Bachelor of Arts (Honours) in Cultural Studies and Creative Industries

Programme Director: Dr LOK, Wing Kai

The Bachelor of Arts (Hons) in Cultural Studies and Creative Industries is a self-financed two-year full-time degree programme designed for Associate Degree/Higher Diploma graduates who wish to further their education in Cultural Studies and Creative Industries. The programme intends to equip students with substantial cultural literacy, creative arts knowledge and transferable abilities through a curriculum integrating Chinese and world arts and cultures. Providing a broad-based liberal arts education with special emphasis on cultural literacy, it aims at training students’ creative, synthesising, disciplined, respectful and ethical minds. It teaches transferable abilities such as writing and presentation skills, creative and critical thinking, and sensitivity to cultural diversity, which could be applied to many professions including, among others, education, creative industries, cultural presentations, art administration, journalism, print media, electronic media, management and public relations.

Specifically, the programme aims to:

1. Commit to a distinctive mission of higher education that incorporates a bilingual, interdisciplinary and cross-cultural curriculum;
2. Offer an education in the spirit of its roots in the Renaissance, to promote understanding of both Chinese and Western cultures and traditions, and to enhance critical reflection and understanding of the cultural and artistic identities of Hong Kong especially their relationships to creative industries via its selective cultural studies design; and
3. Prepare students for careers that require outstanding arts and cultural literacy and writing skills through training in communication, reasoning and analytical skills.

The structure of the curriculum is as follows:

Requirements

The four-year degree programme requires students to complete a total of 128 units, including 63 units of Major Courses, 13 units of University Core Courses, 18 units of General Education Courses and 34 units of Free Elective Courses. As the programme is designed for Associate Degree/Higher Diploma graduates, they will be admitted directly into the third year of study. The number of courses/units the students are required to complete will depend on the number of courses/units for which exemption and/or unit transfer will be granted. All unit transfer or course exemption shall be considered on a case-by-case basis upon admission. Students are required to complete all programme prerequisites and General Education Courses to meet the graduation requirement.

Specifically, students are required to complete 27 units of Major Required Courses, 30 units of Major Elective Courses, a 3-unit GE Capstone course, and 6 units of Honours Project. The programme structure is set out as follows:

* This course has been included in the list of reimbursable courses under the Continuing Education Fund. This course is recognised under the Qualifications Framework (QF level 5).