Designated Humanities General Education Courses (Effective in 2014-15)

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 Code		Course Title	Credits	Designated in previous years
4-digit	3-digit	Course Title	Credits	2013-14	2012-13	2011-12	2010-11
HART 1001	GNED 161	Arts and Creativity	2	✓	✓	✓	X
HART 1011	--	Introduction to Cantonese Opera	1	✓	✓	✓	X
HART 1012	--	Introduction to Photography	1	✓	✓	✓	X
HART 1013	--	Fundamental Technique of Chinese Painting	1	✓	✓	✓ (wef Spring)	X
HART 1014	--	Introduction to Chinese Calligraphy	1	✓	✓	✓ (wef Spring)	X
HART 1015	--	Introduction to Single-channel Video Art	1	✓	✓	✓ (wef Spring)	X
HART 1016	--	Introduction to Installation Art	1	✓	✓	✓ (wef Spring)	X
HART 1017	--	Introduction to Contemporary Dance	1	✓	✓	✓ (wef Spring)	X
HART 1018	--	Introduction and Appreciation of Chinese Dance	1	✓	✓	✓ (wef Spring)	X
HART 1019	--	Introduction to Multi-channel Video Art	1	✓	✓	✓ (wef Summer)	X
HART 1020	--	Introduction to Experimental Drawing	1	✓	✓	X	X
HART 1021	--	A Contemporary Approach to Painting	1	✓	✓	X	X
HART 1022	--	Introduction to Acting	1	✓	✓ (wef Spring)	X	X
HART 1023	--	Introduction to Experimental Animation	1	✓	✓ (wef Spring)	X	X
HART 1024	--	Introduction to Creative Cantonese Playwriting	1	✓	X	X	X
HART 1025	--	Introduction to New Topographic Photography	1	✓	X	X	X
HART 1026	--	The Intimacy Between Voice And Acting	1	✓	X	X	X
HART 1027	--	Fundamental Techniques in Stage Movement	1	✓	X	X	X
HART 1028	--	Devised Theatre: Contemporary Creative Process for Performance	1	✓	X	X	X
HART 1029	--	Multicultural Dramatic Works	1	✓	X	X	X
HART 1030	--	Introduction to Chinese Painting in the Past Century	1	X	X	X	X
HART 1031	--	Documentary Theatre	1	X	X	X	X
HART 1032	--	Experimental Figure Drawing	1	X	X	X	X
HART 1034	--	Light and Art	1	X	X	X	X
HART 1035	--	Public Art Interventions	1	X	X	X	X
HART 1036	--	Introduction to Graphic Design	1	X	X	X	X
HART 1037	--	Introduction to Printmaking	1	X	X	X	X
HART 1038	--	Introduction to Portrait Photography	1	X	X	X	X
HART 1039	--	The Art of Narrative in Drama	1	X	X	X	X
HART 1040	--	Western Fashion, 1850 to nowadays	1	X	X	X	X
HART 1041	--	Singing On Stage	1	X	X	X	X
HUMA 1000	--	Cultures and Values	3	✓	✓	✓ (wef Spring)	X
HUMA 1001	--	Foundational Texts in the Humanities	3	✓	✓	✓	X
HUMA 1010	HUMA 001	Introduction to Language	3	✓	✓	✓	✓
HUMA 1012	HUMA 102	The World's Writing Systems	3	✓	✓	✓	✓
HUMA 1020	HUMA 002	Chinese Writing and Culture	3	✓	✓	✓	✓
HUMA 1030	HUMA 103	Structure of the Chinese Language	3	✓	✓	✓	✓
HUMA 1060	HUMA 106	Introduction to Mandarin Chinese Grammar	3	✓	✓	✓	✓
HUMA 1100	HUMA 110	Music of the World	3	✓	✓	✓	✓
HUMA 1101	HUMA 111	Enjoyment of Western Music	3	✓	✓	✓	✓
HUMA 1102	HUMA 115	Enjoyment of Classical Music	3	✓	✓	✓	✓
HUMA 1103	HUMA 101M	Understanding Music	3	✓	✓	✓	✓
HUMA 1104	--	Music and Film	3	✓	✓	X	X
HUMA 1105	--	Enjoyment of Jazz	3	✓	✓	X	X
HUMA 1106	--	Music and Dance	3	✓	✓	X	X
HUMA 1200	HUMA 012	Film Art and Cinema Culture	3	✓	✓	✓	✓
HUMA 1210	--	Chinese Women on Screen	3	✓	X	X	X
HUMA 1220	HUMA 022	Chinese Literature in Translation	3	✓	✓	✓	✓
