Common Core Thematic Clusters
Sustaining Cities, Cultures, and the Earth (SCCE) (applicable to cohorts admitted in or after 2017-18)
Science, Technology and Big Data | |
CCST9001 | Redesigning Life |
CCST9002 | Quantitative Literacy in Science, Technology and Society |
CCST9003 | Everyday Computing and the Internet |
CCST9006 | Chasing Biomedical Miracles: Promises and Perils |
CCST9008 | Infectious Disease in a Changing World |
CCST9009 | Living with Stem Cells |
CCST9010 | The Science of Crime Investigation |
CCST9012 | Our Place in the Universe |
CCST9013 | Our Living Environment |
CCST9014 | Science and Music |
CCST9015 | Electronic Technologies in Everyday Life |
CCST9016 | Energy: Its Evolution and Environmental Impacts |
CCST9017 | Hidden Order in Daily Life: A Mathematical Perspective |
CCST9018 | Origin and Evolution of Life |
CCST9019 | Understanding Climate Change |
CCST9020 | Sustainable Development of the Built Environment |
CCST9021 | Hong Kong: Our Marine Heritage |
CCST9022 | How the Mass Media Depicts Science, Technology and the Natural World |
CCST9023 | The Oceans: Science and Society |
CCST9025 | Genetics and Human Nature |
CCST9026 | Scientific Revolutions: Their Continuing Impact on Our World and Society |
CCST9027 | The Science of Irrational Thinking |
CCST9029 | Cyberspace Crime: Technology and Ethics |
CCST9030 | Forensic Science: Unmasking Evidence, Mysteries and Crimes |
CCST9032 | “Intelligent” Architecture and Sustainability |
CCST9033 | Left Brain, Right Brain: Science and Myth |
CCST9034 | Living in a Hazardous World |
CCST9035 | Making Sense of Science-related Social Issues |
CCST9036 | Frontiers in Materials: Civilisation, Industry, and Well-Being |
CCST9037 | Mathematics: A Cultural Heritage |
CCST9038 | Science and Science Fiction |
CCST9039 | Statistics and Our Society |
CCST9042 | The World of Waves |
CCST9043 | Time’s Arrow |
CCST9045 | The Science and Lore of Culinary Culture |
CCST9046 | The Science of the Mind-body-health Relationship |
CCST9047 | The Age of Big Data |
CCST9048 | Simplifying Complexity |
CCST9049 | The Metaverse: From Human Vision to Extended Reality |
CCST9052 | Coffee, Cigarettes, and Alcohol |
CCST9053 | Responding to Natural Disasters |
CCST9054 | War, Peace and the Natural World |
CCST9055 | Beauty Secrets: Science and Consumerism |
CCST9056 | The Force is with You: How Things Work |
CCST9067 | Leaving Earth: Our Future in Space |
CCST9074 | Water: The Next Oil? |
CCST9075 | Be Fit! Be Active! |
CCST9081 | All You’ve Ever Wanted to Know About Humans |
Arts and Humanities | |
CCHU9001 | Designs on the Future: Sustainability of the Built Environment |
CCHU9002 | Battles for Bodies: The Birth of Surveillance Society |
CCHU9003 | Making History: Engaging with the Powerful Past |
CCHU9005 | Food and Values |
CCHU9006 | Girl Power in a Man’s World |
CCHU9007 | Sexuality and Gender: Diversity and Society |
CCHU9009 | Moral Controversies in Contemporary Society |
CCHU9010 | Being Different: Understanding People with Disabilities |
CCHU9011 | Social Divisions in Contemporary Societies |
CCHU9012 | Body, Beauty and Fashion |
CCHU9014 | Spirituality, Religion and Social Change |
CCHU9015 | Sex and Intimacy in Modern Times |
CCHU9021 | Critical Thinking in Contemporary Society |
CCHU9022 | Journey into Madness: Conceptions of Mental Health and Mental Illness |
