Academic schools & division
The OUHK has five academic schools. Among them, the School of Arts & Social Sciences, Lee Shau Kee School of Business & Administration, School of Education & Languages and School of Science & Technology offer programmes and courses at various academic levels in distance learning, full-time, part-time face-to-face and online modes of study, while the Li Ka Shing Institute of Professional & Continuing Education (LiPACE) specializes in providing professional programmes, workplace training programmes, community learning projects and short courses. In addition, the Division of Nursing & Health Studies under the School of Science & Technology provides quality nursing and healthcare education to meet society’s needs.
Focusing on four areas of disciplines — cultural and creative arts, humanities, language and translation, and social sciences — the School of Arts & Social Sciences endeavours to create a dynamic and academically vigorous environment to foster students’ creativity, intellectual skills and interpersonal skills. Taught by academic staff possessing expertise of the broadest possible range, its programmes lead to the award of qualifications from the sub-degree to postgraduate levels. These qualifications are recognized by the Government and professional bodies with a range of exemptions granted to graduates.
The School endeavours to strengthen its research profile. Funded by the Research Grants Council (RGC), the Research Institute for Digital Culture & Humanities (RiDCH) conducts research that can generate new knowledge and shed light on new ways of teaching in creative industries and humanities. Other research projects that the School is working on encompass diverse subjects including Ibsen studies, English academic writing, political discourse, dynamics of activism, nationalist awareness, and epistemic modulation and speaker attitude.
The establishment of the Tin Ka Ping Centre of Chinese Culture in 2015 marked a new dimension in the School’s commitment to research and culture. The Centre provides a platform for OUHK students, staff and the general public to learn and appreciate Chinese thoughts, literary art, arts and craft, film and performing art through lectures, seminars and meetings in the form of cultural salon.
Benefitting from a creative and dynamic learning environment, students have received numerous prestigious prizes in major competitions. In the past year, a group of students in Bachelor of Arts with Honours in Creative Writing and Film Arts participated in the ICAC Microfilm Online Fest with the short film An Honest Restaurant and won the ‘Most Viewed Integrity Microfilm’ and ‘Practitioners’ Choice’ awards, while Yeung Wai-shing from Bachelor of Arts with Honours in Chinese pocketed the ‘Special Prize’ of the Students’ Group in the 25th Chinese Poetry Writing Competition 2015, for example.