HUMA 1231	--	Popular Culture of East Asia	3	✓	X	X	X
HUMA 1250	HUMA 215	Themes in Literature: Love and Death	3	✓	✓	✓	✓
HUMA 1300	HUMA 113	Introduction to Western Literature	3	✓	✓	✓	✓
HUMA 1410	HUMA 041	General Chinese History: Pre-modern	3	✓	✓	✓	✓
HUMA 1430	HUMA 043	History of P. R. China's Diplomacy, 1949-1989	3	✓	✓	✓	✓
HUMA 1440	HUMA 144	Modern China	3	✓	✓	✓	✓
HUMA 1450	--	The History of the People's Republic of China	3	✓	✓	X	X
HUMA 1520	HUMA 052	Modern East Asia	3	✓	✓	✓	✓
HUMA 1550	--	Europe and the World in the 20th Century	3	✓	✓	X	X
HUMA 1620	HUMA 062	Human Culture and Society	3	✓	✓	✓	✓
HUMA 1621	HUMA 100O	Anthropology of Hong Kong	3	✓	✓	✓	✓
HUMA 1630	HUMA 256	Popular Religion in South China	3	✓	✓	✓	✓
HUMA 1631	HUMA 160	Exploring Chinese Culture in Fieldwork	3	✓	✓	✓	✓
HUMA 1639	HUMA 161	Marriage, Family and Kinship in Cross-cultural Perspectives	3	✓	✓	✓	✓
HUMA 1650	HUMA 165	Appreciation of Western Art	3	✓	✓	✓	✓
HUMA 1660	HUMA 066	Introduction to Chinese Art	3	✓	✓	✓	✓
HUMA 1680	HUMA 100P	Western Architectural Forms: A Brief History	3	✓	✓	✓	✓
HUMA 1710	HUMA 071	The Art of Thinking in the Hong Kong Context	3	✓	✓	✓	✓
HUMA 1720	HUMA 072	Logic	3	✓	✓	✓	✓
HUMA 1810	HUMA 081	Introduction to Chinese Philosophy	3	✓	✓	✓	✓
HUMA 1811	HUMA 181	History of Chinese Philosophy	3	✓	✓	✓	✓
HUMA 1910	HUMA 101G	World Religions	3	✓	✓	✓	✓
HUMA 1920	HUMA 192	Introduction to Moral Philosophy	3	✓	✓	✓	✓
HUMA 2010	HUMA 201	Metaphors in English and Chinese	3	✓	✓	✓	✓
HUMA 2012	HUMA 202	Chinese Language, Logic, and Science	3	✓	✓	✓	✓
HUMA 2021	HUMA 101C	Structure of Words	3	✓	✓	✓	✓
HUMA 2031	HUMA 206	The Cantonese Language	3	✓	✓	✓	✓
HUMA 2050	HUMA 105	Classical Chinese	3	✓	✓	✓	✓
HUMA 2104	HUMA 117	Introduction to Music Theory	3	✓	✓	✓	✓
HUMA 2105	HUMA 210	Music, Drama and Theatre	3	✓	✓	✓	✓
HUMA 2200	HUMA 112	Masterpieces of World Literature	3	✓	✓	✓	✓
HUMA 2210	HUMA 231	Western Short Stories	3	✓	✓	✓	✓
HUMA 2220	HUMA 114	China in Film: Modern Chinese Culture and Identities	3	✓	✓	✓	✓
HUMA 2230	HUMA 123	Literature and the Self in China	3	✓	✓	✓	✓
HUMA 2240	HUMA 124	Masterpieces of Chinese Literature	3	✓	✓	✓	✓
HUMA 2250	HUMA 125	Modern Chinese Fiction (1917-1949)	3	✓	✓	✓	✓
HUMA 2260	HUMA 126	Contemporary Chinese Fiction (1949-present)	3	✓	✓	✓	✓
HUMA 2270	HUMA 213	Women's Literature	3	✓	✓	✓	✓
HUMA 2280	--	Identity Goes Global: From Border Crossing to Boundary Remaking	3	✓	X	X	X
HUMA 2300	HUMA 130	Traditional Chinese Poetry: Early Chinese Poetry	3	✓	✓	✓	✓
HUMA 2310	HUMA 131	Traditional Chinese Fiction	3	✓	✓	✓	✓
HUMA 2400	HUMA 240	Approaches to Humanities in China Studies	3	✓	✓	✓	✓
HUMA 2420	HUMA 142	Late Imperial China	3	✓	✓	✓	✓
HUMA 2421	HUMA 100V	Pre-Modern China: The Song and Yuan Dynasties, 960-1368	3	✓	✓	✓	✓
HUMA 2430	HUMA 143	China in the 20th Century	3	✓	✓	✓	✓
HUMA 2440	--	20th Century China in Documentary Films	3	✓	X	X	X
HUMA 2470	HUMA 247	City and Village: Life and Culture in Modern China	3	✓	✓	✓	✓
HUMA 2480	HUMA 148	Daily Life in Imperial China	3	✓	✓	✓	✓
HUMA 2481	HUMA 249	Common Beliefs in Pre-modern China	3	✓	✓	✓	✓
