Core Curriculum 核心課程

Aims and Programme Intended Learning Outcomes
(effective from 2024–25 Year 1 and 2026–27 Senior Year Intake)

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:

Alignment to Graduate Attributes

As a foundational element of university education, the ultimate aim of the Core Curriculum is to support Lingnan’s aspiration to help students develop the Graduate Attributes (GAs) as shown in the table below:

Programme Structure

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 5 compulsory courses in the Common Core and one course from any four 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	15
Critical Thinking: Analysis and Argumentation
The Making of Hong Kong
The Process of Science
China in World History
Generative Artificial Intelligence
One Course from any Four of these Five Clusters	12
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

Core Curriculum 核心課程

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