The course covers the diversity of plant and animal kingdoms. The service-learning project collaborates with Environmental Association in a plantation enrichment programme. Students will apply their knowledge to conduct biodiversity surveys in plantation enrichment sites and promote biodiversity to HKBU members and the general public.
HKBU students will design scenarios for an augmented reality learning trail about food and nutrition to be implemented in local secondary schools. Secondary school students will walk through the trail on their own campus using mobile devices and scan QR codes at different check points to complete mini tasks.
This course provides general knowledge about toxicology, routes of human exposure to toxic chemicals, and biological responses to toxicants. Students will acquire methods for evaluating potential toxicity and applications of toxicological data to assess potential health. To put these theories into practices, students will conduct an advocacy campaign in a secondary school with a focus on microplastics.
HKBU students will demonstrate chemical experiments for secondary school students to introduce the basic concepts and functions of instrumental analysis on food and environment.
This course provides the fundamental theory of orthopaedics and traumatology of Chinese medicine, and the basic clinical knowledge of these diseases and the rules of treatment based on the differentiation of symptoms and signs. One of the tasks for students is to carry out falls risk assessment based on international guidelines and introduce measures to prevent falling among the elderly.
This course aims at developing students’ ability to make use of advanced software tools and programming techniques for information systems development. It also simulates a real-life working environment so that students will gain experience of working as team members by helping NGOs and social enterprises to develop various systems with a humanistic touch.
This course raises students’ awareness towards the importance of the balance of economic development, social inclusion and environmental impact through experiential learning. By collaborating with NGOs, students will apply their knowledge in developing projects related to the UN Sustainable Development Goals, including sustainable cities and communities, and reduced inequalities.
This course introduces students to the study of the inclusion of students with special needs and explores the development and the role of inclusive education, and aims to enhance the understanding of the individual requirements of students with diverse needs. The course pays special attention to students with disabilities in mainstream schools, and the strategies that can be used to optimise their educational experiences.
HKBU students will be involved in a simulation of European Council (summit) meetings together with secondary school students from different ethnic backgrounds to promote diversity and integration. Our students will serve as mentors of the secondary school students, who will be acting as assistants to their “Head of States” when the different European countries debate and negotiate on various issues.
Students will be involved in simulated professional situations with representatives from French-speaking European countries, and develop their knowledge about the business world so as to acquire a “know-how” tool set in an occupational context. Students will also serve the underprivileged in Hong Kong by partnering with Food Angel. This course is taught in French.
Special emphasis will be put on health communication involving healthcare personnel, administrators, the community and the media. Students will provide services to needy groups in two host organisations such as elderly homes and Chinese medicine clinics.
This course focuses on promoting a cross-disciplinary understanding of life-career planning and service leadership. It aims to offer an informative and accessible guide for students to engage in meaningful service projects during their studies and to pursue career fulfilment in the future.
This course aims to provide students with an opportunity to gain real-life working experience related to service-learning and community engagement. Students learn to work collaboratively with the community, and become aware of the reciprocal relationship between the society and the NGOs that influence them.
Students will examine and analyse China’s energy policies and technological options and will develop interactive teaching materials, games and toys to introduce these complex concept of renewable energy in China to primary school students.
Students will examine and analyse energy policy-making and policy responses to the challenges posed by the dynamic relationships between energy, environment, economy as well as society. Students will introduce these concepts to primary school students in a playful way using interactive games and DIY solar toys.
This course is designed to motivate students to pay close attention to current issues which are of great relevance and significance to Hong Kong and China. Students will first participate in a guided walk in Pokfulam Village. Based on the walk experience and interviews with villagers, students will design a service that contributes to the wellbeing of the villagers.
This course introduces students to the world of Cantopop, the beauty of Chinese lyric, and the creative as well as technical dimensions of lyric writing. Students will be guided to enter various underrepresented communities to conduct interviews, and turn the life stories of people from all walks of life into lyrical lines. These young lyricists may also be engaged in a concert to perform their own songs.
