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Appendix 2
        General Education at Self-financing Institutions
        (excluding affiliates of UGC-funded universities)


        Table 2   General Education requirements for four-year degree programmes
         Institution    No. of credits #     General Education Requirements
         Caritas Institute            Five required GE courses (one non-credit-bearing),
         of Higher        132 (BBA)   plus two to five elective GE courses (at three credits
         Education                    each), total 18-27 credits
         Chu Hai College   123 (BEng Civil   Cross-disciplinary curriculum with electives in
         of Higher       Engineering)  general education, humanities, and social sciences
         Education
                                      Common Core Requirement (45-48 credits)
                                      a.  Seven GE modules (at three credits each)
                                           • One Foundation – Perspectives on GE
                                           • Four Core – one from each of four clusters
                                              (Humanities; Social Sciences; Science,
         Hang Seng                            Medicine and Technology: Moral
         Management         120               Reasoning)
         College
                                           • Two Elective modules
                                      b.  Languages – English and Chinese
                                           (six, at three credits each)
                                      c.  Quantitative methods and IT skills
                                           (two to three, at three credits each)
                                      Complementary Electives for students in 2016/17
                                      (no GE programme)
                                      Under the planned GE programme (2017/18),
                                      students will have to complete one GE course in
         Hong Kong                    each of four areas (total 12 credits):
         Shue Yan     123 (BA Journalism)
         University                   • Chinese Heritage in the 21st Century
                                      • Communication and Literacy
                                      • Personal Growth
                                      • Interdisciplinary Studies

                                      Four purpose-designed GE courses (at five credits
                                      each), total 20 credits
         The Open                     In addition, OUHK full-time undergraduate students
         University of      160       have to complete another 20 credits of non-
         Hong Kong
                                      discipline courses (which include English language
                                      courses).




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