Bulletin Autumn‧Winter 1990

Bachelor of Arts Programme in Japanese Studies The new major programme will be the first multi-departmental and inter-faculty programme and will replace the existing minor programme in Japanese Studies. There will be two main streams: the humanities stream covering Japanese language, literature, culture and history, and the social science stream covering Japanese society, economics, politics and management. The objective is to provide comprehensive academic training in Japanese language and Japanese studies to meet the demand of various local professions for graduates in these subjects, and to promote cultural exchange and better understanding between Hong Kong and Japan. A unique feature of the programme is that certain major students will be required to undertake resident studies in Japan for one year. Bachelor of Nursing Programme The programme will be offered by the Faculty of Medicine under a new department of nursing and a board of studies in nursing. It is specially designed for registered nurses with at least two years of post- registration nursing experience. Students can be enrolled for full-time, part-time day release or part-time evening studies. The normal length of study is two years for full-time students and four years for part- time. $20 Million Computer Network for the Engineering Programme The University will spend over HK$20 million to build the largest workstations network in Southeast Asia for its engineering programme. Digital has been chosen as the system integrator for the workstations and networking. The project when completed will comprise some 150 advanced workstations and provide a computing power of at least 2000 million instructions per second, and a total disk storage exceeding 60 gigabytes. Formal documents were signed between the University and Digital at the Hotel Conrad on 7th December 1990. At the signing ceremony, Prof. Charles K. Kao said that the workstation project would enable the University to keep abreast of current technology at a world-standard level and greatly facilitate research and teaching. CUHK Coordinates Study on Technology Road Maps for Hong Kong This University and five other local tertiary institutions recently received a grant of HK$200,000 from the Industry Development Board for phase two studies on Technology Road Maps for Hong Kong'. The first phase of the project was initiated by Prof. Charles K. Kao and was launched under the supervision of a steering group comprising several heads and senior academics from all six institutions of higher learning: The Chinese University of Hong Kong, the City Polytechnic, Baptist College, the Hong Kong Polytechnic, the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology and the University of Hong Kong. The group examined the strength and weaknesses of Hong Kong in the technology field in general and investigated four technology areas with potential for development locally: information technology, biotechnolog materials technology and environmental technology. Phase two studies will look into these areas in depth, pinpointing business opportunities and identifying any missing links in the commercial and industrial infrastructure. This is the first time the government has relied on local expertise in addressing such issues. The project is coordinated by the Office of Industrial and Business Development of the University Development Section, CUHK. Academic Conferences The following conferences were held during the period August to December 1990 by various units and departments of the University. * International Conference on Sino-Japanese Relations in the Last Century (10th-12th August), jointly organized by the Institute of Chinese Studies and the Japan Study Programme of this university; the International Programmes of Southern Illinois University at Carbondale, USA; and the Chinese Alliance for Commemoration of the Sino-Japanese War Victims. NEWS 24