary and juridical contexts, as well as to deliver counter-arguments. It includes simulations of debates between proponents and opponents of motions, as found in parliamentary sessions or organizational assemblies, and courtroom-style arguments between prosecution and defense. Various debate formats such as Australasian, American Parliamentary, British Parliamentary, Canadian Parliamentary, and Model United Nations are introduced, along with meeting procedures based on Robert’s Rules of Order.
Technical Langue
This course reviews the materials that have been delivered in the grammar courses through the discussion of TOEFL-based questions and exercises.
Translating General Texts
This course practices producing the equivalent of words, phrases, and idioms from English texts and Intermediate Indonesian texts into Indonesian. The texts used authentic texts taken mainly from public media as the object of course. The comprehension from Grammar and Reading courses will be applied in the course.
Translating Specific Texts
This course practices producing the equivalent of words, phrases, idioms, jargon, terminology, sentences, and language styles from English to Indonesia. Specific texts are used as the practice materials in the course of study such as advertisement, journalistic writing, and literary works like short stories and/or poems.
Translating Scientific Texts
This course practices translating scientific texts such as abstracts, synopses, journals, essays, and papers from English to Indonesian and vice versa.
Interpreting
This course teaches the ability to interpret sentences and paragraphs from multiple oral discourses from Indonesian to English and English to Indonesian.
Technology in Translation
This course practices the use of various software and hardware commonly used in translation practice.
Literature and Cultural Studies Courses
Introduction to Literary Studies
This course practices the ability to analyze and discuss key elements of English fiction such as theme, characterization, plot, setting, symbolism, language style, and narrative patterns through the study of at least six short stories and one novel, while also considering the author’s background and historical-cultural context. Students will also practice writing simple literary essays using principles from the writing courses and learn to identify and critique poetic devices in English poems across all the periods discussed.
The course also covers elements of drama such as plot, stage setting, characterization, delivery techniques, language, and symbolism which introduces the basic theory for drama analysis, with a focus on Shakespearean drama. Texts used in the course may range from Elizabethan plays to contemporary works. Students are expected to produce academic writing suitable for seminars or publication.
Survey of English Literature
The courses practice identifying and mapping key texts, figures, themes, motifs, and literary/cultural movements in England from the Old English period to the 21st century. The coverage of the course includes Old English up to the 17th century, The Elizabethan era which focuses on Shakespearean works, 17th up to 19th century literature, and Modernism. Students will also present critical interpretation of English literary developments through academic writing or creative media which includes websites, films, two dimensional, and three-dimensional presentations.
Survey of American Literature
This course focuses on reading and discussing the development of American history and literature from the first colonies to the 19th century. Students will explore key texts, figures, themes, patterns, and literary/cultural movements in what is now the United States, from Native American and Pacific Islander oral traditions, early Spanish writings, and colonial literature including Puritan poetry, to 18th-century literature (Age of Reason), and 19th-century works such as Transcendentalism, Dark Romantics, Romantic fiction, and Realism up to the end of the Civil War (1865). Students are expected to present interpretations and critiques of pre-1865 American literature both academically and creatively through essays, websites, films, and visual or multimedia projects.
Critical Theory
This course discusses various literary theories, theories in literary studies, and theories about literary studies, including their connections to other disciplines such as social sciences, psychoanalysis, and mathematics/logic. By the end of the course, students are expected to be able to present arguments through papers and academic essays on literary or cultural texts and defend their views by engaging with relevant literary and cultural theories.
Selected Topics in Literature and Culture
The course discusses the application of various theories and approaches by taking examples of various studies that have been conducted in the field of English literature. Students are expected to listen to presentations from several researchers and use it as a reference for their final research project.
Theater and Performance
This course urged students to produce a theater performance based on contemporary movements and trends. Students will emphasize body awareness, spatial relationships, interaction with media and technology, and theater as a reflection of life. Conducted through project-based learning, students explore the physical body’s material reality and its interaction with performance space and production systems.
Women’s Writing
This course discusses the base philosophy, characteristics, and evolution of women’s writing in English from 19th-century proto-feminists like Mary Wollstonecraft and Kate Chopin, Second Wave feminists, and Third Wave feminists. It will also examine the impact of écriture féminine and how it challenges Eurocentric patriarchal traditions by addressing themes such as the body in writing and queer literature.
Gender and Representation
The Politics of Narrative Method
This course practices the critical analysis of English prose using established literary approaches such as romanticism, formalism, structuralism, post-structuralism, psychoanalysis, and post-colonialism, with an emphasis on how storytelling shapes human experiences in psychological, social, political, and economic aspects.
Survey of Contemporary Literature in English
This course expects students to produce research-based writing such as seminar papers, journal articles, research proposals, reports, and especially a thesis. The course emphasizes proper academic conventions, archival and online research skills, and the use of up-to-date information technology.
Postcolonial Literature
Literature and Film
This course studies the relationship between the film genre and literature by comparing their characteristics and the methods of production with specific focuses on the novelization, adaptation, and ecranization process.
Poetry and Contemporary Music
This course explores the fundamental elements and variations within English poetic traditions and how they contribute to contemporary music, particularly in lyric writing.
Children’s and Young Adult Literature
This course studies the Children’s and Young Adult genre in Literary works by dividing it into five eras: The Early History, The First Golden Age, The Age of Brass, The Second Golden Age, and The Third Golden Age.
Speculative Fiction
This course discusses the variety, characteristics, structure, and cultural significance of various types of speculative fiction, especially those known as science fiction and fantasy.
