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    • What is the Common Core?
    • Our Office
    • External Examiners
    • The Advisory Board
    • Our Hong Kong Learning Partners
    • Awards and Recognitions
    • Common Core Lounge
  • For Students
    • Common Core Curriculum
    • Enrollment Information
    • Timetable for Lectures
    • Dates of Semesters
    • Enrollment Statistics
    • Programme Requirements
    • Common Core Clusters and Transdisciplinary Minors
    • Non-Permissible Combinations
    • Special Proviso in GGPA
    • FAQs
  • Areas of Inquiry
    • Course Trailers
    • Science, Technology and Big Data
    • Arts and Humanities
    • Global Issues
    • China: Culture, State and Society
  • Student Voices and Projects
    • Common Core Undergraduate Research Opportunities
    • Future Readiness
      • Capacities for the Future
      • The Passion Project
      • Future Worlds
    • Student Learning Festival
    • Unforeseen Circumstances
    • Student Work Exhibition Center
    • Student Awards and Recognition
    • Peer Tips
    • Student Consultants
    • Interdisciplinary Internships
  • Global Outreach
    • Global Outreach: Global Liberal Arts Design Experiment (GLADE)
      • International Exchanges
      • Symposiums
    • CLASS (China Liberal Arts Summer Sessions)
  • Research
    • Publications
    • Transdisciplinary Student Research
    • Research Projects
    • Interviews
    • Distinguished Lecture Series
  • SDGs
    • Sustainable Development Goals
    • Critical Zones: Gender, Cities, and Well-Being
    • SDG Initiatives
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