Bachelor of Arts (BA) - The University of Hong Kong

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FINE3006.
HIST3015.
JAPN2034.
LING2011.
PHIL2110.
Art history methodology workshop (6 credits)
The theory and practice of history (6 credits)
Education in contemporary Japanese society (6 credits)
Language and literacy in the information age (6 credits)
Knowledge (6 credits)
5. The Culture of Business in the Modern World
The minor in The Culture of Business in the Modern World will prepare you to understand
better the cultural dimensions of the economic processes affecting all of us. You will see
that business is more than just economics; and money, stocks, and advertising are cultural
forms that people and social institutions interpret and use in work, recreation, and
commercial activities that are part of everyday life in the modern world.
AMER2018. 'Show me the money': doing business with Americans (6 credits)
AMER3001. Institutions in American life: home, school, work, and play, Part I (6 credits)
AMER3002. Institutions in American life: home, school, work, and play, Part II (6 credits)
CHIN2337. Journalistic translation (3 credits)
CHIN2338. Translation of promotional material (3 credits)
CHIN2339. Translation for administration and business (3 credits)
EUST2010. European identity (6 credits)
GEOG2045. Retail location (6 credits)
GEOG2056. Tourism and the shrinking world (6 credits)
GEOG2057. Leisure and recreation in modern society (6 credits)
HIST2027. The foundations of international trade and finance in the modern world (6
credits)
HIST2030. From dependencies to dragons: economic history of twentieth-century
Southeast Asia (6 credits)
JAPN2010. Japanese business: an anthropological introduction (6 credits)
JAPN2015. Japanese enterprise groupings (6 credits)
LING2001. Computational linguistics (6 credits)
LING2041. Language and information technology (6 credits)
MUSI2015. Popular music: from Cantopop to techno(6 credits)
MUSI2028. The business of music (6 credits)
PHIL2070. Pragmatism (6 credits)
6. Technology in the Humanities
The aim of this minor is to provide students with the opportunity to explore the relationship
between technology and the humanities. Different aspects of technology will be examined
in order to give students multiple perspectives on how the relationship between technology
and the humanities has evolved, to critically evaluate the role of technology in the
humanities, and to examine the range of opportunities available regarding the application of
technology in the humanities.
AMER2015. The American city (6 credits)
AMER2022. 'What's on TV' Television and American culture (6 credits)
CHIN2243. History of Chinese science and civilization (6 credits)
ENGL2037. Science fiction (6 credits)
GEOG2019. Environmental GIS (6 credits)
GEOG2059. Geography of information technology (6 credits)
HIST2049 Technology and social change: a history of everyday life (6 credits)
HIST3016. Computer methods for historical studies (6 credits)
LING2001. Computational linguistics (6 credits)
LING2041. Language and information technology (6 credits)