Bulletin Number Four 1983

Seven inter-collegiate courses were offered within the first year. By 1973, when all three Colleges were on one campus, intercollegia courses had grown to 457. As a result of the reorganization of the University in 1977, College Departments were integrated to become university-wide departments, which are responsible for the design and review of the programme of studies and teaching assignments. With this pooling of resources, academic programmes have been strengthened. The University started off with three Faculties: Arts, Science, and Commerce and Social Science. In 1974，an independent Faculty of Business Administration was established and the former Faculty of Commerce and Social Science became the Faculty of Social Science. With the establishment of the Faculty of Medicine in 1977，the University has become a truly diversified modern University offering a full range of professional and liberal arts subjects: Faculty of Arts Chinese Language and Literature (including Translation), English, Fine Arts, French, German, Japanese and Italian Studies, History, Music, Philosophy, Religion Faculty of Business Administration Accounting and Finance, General Business Management and Personnel Management, Marketing and International Business Faculty of Science Biochemistry, Biology, Chemistry, Computer Science, Electronics, Mathematics, Physics, Statistics Faculty of Social Science Anthropology, Economics, Geography, Government and Public Administration, Journalism and Communication, Psychology, Social Work, Sociology Faculty of Medicine Anatomy, Physiology, Pharmacology, Morbid Anatomy, Microbiology, Chemical Pathology, Community Medicine, Medicine, Clinical Pharmacology, Clinical Oncology, Surgery, Traumatic and Orthopaedic Surgery, Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Paediatrics, Psychiatry, Anaesthesia, Diagnostic Radiology and Organ Imaging. All first-year undergraduates are required to take General Chinese, General English and Physical Education courses. With the University's emphasis on balanced education, another compulsory element in its programme is General Education, which aims to widen students' perspectiv and deepen their understanding of scientific methods as well as their appreciation of literature, art, and Chinese and Western cultures. General Education courses are offered by the Colleges. The University also offers part-time degree programmes, providing qualified and aspiring working adults with a second chance to receive university eudcation. The first programme, in Social Work, was launched in 1981. Three other programmes, Business Administration, Chinese and English, and Music, were offered in the following year. 39