Experimenting with Transdisciplinarity: The Common Core at the University of Hong Kong
Experimenting with Transdisciplinarity: The Common Core at the University of Hong Kong
By Gray Kochhar-Lindgren
Published in: Global Lens on Liberal Arts
Introduction:
The Common Core@HKU (https://commoncore.hku.hk/) is one of many examples of the ways in which the Liberal Arts are being redesigned in a global context. The entire curriculum, six courses of which are required for every undergraduate, is developed from the course level through the four Areas of Inquiry (Scientific and Technological Literacy, Humanities and Arts, Global Issues, and China) and up through international programmatic partnerships as an exemplar of engaged interdisciplinarity. As we have begun to think more systematically about the concepts that circulate through the inter-, however, we have also begun to use the trans- of transdisciplinarity in a more encompassing and rigorous manner.