Courses
DIFH3005 Transcultural Innovation for Community Engagement (4 units)
This course focuses on transcultural innovation, examining how intercultural exchanges have historically influenced community engagement and continue to shape the social, economic, and political fabric of societies. Drawing from case studies of Hong Kong and other diverse cultural settings, the course will explore how transcultural perspectives and various kinds of humanities technologies, including but not limited to Artificial Intelligence (AI) can be leveraged for innovative approaches to solving community issues, fostering inclusion, and promoting sustainable development. Through service-learning experience and collaborative projects, students will develop skills obligatory for effective engagement in multicultural environments. Ethnic Minority Care Teams (少數族裔關愛隊) and NGO which provision of welfare service to ethnic minority in Hong Kong will be the target community partner of this course. Though the participation of assigned work from the community partner and interview the ethnic minority residents in Hong Kong, students will be able to analyse historical and contemporary examples of cultural exchange and innovation in shaping communities, to apply transcultural approaches to propose innovative solutions to real-world community challenges, to develop critical thinking skills for evaluating transcultural issues within local and global contexts and develop social awareness and commitment to the community.