Enrollment Information | HKU Common Core Curriculum

Message from the Common Core Director

Introduction

What is the Common Core?

What is the rationale for the Common Core?

How will you learn and be assessed?

How is the Common Core structured?

What are the Common Core requirements?

Why are tutorials important?

How do you select your courses?

Table 1: Programme Requirements for Taking Common Core Courses for Students Entering in 2020-21

Non-Permissible Combinations

Table 2: Non-Permissible Combinations of Common Core Courses

Common Core Clusters and Transdisciplinary Minors (Optional and available to students of the 2017-18 intake and thereafter)

Table 3: Courses of the thematic clusters of ‘Sustaining Cities, Cultures, and the Earth’ and ‘The Quest for a Meaningful Life’ (previously ‘The Universe and the Question of Meaning, applicable to cohorts admitted in 2017-18, 2018-19, and 2019-20’)

Special Common Core Proviso in the Determination of the Graduation Grade Point Average (Applicable to students of the 2017-18 intake and thereafter)

The Areas of Inquiry: Rationale

The Areas of Inquiry: Aims and Objectives, Themes and Course Details

Frequently Asked Questions