Calendar 2012–13

The University 5 Part 1 Academic Structure and Policy The Chinese University of Hong Kong is a growing university offering a wide range of full-time and part-time programmes which lead to bachelor’s degrees, master’s degrees, and doctorates. There are eight Faculties (Arts, Business Administration, Education, Engineering, Law, Medicine, Science, and Social Science), and 58 departments/ schools offering 60 major programmes and 66 minor programmes under the existing three-year curriculum, and 68 major programmes and 66 minor programmes under the new four-year curriculum for full-time undergraduate students, and one part-time undergraduate programme for part-time students under the three-year curriculum. Postgraduate programmes including 37 MPhil–PhD programmes, 35 doctoral programmes, 162 master’s programmes, 23 postgraduate diploma programmes, and one postgraduate certificate programme are offered by the Graduate School through its 57 graduate divisions. The Senate regulates instruction, education and research. The Faculties advise the Senate through the faculty boards on the programmes of study recommended by the departments/schools, which deliver disciplinary teaching. The Colleges, in turn, support the broader development of students as whole persons in addition to the provision of residential accommodation. All teaching staff and full-time undergraduate students, with a few exception of teachers belonging to research institutes or centres, belong to both a Faculty and to a College. n n Undergraduate Studies At its inception the University’s undergraduate curriculum was based on a combination of the credit unit system and the degree examination system. After a comprehensive review in the mid-1980s, the University decided to adopt a pure credit-unit-based curriculum structure. From 1991–92 onwards, greater flexibility was introduced into students’ selection of courses and pace of study. Full-time Undergraduate Studies Throughout the years the University has endeavoured to provide a wide variety of programmes to meet the changing needs of society. In 2012–13, which is the double cohort year, a total of 11 new major and five new minor programmes are introduced: (i) Under the existing three-year curriculum: Programme Title Faculty Major/Minor Bachelor of Education Programme in Mathematics and Mathematics Education Education Major Korean (subject to Senate approval) Arts Minor Web and Cloud Computing Engineering Minor