HUMA 2570	HUMA 157	East Asia and the West: Cultures in Contact	3	✓	✓	✓	✓
HUMA 2589	HUMA 300R	Mussolini, Stalin, Hitler: Dictators and their Regimes	3	✓	✓	✓	✓
HUMA 2590	HUMA 159	The Making of the Modern World: Renaissance to the Present	3	✓	✓	✓	✓
HUMA 2620	HUMA 162	Culture and Tourism	3	✓	✓	✓	✓
HUMA 2621	HUMA 101D	Culture and Environment	3	✓	✓	✓	✓
HUMA 2622	HUMA 261A	Heritage and Culture	3	✓	✓	✓	✓
HUMA 2623	--	Cultural Sustainability in South China	3	✓	✓ (wef Summer)	X	X
HUMA 2630	HUMA 163	Anthropology of Food	3	✓	✓	✓	✓
HUMA 2632	HUMA 262	Chinese Culture and Society in Anthropological Perspectives	3	✓	✓	✓	✓
HUMA 2633	HUMA 101A	Before Mao: Traditional Chinese Society from 1800 to 1949	3	✓	✓	✓	✓
HUMA 2635	HUMA 200E	Cultural Diversity in China	3	✓	✓	✓	✓
HUMA 2638	HUMA 200D	Peoples and Cultures in Mainland Southeast Asia	3	✓	✓	✓	✓
HUMA 2640	HUMA 164	Unofficial China: Social History 1800s-1930s	3	✓	✓	✓	✓
HUMA 2660	HUMA 166	Introduction to Chinese Painting	3	✓	✓	✓	✓
HUMA 2661	HUMA 100A	Chinese Oil Painting	3	✓	✓	✓	✓
HUMA 2670	HUMA 167	Understanding Western Painting	3	✓	✓	✓	✓
HUMA 2680	HUMA 168	Understanding Western Architecture	3	✓	✓	✓	✓
HUMA 2811	HUMA 200Z	Logical Thinking in Ancient China	3	✓	✓	✓	✓
HUMA 2820	HUMA 182	Chinese Culture and Its Philosophies	3	✓	✓	✓	✓
HUMA 2830	HUMA 283	Core Values in Confucianism	3	✓	✓	✓	✓
HUMA 2840	HUMA 282	Buddhism and the Chinese Intellectual Tradition	3	✓	✓	✓	✓
HUMA 2911	HUMA 284	Buddhism: Origin and Growth	3	✓	✓	✓	✓
HUMA 2921	HUMA 296	Ethical Theories and Contemporary Issues	3	✓	✓	✓	✓
HUMA 3030	HUMA 203	Language, Communication and Culture	3	✓	✓	✓	✓
HUMA 3040	HUMA 204	Study of the Modern Chinese Writing System	3	✓	✓	✓	✓
HUMA 3101	HUMA 211	Western Opera and Literature	3	✓	✓	✓	✓
HUMA 3200	--	Questions of Humanity in World Literature	3	✓	✓	✓	X
HUMA 3201	--	Animation: A Global Perspective	3	X	X	X	X
HUMA 3210	HUMA 221	Traditional Chinese Poetry: Tang and Song Poetry	3	✓	✓	✓	✓
HUMA 3220	HUMA 222	Modern Chinese Poetry	3	✓	✓	✓	✓
HUMA 3240	HUMA 214	The Gothic Imagination in Literature and Film	3	✓	✓	✓	✓
HUMA 3421	HUMA 241B	Chinese Military History before 1800	3	✓	✓	✓	✓
HUMA 3430	HUMA 243	Reading Modern Chinese History Historically	3	✓	✓	✓	✓
HUMA 3440	HUMA 244	Issues in Chinese History from Han to Tang	3	✓	✓	✓	✓
HUMA 3550	HUMA 255	Social Change and Social Thought in Europe, 1750-1914	3	✓	✓	✓	✓
HUMA 3620	HUMA 362	Visual Anthropology	3	✓	✓	✓	✓
HUMA 3630	--	Community and Cultural Identity	3	✓	✓	✓	X
HUMA 3660	HUMA 266	Tradition & Modernity: Chinese Ink Painting in 20th Century	3	✓	✓	✓	✓
HUMA 3680	HUMA 200W	Contemporary Architecture: The Pritzker Prize Winners	3	✓	✓	✓	✓
HUMA 3800	HUMA 382	Guided Studies in Chinese Philosophical Classics	3	✓	✓	✓	✓
HUMA 3810	HUMA 281	Taoism and the Chinese Tradition	3	✓	✓	✓	✓
HUMA 3821	HUMA 385	Classical Chinese Philosophy (in English)	3	✓	✓	✓	✓
HUMA 3900	HUMA 290	Philosophical Inquiry into the Modern World	3	✓	✓	✓	✓
SHSS 3001#	--	Large Datasets, New Facts, Huge Comparisons: A New History for a New China, 1700-2000	3	✓	✓	✓ (wef Spring)	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.

