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Artificial intelligence (AI) is rapidly transforming our world and redefining our ways of living, working, and communicating. It additionally creates new opportunities for language research and application. This course bridges the fields of AI and linguistics by familiarizing students with the application of AI to manage linguistic data, encompassing both text and speech, while also addressing the limitations, risks, and ethical concerns associated with this technology. Upon completion of this course, students will be able to explain fundamental linguistic theories and their significance to AI models, assess the advantages and drawbacks of AI systems in linguistic tasks, and analyze ethical considerations. The class activities will include lectures, group presentations, group projects, and case studies. Students’ performance will be measured based on their participation, quizzes, assignments, and group projects.

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While further developing the skills introduced and developed in Basic Read­ing (getting general and specific information from the text, getting the main ideas and detail­ed information from the text, deducing the meaning of words, phrases and sen­tences based on the context, and explaining re­lations between parts of the text through grammatical cohesive devices, and deve­lop­ing the skills of inferencing, analysing, synthesizing, and speed reading), Reading for Spesific Purposes improves the skills of eva­­luat­ing texts or reading critically. This course aims at the de­ve­­lop­ment of vocabulary up to 7500 words with relevant gramma­tical struc­tures. It is accomplished by ex­pos­ing the students to both printed and elec­tro­nic reading resources, both ex­tracts and full-scale texts of ge­neral and spe­cific topics. In addition, students are introduced to formal texts (such as documents, business letters or official speeches) and specia­lized texts such as brief, self-contained, texts com­monly used in TOEFL read­ing tests. The skills of sum­ma­­rising and eva­luating texts are developed. While indi­vi­dual per­for­manc­es are noted, pair and group work should be encouraged. Assessment of success is based on portfolios and mid-term as well as final exa­mina­tions

This course aims to develop students' spoken communication skills and competencies in social and intercultural contexts. The focus is fluency, accuracy, appropriateness and effectiveness in communicating. The learning material consists of the functions of English in formal and informal contexts. Lectures are held with activities in the form of role plays, interviews, information transfers and information exchanges, as well as language games. Assessment is carried out through lecture participation, weekly individual performance, and final semester exams.

This subject provides students with basic skills in comprehend­ing simple oral discourses through recorded voice of native speakers. Material are presented in a variety of short functional texts with exercises covering sound recognition and discri­mi­nation as well as stresses and intonation and their meanings. Students’ classroom activities include individual work, pair work, and group work. Evaluation on students’ achievement is based on classroom partici­pation, home assignments, the mid-semester test, and the final test.

Intensive Listening aims at providing students with an opportunity to develop their practical skills in the basic language competence of Listening. Assessment for the unit is based on attendance, class performance, regular assign­ments, portfolios, mid-semester test, semester examination and/or final project.

The goal of this course is to build basic skills of news writing and reporting so that students could report, conduct an interview, and write for mass-communication such as newspaper, magazine, radio, television. The topic areas of the course include news, features, and editorials. Students will be trained to maintain journalism ethics; independence, accuracy, impartiality, and truth, whenever they project or interpret an event for their publication. The materials are delivered through lecture, discussion, workshop with journalist and media practitioners, individual project, and group assignments. At the end of the course, students are expected to have a good understanding on how a journalist works. Assessment covers students’ participation, weekly projects, and a final project.

This course of Computer-Assisted Translation is an obligatory subject in the Translation Studies Curriculum of English Literature Study Program, for those students choosing to focus on Translation Concentration, with a credit point value of 2 points (2 CPs). It provides students with an S1 level of both theory and practice with the assistance of computer or certain software in various types of translation activities under appropriate supervision. Assessment for the unit is based on regular assignments, works produced, presentations/performances and discussions, portfolios, including the mid-semester examination and final assignment.

This course will introduce students to the concepts and principles of entrepreneurship as well as give them experience in planning or starting a business in any form. The course will introduce the role entrepreneurs play in the local business environment and the impact of entrepreneurship on the national economy. This course will explore many of the concepts that future entrepreneurs must master before they start their business. It is a course that mixes theory with practice. Learners will be challenged to apply the principles, concepts, and framework to real world situations.

This course focuses in developing a critical understanding of some key practices and examples of essay writing and the multiple kinds of work the essays do, such as commentary, social critique, and memoir, as well as the types of essays i.e. descriptive, narrative, cause-effect, comparison, and argumentation. This course is also aimed to develop awareness of different rhetorical approaches used in essay writing. The goal of the course is oriented on how to produce essays that display clarity of purpose, awareness of audience, and sensitivity of writing mechanics and grammar. Course activities include weekly paper and presentation, mid-term test and final test. Students are also required to submit one long essay concerning a certain topic in the end of the course. Assessment is based on regular attendance, papers, grades, and personal attitude in attending the course. Critical thinking, sensitivity towards social phenomena, creativity, discipline, and honesty are among skills and attitudes which are to be developed by this course.