CCHU9023 | Shaping the Landscape: A Quest for Harmony between Nature and the City |
CCHU9024 | The Last Dance: Understanding Death and Dying |
CCHU9026 | Cultures of Violence: Making Sense of the Human Fighting Instinct |
CCHU9030 | Image, Space and Society |
CCHU9032 | Language, Institution and Power |
CCHU9034 | Architecture and Film |
CCHU9038 | Music and the Human Body |
CCHU9039 | Sexuality and Culture |
CCHU9042 | Human Language: Nature or Nurture? |
CCHU9043 | Rethinking Women: The Big Debates |
CCHU9044 | Creative Arts as a Way of Knowing |
CCHU9045 | Vision: The Science and Art of Perception |
CCHU9047 | The Press, the Public and the Public Sphere |
CCHU9048 | The City: Histories of Urbanism and the Built Environment |
CCHU9049 | Reinventing Classical Music |
CCHU9050 | Freedom: Spirits, Experiences, and Expressions |
CCHU9052 | The Best Things in Life: A Philosophical Exploration |
CCHU9053 | Contested Words, Disputed Symbols |
CCHU9054 | Borderlines – Questioning Boundaries in a Vague World |
CCHU9056 | Virtual Worlds, Real Bodies |
CCHU9057 | Killing Stories: A Search for Truth in the Narratives of War |
CCHU9058 | Nature in the City: Beyond the Concrete Jungle |
CCHU9059 | Making and Appreciating Drama |
CCHU9060 | Games: Play, Learning and Society |
CCHU9061 | Science and Religion: Questioning Truth, Knowledge and Life |
CCHU9062 | Buddhist Visions in World Cinema |
CCHU9063 | Cultures of Madness |
CCHU9065 | A Life Worth Living |
CCHU9066 | Human Learning: A Life-long Adventure |
CCHU9069 | Finance and Society: How Human Societies have Innovated to Deal with Risk |
CCHU9079 | Queering Art, Performance and Cities |
Global Issues | |
CCGL9002 | Hong Kong Culture in the Context of Globalization |
CCGL9003 | Contagions: Global Histories of Disease |
CCGL9004 | Governance and Democracy in the Age of Globalization |
CCGL9007 | Youth in a Global World |
CCGL9008 | Cybersocieties: Understanding Technology as Global Change |
CCGL9009 | Local Cultures and Global Markets |
CCGL9014 | Thinking about Global Ethics |
CCGL9015 | Globalization and Migration |
CCGL9016 | Feeding the World |
CCGL9017 | Food: Technology, Trade and Culture |
CCGL9018 | Corporate Social Responsibility |
CCGL9019 | Economic Globalization: Issues and Challenges |
CCGL9020 | Environment, Globalization, and Institutions |
CCGL9021 | Globalization and Tourism |
CCGL9023 | Internet, Media and Society |
CCGL9024 | The Life and Death of Languages: Diversity, Identity and Globalization |
CCGL9026 | Think Global, Act Local: You, Hong Kong, and the World |
CCGL9027 | Criminal Globalization, Global Insecurity and the Illicit Global Economy |
CCGL9028 | Gender, Health, and Globalization |
CCGL9030 | Financial Crises: History, Solutions, and Our Economic Futures |
CCGL9031 | Entrepreneurship: Global and Social Development |
CCGL9032 | Rule of Law in a Globalizing World |
CCGL9033 | Weapons of Mass Destruction: Science, Proliferation and Terrorism |
CCGL9034 | Globalization and Architecture |
CCGL9035 | Challenges of Global Governance: Past and Present |
CCGL9036 | Dilemmas of Humanitarian Intervention |
CCGL9038 | English as a Global Language in Asian Contexts |
CCGL9040 | Energy Futures, Globalization and Sustainability |
CCGL9044 | Mobile Identities: Person, Place, and Global Flows |
CCGL9047 | Power, Leadership, and Legitimacy in a Globalizing World |
CCGL9048 | Global Crime and Injustice |