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GEE (HUMA) Courses Not Designated in 2014-15

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 Code		Course Title	Credits	Designated in previous years
4-digit	3-digit	Course Title	Credits	2013-14	2012-13	2011-12	2010-11
HUMA 1009A	HUMA 099A	Introduction to Chinese Literature	3	X	X	Fall only	✓
HUMA 1009B	HUMA 099B	China into Films	3	X	X	Fall only	✓
HUMA 1009C	HUMA 099C	Logic and Scientific Method	3	X	X	Fall only	✓
HUMA 1009D	HUMA 099D	Gender and Sexuality in the Media	3	X	X	Fall only	✓
HUMA 1009G	HUMA 099G	Film and the City	3	X	X	Fall only	✓
HUMA 1009H	HUMA 099H	Essentials of Chinese Writing	3	X	X	Fall only	✓
HUMA 1009I	HUMA 099I	Screen Memories: Hong Kong Nostalgic Films	3	X	X	Fall only	✓
HUMA 1009J	HUMA 099J	Historical Survey of Chinese Literature	3	X	X	Fall only	✓
HUMA 1230	HUMA 023	Applied Network Management	3	X	X	✓	✓
HUMA 2000B	HUMA 100B	Contemporary Culture in Films	3	X	X	Fall only	✓
HUMA 2000C	HUMA 100C	Ethnicity and Women: Conquest Dynasties in China	3	X	X	Fall only	✓
HUMA 2000D	HUMA 100D	Western Civilization: To the French Revolution	3	X	X	Fall only	✓
HUMA 2000E	HUMA 100E	Introduction to Sociolinguistics	3	X	X	Fall only	✓
HUMA 2000F	HUMA 100F	Cantonese Pronunciations and Correspondence with Mandarin	3	X	X	Fall only	✓
HUMA 2000G	HUMA 100G	Women's Movement in China: Causes and Effects	3	X	X	Fall only	✓
HUMA 2000H	HUMA 100H	Gender Issues in Chinese Literature and Films	3	X	X	Fall only	✓
HUMA 2000L	HUMA 100L	Science and Philosophy	3	X	X	Fall only	✓
HUMA 2000N	HUMA 100N	Philosophy of Science	3	X	X	Fall only	✓
HUMA 2000R	HUMA 100R	Palace Women and Court Politics in Imperial China	3	X	X	Fall only	✓
HUMA 2000T	HUMA 100T	History of Chinese Women	3	X	X	Fall only	✓
HUMA 2000W	HUMA 100W	Understanding Culture in the Modern World	3	X	X	Fall only	✓
HUMA 2000X	HUMA 100X	Science Fiction: Literature and Film	3	X	X	Fall only	✓
HUMA 2000Y	HUMA 100Y	Ecology, Culture and Literature	3	X	X	Fall only	✓
HUMA 2000Z	HUMA 100Z	Modern Chinese Films	3	X	X	Fall only	✓
HUMA 2001B	HUMA 101B	Introduction to Communication Studies	3	X	X	Fall only	✓
HUMA 2001E	HUMA 101E	Modern Western Civilization: From Napoleon to the 1980s	3	X	X	Fall only	✓
HUMA 2001F	HUMA 101F	Body Politics: Configurations of the Hero	3	X	X	Fall only	✓
HUMA 2001H	HUMA 101H	Fashioning Identities: Fashion and Culture Industries	3	X	X	Fall only	✓
HUMA 2001I	HUMA 101I	Comparative Chinese Western Philosophy	3	X	X	Fall only	✓
HUMA 2001K	HUMA 101K	Body, Communications and Performance in Hong Kong	3	X	X	Fall only	✓
HUMA 2001L	HUMA 101L	Garbage as Art in Hong Kong	3	X	X	Fall only	✓
