Aims & Programme Intended Learning Outcomes (PILOs)
The Core Curriculum aims to provide students with a broad, balanced foundation through exposure to cross-disciplinary subjects. It is designed to engage students in exploring big questions and cultivating a set of generic, transferable skills that are highly valued and widely recognised around the globe. The Core Curriculum is essential to the cohesive, humanistic, and well-rounded education of Lingnan University.
On satisfactory completion of the Core Curriculum, students will be able to:
Programme Intended Learning Outcomes (PILOs) of the Core Curriculum at Lingnan | ||
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| PILO1. | Understand the foundations of knowledge and inquiry about nature, culture and society; | Focused by engagement with big questions, both contemporary and enduring |
| PILO2. | Apply intellectual and practical skills, including critical and creative thinking, communication, and collaboration; | Practiced extensively, across the curriculum in the context of progressively more challenging problems, projects, and standards for performance |
| PILO3. | Demonstrate the ability to integrate and apply learning; | Demonstrated through the application of knowledge, skills, effective communication, and responsibilities to new settings and complex problems |
| PILO4. | Develop personal and social responsibility; | Anchored through active involvement with diverse communities and real-world challenges |
| PILO5. | Demonstrate the motivation and ability for life-long learning. | Developed through opportunities to apply self-directed and self-regulated learning, locate and evaluate information sources that are of interest or are potentially useful, and reflect on the utility of knowledge and information both now and in the future |
Alignment to Lingnan Graduate Attributes
The Core Curriculum supports Lingnan’s aspiration to help students develop the Graduate Attributes (GAs) as shown in the table below:
| LUGAs | PILO1 | PILO2 | PILO3 | PILO4 | PILO5 |
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| GA1. Scholarly and Interdisciplinary |
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| GA2. Digitally Literate |
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| GA3. Skilled Communicator |
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| ✓ |
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| GA4. Critical and Analytical |
| ✓ | ✓ |
| ✓ |
| GA5. Creative and Entrepreneurial |
| ✓ |
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| GA6. Committed to Service |
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| GA7. Glocally Minded | ✓ | ✓ |
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| GA8. Personally and Socially Responsible |
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| ✓ |
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| GA9. Committed to Life-long Learning |
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| ✓ |
| LUGAs | PILO1 | PILO2 | PILO3 | PILO4 | PILO5 |
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| GA1. Scholarly and Interdisciplinary |
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| GA2. Digitally Literate |
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| GA3. Skilled Communicator |
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| ✓ |
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| GA4. Critical and Analytical |
| ✓ | ✓ |
| ✓ |
| GA5. Creative and Entrepreneurial |
| ✓ |
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| GA6. Committed to Service |
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| GA7. Glocally Minded | ✓ | ✓ |
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| GA8. Personally and Socially Responsible |
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| ✓ |
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| GA9. Committed to Life-long Learning |
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| ✓ |