Bulletin No. 1, 2012

8   Chinese University Bulletin No. 1, 2012 The courses have been piloted for two years and Professor Leung has collected students’ feedback through focus-group discussions, five of which have been held so far. ‘The challenge is what texts to include? How to have courses reflect cultural diversity without overloading the students? We have made modifications based on some of the feedback. For example, we have replaced Galileo’s Dialogue with a text about the history of medieval science, and one out of two texts from the Old Testament with one from the New Testament. I foresee there'll be other minor modifications.’ She said the feedback so far has been positive. ‘It seems that we have managed to give the students what we set out to give. The texts are meant to be challenging. Many commented that they had thought they wouldn’t be able to understand the readings, but to their surprise, they did. Some remarked that they were reading the originals of classical texts for the first time in life. A student told me he never dreamt that he could finish Plato’s Symposium , but he did. This gives students a great sense of empowerment,’ observed Professor Leung.