CCGL9049 | Carbon, Money, and Lifestyle |
CCGL9050 | Europe without Borders? |
CCGL9051 | Technology, Power, and Culture in the Global Age |
CCGL9052 | Some We Love, Some We Eat: Human-Animal Relationships in the Global Marketplace |
CCGL9053 | Suicide: Risks, Research, and Realities |
CCGL9054 | Responding to the Challenges of Aging Societies |
CCGL9058 | Villages and Global Futures |
CCGL9062 | Shaping Our Health Across Cultures |
CCGL9065 | Our Response to Climate Change: Hong Kong 2100 |
CCGL9070 | The Birth of the City and the Shaping of Societies |
CCGL9073 | Fashion, Politics, and the Global City |
CCGL9074 | Unleashing the Power of Big Data in Global Cities |
China: Culture, State and Society | |
CCCH9001 | Chinese House and Garden: Architecture, Landscape, and Material Culture |
CCCH9002 | Chinese Cities in the 21st Century |
CCCH9003 | Modernity and Traditional Chinese Thought |
CCCH9004 | Ideas and Images of the West in Late Imperial China |
CCCH9005 | The Chinese Cultural Revolution |
CCCH9006 | China’s Modernization in the East Asian Context |
CCCH9007 | China in the Global Economy |
CCCH9008 | Hong Kong’s Environment: Issues and Policies |
CCCH9011 | China’s Rise and Asia’s Future |
CCCH9013 | Love, Marriage and Sex in Modern China |
CCCH9014 | Social Development Challenges in China |
CCCH9015 | Population, Society and Sustainable Development in Hong Kong |
CCCH9016 | Hong Kong: Becoming a Chinese Global City |
CCCH9017 | People, Propaganda and Profit: Understanding Media in China |
CCCH9020 | Science and Technology: Lessons from China |
CCCH9021 | Chinese Business Practice and Society: Past and Present |
CCCH9023 | Family and Development in Modern China |
CCCH9024 | Following the Dao: Ways of Life in Chinese Thought |
CCCH9025 | Humanity and Nature in Chinese Thought |
CCCH9028 | Hong Kong and China’s Economic Development |
CCCH9029 | Ideas and Practices of Healing Arts in Traditional Chinese Medicine |
CCCH9033 | Sustainable Urban Development and Hong Kong |
CCCH9035 | Music Along the Silk Road |
CCCH9036 | Environmental Pollution in China |
CCCH9039 | Curing the Chinese: Medicine and Society in Modern China |
CCCH9041 | The Rule of Law in Contemporary China |
CCCH9042 | Corruption and Anticorruption in China |
CCCH9050 | Blessings or Curses? World Heritage Sites in China and their Sustainability |
CCCH9051 | Digitizing Cultural Heritage in Greater China |
The Quest for a Meaningful Life (UQM) (applicable to cohorts admitted in or after 2020-21) /
The Universe and the Question of Meaning (UQM) (applicable to cohorts admitted in 2017-18, 2018-19, and 2019-20)
Science, Technology and Big Data | |
CCST9001 | Redesigning Life |
CCST9012 | Our Place in the Universe |
CCST9018 | Origin and Evolution of Life |
CCST9026 | Scientific Revolutions: Their Continuing Impact on Our World and Society |
CCST9027 | The Science of Irrational Thinking |
CCST9043 | Time’s Arrow |
CCST9051 | What are We Made of – the Fundamental Nature of Matter |
CCST9058 | Learning and the Brain |
CCST9060 | Exploring Human Longevity |
CCST9072 | Smile! Teeth and Society |
CCST9077 | The Quantum Revolution: From Secret Codes to Black Holes |
CCST9081 | All You’ve Ever Wanted to Know About Humans |
Arts and Humanities | |
CCHU9009 | Moral Controversies in Contemporary Society |
CCHU9014 | Spirituality, Religion and Social Change |
