Higher student expectations of universities and competition from non-traditional educational providers place pressure on teachers to design and facilitate unique and authentic learning experiences. This standalone seminar introduces how the frameworks and tenets of improvisation and design thinking can empower teachers to engage students at a deeper and more expansive level of inquiry, connect across […]
Join us for a fun and interactive movie night where we screen The Namesake, a movie based on Jhumpa Lahiri’s award-winning novel. After immersing yourself in the heartfelt story that Lahiri writes about, get ready to take a small look into your own identity with reference to your cultural heritage, geographic upbringing and self-image. How […]
Date: 30 November 2022 (Wednesday) Time: 12:30 pm – 1:45 pm Venue: RRS 321, 3/F Run Run Shaw Building, Main Campus, HKU Speaker: Mr. Donn Gonda, CETL Registration: https://www2.cetl.hku.hk/cetlevents/regist/492/registEvent.php?eventId=492 Abstract Storytelling can be a powerful tool to enhance students’ communication skills. These stories can help students to understand complex and abstract concepts by allowing them […]
The Common Core is inviting applications for Critical Zones, this year’s Transdisciplinary Research Exchange 2023, co-organized with the Honours Programme at the University of Utrecht (Netherlands). To increase capacities for creative problem-solving and global collaboration that produces tangible outcomes around issues that they care deeply about, students will work with each other and their peers […]
Date: March 10, 2023 Time: 2:00 - 5:00 PM Venue: Common Core Lounge (MB150, Main Building, HKU) Facilitator: Tanya Kempston Senior Lecturer and PGDE Programme Director, Faculty of Education, University of Hong Kong A three-hour workshop for teachers of English in Hong Kong secondary schools offered jointly by the Hong Kong International Literary Festival, the […]
Public Lecture - Part of CCCH9051 Digitizing Cultural Heritage in Greater China Speaker: Dr. Florian Knothe Director, University Museum and Art Gallery (UMAG) Date and Time: Wednesday, 29 March 2023, 4:30 pm - 5:45 pm Venue: KB223, Knowles Building, HKU All are welcome. No registration required.
Join us for this social event to network with fellow tutors, play with Generative AI applications, and enjoy coffee and light refreshments. Welcome all HKU tutors! Registration required: https://forms.gle/hqthYBzkBE75XMQB7
Focusing on transdisciplinarity-in-action, we will explore collaborative learning, contact points for research across disciplines, and innovative examples of institutional programming. How might the transdisciplinary help us enact flourishing and connected futures? A Panel Discussion with Winnie Yee (Comparative Literature, HKU) Julian Tanner (Director, Common Core, HKU) Rick Dolphijn (Philosophy & Art, Utrecht University) Gray Kochhar-Lindgren […]
Dear Colleagues, You are cordially invited to join the Join-the-Conversation: A great presentation gives smart ideas and advantage on 20 April 2023. The event is co-organized by Communication Intensive Courses (CiC), Centre for the Enhancement of Teaching and Learning (CETL), Centre for Applied English Studies (CAES), and the Common Core. Date: 20 April […]
Following its adoption by the US earth sciences community at the turn of the century, the concept of the ‘critical zone’ has been central to a so-called ‘terrestrial turn’ in the arts as well as the sciences. Originally defined as the “heterogeneous, near-surface environment in which complex interactions involving rock, soil, water, air, and living […]
Earth Stories: Hong Kong WEBINAR A Transdisciplinary Art, Ecology, and Research Project Earth Stories: Hong Kong explores new habits of thought and feeling that emerge along the edges of Hong Kong’s cultural and natural worlds. Based at the KFBG Green Hub in Tai Po, the project includes expressions by flora and fauna, sky and earth, poets, film-makers, voice-artists, […]
Let's all celebrate an evening full of motion picture experiments and exchange of visual ideas. This international cooperation showcases a selection of 24 short films produced by students from various film-based courses from The University of Hong Kong, the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, and the Vienna University of Technology. The screening will be […]