Master of Arts in Ethics and Public Affairs

Programme Director:  Prof KWAN, Kai Man

This programme provides two streams: full-time (1 year) and part-time (2 years). For full-time stream, classes will be scheduled on weekday evenings and Saturday afternoons during semester 1 and 2 and on weekdays (whole day) during the summer term. For part-time stream, classes will be scheduled on weekday evenings and Saturday afternoons during three semesters in two years.

The aims of this programme are:

  1. To enable students to develop multiple interpretive perspectives (religious and philosophical) on perennial and contemporary issues in different contexts of public affairs.
  2. To help students appreciate and respect diversity within modern society in order to assess and handle conflicting values in critically informed and creative ways.
  3. To help students further develop and reflect on their own values, so that they will be able to justify their own decisions, judgments and convictions, and so become informed and responsible citizens in their community, nation and the world.
  4. To equip future secondary school Liberal Studies teachers with subject knowledge of most modules.
  5. To stimulate the students’ interest in, and a reflective understanding of, public affairs.
  6. To enhance awareness and knowledge of the value dimensions of discourses on economic, political, legal, social, cultural, and environmental affairs.
  7. To provide a transition to the eventual pursuit of further studies in various disciplines.

The structure of the curriculum is as follows:

Students are required to select their stream and complete their study by following the below requirements:

Programme Elective Stream

I) Foundation Courses 6 units
II) Required Courses 18 units
III) Elective Courses 3 units
    27 units

Dissertation Stream

I) Foundation Courses 6 units
II) Elective Courses 15 units
III) Dissertation 6 units
    27 units

Requirements

Programme Elective Stream

I. Foundation Courses 6 units
  LSE 7010 Approaches to the Study of Values 3 units
  LSE 7120 Critical Thinking for Public Affairs 3 units
     
II. Required Courses 18 units
  LSE 7040 Values and Socio-cultural Issues in Hong Kong Today 3 units
  LSE 7050 Traditional Values and Moral Challenges in Modern China 3 units
  LSE 7070 Public Health and the Common Good 3 units
  LSE 7080 Science, Technology and Environmental Ethics 3 units
  LSE 7130 Social Justice 3 units
  LSE 7140 Law, Liberty and Morality 3 units
     
III. Elective Courses 3 units
  LSE 7060 Globalization: Cultural and Ethical Issues 3 units
  LSE 7150 Human Rights in a Multicultural World 3 units
    27 units

Dissertation Stream

I. Foundation Courses 6 units
  LSE 7010 Approaches to the Study of Values 3 units
  LSE 7120 Critical Thinking for Public Affairs 3 units
     
II. Elective Courses 18 units
  LSE 7040 Values and Socio-cultural Issues in Hong Kong Today 3 units
  LSE 7050 Traditional Values and Moral Challenges in Modern China 3 units
  LSE 7070 Public Health and the Common Good 3 units
  LSE 7080 Science, Technology and Environmental Ethics 3 units
  LSE 7130 Social Justice 3 units
  LSE 7140 Law, Liberty and Morality 3 units
  Either  
  LSE 7060 Globalization: Cultural and Ethical Issues  3 units
  Or  
  LSE 7150 Human Rights in a Multicultural World  3 units
     
III. Dissertation 6 units
  LSE 7111 Dissertation 3 units
  LSE 7112 Dissertation 3 units
    27 units
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