American Studies Miscellany discusses various main topics on American Studies and the development of their theories. The students will explore the references related to the main topics and discuss them so that they are able to read critically and to analyze the primary texts from the various main topics they are interested in.   


Systemic Functional Discourse Analysis (SFDA) is a type of discourse analysis seen from the perspective of Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL). SFL is concerned with how language is functionally used as text in context (Halliday & Matthiessen, 2014). Under the framework of SFL, this course enables students to interpret texts by analyzing them. The scope of analysis includes how grammar (clauses and words) realize texts and how texts realize meanings in wider contexts of culture covering register, genre, and ideology (Martien & Rose, 2007).


This course introduces the basic concepts of Interpreting and how it varies from written translation. In addition, this course also discusses the methods and strategies for translating, as well as the skills that the interpreter must have. Students will also have practice in conducting conference interpreting activities, both consecutively and simultaneously.

This course provides students with skills of reviewing books and journal article, involving summarizing particular interests, criticizing, and finding research gaps. This skills are very complicated because they will involve extensive reading of different but related specific topics. Besides, the students will also be equipped with theories and practices of designing research which involve determining research design, location, source of data and data, sampling validity, and complexed analyses. Therefore, at the end of this course students are required to produce Chapter 1 and 3 of the proposals.