This course provides students with a basic understanding of the field of computational linguistics, which is a broad field incorporating research and techniques for processing language with computers at all levels of linguistic structure. Topics of discussion include what corpus linguistics is, its history, tools and methods, and some current research in the area. Students in this class are expected to have a background in either computer science or linguistics, but not necessarily both. Class activities include lectures, group discussions, and presentation. Evaluation is based on the performance in the class activities, completion of assignments, and final project.

This course introduces students to the range of research tools which are currently used in studies within the field of linguistics. The focus of the course is on the theoretical and empirical investigation of real-world problems in which language is central. Research is defined as a process of scientific investigation with the aim to create new knowledge. As part of the process of working with data, students will be introduced to the broad field of research, differentiating between primary research, secondary research, and the research paradigms of quantitative research, qualitative research, and mixed methods. The course also introduces specific methodologies including observation, questionnaire, interview, focus group, ethnographic study, conversational analysis, text analysis and discourse analysis, all of which are currently used within linguistics. The delivery of the materials employs some techniques such as lecturing, discussion, individual work, and group work. The students’ achievement is assessed through their classroom participation, home assignments, mid- and final-term tests, and individual projects.

Semantics & Pragmatics is a two-credit compulsory subject. It provides an introductory study on meaning in language, both literal meaning and meaning constructed in relation to the users. It deals with the choices people make, the constraints they encounter in using language in social interactions, and the effects of their use of language on other participants in a speech event. Some topics to discuss are proposition, reference, deixis, lexical relation, participant role, implicature, presupposition, speech act, discourse structure, and politeness. During the course, students are presented with cases pertinent to the topics and analyze the cases in prescribed ways. At the end of the course students will achieve a competency in conducting studies on meaning in language, indicated by an awareness of the various aspects of meaning in language and an experience and ability in analyzing meaning in verbal communication.

This course introduces students to general information about Britain, America, and Australia which comprises geography, history, identity, government, parliament, education, culture, economy, and literature. The course also studies how those aspects are reflected in literature. This course aims to broaden the students’ horizon on the discussed topics and encourage them to explore more facts about the countries. The delivery of the materials em­ploys some techniques such as lecturing, discussion, individual work, group work, and presentation. Student’s assessment is based on their participation, paper, presentation, quizzes, and the final test

The course provides the students knowledge on the development of drama and theatre,  drama genres, as well as the methods and theories of drama analysis. 

This unit is meant especially for Indonesian learners of English who have reached the intermediate level of English. The topics to highlight cover (1) the definition and classification of nouns according to their kinds, grammatical distinction, number, gender, and case, (2) noun phrase and compound nouns, (3) the definition and use of definite and indefinite articles, (4) pronouns, (5) concord between subjects and verbs, (6) verbs and verb phrases, (7) adjective and adverb, (8) adjective and adverb phrases. However, note to be considered that, since a clause has not been addressed in this unit, relative and interrogative pronouns, and a noun phrase of which structure is made up from a head word and adjective clause are not included. A noun phrase with more complex modifiers will not be discussed in this unit, either. Whereas the couse is in progress, students are introduced to English punctuation and spelling which are given in dispersal consistent with any topics related.

This course is aimed at developing students’ knowledge of  and ability in having either practical or theoretical English structure at the intermediate level through the receptive or productive use. Hence, it is designed to form the basis for the four other skills in language learning i.e. listening, reading, speaking, and writing, which subsequently serve as the foundation for other disciplines in relation to language and literary studies. In proportion to the topics addressed in the whole semester, at the end of the course, students are expected to have acquired:

1.       profound mastery of English structure at the intermediate level based on the topics offered;

2.       ability to recognize grammatical mistakes and reconstruct them in proper English;

3.       skills of constructing idiomatic and accepted English utterances.

This course provides students with upper-intermediate grammar skills which include forms of verbs, complex modality uses, complex clause, and advanced tenses. 

This course focuses in developing a critical understanding of some key practices and examples of essay writing and the multiple kinds of work the essays do,  such as commentary, social critique, and memoir. Also this course is aimed to develop awareness of different rhetorical approaches used in essay writing. The goal of the course is oriented on how to produce essays that display clarity of purpose, awareness of audience, and sensitivity of writing mechanics and grammar. Course activities are including weekly paper and presentation, mid-term test and final test. Students are also required to submit one long essay concerning a certain topic in the end of the course. Assessment is based on regular attendance, papers, grades, and personal attitude in attending the course. Critical thinking, sensitivity towards social phenomena, creativity, discipline, and honesty are among skills and attitudes which are to be developed by this course.