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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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