Courses under the thematic cluster 'Sustaining Cities, Cultures, and the Earth' (SCCE)
(applicable to cohorts admitted in or after 2017-18)
‘Sustaining Cities, Cultures, and the Earth’ aligns with the University’s commitment to the United Nations’ Sustainability Development Goals and addresses the pressing question of sustainability across multiple domains of knowledge and practice.
| Area of Inquiry | Course code | Course title |
|---|---|---|
| Scientific and Technological Literacy | CCST9001 | Redesigning Life |
| Scientific and Technological Literacy | CCST5002 | Quantitative Literacy in Science, Technology and Society (Online) |
| Scientific and Technological Literacy | CCST9002 | Quantitative Literacy in Science, Technology and Society |
| Scientific and Technological Literacy | CCST9003 | Everyday Computing and the Internet |
| Scientific and Technological Literacy | CCST9006 | Chasing Biomedical Miracles: Promises and Perils |
| Scientific and Technological Literacy | CCST9008 | Infectious Disease in a Changing World |
| Scientific and Technological Literacy | CCST9009 | Living with Stem Cells |
| Scientific and Technological Literacy | CCST9010 | The Science of Crime Investigation |
| Scientific and Technological Literacy | CCST9012 | Our Place in the Universe |
| Scientific and Technological Literacy | CCST9013 | Our Living Environment |
| Scientific and Technological Literacy | CCST9014 | Science and Music |
| Scientific and Technological Literacy | CCST9015 | Electronic Technologies in Everyday Life |
| Scientific and Technological Literacy | CCST9016 | Energy: Its Evolution and Environmental Impacts |
| Scientific and Technological Literacy | CCST9017 | Hidden Order in Daily Life: A Mathematical Perspective |
| Scientific and Technological Literacy | CCST9018 | Origin and Evolution of Life |
| Scientific and Technological Literacy | CCST9019 | Understanding Climate Change |
| Scientific and Technological Literacy | CCST9020 | Sustainable Development of the Built Environment |
| Scientific and Technological Literacy | CCST9021 | Hong Kong: Our Marine Heritage |
| Scientific and Technological Literacy | CCST9022 | How the Mass Media Depicts Science, Technology and the Natural World |
| Scientific and Technological Literacy | CCST9023 | The Oceans: Science and Society |
| Scientific and Technological Literacy | CCST9025 | Genetics and Human Nature |
| Scientific and Technological Literacy | CCST9026 | Scientific Revolutions: Their Continuing Impact on Our World and Society |
| Scientific and Technological Literacy | CCST9027 | The Science of Irrational Thinking |
| Scientific and Technological Literacy | CCST9029 | Cyberspace Crime: Technology and Ethics |
| Scientific and Technological Literacy | CCST9030 | Forensic Science: Unmasking Evidence, Mysteries and Crimes |
| Scientific and Technological Literacy | CCST9032 | “Intelligent” Architecture and Sustainability |
| Scientific and Technological Literacy | CCST9033 | Left Brain, Right Brain: Science and Myth |
| Scientific and Technological Literacy | CCST9034 | Living in a Hazardous World |
| Scientific and Technological Literacy | CCST5035 | Making Sense of Science-related Social Issues (Online) |
| Scientific and Technological Literacy | CCST9035 | Making Sense of Science-related Social Issues |
| Scientific and Technological Literacy | CCST9036 | Frontiers in Materials: Civilisation, Industry, and Well-Being |
| Scientific and Technological Literacy | CCST5037 | Mathematics: A Cultural Heritage (Online) |
| Scientific and Technological Literacy | CCST9037 | Mathematics: A Cultural Heritage |
| Scientific and Technological Literacy | CCST9038 | Science and Science Fiction |
| Scientific and Technological Literacy | CCST9039 | Statistics and Our Society |
| Scientific and Technological Literacy | CCST9042 | The World of Waves |
| Scientific and Technological Literacy | CCST9043 | Time’s Arrow |
| Scientific and Technological Literacy | CCST9045 | The Science and Lore of Culinary Culture |
| Scientific and Technological Literacy | CCST9046 | The Science of the Mind-body-health Relationship |
| Scientific and Technological Literacy | CCST9047 | The Age of Big Data |
| Scientific and Technological Literacy | CCST9048 | Simplifying Complexity |
| Scientific and Technological Literacy | CCST9049 | The Metaverse: From Human Vision to Extended Reality |
| Scientific and Technological Literacy | CCST9052 | Coffee, Cigarettes, and Alcohol |
