The major, including the History major courses, cross-faculty core course and major interdisciplinary courses, is designed to foster students’ knowledge in history across the broadly conceived areas – Foundation of Historical Studies, History of Modern Hong Kong, History of Modern China, History of Modern Southeast Asia and Japan, Conflicts and Peace in the Twentieth-Century World, Cooperation and Prosperity in the Twentieth-Century World and Advanced Historical Studies.

List of History Major Courses

• China: Reform and Revolution from Late Qing to 1949
• Introduction to Historical Ideas and Practices
• Life in the Ancient World
• Modern Hong Kong: From Opium War to Basic Law
• Modern Japan and its Neighbors since the mid-19th Century
• Origins of the Modern World
• Revolution and Modernity: History of the PRC
• The Cold War: Conflict and Cooperation
• The Making of Modern Asia: Decolonization and Independence
• Topics in Global History: United States History
• World War and World Peace

List of Major Interdisciplinary Courses

• Digital Humanities
• Language and the Human Footprint
• Language and Well-being

Education Studies gives students the chance to study teaching and learning from an interdisciplinary perspective. Students will study early childhood/school education from psychological, sociological, philosophical, pedagogical and other perspectives. Students will develop a range of skills necessary for professional practice, such as problem solving, critical thinking, creativity, communication, social interaction, ethical decision making and global perspectives. Education Studies helps students appreciate the importance of professional excellence, ethical responsibility and innovation to the role of a teacher. We aim for our graduates to become teachers who are caring and competent, intellectually enthusiastic, socially committed, and globally aware.

List of Education Studies Core

• Basic Psychology for Educators: Useful Concepts from Educational and Positive Psychology
• Philosophical and Socio-cultural Issues in Education
• Effective Teaching and Positive Classroom Learning Environment
• Curriculum and Assessment
• School Guidance and Managing Diversity
• Teachers and Teaching in Context

List of Pedagogy for Major Courses

• History: Curriculum and Methods I
• History: Curriculum and Methods II

The EdUHK’s General Education programme prepares students to be active agents of change, by broadening their intellectual horizons, helping them make connections among different areas of knowledge and between their formal studies and life outside the classroom, and strengthening their capacity for sound thinking and good judgement. It offers a varied but balanced mix of individual courses across a range of subject areas and disciplines, set within an integrated structure of (i) General Education Foundation Course, (ii) Experiential Learning, (iii) General Education Breadth Courses, and (iv) University ePortfolio, with a total of 22 cps.

The Final Year Project comprises of two courses:

• Honours Project I / Capstone Project I: Introduction of Research Methods and Proposal
• Honours Project II / Capstone Project II: A one-year project to be conducted in the final year.

On top of the major courses, electives provide greater flexibility and multiple learning pathways for undergraduate students to develop their interests and explore their career aspirations. The following options will be available for students’ choice in the Electives Domain of the curriculum:

• Free electives available in the Elective Course List and General Education or other elective courses recognised by the Programme;
• Second Major;
• one / two Minors;
• any combination of the above.

Students will be placed in schools, which are important sites for learning to teach and where they will have the opportunity to practise, interpret, generate, and experiment with theory. Block Practice for local students will be conducted in local schools. Non-local students may conduct their Block Practice at local schools or schools outside Hong Kong, such as mainland-based schools catering to Hong Kong pupils and offering the Hong Kong curriculum (內地設立港人子弟學校). The medium of instruction for Block Practice may vary depending on the policy of the schools. Students should be able to demonstrate a proficient level of Cantonese/English/Putonghua to conduct Block Practice.

• Field Experience I - FE Foundation Course
• FE and Professional Learning Portfolio I
• FE and Professional Learning Portfolio II
• Field Experience II - Block Practice I
• Field Experience III - Block Practice II

Important Note: The University will ask students of our full-time teacher education programmes to declare whether they have been convicted of or are being prosecuted for any sex-related offence in Hong Kong or elsewhere, and to provide relevant details prior to undertaking teaching practice. Such information may be released to their placement schools. The University reserves the right not to allow these students to attend the block teaching practice. If so, they won't be able to meet the graduation requirements of the programmes.

The University is committed to nurturing graduates who will acquire trilingual proficiency in English, Putonghua and Chinese.