Deeper Integration in the University

Contributions to the Common Core Curriculum (CCC)

Since 2017, the Institute has contributed two courses — “Gender, Health, and Globalization” and “Technology, Power, and Culture in the Global Age” — to the University’s undergraduate Common Core Curriculum (CCC). These courses have each attracted more than 100 students and received excellent assessment from enrolled students.

Our efforts to inspire undergraduate students caught the University’s attention in 2019. The CCC Office invited the Institute and Dr. Izumi Nakayama to offer “Gender, Health, and Globalization” for the new initiative “China Liberal Arts Summer Session (CLASS),” a collaboration between the University and three major partner universities in the mainland — Nanjing, Zhejiang, and Shanghai Jiao Tong, in summer 2019. Dr. Nakayama’s course is one of five selected courses that have made this initiative a success. A third course, “Chinese Medicine: Innovation, Tradition, and Experience,” has also been selected by the CCC Office, to be offered in the coming years.

Class of 2018 of “Technology, Power, and Culture in the Global Age,” showing off their project posters on HKU campus