Calendar 2020-21

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 59 departments/ schools offering 81 major programmes and 80 minor programmes under the four-year curriculum for undergraduate students. Postgraduate programmes including 41 MPhil–PhD programmes, 27 doctoral programmes, 147 master’s programmes, eight postgraduate diploma programmes, and one postgraduate certificate programme are offered by the Graduate School through its 59 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 2020–21, two minor programmes are introduced. The University also collaborates with two renowned institutions overseas and on the mainland to offer Dual Undergraduate Degree Programmes with effect from 2020–21. Programme Title Faculty Major/Minor Film and Screen Studies Arts Minor Hong Kong Sign Language Arts Minor General Education General Education plays a vital role in the University’s mission to provide a balanced undergraduate education for students. It equips students with the intellectual capacity for understanding critical issues, ideas, and values of humanity in modern society. It nurtures students to be educated persons capable