| Scientific and Technological Literacy | CCST9053 | Responding to Natural Disasters |
| Scientific and Technological Literacy | CCST9054 | War, Peace and the Natural World |
| Scientific and Technological Literacy | CCST9055 | Beauty Secrets: Science and Consumerism |
| Scientific and Technological Literacy | CCST9056 | The Force is with You: How Things Work |
| Scientific and Technological Literacy | CCST9067 | Leaving Earth: Our Future in Space |
| Scientific and Technological Literacy | CCST9074 | Water: The Next Oil? |
| Scientific and Technological Literacy | CCST9075 | Be Fit! Be Active! |
| Scientific and Technological Literacy | CCST9081 | All You’ve Ever Wanted to Know About Humans |
| Scientific and Technological Literacy | CCST9082 | Pandemics: From Science to Societal Impact |
| Scientific and Technological Literacy | CCST9083 | Earth as Seen by Satellite |
| Scientific and Technological Literacy | CCST9085 | Inspiration from the Living World |
| Scientific and Technological Literacy | CCST9087 | Zero Accident – Everyone’s Effort |
| Scientific and Technological Literacy | CCST9089 | Nutrition, Well-being and Society |
| Scientific and Technological Literacy | CCST9090 | Mindscapes: Psychiatry and Mental Health Across Creative and Scientific Frontiers |
| Arts and Humanities | CCHU5001 | Designs on the Future (Online) |
| Arts and Humanities | CCHU9001 | Designs on the Future: Sustainability of the Built Environment |
| Arts and Humanities | CCHU9002 | Battles for Bodies: The Birth of Surveillance Society |
| Arts and Humanities | CCHU9003 | Making History: Engaging with the Powerful Past |
| Arts and Humanities | CCHU9005 | Food and Values |
| Arts and Humanities | CCHU9006 | Girl Power in a Man’s World |
| Arts and Humanities | CCHU9007 | Sexuality and Gender: Diversity and Society |
| Arts and Humanities | CCHU9009 | Moral Controversies in Contemporary Society |
| Arts and Humanities | CCHU9010 | Being Different: Understanding People with Disabilities |
| Arts and Humanities | CCHU9011 | Social Divisions in Contemporary Societies |
| Arts and Humanities | CCHU9012 | Body, Beauty and Fashion |
| Arts and Humanities | CCHU5014 | Spirituality, Religion and Social Change (Online) |
| Arts and Humanities | CCHU9014 | Spirituality, Religion and Social Change |
| Arts and Humanities | CCHU9015 | Sex and Intimacy in Modern Times |
| Arts and Humanities | CCHU9021 | Critical Thinking in Contemporary Society |
| Arts and Humanities | CCHU9022 | Journey into Madness: Conceptions of Mental Health and Mental Illness |
| Arts and Humanities | CCHU9023 | Shaping the Landscape: A Quest for Harmony between Nature and the City |
| Arts and Humanities | CCHU9024 | The Last Dance: Understanding Death and Dying |
| Arts and Humanities | CCHU9026 | Cultures of Violence: Making Sense of the Human Fighting Instinct |
| Arts and Humanities | CCHU9030 | Image, Space and Society |
| Arts and Humanities | CCHU9032 | Language, Institution and Power |
| Arts and Humanities | CCHU9034 | Architecture and Film |
| Arts and Humanities | CCHU9038 | Music and the Human Body |
| Arts and Humanities | CCHU9039 | Sexuality and Culture |
| Arts and Humanities | CCHU9042 | Human Language: Nature or Nurture? |
| Arts and Humanities | CCHU9043 | Rethinking Women: The Big Debates |
| Arts and Humanities | CCHU9044 | Creative Arts as a Way of Knowing |
| Arts and Humanities | CCHU9045 | Vision: The Science and Art of Perception |
| Arts and Humanities | CCHU9047 | The Press, the Public and the Public Sphere |
| Arts and Humanities | CCHU9048 | The City: Histories of Urbanism and the Built Environment |
| Arts and Humanities | CCHU9049 | Reinventing Classical Music |
| Arts and Humanities | CCHU9050 | Freedom: Spirits, Experiences, and Expressions |
| Arts and Humanities | CCHU9052 | The Best Things in Life: A Philosophical Exploration |
| Arts and Humanities | CCHU9053 | Contested Words, Disputed Symbols |
| Arts and Humanities | CCHU9054 | Borderlines – Questioning Boundaries in a Vague World |
| Arts and Humanities | CCHU9056 | Virtual Worlds, Real Bodies |
| Arts and Humanities | CCHU9057 | Killing Stories: A Search for Truth in the Narratives of War |
| Arts and Humanities | CCHU9058 | Nature in the City: Beyond the Concrete Jungle |
| Arts and Humanities | CCHU9059 | Making and Appreciating Drama |
| Arts and Humanities | CCHU9060 | Games: Play, Learning and Society |
| Arts and Humanities | CCHU9061 | Science and Religion: Conflict or Conversation? |
| Arts and Humanities | CCHU9062 | Buddhist Visions in World Cinema |
