Calendar 2002–03

PostgraduateStudies 267 for full-time study and two to three yearsfor part-time. The diplomaprogrammes last one year for full-time students and one to two years for part-time students. All programmes in the Graduate School are provided through 54 graduate division s (viz. Chinese Language and Literature, English, Fine Arts, History, Modern Languages and Intercultural Studies, Music, Philosophy, Religion and Theology, Translation, Business Admin istration, Edu cation, Automation and Computer-aided Engineering, Computer Science and Engineering, E-commerce (Technologies Programme), Electronic Engineering, Information Engineering, Systems Engineering and Engineering Management, Anaesthesia and Intensive Car e, Anatomical and Cellular Patholo gy, Anatomy, Chemical Patholo gy, Diagno stic Radio logy and Organ Imaging, Medical Sciences, Microbio logy, Nursing, Ob stetrics and Gynaecology, Op hthalmo logy an d Visual Scien ces, Orthopaedicsand Traumatology, Pharmacology, Pharmacy, Physiology, Surgery, Biochemistry, Biology, Chemistry, Chinese Medicine, Environmental Science, Food and Nutritional Sciences, Materials Science and Engineering, Mathematics, Mo lecular Biotechn olo gy, Ph ysics, Risk Management Scien ce, Statistics, Anthropo logy, Arch itecture, Commun ication, Economics, Geogr aphy and Resource Man agement, Government and Public Administration, Psychology, Social Work, Sociology, and Gender Studies). Persons who have graduated with good honours degrees from recognized universities and who have the capacity for research may apply for admission to the above postgraduate p rogrammes. For details, please refer to the General Regulations Governing Postgraduate Studies printed in Part 7 of this Calendar and The Chinese Universityof HongKong PostgraduateProspectus 2002–2003. Starting from 2000–1,all newly-admitted students arerequired to achieve a certain level of competence in IT. They are required to pass the IT Proficiency Test before they graduate. If they pass, ‘IT Proficiency Passed’ will be recorded on the transcripts.If they fail, they arerequired to attend summer intensive courses in IT.