Designated Humanities General Education Courses (Effective in 2014-15) (Obsolete for backup purpose)

General Education (GE) courses are designated by the University every year. Only GE courses taken in the academic year in which they are so designated can be used to fulfill the GE requirements.

The following are Business and Management General Education Courses [GEE(HUMA)] designated for the 2014-15 academic year. Students should select courses from this list to satisfy the GEE (HUMA) requirement. Their status as Business and Management GE courses in previous years are indicated by a "✓".

Business and Management General Education Courses
Course CodeCourse TitleCreditsDesignated in previous years
4-digit3-digit2013-142012-132011-122010-11
HART 1001GNED 161Arts and Creativity2✓✓✓X
HART 1011--Introduction to Cantonese Opera1✓✓✓X
HART 1012--Introduction to Photography1✓✓✓X
HART 1013--Fundamental Technique of Chinese Painting1✓✓✓
(wef Spring)
X
HART 1014--Introduction to Chinese Calligraphy1✓✓✓
(wef Spring)
X
HART 1015--Introduction to Single-channel Video Art1✓✓✓
(wef Spring)
X
HART 1016--Introduction to Installation Art1✓✓✓
(wef Spring)
X
HART 1017--Introduction to Contemporary Dance1✓✓✓
(wef Spring)
X
HART 1018--Introduction and Appreciation of Chinese Dance1✓✓✓
(wef Spring)
X
HART 1019--Introduction to Multi-channel Video Art1✓✓✓
(wef Summer)
X
HART 1020--Introduction to Experimental Drawing1✓✓XX
HART 1021--A Contemporary Approach to Painting1✓✓
 
