AIMS

To provide a challenging bilingual education to enable students:

1. to engage actively in the contemporary analysis of culture; to become sensitive to, and critical of, the issues of identity, value and affection with which the various forms of culture they study are concerned;

2. to be aware of the complex interplay between the modern self, society and history through intensive work in an inter-disciplinary curriculum; to learn how the multiple perspectives with which people see the world today are crucial to our understanding of contemporary cultural realities; and

3. to open themselves intellectually to the wide-ranging texts and contexts that have been transforming the conditions of life in the contemporary world, so as to develop a capacity for independent judgement on the cultural practices and social institutions they must deal with today.

OBJECTIVES

Our curriculum is designed to help students:

1. to acquire a solid grounding in the humanities, as well as to develop the intellectual and linguistic ability to express themselves clearly on a variety of cultural issues

2. to benefit from an inter-disciplinary framework of study, through which divergent approaches to culture as value, commodity and representation can be integrated;

3. to make a comparative study of global patterns of cultural representation, imagination, and institutional formations in the modern world, and to analyse living examples of contemporary culture in the local contexts;

4. to form a critical perspective on the social and historical forms of cultural practice in an Asian cosmopolitan city such as Hong Kong, and to develop an understanding of local cases in the light of international Cultural Studies; and

5. to cultivate a firm sense of self-orientation in their social and career life, as well as to reflect critically and creatively upon the current cultural situation and changing historical condition of Hong Kong in particular and China in general.