人文社會科學學院｜
School of Humanities and Social Science
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he School of Humanities and Social Science
has developed detailed plans to contribute to a
multidisciplinary and comprehensive learning experience for students under the four-year curriculum.
As a first step, the School set up a Task Force to launch a new elite undergraduate major program in “Global
China Studies” in 2010, building on existing strengths in faculty members’ research related to China in a
global perspective. This program will emphasize interdisciplinary training in topics of particular significance
for social, economic and cultural changes in Mainland China as well as the country’s emerging role in the
world. It will provide integrated co-curricular activities such as internship, exchange with universities overseas
and on the Mainland, and intensive summer courses on the Mainland.
The School has also launched a new initiative to introduce outcome-based education approaches in overall
curriculum planning and in individual programs and courses.
The School has actively sought to develop research projects that benefit the local community. The Center for
China’s Transnational Relations has received funding from the Government’s Central Policy Unit for a project
entitled “Hong Kong People on the Mainland: A Force for Integration?” and collaborated with the Hong
Kong Employers Federation on a research project about Hong Kong people living and working on the Main-
land.
The Center for Cultural Studies received funding for a project entitled “Making Cultural Clusters: New Strat-
egies for Culture-led Urban Redevelopment” and undertook another project called “Wan Chai Cultural Tour-
ism Research” funded by Wan Chai District Council.
During 2007-08, the School of Humanities and Social Science engaged in a wide range of collaborative ac-
tivities with the Mainland. An important project that has received international recognition is the “Chinese
General Social Survey” conducted by the Survey Research Center in collaboration with China’s Renmin Uni-
versity. Another important initiative has been to invite several scholars from the Mainland to do collabora-
tive research with faculty members at the School as Tin Ka Ping Visiting Scholars. These prominent scholars
included Prof Yang Hui from Yunnan University and Prof Niu Dayong from Peking University.
A research team at the Division of Social Science completed a research report on socio-economic development
in Hong Kong and the Pearl River Delta as part of a collaborative project with universities in Europe and
the US.
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