CCHU9024 | The Last Dance: Understanding Death and Dying |
CCHU9051 | Mysteries of the Human Mind |
CCHU9052 | The Best Things in Life: A Philosophical Exploration |
CCHU9061 | Science and Religion: Questioning Truth, Knowledge and Life |
CCHU9062 | Buddhist Visions in World Cinema |
CCHU9065 | A Life Worth Living |
CCHU9078 | Contemplative Practices: From Personal Awareness to Social Well-being |
CCHU9080 | Dead People’s Things: Excavating the Past with Archaeology |
CCHU9083 | Spiritual, not Religious: Technologies of the Soul |
CCHU9086 | Understanding Religious Worlds |
CCHU9090 | The Love We Give and the Lies We Tell: The Ethics of Relationships |
Global Issues | |
CCGL9003 | Contagions: Global Histories of Disease |
CCGL9008 | Cybersocieties: Understanding Technology as Global Change |
CCGL9014 | Thinking about Global Ethics |
CCGL9042 | The Evolution of Civilization |
CCGL9055 | Genocide: Mass Violence and the Quest for Justice |
CCGL9061 | Digital Humanitarianism: Can You Save the World with Your Computer? |
CCGL9064 | Body Politics: Local Worlds, Global Processes |
China: Culture, State and Society | |
CCCH9003 | Modernity and Traditional Chinese Thought |
CCCH9018 | Buddhism and Chinese Culture |
CCCH9024 | Following the Dao: Ways of Life in Chinese Thought |
CCCH9025 | Humanity and Nature in Chinese Thought |
CCCH9029 | Ideas and Practices of Healing Arts in Traditional Chinese Medicine |
CCCH9037 | Chinese Mythology |
CCCH9056 | Valuing the Land: Stories from Chinese Cities |
Creative Arts (CA) (applicable to cohorts admitted in or after 2021-22)
Science, Technology and Big Data | |
CCST9014 | Science and Music |
CCST9038 | Science and Science Fiction |
Arts and Humanities | |
CCHU9018 | Art and Ideas: East and West |
CCHU9034 | Architecture and Film |
CCHU9044 | Creative Arts as a Way of Knowing |
CCHU9049 | Reinventing Classical Music |
CCHU9056 | Virtual Worlds, Real Bodies |
CCHU9062 | Buddhist Visions in World Cinema |
CCHU9070 | Making Movies: Creative Expression on Screen |
CCHU9082 | 24 Frames: Communicating Ideas through Film |
Global Issues | |
CCGL9001 | Hong Kong Cinema through a Global Lens |
CCGL9066 | Music and Global Politics: From Beethoven to Beyoncé and Beyond |
China: Culture, State and Society | |
CCCH9040 | Representing Contemporary China through Film |
CCCH9051 | Digitizing Cultural Heritage in Greater China |
The Human Life Span (HL) (applicable to cohorts admitted in or after 2021-22)
Science, Technology and Big Data | |
CCST9006 | Chasing Biomedical Miracles: Promises and Perils |
CCST9009 | Living with Stem Cells |
CCST9025 | Genetics and Human Nature |
CCST9032 | Intelligent” Architecture and Sustainability |
CCST9050 | Robot: Flesh, Machines, Intelligence |
CCST9060 | Exploring Human Longevity |
CCST9062 | Sports: For You and Hong Kong |
CCST9073 | Emotion, Cognition, and Brain |
CCST9078 | Health Literacy: Things to Know Before Consulting Dr. Google |
CCST9081 | All You’ve Ever Wanted to Know About Humans |
Arts and Humanities | |
CCHU9001 | Designs on the Future |
CCHU9009 | Moral Controversies in Contemporary Society |
CCHU9010 | Being Different: Understanding People with Disabilities |
CCHU9014 | Spirituality, Religion and Social Change |
CCHU9015 | Sex and Intimacy in Modern Times |
CCHU9019 | From Health to Well-being |
CCHU9024 | The Last Dance: Understanding Death and Dying |
