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GENA 1115 S-L: Integrating and Applying STEAM Skills in the Community
“Service Learning – Make a Difference to Our Community” aims to enable students to use sustainable methods to help local community or socially disadvantaged groups. In collaborating with different NGOs and university departments or research units, students will be introduced to key concepts and theories of sustainable development and explore how to apply them to […]
GENA 1116 S-L: Creating a Better World through Diversity and Inclusion
“Service Learning – Creating a Better World through Diversity and Inclusion” aims to promote diversity and inclusion to the community. The course will create opportunities for students to get in touch with vulnerable groups or minority members in the city. By engaging in a variety of projects or activities such as in-depth visits and interviews, […]
GENA 1117 S-L: Service Learning – Creating a Better World through Diversity and Inclusion
To support the development of Hong Kong as an international innovation and technology hub, and foster new growth drivers and new strengths, the Chief Executive has announced in the 2022 Policy Address to step up the promotion of STEAM education in primary and secondary schools. It is important to better equip our students with 21st […]
GESC2360 Environmental Justice in Action
This course adopts a service-learning approach to examine how environmental sustainability can be achieved in a fair, just, and equitable manner through impactful community service. By utilizing the environmental justice framework, students will explore how social inequalities shape the processes and outcomes of sustainable development. The focus of student service will be on making an […]
UGEA 2288 Understanding China
UGEA 2288 Understanding China
UGEA1333 Multiculturalism in China
#UGEA Chinese Cultural Heritage
This course introduces students to an understanding of the changes of the ethnic landscape in China from the past to the present. Through close readings of ethnographies, viewing of videos, and fieldtrips, this class examines various topics in multiculturalism in China, including ethnic relations, global economy, religion pluralism, and cross-cultural romance and marriage, in the […]
UGEA2180 Chinese Culture and Society
#UGEA Chinese Cultural Heritage
(UGEA2180 is double-coded with ANTH2410.) This course provides an anthropological approach to examining Chinese culture and society. Some of the key questions we raise include: What does it mean to be Chinese? What role does culture play in being Chinese, and what constitutes Chinese society? Our emphasis is on the dominant cultural practices of societies […]
UGEA2334 China Today
#UGEA Chinese Cultural Heritage
China is looming large on the global scene and our everyday life. It is a rising power that is changing the world order. It is a land of promising opportunities that attract an immense amount of capital and talents from overseas. Not to mention that a large part of the stuff we consume is produced […]
UGEB 2365 Environmental Crises – China and the World
UGEB 2365 Environmental Crises – China and the World
UGEB1870 Exploring Earth and Environmental Sciences
#UGEB Nature Science and Technology
(UGEB1870 is double-coded with EESC1001.) The course provides an interdisciplinary study of the Earth Systems, including natural phenomena in the atmosphere, hydrosphere, geosphere, cryosphere, and biosphere. The mechanism of these systems, associated dynamics and anthropogenic impacts will be introduced and discussed. The course also serves as a platform to understand and critically assess global environmental […]
UGEB2123 Environmental Crises – China and the World
#UGEB Nature Science and Technology
This course will provide an introduction of China’s major environmental crises at local, regional, national and global scales and at different stages of development. It covers topics from air pollution (both indoor and outdoor), water shortage (due to the lack of water resources and water pollution), soil pollution, waste management, desertification & deforestation, energy transition […]
UGEB2132B Earth as Seen From Space
#UGEB Nature Science and Technology
Climate change, sea level rise, deforestation, forest fire, severe typhoon, glacier melt, agricultural loss, overpopulation, etc. are terms that you might have heard of. And they are also real and hot crises affecting the sustainability of human beings. How do we know these are all happening? In fact, our earth is being overseen from space […]