Hong Kong and the World

This is an Experiential Learning Course.

 

Hong Kong has always attracted people of all walks of life and from the world over. This international community have been key economic, social and cultural players in making Hong Kong a robust global, financial and commercial hub, branded as “Asia’s world city”. However, the Chinese and non-Chinese communities seem to live in their respective spheres with little sense of a common destiny, if at all.

 

Therefore, this course aims to:

  • Tell the story of the past and present of Hong Kong as a hub of global trade and immigration.
  • Use Hong Kong as a laboratory for the interdisciplinary exploratory research on the Hong Kong-based international community, their perceptions and lived experiences vis-à-vis certain social issues
  • Provide a framework for intercultural research on a wide range of social issues that link Hong Kong with the world by engaging students into a variety of activities.

 

With the objective to implement ‘internationalization at home’ while enhancing students’ learning goals in:

  • Citizenship: heighten students’ awareness and open-mindedness towards the non-Chinese in Hong Kong;
  • Knowledge: synthesise data from social sciences, arts and humanities to comprehend the diversity of the non-Chinese communities;
  • Learning: be inquisitive about other peoples’ culture and empathize with their life stories;
  • Skills: show what has been learnt in the classroom and experiential environments applies in addressing intolerance, racism and xenophobia;
  • Creativity: think critically about Hong Kong as a microcosm of the wider world and how to creatively foster a more inclusive multicultural society, and more tolerant world at large;
  • Communication: use English and any other foreign language(s) students know to interact with non-Chinese speakers;
  • Teamwork: work collaboratively to effectively lead classroom meetings.

 

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