Courses
LCST3805 Interdisciplinary Humanities Research: Theories and Methods (3 units)
This course will prepare students for the two-year study of the liberal and cultural studies. Students are trained to learn to use different approaches and disciplines to explore different cultural topics, like urban development, globalization or multiculturalism, and to address different social problems, like racism, poverty or sexism. In particular, this course will highlight the contribution of humanities studies, especially cultural studies, in forming a multicultural society which is open to the strangers/others. Thus, this course will introduce these approaches and methods distinctive of interdisciplinary humanities thought, and show how an interdisciplinary humanities research can help to build up a livable life for different kinds of people, especially the socially underprivileged groups in Hong Kong.
In order to help students use different approaches to explore the complexity of social and cultural phenomenon, this course not only equips the students with the foundational knowledge in humanities studies and cultural studies, but also helps the students apply the knowledge into daily life through various kinds of experiential learning, like community-exploration, filming, visit of NGOs or making oral history with the other. In final, students can experience creative and transformative processes which will be useful for their daily practice or even for their future career.
This GE Capstone will only be offered to students of the Bachelor of Arts (Honours) in Liberal and Cultural Studies.