Supporting Departments

The Social Sciences Programme is an inter-disciplinary degree programme that incorporates four major cognate disciplines of social sciences (viz. economics, political science, psychology and sociology). The courses are mainly supported by the following three departments. Staff in the Departments have extensive teaching, professional and research experiences in the fields of social sciences.

Department of Economics
Courses offered in Department of Economics provide challenge to the mind that you can handle! Although the courses offered by the Economics Department challenge your analytical mind, they are generally neither technical nor mathematical. The majority of courses offered by the Economics Department use little or no mathematics. Perhaps the most "mathematical" courses offered by the Economics Department are intermediate microeconomics and intermediate macroeconomics. However, a logical mind is more important than a mathematical mind even in these courses. ....................................

Department of Political Science
Lingnan is the only university in Hong Kong which has a department which uses the name Political Science. The department contributes actively to Lingnan's inter-disciplinary Bachelor of Social Science degree programme, also unique in Hong Kong. As such we cooperate closely with colleagues in our two sister departments, Economics, and Sociology and Social Policy. We teach in all five of the current streams of the BSocSc programme, but we are particularly strongly involved in the China and Asian Pacific Affairs (CAPA) and International Studies (IS) Stream. .....................................

Department of Sociology and Social Policy
Lingnan University is the only university in Hong Kong with a Department that combines Sociology and Social Policy. it is a strong and productive partnership. Sociology is the scientific study of human interaction. It examines the reasons and causes of social conduct. Sociology treats individual humans as active and thoughtful beings. But it believes that human conduct is decisively shaped by the situations and social networks - based on family, work, residence - in which people find themselves.................................