GE Courses
Notes:
- Students can take any Level 1 or 2 courses of the GE Programme as free electives. Level 3 GE Capstone CANNOT be counted as free electives.
- For students of bulletin year 2017/18 or before, you can take courses under new curriculum to satisfy your graduation requirement. Click here for more details.
- Please go to the BUniport for the list of courses offered in the semester.
- Students of Year 3 standing or above are eligible for taking GE Capstone Course and Capstone Workshop. For student who has not reached Year 3 standing, you should obtain approval from the course offering department.
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Students of the following are required to take the GFAI course to fulfil the requirement of "AI Literacy":
i. AY2025/26 cohort of first-year-first-degree (FYFD) students, or after;
ii. AY2026/27 cohort of Year 2 entrants, or after;
iii. AY2027/28 cohort of Year 3 Senior Year entrants, or after.
Category Aims of GFAI:
- Explain the key concepts and potential uses of AI in different domains;
- Utilise AI tools productively in students’ personal, social, academic and professional lives;
- Evaluate the risks, debates, and impacts of AI, in view of being responsible users of AI tools; and
- Sustain human uniqueness and agency by analysing the wider effects of AI on human well-being, including creativity and innovation, critical thinking and behaviour, and sustained sense of agency while collaborating with AI for social good.
The interdisciplinary courses in this category enable students to:
- Recognize that cultural factors clearly have a profound influence on different outlets for creative expression, on the nature of the subject matter and form of expression, and on the functions that various forms of expression serve;
- Appreciate that “culture” is essential to understanding the role and responsibility of citizenship, and importantly to creativity too;
- Define creativity in the larger context of originality, meaningfulness, and value–and the way that this manifests itself around the world;
- Recognize that creativity is a way of thinking, and is a collaborative process;
- Understand the theoretical models that show the effect of culture on creativity in the global context.