XX
HART 1022--Introduction to Acting1✓✓
(wef Spring)
XX
HART 1023--Introduction to Experimental Animation1✓✓
(wef Spring)
XX
HART 1024--Introduction to Creative Cantonese Playwriting1✓XXX
HART 1025--Introduction to New Topographic Photography1✓XXX
HART 1026--The Intimacy Between Voice And Acting1✓XXX
HART 1027--Fundamental Techniques in Stage Movement1✓XXX
HART 1028--Devised Theatre: Contemporary Creative Process for Performance1✓XXX
HART 1029--Multicultural Dramatic Works1✓XXX
HART 1030--Introduction to Chinese Painting in the Past Century1XXXX
HART 1031--Documentary Theatre1XXXX
HART 1032--Experimental Figure Drawing1XXXX
HART 1034--Light and Art1XXXX
HART 1035--Public Art Interventions1XXXX
HART 1036--Introduction to Graphic Design1XXXX
HART 1037--Introduction to Printmaking1XXXX
HART 1038--Introduction to Portrait Photography1XXXX
HART 1039--The Art of Narrative in Drama1XXXX
HART 1040--Western Fashion, 1850 to nowadays1XXXX
HART 1041--Singing On Stage1XXXX
HUMA 1000--Cultures and Values3✓✓✓
(wef Spring)
X
HUMA 1001--Foundational Texts in the Humanities3✓✓✓X
HUMA 1010HUMA 001Introduction to Language3✓✓✓✓
HUMA 1012HUMA 102The World's Writing Systems3✓✓✓✓
HUMA 1020HUMA 002Chinese Writing and Culture3✓✓✓✓
HUMA 1030HUMA 103Structure of the Chinese Language3✓✓✓✓
HUMA 1060HUMA 106Introduction to Mandarin Chinese Grammar3✓✓✓✓
HUMA 1100HUMA 110Music of the World3✓✓✓✓
HUMA 1101HUMA 111Enjoyment of Western Music3✓✓✓✓
HUMA 1102HUMA 115Enjoyment of Classical Music3✓✓✓✓
HUMA 1103HUMA 101MUnderstanding Music3✓✓✓✓
HUMA 1104--Music and Film3✓✓XX
HUMA 1105--Enjoyment of Jazz3✓✓XX
HUMA 1106--Music and Dance3✓✓XX
HUMA 1200HUMA 012Film Art and Cinema Culture3✓✓✓✓
HUMA 1210--Chinese Women on Screen3✓XXX
HUMA 1220HUMA 022Chinese Literature in Translation3✓✓✓✓
HUMA 1231--Popular Culture of East Asia3✓XXX
HUMA 1250HUMA 215Themes in Literature: Love and Death3✓✓✓✓
HUMA 1300HUMA 113Introduction to Western Literature3✓✓✓✓
HUMA 1410HUMA 041General Chinese History: Pre-modern3✓✓✓✓
HUMA 1430HUMA 043History of P. R. China's Diplomacy, 1949-19893✓✓✓✓
HUMA 1440HUMA 144Modern China3✓✓✓✓
HUMA 1450--The History of the People's Republic of China3✓✓XX
HUMA 1520HUMA 052Modern East Asia3✓✓✓✓
HUMA 1550--Europe and the World in the 20th Century3✓✓XX
HUMA 1620HUMA 062Human Culture and Society3✓✓✓✓
HUMA 1621HUMA 100OAnthropology of Hong Kong3✓✓✓✓
HUMA 1630HUMA 256Popular Religion in South China3✓✓✓✓
HUMA 1631HUMA 160Exploring Chinese Culture in Fieldwork3✓✓✓✓
HUMA 1639HUMA 161Marriage, Family and Kinship in Cross-cultural Perspectives3✓✓✓✓
HUMA 1650HUMA 165Appreciation of Western Art3✓✓✓✓
HUMA 1660HUMA 066Introduction to Chinese Art3✓✓✓✓
HUMA 1680HUMA 100PWestern Architectural Forms: A Brief History3✓✓✓✓
HUMA 1710HUMA 071The Art of Thinking in the Hong Kong Context3✓✓✓✓
HUMA 1720HUMA 072Logic3✓✓✓✓
HUMA 1810HUMA 081Introduction to Chinese Philosophy3✓✓✓✓
HUMA 1811HUMA 181History of Chinese Philosophy3✓✓✓✓
HUMA 1910HUMA 101GWorld Religions3✓✓✓✓
HUMA 1920HUMA 192Introduction to Moral Philosophy3✓✓✓✓
HUMA 2010HUMA 201Metaphors in English and Chinese3✓✓✓✓
HUMA 2012HUMA 202Chinese Language, Logic, and Science3✓✓✓✓
HUMA 2021HUMA 101CStructure of Words3✓✓✓✓
HUMA 2031HUMA 206The Cantonese Language3✓✓✓✓
HUMA 2050HUMA 105Classical Chinese3✓✓✓✓
HUMA 2104HUMA 117Introduction to Music Theory3✓✓✓✓
HUMA 2105HUMA 210Music, Drama and Theatre3✓✓✓✓
HUMA 2200HUMA 112Masterpieces of World Literature3✓✓✓✓
HUMA 2210HUMA 231Western Short Stories3✓✓✓✓
HUMA 2220HUMA 114China in Film: Modern Chinese Culture and Identities3✓✓✓✓
HUMA 2230HUMA 123Literature and the Self in China3✓✓✓✓
HUMA 2240HUMA 124Masterpieces of Chinese Literature3✓✓✓✓
