Division of Humanities

Undergraduate Course Offerings - Spring 2010

The Division of Humanities offers undergraduate courses in a wide variety of interest areas, including linguistics, literature, history and anthropology, and philosophy and religion. Twenty two of the courses are taught in English and seven in Chinese. See the following list.

Courses Taught in English:

HUMA001      Introduction to Language
HUMA012      Film Art and Cinema Culture
HUMA062      Human, Culture, and Society
HUMA099I    Screen Memories: Hong Kong Nostalgic Films
HUMA100T   History of Chinese Women
HUMA101J    Ethnography of Chinese Culture and Society [Cancelled]
HUMA101K   Body, Communication, and Performance in Hong Kong*
HUMA101L   Garbage as Art in Hong Kong*
HUMA103      Structure of the Chinese Language
HUMA111      Enjoyment of Western Music
HUMA113      Approaches to Western Literature
HUMA159      The Making of the Modern World
HUMA161      Marriage, Family and Kinship in Cross-cultural Perspectives
HUMA200F   Foodscapes: Cultural Studies of Food
HUMA200S   Popular Literature and Print Culture in Republican China
HUMA201      Metaphors in English and Chinese
HUMA210      Music, Drama and Theatre
HUMA214      The Gothic Imagination in Literature and Film
HUMA241B   Chinese Military History before 1800
HUMA300L   Western Painting: From Renaissance to Impressionism
HUMA352      History of US-China Relations
HUMA385      Classical Chinese Philosophy (in English)

*offered by Undergraduate Core Education Office

Courses Taught in Cantonese:

HUMA081      Introduction to Chinese Philosophy
HUMA164      Unofficial China: Social History 1800s-1930s
HUMA182      Chinese Culture and Its Philosophies
HUMA282      Buddhism and the Chinese Intellectual Tradition 

Courses Taught in Putonghua: 

HUMA066      Introduction to Chinese Art
HUMA099J    World Heritage and Ancient Civilization
HUMA105      Classical Chinese

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