香港嶺南大學 文化研究系Department of Cultural Studies, Lingnan University

In July 1997, the Lingnan University School of General Education was given the responsibility of developing a new BA (Hons) Cultural Studies programme to be launched in September 1999, with the support of a number of contributing departments. In September 2000, the Department of Cultural Studies was formed. From an initial student intake quota of 25, the admission of Year 1 students rose to 35.

 

Interdisciplinary in nature and in form, the programme represents an important step by the University toward developing itself as an internationally recognized liberal arts institution with Hong Kong characteristics. The BACS degree is the first of its kind in Hong Kong.

 

In September 2000, the Department also started its MPhil and PhD programme, further enhancing academic research in Cultural Studies in Hong Kong.

 

The overarching learning outcome of the BACS will be to develop and refine students' intellectual and creative capacities as well as their community-oriented knowledge and consciousness, while also equipping them with:

- demonstrated skills in critical writing and judgment, and media and textual analysis;

- a capacity for creative thinking in applied cultural scenarios;

- skills in cross-cultural communication and self-reflexive analysis;

- tools for the conceptualization and execution of cultural planning and management.

 

 

Correspondingly, the two major desired outcomes of the curriculum are:

1. To prepare our graduates for employment in and contribution to a variety of cultural work, including media and cultural industries, education, business, public services and community work

2. To produce citizens with cross-disciplinary cultural knowledge and cultural research skills.