Bachelor of Arts (Honours) in History (FM)
The structure of the First Major (FM) is as follows:
| I. | First Major Required Courses | 18 units |
| II. | First Major Elective Courses | 24 units |
| III. | Honours Project | 6 units |
| 48 units |
Requirements
| I. | Major Required Courses | 18 units |
| HIST1205 World History: Civilizations in Contact | 3 units | |
| HIST1405 History, Heritage and Human Communities | 3 units | |
| HIST3106 Current Issues in Hong Kong and China | 3 units | |
| HIST3127 Historical Interactions of China and the World | 3 units | |
| HIST3205 Themes in Modern European History | 3 units | |
| HIST3405 Historical Theory and Practice | 3 units | |
| II. | First Major Elective Courses | 24 units |
| Students are required to take at least one course from each groups and complete at least one course of First Major Electives at level 3 or level 4. | ||
| Group 1 | ||
| HIST1105 China in the Imperial Age | 3 units | |
| HIST2105 Introduction to Modern Chinese History | 3 units | |
| HIST2106 History of Hong Kong since 1900 | 3 units | |
| HIST2305 China and the West since 1500 | 3 units | |
| HIST3105 Contemporary China | 3 units | |
| HIST3107 Early Imperial China | 3 units | |
| HIST3116 Foreign Relations of Modern China | 3 units | |
| HIST3117 History of Hong Kong to 1900 | 3 units | |
| HIST3125 Late Imperial China | 3 units | |
| HIST3126 Mid Imperial China | 3 units | |
| HIST3137 Material Cultures of China | 3 units | |
| HIST3305 China and Asia since 1900 | 3 units | |
| HIST4105 History of Chinese Women since 1912 | 3 units | |
| HIST4106 Contemporary Chinese Political Thought | 3 units | |
| HIST4107 History of Taiwan | 3 units | |
| HIST4115 History of the Catholic Church in China | 3 units | |
| HIST4116 Intellectual Trends in Modern China | 3 units | |
| HIST4117 Missionaries in Modern China | 3 units | |
| HIST4125 Revolution and Nationalism in Republican China (1912–1949) | 3 units | |
| HIST4126 Selected Themes in the History of Chinese Women | 3 units | |
| HIST4127 Social and Economic Development of Modern China | 3 units | |
| HIST4135 Topic Studies in Chinese History | 3 units | |
| HIST4146 Chinese Painting and Calligraphy: The Arts of the Brush | 3 units | |
| Group 2 | ||
| HIST2205 Modern Asia (1800-1945) | 3 units | |
| HIST3206 History of Southeast Asia | 3 units | |
| HIST3207 History of the United States since 1877 | 3 units | |
| HIST3215 History of the United States to 1877 | 3 units | |
| HIST3216 History of Japan since 1912 | 3 units | |
| HIST3217 Nineteenth Century European History | 3 units | |
| HIST3225 Europe since the First World War | 3 units | |
| HIST3226 History of Korea | 3 units | |
| HIST3227 Modern History of Singapore | 3 units | |
| HIST3306 International Relations after 1945 | 3 units | |
| HIST3307 International Relations to 1945 | 3 units | |
| HIST3315 Modern Japan and the West | 3 units | |
| HIST3316 Colonialism and Modern Asia | 3 units | |
| HIST3317 The Chinese Diaspora | 3 units | |
| HIST4205 Origins of Western Imperialism | 3 units | |
| HIST4206 The Overseas Chinese in Southeast Asia | 3 units | |
| HIST4215 Topic Studies in Western History | 3 units | |
| HIST4216 The US in the World in the Twentieth Century | 3 units | |
| HIST4305 Sino-American Relations | 3 units | |
| HIST4306 Sino-Russian Relations | 3 units | |
| HIST4307 Topic Studies in Sino/Asian-Western Relations | 3 units | |
| HIST4317 Global History of Tourism | 3 units | |
| HIST4325 History of Africa since Independence | 3 units | |
| Group 3 | ||
| HIST2107 Introduction to Spatial History | 3 units | |
| HIST2405 Historiographical Traditions: East and West | 3 units | |
| HIST3115 Engendering Imperial Chinese History | 3 units | |
| HIST3135 The Socialist and Communist Traditions | 3 units | |
| HIST3136 Intangible Cultural Heritage in Hong Kong and South China | 3 units | |
| HIST3145 Navigating Policy Changes: Humanistic Community Engagement and Digital Insights | 3 units | |
| HIST3325 History of Chinese Food Culture in Global Perspective | 3 units | |
| HIST3406 Information Technologies and Quantitative Methods for Historical Studies | 3 units | |
| HIST4137 Legal History of Traditional China | 3 units | |
| HIST4145 Historical Anthropology of Chinese Society | 3 units | |
| HIST4207 Topic Studies in Asian History | 3 units | |
| HIST4217 Western Intellectual Thought | 3 units | |
| HIST4315 Introduction to Museum Studies | 3 units | |
| HIST4316 Global History of the Seas, 1400–1950 | 3 units | |
| HIST4326 Science and Society: A Historical Perspective | 3 units | |
| HIST4327 Topic Studies in Comparative History | 3 units | |
| HIST4335 Topic Studies in Global History | 3 units | |
| HIST4405 Oral History and Its Local Applications | 3 units | |
| HIST4406 Topic Studies in Cultural History | 3 units | |
| HIST4407 Topic Studies in Social History | 3 units | |
| III. | Honours Project | 6 units |
| HIST4898 Honours Project | 3 units | |
| HIST4899 Honours Project | 3 units | |
| 48 units | ||