| Arts and Humanities | CCHU9063 | Cultures of Madness |
| Arts and Humanities | CCHU5065 | A Life Worth Living (Online) |
| Arts and Humanities | CCHU9065 | A Life Worth Living |
| Arts and Humanities | CCHU9066 | Human Learning: A Life-long Adventure |
| Arts and Humanities | CCHU9069 | Finance and Society: How Human Societies have Innovated to Deal with Risk |
| Arts and Humanities | CCHU9079 | Queering Art, Performance and Cities |
| Arts and Humanities | CCHU9092 | Disabling Society |
| Global Issues | CCGL6001 | Change for a Better Community |
| Global Issues | CCGL6002 | Material Ecologies: Local Practices and Global Impacts |
| Global Issues | CCGL9002 | Hong Kong Culture in the Context of Globalization |
| Global Issues | CCGL9003 | Contagions: Global Histories of Disease |
| Global Issues | CCGL9004 | Governance and Democracy in the Age of Globalization |
| Global Issues | CCGL9007 | Youth in a Global World |
| Global Issues | CCGL9008 | Cybersocieties: Understanding Technology as Global Change |
| Global Issues | CCGL9009 | Local Cultures and Global Markets |
| Global Issues | CCGL9014 | Thinking about Global Ethics |
| Global Issues | CCGL9015 | Globalization and Migration |
| Global Issues | CCGL9016 | Feeding the World |
| Global Issues | CCGL9017 | Food: Technology, Trade and Culture |
| Global Issues | CCGL9018 | Corporate Social Responsibility |
| Global Issues | CCGL9019 | Economic Globalization: Issues and Challenges |
| Global Issues | CCGL9020 | Environment, Globalization, and Institutions |
| Global Issues | CCGL9021 | Globalization and Tourism |
| Global Issues | CCGL9023 | Internet, Media and Society |
| Global Issues | CCGL9024 | The Life and Death of Languages: Diversity, Identity and Globalization |
| Global Issues | CCGL9026 | Think Global, Act Local: You, Hong Kong, and the World |
| Global Issues | CCGL9027 | Criminal Globalization, Global Insecurity and the Illicit Global Economy |
| Global Issues | CCGL9028 | Gender, Health, and Globalization |
| Global Issues | CCGL9030 | Financial Crises: History, Solutions, and Our Economic Futures |
| Global Issues | CCGL9031 | Entrepreneurship: Global and Social Development |
| Global Issues | CCGL9032 | Rule of Law in a Globalizing World |
| Global Issues | CCGL9033 | Weapons of Mass Destruction: Science, Proliferation and Terrorism |
| Global Issues | CCGL9034 | Globalization and Architecture |
| Global Issues | CCGL9035 | Challenges of Global Governance: Past and Present |
| Global Issues | CCGL9036 | Dilemmas of Humanitarian Intervention |
| Global Issues | CCGL9038 | Global Englishes |
| Global Issues | CCGL9040 | Energy Futures, Globalization and Sustainability |
| Global Issues | CCGL9044 | Mobile Identities: Person, Place, and Global Flows |
| Global Issues | CCGL9047 | Power, Leadership, and Legitimacy in a Globalizing World |
| Global Issues | CCGL5048 | Global Crime and Injustice (Online) |
| Global Issues | CCGL9048 | Global Crime and Injustice |
| Global Issues | CCGL9049 | Carbon, Money, and Lifestyle |
| Global Issues | CCGL9050 | Europe without Borders? |
| Global Issues | CCGL9051 | Technology, Power, and Culture in the Global Age |
| Global Issues | CCGL9052 | Some We Love, Some We Eat: Human-Animal Relationships in the Global Marketplace |
| Global Issues | CCGL9053 | Suicide: Risks, Research, and Realities |
| Global Issues | CCGL9054 | Responding to the Challenges of Aging Societies |
| Global Issues | CCGL9058 | Villages and Global Futures |
| Global Issues | CCGL5062 | Shaping our Health Across Cultures (Online) |
| Global Issues | CCGL9062 | Shaping Our Health Across Cultures |
| Global Issues | CCGL9065 | Our Response to Climate Change: Hong Kong 2100 |
| Global Issues | CCGL9070 | The Making of Cities and Societies |
| Global Issues | CCGL9073 | Fashion, Politics, and the Global City |
| Global Issues | CCGL9074 | Unleashing the Power of Big Data in Global Cities |
| Global Issues | CCGL9076 | Material Matters – Global Perspectives and Local Practices |
| Global Issues | CCGL9077 | Education as Solution?: Debating Education round the Globe |
| Global Issues | CCGL9079 | Leadership and Influence in a Dynamic World |
| Global Issues | CCGL9080 | Societies on the Water |
| Global Issues | CCGL9081 | One Planet, One Health |
| Global Issues | CCGL9082 | Sustaining Sustainability: Innovations for Policies and Governance |
| Global Issues | CCGL9083 | Happiness Amidst Climate Crisis? |