HUMA 2250HUMA 125Modern Chinese Fiction (1917-1949)3✓✓✓✓
HUMA 2260HUMA 126Contemporary Chinese Fiction (1949-present)3✓✓✓✓
HUMA 2270HUMA 213Women's Literature3✓✓✓✓
HUMA 2280--Identity Goes Global: From Border Crossing to Boundary Remaking3✓XXX
HUMA 2300HUMA 130Traditional Chinese Poetry: Early Chinese Poetry3✓✓✓✓
HUMA 2310HUMA 131Traditional Chinese Fiction3✓✓✓✓
HUMA 2400HUMA 240Approaches to Humanities in China Studies3✓✓✓✓
HUMA 2420HUMA 142Late Imperial China3✓✓✓✓
HUMA 2421HUMA 100VPre-Modern China: The Song and Yuan Dynasties, 960-13683✓✓✓✓
HUMA 2430HUMA 143China in the 20th Century3✓✓✓✓
HUMA 2440--20th Century China in Documentary Films3✓XXX
HUMA 2470HUMA 247City and Village: Life and Culture in Modern China3✓✓✓✓
HUMA 2480HUMA 148Daily Life in Imperial China3✓✓✓✓
HUMA 2481HUMA 249Common Beliefs in Pre-modern China3✓✓✓✓
HUMA 2570HUMA 157East Asia and the West: Cultures in Contact3✓✓✓✓
HUMA 2589HUMA 300RMussolini, Stalin, Hitler: Dictators and their Regimes3✓✓✓✓
HUMA 2590HUMA 159The Making of the Modern World: Renaissance to the Present3✓✓✓✓
HUMA 2620HUMA 162Culture and Tourism3✓✓✓✓
HUMA 2621HUMA 101DCulture and Environment3✓✓✓✓
HUMA 2622HUMA 261AHeritage and Culture3✓✓✓✓
HUMA 2623--Cultural Sustainability in South China3✓✓
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XX
HUMA 2630HUMA 163Anthropology of Food3✓✓✓✓
HUMA 2632HUMA 262Chinese Culture and Society in Anthropological Perspectives3✓✓✓✓
HUMA 2633HUMA 101ABefore Mao: Traditional Chinese Society from 1800 to 19493✓✓✓✓
HUMA 2635HUMA 200ECultural Diversity in China3✓✓✓✓
HUMA 2638HUMA 200DPeoples and Cultures in Mainland Southeast Asia3✓✓✓✓
HUMA 2640HUMA 164Unofficial China: Social History 1800s-1930s3✓✓✓✓
HUMA 2660HUMA 166Introduction to Chinese Painting3✓✓✓✓
HUMA 2661HUMA 100AChinese Oil Painting3✓✓✓✓
HUMA 2670HUMA 167Understanding Western Painting3✓✓✓✓
HUMA 2680HUMA 168Understanding Western Architecture3✓✓✓✓
HUMA 2811HUMA 200ZLogical Thinking in Ancient China3✓✓✓✓
HUMA 2820HUMA 182Chinese Culture and Its Philosophies3✓✓✓✓
HUMA 2830HUMA 283Core Values in Confucianism3✓✓✓✓
HUMA 2840HUMA 282Buddhism and the Chinese Intellectual Tradition3✓✓✓✓
HUMA 2911HUMA 284Buddhism: Origin and Growth3✓✓✓✓
HUMA 2921HUMA 296Ethical Theories and Contemporary Issues3✓✓✓✓
HUMA 3030HUMA 203Language, Communication and Culture3✓✓✓✓
HUMA 3040HUMA 204Study of the Modern Chinese Writing System3✓✓✓✓
HUMA 3101HUMA 211Western Opera and Literature3✓✓✓✓
HUMA 3200--Questions of Humanity in World Literature3✓✓✓X
HUMA 3201--Animation: A Global Perspective3XXXX
HUMA 3210HUMA 221Traditional Chinese Poetry: Tang and Song Poetry3✓✓✓✓
HUMA 3220HUMA 222Modern Chinese Poetry3✓✓✓✓
HUMA 3240HUMA 214The Gothic Imagination in Literature and Film3✓✓✓✓
HUMA 3421HUMA 241BChinese Military History before 18003✓✓✓✓
HUMA 3430HUMA 243Reading Modern Chinese History Historically3✓✓✓✓
HUMA 3440HUMA 244Issues in Chinese History from Han to Tang3✓✓✓✓
HUMA 3550HUMA 255Social Change and Social Thought in Europe, 1750-19143✓✓✓✓
HUMA 3620HUMA 362Visual Anthropology3✓✓✓✓
HUMA 3630--Community and Cultural Identity3✓✓✓X
HUMA 3660HUMA 266Tradition & Modernity: Chinese Ink Painting in 20th Century3✓✓✓✓
HUMA 3680HUMA 200WContemporary Architecture: The Pritzker Prize Winners3✓✓✓✓
HUMA 3800HUMA 382Guided Studies in Chinese Philosophical Classics3✓✓✓✓
HUMA 3810HUMA 281Taoism and the Chinese Tradition3✓✓✓✓
HUMA 3821HUMA 385Classical Chinese Philosophy (in English)3✓✓✓✓
HUMA 3900HUMA 290Philosophical Inquiry into the Modern World3✓✓✓✓
SHSS 3001#--Large Datasets, New Facts, Huge Comparisons: A New History for a New China, 1700-20003✓✓✓
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X