This course explores the formations, negotiations, and power struggles of identity in film, literature, cultural history, theoretical discourse, and in daily life. It examines the politics and ethics of representing identity and difference, especially cultural and sexual differences in various local, national, and global settings. Students will design and organise a human library towards the end of course by involving the marginalised populations in Hong Kong.
Students will be global marketers of local Hong Kong traditions in this project. They will assist a social enterprise, Eldage, in customising one of its popular products, Hong Kong public light bus sign keychain for an Asian market (Korea, Japan, Thailand or Indonesia). This is a course that attracts many visiting students and speaks to one of HKBU’s goals: campus internationalisation.
This course is designed to explore the principles and practices of employee training and development. Students will group themselves into a team of 4-5 and take responsibility to analyse, design and conduct a training programme for teenagers from Yan Oi Tong who are job hunting and/or seeking career advice.
This course is designed to enhance students’ knowledge in planning, organisation, marketing, promotion, management, and evaluation of live sports or special events. Students will conduct a workshop to develop the leadership and team spirit of young athletes, and hold HKBU UTeam annual dinner to commend students’ athletic achievement and promote participation in sports.
HKBU students will deliver a lecture on health and exercise for secondary school students. Those with coaching certificates of a particular sport will conduct training in sport skills, and those without coaching certificates will conduct physical fitness activities for a smaller group of secondary school students.
This course enables students to become acquainted with the political institutions and developments of Hong Kong by introducing them to the dynamics of sociopolitical changes after 1997. Towards the end of the course, they are expected to evaluate critically the major debates about one heated topic in relation to the current situation of Hong Kong: the District Council election.
This course examines the steps in researching, planning, managing, implementing, and evaluating strategic communication campaigns and programs. On top of practical application, students will also integrate public relations, advertising, and management techniques in developing their ideas and creativity. The partnering organisation is GO! Ginger Onion, a subsidiary communication platform of Hang Seng Bank.
The Campaign Planning and Management course is designed to provide students with an opportunity to apply communication theories and skills in researching, planning, managing, and evaluating strategic communication campaigns and programmes. The Strategic Communication Practicum aims to provide students with practical experience by participating in surveys, planning and the execution in the activities and corporation programmes. The cross-course collaboration will require students to go through the entire cycle of campaign management from idea creation to project implementation.
High-calibre HKBU students who have completed the Public Speaking course will teach secondary school students how to prepare and deliver effective speeches.
Students of this 9-unit course will develop the concept of “Hong Kong people” through talking to and working with different people and NGOs that are invested in the (re)examination of Hong Kong identity. Students will set up an exhibition about experiencing Hongkongness towards the end of the course, and the service component is a mixture of direct and indirect services as well as advocacy.
This course aims to provide an opportunity for students to study in-depth selected topics in contemporary issues related to the various creative practices in Studio and Media Arts. The course changes subjects/themes regularly, and for this semester, it will be community-related, with the integration of service-learning elements. Further details will be announced in due course.
This service-learning project provides an opportunity for students to develop and deliver sexuality education workshops to secondary school students of tribal communities in Taiwan. It will bring together social work expertise from HKBU and National Taiwan University to provide educational resources to Taiwanese youths, and students’ cultural awareness and sensitivity will be enhanced.
This course is a collaboration between HKBU’s Language Centre (English Section) and a leadership course offered by The Education University of Hong Kong. The project develops a service-learning partnership among two universities and an NGO by examining the perspectives of those engaged in the service experience, and aims to highlight important aspects of the service-learning experience for schoolchildren.
Students will use knowledge on biodiversity and ecological succession to conduct a rapid biological assessment and provide a baseline species list of plants, insects, amphibians and birds found at the community partner site - Yan Garden in Dongguan. They will also teach groundskeepers of Yan Garden and students from the local community to use mobile applications to identify and document species found there. The visit will allow the local community to envision the results of ecological restoration.
The project will pair up university and secondary school students to work on interactive activities related to fermentation and science. University students will design games and case studies to introduce fermentation and its application to daily lives. In particular, students will demonstrate how fermentation can achieve zero food waste and make garbage enzymes for cleaning purposes. Our students will also design innovative recipes and prepare snacks that involve the use of fermentation.