| China: Culture, State and Society | CCCH9001 | Chinese House and Garden: Architecture, Landscape, and Material Culture |
| China: Culture, State and Society | CCCH9002 | Chinese Cities in the 21st Century |
| China: Culture, State and Society | CCCH9003 | Modernity and Traditional Chinese Thought |
| China: Culture, State and Society | CCCH9004 | Ideas and Images of the West in Late Imperial China |
| China: Culture, State and Society | CCCH9005 | The Chinese Cultural Revolution |
| China: Culture, State and Society | CCCH5006 | China’s Modernization in the East Asian Context (Online) |
| China: Culture, State and Society | CCCH9006 | China’s Modernization in the East Asian Context |
| China: Culture, State and Society | CCCH9007 | China in the Global Economy |
| China: Culture, State and Society | CCCH9008 | Hong Kong’s Environment: Issues and Policies |
| China: Culture, State and Society | CCCH9011 | China’s Rise and Asia’s Future |
| China: Culture, State and Society | CCCH9013 | Love, Marriage and Sex in Modern China |
| China: Culture, State and Society | CCCH9014 | Social Development Challenges in China |
| China: Culture, State and Society | CCCH9015 | Population, Society and Sustainable Development in Hong Kong |
| China: Culture, State and Society | CCCH9016 | Hong Kong: Becoming a Chinese Global City |
| China: Culture, State and Society | CCCH5017 | People, Propaganda and Profit: Understanding Media in China (Online) |
| China: Culture, State and Society | CCCH9017 | People, Propaganda and Profit: Understanding Media in China |
| China: Culture, State and Society | CCCH9020 | Science and Technology: Lessons from China |
| China: Culture, State and Society | CCCH9021 | Chinese Business Practice and Society: Past and Present |
| China: Culture, State and Society | CCCH9023 | Family and Development in Modern China |
| China: Culture, State and Society | CCCH9024 | Following the Dao: Ways of Life in Chinese Thought |
| China: Culture, State and Society | CCCH9025 | Humanity and Nature in Chinese Thought |
| China: Culture, State and Society | CCCH9028 | Hong Kong and China’s Economic Development |
| China: Culture, State and Society | CCCH9029 | Ideas and Practices of Healing in Traditional China |
| China: Culture, State and Society | CCCH9033 | Sustainable Urban Development and Hong Kong |
| China: Culture, State and Society | CCCH9035 | Music Along the Silk Road |
| China: Culture, State and Society | CCCH9036 | Environmental Pollution in China |
| China: Culture, State and Society | CCCH5039 | Curing the Chinese: Medicine and Society in Modern China (Online) |
| China: Culture, State and Society | CCCH9039 | Curing the Chinese: Medicine and Society in Modern China |
| China: Culture, State and Society | CCCH9041 | The Rule of Law in Contemporary China |
| China: Culture, State and Society | CCCH9042 | Corruption and Anticorruption in China |
| China: Culture, State and Society | CCCH9050 | Blessings or Curses? World Heritage Sites in China and their Sustainability |
| China: Culture, State and Society | CCCH9051 | Digitizing Cultural Heritage in Greater China |
| China: Culture, State and Society | CCCH5057 | Shaping Health in China (Online) |
| China: Culture, State and Society | CCCH9057 | Shaping Health in China |
| China: Culture, State and Society | CCCH9064 | Exploring Chinese Tea: A Confluence of Art, Science, and Cultural Heritage |
| Artificial Intelligence | CCAI9007 | Hacking Aging: Partnering Human and Artificial Intelligence |
| Artificial Intelligence | CCAI9008 | Shaping Population Medicine with AI |
| Artificial Intelligence | CCAI9009 | Today’s Future City: Technology and the Recoding of Urban Life |
| Artificial Intelligence | CCAI9012 | GenAI Solutions to Global Challenges: Using AI Creatively and Responsibly |
| Artificial Intelligence | CCAI9013 | Emotions and AI: Bridging Technology and Human Experience |
| Artificial Intelligence | CCAI9016 | AI for Cities |
| Artificial Intelligence | CCAI9019 | The Political Economy of AI and Big Data |
| Artificial Intelligence | CCAI9020 | AI, Health and Me |
| Artificial Intelligence | CCAI9022 | Taming the Digital Wild West: Crafting Institutions for AI Innovation |
| Artificial Intelligence | CCAI9027 | AI & Web3: Social Futures of Decentralised Artificial Intelligence |
| Artificial Intelligence | CCAI9028 | The Age of Big Data |
| Artificial Intelligence | CCAI9029 | From Human Vision to Extended Reality |
| Artificial Intelligence | CCAI9032 | Virtual Worlds, Real Bodies |