# Listed as both a Humanities General Education Course and a Social Science General Education Course. Students may use this course to satisfy either the Humanities GE requirement or Social Science GE requirement, but not both.


* This list shows Humanities GE courses designated from 2010-11 to 2013-14. All HUMA courses (including special topics courses) at or below 300-level for the academic year 2007-10 are designated as GEE courses.

The following courses are NOT designated in 2014-15. They can still be used to satisfy GEE (HUMA) requirement if they were taken in the year(s) when they were designated as GEE (HUMA) courses (as indicated by a "✓").

Previous Business and Management General Education Courses not designated in the 2014-15 academic year
Course CodeCourse TitleCreditsDesignated in previous years
4-digit3-digit2013-142012-132011-122010-11
HUMA 1009AHUMA 099AIntroduction to Chinese Literature3XXFall only✓
HUMA 1009BHUMA 099BChina into Films3XXFall only✓
HUMA 1009CHUMA 099CLogic and Scientific Method3XXFall only✓
HUMA 1009DHUMA 099DGender and Sexuality in the Media3XXFall only✓
HUMA 1009GHUMA 099GFilm and the City3XXFall only✓
HUMA 1009HHUMA 099HEssentials of Chinese Writing3XXFall only✓
HUMA 1009IHUMA 099IScreen Memories: Hong Kong Nostalgic Films3XXFall only✓
HUMA 1009JHUMA 099JHistorical Survey of Chinese Literature3XXFall only✓
HUMA 1230HUMA 023Applied Network Management3XX✓✓
HUMA 2000BHUMA 100BContemporary Culture in Films3XXFall only✓
HUMA 2000CHUMA 100CEthnicity and Women: Conquest Dynasties in China3XXFall only✓
HUMA 2000DHUMA 100DWestern Civilization: To the French Revolution3XXFall only✓
HUMA 2000EHUMA 100EIntroduction to Sociolinguistics3XXFall only✓
HUMA 2000FHUMA 100FCantonese Pronunciations and Correspondence with Mandarin3XXFall only✓
HUMA 2000GHUMA 100GWomen's Movement in China: Causes and Effects3XXFall only✓
HUMA 2000HHUMA 100HGender Issues in Chinese Literature and Films3XXFall only✓
HUMA 2000LHUMA 100LScience and Philosophy3XXFall only✓
HUMA 2000NHUMA 100NPhilosophy of Science3XXFall only✓
HUMA 2000RHUMA 100RPalace Women and Court Politics in Imperial China3XXFall only✓
HUMA 2000THUMA 100THistory of Chinese Women3XXFall only✓
HUMA 2000WHUMA 100WUnderstanding Culture in the Modern World3XXFall only✓
HUMA 2000XHUMA 100XScience Fiction: Literature and Film3XXFall only✓
HUMA 2000YHUMA 100YEcology, Culture and Literature3XXFall only✓
HUMA 2000ZHUMA 100ZModern Chinese Films3XXFall only✓
HUMA 2001BHUMA 101BIntroduction to Communication Studies3XXFall only✓
HUMA 2001EHUMA 101EModern Western Civilization: From Napoleon to the 1980s3XXFall only✓
HUMA 2001FHUMA 101FBody Politics: Configurations of the Hero3XXFall only✓
HUMA 2001HHUMA 101HFashioning Identities: Fashion and Culture Industries3XXFall only✓
