Undergraduate Course Offering for Fall 2025
Under a policy approved by the Senate, exceptions to the general University policy stating that English is the medium of instruction will be permitted when the courses are related to the area of Chinese studies and are approved by the School of Humanities and Social Science. Courses approved to be taught in Chinese carry a [PU] or [CA] notation in the course description, which indicates the spoken language used in teaching: [PU] stands for Putonghua; and [CA] for Cantonese.
Courses marked with a [C] in the course description are not taught in Chinese but may require students to read materials in Chinese. Students who have difficulty reading materials in Chinese should consult the instructor concerned prior to enrolling in these courses. Alternative English reading materials may be provided.
- Linguistics
- Literature, Film, and Media Studies
- History and Anthropology
- Philosophy and Religion
- Music
- Creative Arts
course syllabus
| Literature, Film, and Media Studies | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Course Code | Course Title | Instructor | |
| HUMA1231 | Popular Culture of East Asia | Xiaolu MA |  |
| HUMA2204 | Japanese Science Fiction | Baryon Tensor POSADAS | |
| HUMA2340 | Between Old and New: Chinese Stories and Their Reinventions | Huan JIN | > |
| HUMA3201 | Animation: A Global Perspective | Daisy Yan DU | |
| HUMA3203* | Chinese Creative Writing: Reading Literary Classics and Writing Novels | Lianke YAN | |
| History and Anthropology | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Course Code | Course Title | Instructor | |
| HUMA1440*# | Modern China [C] | Lok Cheung Lawrence ZHANG | |
| HUMA1650 | Appreciation of Western Art | Anna Y N KWONG | |
| HUMA1673 | Art and Digital Culture | Steve MA | |
| HUMA1676 | Marco Polo and His Book of Travels | Marco CABOARA | |
| HUMA2440 | 20th-Century China in Documentary Films (WBB sponsor) | Zhuyun LIN | |
| HUMA2588 | Nazism and German Society, 1914-1945 | Joshua DERMAN | > |
| HUMA2621 | Culture and Environment | Jianxiong MA | |
| HUMA2660 | Introduction to Chinese Painting [C] [PU] | Li-tsui FU | |
| HUMA2680 | Understanding Western Architecture | Anna Y N KWONG | |
| Creative Arts | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Course Code | Course Title | Instructor | |
| HUMA1154 | Photography (L1) | Birdy CHU | |
| HUMA1154 | Photography (L2) | Birdy CHU | |
| HUMA1156 | Exploration of Chinese Calligraphy | Birdy CHU | |
* non-common core course
^ Chinese communication course
# GCS course
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About credit transfer from other Universities:
if the system mapping shows “HUMA1000 Cultures and Values” in HKUST Equivalent Course field, it means the course map with HUMA1000 School-Sponsored Course (SSC).
if the system mapping shows “HUMA1000-level course in Humanities” in HKUST Equivalent Course field, it means the course map with HUMA1000 level courses.
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