Announcements

Dear Common Core Students, As you are all aware, on-campus classes have been cancelled for the rest of the semester and various forms of online connections will be used instead. Here is the message from the Senior Management Team: In view of the uncertain and unsafe traffic conditions for travelling to HKU, we are suspending classes on the Main Campus for the rest of the semester and making teaching and learning accessible online. This will enable students to stay away from campus, and even leave Hong Kong should they wish, while at the same time completing their courses and assessments.

Congratulations! HKU’s Common Core Teaching Team wins the University Grants Committee Teaching Award 2019! Here, receiving the award at the UGC office are (left to right) Mr Matthew Pryor, Professor Gina Marchetti, Director of Common Core Professor Gray Kochhar-Lindgren, Dr Xiao Hu, and Dr Julian Tanner. Learn more about #HKU Common Core courses and the team’s outstanding achievements at http://www.hku.hk/press/news_detail_20033.html

The teaching semester of CCGL9049 ‘Carbon, Money, and Lifestyle’ has been changed to Semester 2. The lecture time in Semester 2 is 12:30 pm – 2:20 pm (Wednesday) and the lecture venue is CYCP1.

(Optional and available to students of the 2017-18 intake and thereafter) If you are a student of the 2017-18 intake and thereafter, you may pursue an organized course of interdisciplinary study tailor-made to your interests. The Common Core (CC) has launched two thematic clusters, ‘Sustaining Cities, Cultures, and the Earth’ (SCCE) and ‘The Universe and the Question of Meaning’ (UQM). They will offer you a self-chosen pathway for you to personalize your Common Core experience that will be acknowledged on the Academic Attainment Profile. What are Common Core Clusters and Transdisciplinary Minors (CCTM)? A cluster consists of four Common Core

The Common Core (CC) Curriculum Committee is pleased to announce that two CC courses will be launched this summer, namely ‘Media in the Age of Globalization’ (CCGL9011) and ‘Entrepreneurship: Global and Social Development’ (CCGL9031). A summary of the course details of the two courses are at below. In view of the shorter duration of the summer semester, the delivery mode of these two courses will be more condensed – lectures will be held two to three times a week and you will also need to attend tutorials as with CC courses offered in the regular semesters. Who should take CC