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

202HIST2031.History through film (6 credits)(This course is also offered to non-BA students for inter-Faculty broadening purposes.)This course looks at the manner in which film has portrayed events in history, considering the degree towhich film can enhance or be detrimental to our understanding of history.Students may expect to gain some appreciation, not just of the films themselves, but of the degree towhich any movie is the product of a certain historical period and reflect its values and preoccupations.This course should be particularly enlightening to students who taking other United States historycourses and American Studies majors.Students are expected to produce one term paper, a comparative study of at least two films, toparticipate in class discussions, and to make at least one presentation in class.Assessment: 100% coursework.HIST2034.An Introduction to the history of education in Hong Kong (6 credits)(This course is also offered to second and third year non-BA students for inter-Faculty broadeningpurposes.)The course will provide students with the opportunity to relate educational developments in Hong Kongto contemporary opinion and other socio-economic pressures. It has been designed to introducestudents to the perspectives, methods, and resources of history as they can be applied to educationalmatters and not merely to present a set of non-dispute-worthy "facts" about past Hong Kong schools.As such, it is essentially a form of social history.Assessment: 100% coursework.HIST2035.The Bauhinia and the Lotus: Culture and history of the two SARS (6 credits)(This course is also offered to second and third year non-BA students for inter-Faculty broadeningpurposes.)Prior to the Opium War, Macao was the major theatre for the first encounter between China and theWest. After Hong Kong had been ceded to Great Britain by The Nanjing Treaty, Hong Kong soonreplaced Macao as the centre for Sino-Western cultural and technical interchange.Even though before 1997 and 1999 both Hong Kong and Macao were under the administration ofWestern countries, both have remained a predominantly Chinese society with their own unique heritageand history.The aim of this course is to introduce to the student the development of Hong Kong and Macao's historyand cultural heritage. It emphasizes the role and function of Hong Kong and Macao history in modernand contemporary Chinese history and its cultural interactions with the West.Assessment: 100% coursework.HIST2037. Germany between the two World Wars: The rise and fall of Adolf Hitler (6credits)(This course is also offered to second and third year non-BA students for inter-Faculty broadeningpurposes.)The inter-war years between 1918 and 1945 were a time of traumatic upheaval in the history of modernGermany. After World War I freedom and democracy in the Weimar Republic were threatened bynationalism, fascism, socialism and communism. These pressures were intensified by economictensions and high unemployment rates. The miserable conditions contributed to the rise of the Nazisand Adolf Hitler, an extreme nationalist who wanted a reawakened, racially united Germany to expandeastward at the expense of the Slavs. After finally seizing power in 1933, Hitler installed a totalitarian