Digital Culture and Electronic Literature
Literature in Translation
Advanced Studies in Literature
This course discusses significant contemporary issues in literary and cultural studies, along with the theoretical discourses of the contemporary lifestyle. Students are urged to revisit the history of English literature and theories to develop the ability to respond, comment, and critique the development and attempts to explore the new possibilities in literary practices in today’s digitalized world. The course uses an interdisciplinary approach, considering the production and dissemination of literature, art, and culture across multimedia platforms.
Seminar on Literature and Culture
This course expects students to produce research-based writing such as seminar papers, journal articles, research proposals, reports, and especially a thesis. The course emphasizes proper academic conventions, archival and online research skills, and the use of up-to-date information technology.
Linguistic Course
Introduction to Linguistics and Language Development
This course discusses the base of linguistic concepts such as langage, langue, parole, signifiant, signifié, and signification, as well as major linguistic aspects such as phonology, morphology, syntax, and semantics. It also covers the history of Old up to Modern English, the nature of language, semantic change, and word formation concerning social change.
English Phonetics and Phonology
This course discusses the English sound systems, both aurally and orally, and develops phonetic descriptions through articulatory phonetics, phonetic transcription, vowel and consonant phonemes, allophones, variants, and suprasegmental phonemes. It also practices producing spoken English with attention to rhythm, stress patterns, linking, and pronunciation for effective oral communication on everyday topics.
English Morphology and Syntax
This course discusses the morphology theories on the word formations which trained students to analyze word structure in English.
Research Methods (in Linguistics)
This course discusses the relationship between data, methods, techniques, and theories, language as an object of research, methods, and techniques of data collection, and methods and techniques of data analysis.
Text and Discourse Analysis
This course discusses cohesion and discourse such as reference, ellipsis, substitution, conjunction, lexical cohesion, metaphorical expressions, metaphor, metonymy, clausal interdependence, and types of relations. It will also explore approaches to discourse analysis including conversation analysis, transactional analysis, and critical discourse analysis.
Semantics
This course discusses the definition of semantics and meaning, types and fields of meaning, relationships between words, and relationships between sentences, as well as discussing the analysis of meaning components.
Seminar on Linguistics
This course expects students to produce research-based writing such as seminar papers, journal articles, research proposals, reports, and especially a thesis. The course emphasizes proper academic conventions, archival and online research skills, and the use of up-to-date information technology.
Pragmatics
This course discusses a few key aspects such as pragmatics as a solution to conversational issues and miscommunication, the meaning of functionalism and formalism, the cooperative principle in conversation, locution, perlocution, and elocution, and maxims as relevance, quality, quantity, and manners.
Psycholinguistic
This course discusses the relationship between the mind and languages as well as the relationship between cognition and the production of language.
Corpus Linguistics
This course discusses the usage of corpus electronic language and software that will be used in the field of linguistics. Topics will include frequency analysis, concordance, collocation, and keywords.
Sociolinguistics
This course discusses the foundation of sociolinguistic scope, conversation ethnography, accommodation theory, politeness theory, and code understanding.
Semiotics
This course discusses the natural signs that are related to human life such as indices, icons, and symbols.
Teaching Principles and Methods
This course practices the method of teaching foreign languages by using the principles and techniques that are rooted in pedagogy and cognitive psychology.
Classroom Management
This course discusses the principles and methods of class management, syllabus making, and lesson planning.
Faculty Courses
Pengkajian Budaya
This course aims for students to have a good comprehension of culture and the ability to describe and explain cultural studies.
Kebudayaan Sunda
Dasar-dasar Filsafat
This course studies the meaning, scope, and figures of philosophers and their thoughts from ancient, medieval, and modern times.
Kewirausahaan
This course aims for students to have both theoretical and practical entrepreneurial knowledge according to their respective competencies, and be able to develop creativity, and innovation in business opportunities.
Kepariwisataan
This course aims to provide a good understanding of the potential of cultural tourism in Indonesia as well as the ability and capacity to conduct tour guiding and lead trips as a result for each student.
Diplomasi Budaya
UNIVERSITY COURSES
Pancasila dan Kewarganegaraan
Pancasila and Kewarganegaraan is a course that encourages students to master basic attitudes as good citizens by applying the values of Pancasila and Kebangsaan in their daily lives.
Agama
This course encourages students to analyze the fundamental concepts and sources of religious teachings and to apply them in daily life. By the end of the course, students will be able to examine the relationship between humans and religion, integrate religious values into positive social practices, and promote tolerance. Furthermore, students will be able to apply religious values across various aspects of life and use religious texts as a foundation for understanding and practicing those values in actions and contributions.
Bahasa Indonesia
This course practices the ability to think logically, critically, systematically, and innovatively in the development or application of science and technology through writing and effective learning skills. It develops students’ capacity to perform independently, with quality and measurable outcomes, in which they are expected to produce scientific descriptions of their studies in well-structured writing that follows proper academic conventions.
Bahasa Inggris
This course practices the ability to think logically, critically, systematically, and innovatively in the context of advancing or applying scientific and technological knowledge through writing and effective learning strategies. It develops student’s ability to perform independently with quality and accountability in which they are expected to produce scientific descriptions in written form that comply with academic writing standards.
OKK (Olahraga, Kreativitas, dan Kewirausahaan)
This course encourages students to be able to master various basic skills in social activities through local sports and arts activities and help communities maintain their sustainability through entrepreneurial efforts.
Kuliah Kerja Nyata
This course explores the compression of all previous courses practically in the field and is involved in lecturer research both as data providers in the field and data providers through library studies and helps solve development problems in the field by improving local resources.
Skripsi
Writing scientific papers as a final assignment under the guidelines that have been determined and then defended in the Undergraduate Examination.