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

82GEOG2054. Urban planning in practice in Hong Kong (6 credits)HIST2004. Twentieth-century China, Part II: from revolution to modernization, 1949 topresent (6 credits)HIST2045. Shanghai Grand: History, culture and society in urban China (6 credits)HIST2052. Social issues in Hong Kong history (6 credits)LING2010. Language and dialect (6 credits)*LING2033. Contrastive grammar of English and Chinese (6 credits)*MUSI2010. Music of China (6 credits)3. The West in AsiaIn 'The West in Asia,' courses examine various ways in which Western nations and people haveinfluenced Asia in the past and present. You will gain a general appreciation for the many waysin which cross-cultural interaction affects societies, cultures, and individuals, as well as aspecific understanding of how Euroamerican engagement with Asia has shaped the modernworld.AMER2006. Here’s looking at you, kid: America as a foreign country (6 credits)AMER2014. 'A dream in the heart': varieties of Asian American culture (6 credits)AMER2019. War on the silver screen: the battle for Vietnam at home (6 credits)CHIN2254. Christianity and Chinese culture (3 credits)CLIT2045. Colonialism/postcolonialism I (6 credits)ENGL2066. Orientalism and linguistics (6 credits)*ENGL2071. The East (6 credits)*FINE2033. Cross-cultural interaction in the 19th century (6 credits)*HIST2008. Meiji Japan, 1868-1912 (6 credits)HIST2053. The Cold War (6 credits)HIST2054. The United States and Asia, 1945-1975 (6 credits)LANG3022. French eastern narratives – III.6 (3 credits)*LING2041. Language and information technology (6 credits)*PHIL2027. Special topic: Rousseau’s philosophy (6 credits)PHIL2040. Nietzsche (6 credits)*PHIL2080. Marxist philosophy (6 credits)*4. Critical Thinking, Reading, and Writing'Critical thinking, reading and writing' refers to a set of skills for examining, evaluating andexpressing ideas. These skills include knowing how to collect and present evidence, applystandards of logic and probability, compare opinions, decide what is relevant or irrelevant, anddraw reasonable conclusions. This minor programme includes a selection of courses fromdifferent subject disciplines that either discuss these critical skills in detail or demonstrate themin action.CHIN2140. Modern Chinese language I (6 credits)CHIN2143. Modern Chinese language II (6 credits)CLIT2005. Literary and cultural theory I (6 credits)CLIT2066. Postmodernism (6 credits)ENGL2007. Literary linguistics (6 credits)*ENGL2069 Form and meaning (6 credits)*HIST3015. The theory and practice of history (6 credits)JAPN2012. Education in Japan (6 credits)LING2011. Language and literacy in the information age (6 credits)*PHIL2110. Knowledge (6 credits)*