HUMA 2320	HUMA 132	Chinese Drama	3	X	X	✓	✓
HUMA 2330	HUMA 133	Hong Kong Literature	3	X	X	✓	✓
HUMA 2580	HUMA 158	China and Southeast Asia	3	X	X	✓	✓
HUMA 3000A	HUMA 200A	Technoscience Culture in Literature and Films	3	X	X	Fall only	✓
HUMA 3000B	HUMA 200B	Urban Culture of Hong Kong: 1950s-1970s	3	X	X	Fall only	✓
HUMA 3000C	HUMA 200C	Hong Kong Cinema	3	X	X	Fall only	✓
HUMA 3000F	HUMA 200F	Foodscapes: Cultural Studies of Food	3	X	X	Fall only	✓
HUMA 3000L	HUMA 200L	Imperial Expansion in the 16th-18th Centuries	3	X	X	Fall only	✓
HUMA 3000M	HUMA 200M	Selected Readings in Chinese Classics	3	X	X	Fall only	✓
HUMA 3000N	HUMA 200N	Ethics: Theory and Practice	3	X	X	Fall only	✓
HUMA 3000O	HUMA 200O	The City in Modern Literature and Culture	3	X	X	Fall only	✓
HUMA 3000P	HUMA 200P	Kinship and Gender in China	3	X	X	Fall only	✓
HUMA 3000S	HUMA 200S	Popular Literature and Print Culture in Republican China	3	X	X	✓	✓
HUMA 3000T	HUMA 200T	Classical Chinese Drama: Text and Performance	3	X	X	Fall only	✓
HUMA 3000V	HUMA 200V	Cantonese and Mandarin: A Contrastive Study	3	X	X	Fall only	✓
HUMA 3000X	HUMA 200X	Intercultural Communication	3	X	X	Fall only	✓
HUMA 3000Y	HUMA 200Y	Readings in Buddhist Texts	3	X	X	Fall only	✓
HUMA 3420	HUMA 242	Chinese Social and Economic History	3	X	X	✓	✓
HUMA 3530	HUMA 253	History of the Overseas Chinese	3	X	X	✓	✓
HUMA 4000E	HUMA 300E	Hong Kong Martial Arts Films	3	X	X	Fall only	✓
HUMA 4000G	HUMA 300G	Ancient Chinese	3	X	X	Fall only	✓
HUMA 4000H	HUMA 300H	Taiwan Fiction	3	X	X	Fall only	✓
HUMA 4000L	HUMA 300L	Western Painting: From Renaissance To Impressionism	3	X	X	✓	✓
HUMA 4000M	HUMA 300M	Heritage, Memory, and Culture	3	X	X	Fall only	✓
HUMA 4000N	HUMA 300N	Globalization, Literature and Modern Culture	3	X	X	Fall only	✓
HUMA 4000O	HUMA 300O	Theories of Buddha-nature	3	X	X	Fall only	✓
HUMA 4000Q	HUMA 300Q	Cultural Heritage: A Cross-Cultural Perspective	3	X	X	Fall only	✓
HUMA 4010	HUMA 301	Topics in Chinese Grammar	3	X	X	✓	✓
HUMA 4100	HUMA 310	Literary Classics in Visual Culture	3	X	X	✓	✓
HUMA 4130	HUMA 313	Masterpieces of Modern Literature	3	X	X	✓	✓
HUMA 4210	HUMA 321	Seminar on Chinese Poets	3	X	X	✓	✓
HUMA 4230	HUMA 323	Seminar on Modern Chinese Short Stories	3	X	X	✓	✓
HUMA 4460	HUMA 346	Chinese Institutional History	3	X	X	✓	✓
HUMA 4470	HUMA 347	Chinese Business History	3	X	X	✓	✓
HUMA 4520	HUMA 352	History of US-China Relations	3	X	X	✓	✓
HUMA 4840	HUMA 384	Selected Readings of Religious Taoism	3	X	X	✓	✓
--	HUMA 230	Vernacular Chinese Short Stories	3	X	X	X	✓
--	HUMA 322	Seminar on Chinese Prose	3	X	X	X	✓
--	HUMA 383	Exploring the Confucian Classics	3	X	X	X	✓

* 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.