Common Core Curriculum

Aims and Objectives

• To provide rigorous general education for students in preparation for their major studies;

• To promote integrative learning through competing critical viewpoints and a variety of pedagogical models;

• To foster speaking, reading, writing, critical thinking, communication skills, and IT and numerical skills necessary for students’ academic studies and future successes in an ever-changing world;

• To cultivate students to be literate and responsible participants in the workplace, society and the world; and

• To develop students’ understanding of the ethical values and dimensions of their actions.

Under the Common Core Curriculum, students are required to take

• GEN1000 Perspectives on General Education • at least 1 module (3 credits) from each of the following four academic clusters to make up a total of 6 modules (18 credits):  Cluster 1: Humanities  Cluster 2: Social Sciences  Cluster 3: Science and Technology  Cluster 4: Moral Reasoning • 3 modules (9 credits) in each of the following areas:  English (or 4 modules for Year-1 entrants in AY2021/22 or after)  Chinese • and at least 1 module (3 credits) in each of the following areas:  Quantitative Methods  Information Technology Skills