The Liberal Art University in Hong Kong
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Core Curriculum 核心課程

Aims and Intended Learning Outcomes
(effective from 2022-23)

 

The Core Curriculum aims to provide students with a broad and balanced foundation through an exposure to a wide range of cross-disciplinary subjects. Designed to engage students in big questions and to cultivate in students a crucial set of generic and transferable skills treasured highly and widely across the globe, the Core Curriculum is important to the realization of a cohesive, humanistic and all-round education that Lingnan aims to provide. On completion of the Core Curriculum, students are expected to be able to:


 

Programme Structure
(effective from 2018-19 Year 1 intake and 2019-20 Senior Year Intake)

 

As an essential part of the undergraduate curriculum at Lingnan University, the Core Curriculum is a compulsory component for all undergraduate students irrespective of their majors. Each student is required to complete 27 credits in the Core Curriculum, including 4 compulsory courses in the Common Core and one course from each of the five Clusters. Each of the courses bears 3 credits, which normally represents 3 contact hours per week in a single term.

 

Core Curriculum Requirements

Credits

Common Core  

12

Critical Thinking: Analysis and Argumentation

 

The Making of Hong Kong

 

The Process of Science

 

China in World History

 

One Course from Each of These Five Clusters

15

Creativity and Innovation

 

Humanities and the Arts

 

Management and Society

 

Science, Technology, Mathematics and Society

 

Values, Cultures and Societies

 

Total

27

 

Course Exemption/Credit Transfer for Core Curriculum Courses