CCHU9051 | Mysteries of the Human Mind |
CCHU9052 | The Best Things in Life: A Philosophical Exploration |
CCHU9061 | Science and Religion: Questioning Truth, Knowledge and Life |
CCHU9065 | A Life Worth Living |
CCHU9066 | Human Learning: A Life-long Adventure |
CCHU9078 | Contemplative Practices: From Personal Awareness to Social Well-being |
Global Issues | |
CCGL9003 | Contagions: Global Histories of Disease |
CCGL9005 | Poverty, Development, and the Next Generation: Challenges for a Global World |
CCGL9025 | The Political Economy of Growth and Poverty in the World |
CCGL9042 | The Evolution of Civilization |
CCGL9053 | Suicide: Risks, Research, and Realities |
CCGL9054 | Responding to the Challenges of Aging Societies |
CCGL9058 | Villages and Global Futures |
CCGL9062 | Shaping our Health Across Cultures |
CCGL9074 | Unleashing the Power of Big Data in Global Cities |
China: Culture, State and Society | |
CCCH9002 | Chinese Cities in the 21st Century |
CCCH9013 | Love, Marriage and Sex in Modern China |
CCCH9014 | Social Development: China, Asia, and the World |
CCCH9015 | Population, Society and Sustainable Development in Hong Kong |
CCCH9018 | Buddhism and Chinese Culture |
CCCH9023 | Family and Development in Modern China |
CCCH9025 | Humanity and Nature in Chinese Thought |
CCCH9029 | Ideas and Practices of Healing Arts in Traditional Chinese Medicine |
CCCH9033 | Sustainable Urban Development and Hong Kong |
CCCH9039 | Curing the Chinese: Medicine and Society in Modern China |
Gender, Sexuality, and Diversity (GSD) (applicable to cohorts admitted in or after 2021-22)
Science, Technology and Big Data | |
CCST9065 | Women in Science |
CCST9079 | Gender, Science, and Self-Shaping: Biohacking and Techno-Identities |
CCST9081 | All You’ve Ever Wanted to Know About Humans |
Arts and Humanities | |
CCHU9006 | Girl Power in a Man’s World |
CCHU9009 | Moral Controversies in Contemporary Society |
CCHU9007 | Sexuality and Gender: Diversity and Society |
CCHU9011 | Social Divisions in Contemporary Societies |
CCHU9012 | Body, Beauty and Fashion |
CCHU9015 | Sex and Intimacy in Modern Times |
CCHU9026 | Cultures of Violence: Making Sense of the Human Fighting Instinct |
CCHU9032 | Language, Institution and Power |
CCHU9036 | Reflecting on Human Experience through Literature |
CCHU9039 | Sexuality and Culture |
CCHU9043 | Rethinking Women: The Big Debates |
CCHU9053 | Contested Words, Disputed Symbols |
CCHU9071 | Man Up: Masculinities in the Making |
CCHU9079 | Queering Art, Performance and Cities |
CCHU9088 | We are Family: Myths, Realities and the Future of an Idea |
CCHU9090 | The Love We Give and the Lies We Tell: The Ethics of Relationships |
Global Issues | |
CCGL9003 | Contagions: Global Histories of Disease |
CCGL9005 | Poverty, Development, and the Next Generation: Challenges for a Global World |
CCGL9007 | Youth in a Global World |
CCGL9028 | Gender, Health, and Globalization |
CCGL9064 | Body Politics: Local Worlds, Global Processes |
China: Culture, State and Society | |
CCCH9013 | Love, Marriage and Sex in Modern China |
CCCH9014 | Social Development: China, Asia, and the World |
CCCH9023 | Family and Development in Modern China |
CCCH9037 | Chinese Mythology |
CCCH9040 | Representing Contemporary China through Film |
CCCH9043 | Chinese Poetry as Social Critique |
CCCH9054 | Mothering China: From the Womb to the Nation |