Students of the course will apply their knowledge of food analysis to assist Foodlink, an NGO that redistributes surplus food from local caterers to marginalised groups, to meet the food safety requirements. They will also assist in the redistribution of food at homeless shelters and to the street dwellers.
Students of the course will act as literary tour guides for secondary school students in Tuen Mun, imparting historical insights and literary knowledge to our next generation, and giving guidance on the compulsory classical Chinese texts in the Hong Kong Diploma of Secondary Education Examination (HKDSE) syllabus.
The popular use of traditional Chinese medicine for orthopaedic conditions has stood well against the test of time. Students of the course will use their professional knowledge to help relieve the pain symptoms of the elderly. They will also introduce measures to prevent falling among the elderly.
Special emphasis will be put on health communication involving healthcare personnel, administrators, the community and the media. Students will provide services to needy groups in two host organisations such as elderly homes and Chinese medicine clinics.
The course will require students to conduct interviews with grass-root, marginalised community members in Yau Ma Tei and produce a documentary about their interviewees' cinematic memories. The interviewees will then be invited to a screening of the documentaries as well as a film of their own choice in Broadway Cinematheque, which is also in the Yau Ma Tei neighbourhood. The project aims at rebuilding connections with the underprivileged communities through the sharing of a very important cultural resource: Hong Kong cinema.
Students will be global marketers of local Hong Kong traditions in this project. They will assist a social enterprise, Eldage, in customizing one of its popular products, Hong Kong public light bus sign keychain for an Asian market (Korea, Japan, Thailand or Indonesia).
This course introduces students to the major theories and principles of effective communication. In this service project, students will organise interpersonal communication workshops for secondary school students to enhance their self-esteem and communication skills.
Students will apply event management principles and practices in helping the CSR (corporate social responsibility) team of South China Morning Post (SCMP) to organise and execute its annual flagship fundraising event (5-A-Side Football Tournament) in November. They will take charge of a specific task e.g. preparing crisis management plan, negotiating with donors, etc.
Students of this course will join farming activities with elderly and students from Lingnan University. During the activities, HKBU students will interview the elderly about their diet, eating habits and healthy living wisdom, such as secret recipe or family recipe. Making use of the knowledge and theories learned in the course, students will then analyse the information collected and provide recommendations on the elderly’s diet and eating habits that better suit the nutritional needs of elderly.
Students will learn and apply knowledge on how to modify exercises for individuals and groups based on age, medical conditions and special needs. In this project, students will serve as fitness instructors to design and lead two half-day activities for two selected populations: children with special needs and the elderly.
Students of this course will apply what they have learned to facilitate motor learning and promote physical exercise. They will design a Wellness Promotion Programme for Hong Kong Baptist Hospital Au Shue Hung Health Centre. The Programme will consist of dance, exercises and games and will target older adults.
The service-learning component of this course grasps the timely opportunity of an anticipated political tsunami inflicted on the pro-government parties and their candidates. It invites students to explore “inclusive governance” by addressing concerns about electoral integrity in Hong Kong and exploring effective ways to promote gender issues in the District Council election. Students will set up e-platforms to collect data and observe the election in order to explore the gender dynamics in various districts and communities and gender mainstreaming in the society at large.
This course is designed to provide students with an opportunity to synthesise their previous learning by applying communication theories and skills into practice. Under the supervision of the course instructors, students will work in groups for a real-world client to conduct on- or off-campus projects in productions of public relations collaterals, marketing research, event management and branding, or delivery of CSR strategies.
Students in the Translation Workshop will involve in the work of the third sector and assist them in providing people with access to vital knowledge in their language. They will apply their bilingual skills and serve the community at large. Towards the end of the course, these young translators will produce and publish the second issue of TransFeed (a bilingual magazine) that reflects upon their authentic translation services provided to the community.
Students of this 9-unit course will (re)design food and culinary experience on HKBU campus and improve its controversial food culture. The project encourages students to propose and implement ideas that will promote healthy living and low-carbon food, and the service component is a mixture of direct and indirect services as well as advocacy.
For detailed course syllabus, please refer to the University Student Handbook.