HUMA 2001IHUMA 101IComparative Chinese Western Philosophy3XXFall only✓
HUMA 2001KHUMA 101KBody, Communications and Performance in Hong Kong3XXFall only✓
HUMA 2001LHUMA 101LGarbage as Art in Hong Kong3XXFall only✓
HUMA 2320HUMA 132Chinese Drama3XX✓✓
HUMA 2330HUMA 133Hong Kong Literature3XX✓✓
HUMA 2580HUMA 158China and Southeast Asia3XX✓✓
HUMA 3000AHUMA 200ATechnoscience Culture in Literature and Films3XXFall only✓
HUMA 3000BHUMA 200BUrban Culture of Hong Kong: 1950s-1970s3XXFall only✓
HUMA 3000CHUMA 200CHong Kong Cinema3XXFall only✓
HUMA 3000FHUMA 200FFoodscapes: Cultural Studies of Food3XXFall only✓
HUMA 3000LHUMA 200LImperial Expansion in the 16th-18th Centuries3XXFall only✓
HUMA 3000MHUMA 200MSelected Readings in Chinese Classics3XXFall only✓
HUMA 3000NHUMA 200NEthics: Theory and Practice3XXFall only✓
HUMA 3000OHUMA 200OThe City in Modern Literature and Culture3XXFall only✓
HUMA 3000PHUMA 200PKinship and Gender in China3XXFall only✓
HUMA 3000SHUMA 200SPopular Literature and Print Culture in Republican China3XX✓✓
HUMA 3000THUMA 200TClassical Chinese Drama: Text and Performance3XXFall only✓
HUMA 3000VHUMA 200VCantonese and Mandarin: A Contrastive Study3XXFall only✓
HUMA 3000XHUMA 200XIntercultural Communication3XXFall only✓
HUMA 3000YHUMA 200YReadings in Buddhist Texts3XXFall only✓
HUMA 3420HUMA 242Chinese Social and Economic History3XX✓✓
HUMA 3530HUMA 253History of the Overseas Chinese3XX✓✓
HUMA 4000EHUMA 300EHong Kong Martial Arts Films3XXFall only✓
HUMA 4000GHUMA 300GAncient Chinese3XXFall only✓
HUMA 4000HHUMA 300HTaiwan Fiction3XXFall only✓
HUMA 4000LHUMA 300LWestern Painting: From Renaissance To Impressionism3XX✓✓
HUMA 4000MHUMA 300MHeritage, Memory, and Culture3XXFall only✓
HUMA 4000NHUMA 300NGlobalization, Literature and Modern Culture3XXFall only✓
HUMA 4000OHUMA 300OTheories of Buddha-nature3XXFall only✓
HUMA 4000QHUMA 300QCultural Heritage: A Cross-Cultural Perspective3XXFall only✓
HUMA 4010HUMA 301Topics in Chinese Grammar3XX✓✓
HUMA 4100HUMA 310Literary Classics in Visual Culture3XX✓✓
HUMA 4130HUMA 313Masterpieces of Modern Literature3XX✓✓
HUMA 4210HUMA 321Seminar on Chinese Poets3XX✓✓
HUMA 4230HUMA 323Seminar on Modern Chinese Short Stories3XX✓✓
HUMA 4460HUMA 346Chinese Institutional History3XX✓✓
HUMA 4470HUMA 347Chinese Business History3XX✓✓
HUMA 4520HUMA 352History of US-China Relations3XX✓✓
HUMA 4840HUMA 384Selected Readings of Religious Taoism3XX✓✓
--HUMA 230Vernacular Chinese Short Stories3XXX✓
--HUMA 322Seminar on Chinese Prose3XXX✓
--HUMA 383Exploring the Confucian Classics3XXX✓

* This list shows Humanities GE courses designated in 2010-11 and 2013-14. All HUMA courses (including special topics courses) at or below 300-level for the academic year 2007-10 are designated as GEE courses.