HKUST Postgraduate Programs

in Humanities and Social Science

香港科技大学人文社会科学研究生课程
HKUST @ Asia’s World City

HKUST Established in 1991 (4,600 PGs and 9,100 UGs)

HK: st
1 in Asia; th
5 in the World
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HKUST: Worldwide Recognition

14TH

1st in Hong Kong

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HKUST Research Excellence

Research Assessment Exercise (RAE) 2014 in Hong Kong

HKUST HKU CUHK CityU PolyU HKBU EdUHK LU

4 Star = World Leading 3 Star = Internationally

Excellent

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HKUST: SHSS
School of Humanities and Social Science

 To become the Global Center of China Studies

 To become a China Center of Global Studies
 To become a Hong Kong Center of HSS Education

 To offer a well-rounded and

transformative UG, PG, and
continuing education
 To equip all students with
the career skills they need
and with an ability to think
independently and
communicate effectively
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SHSS World Rankings*

 No.72 World’s Top 100 Universities in

Social Science (No. 3 in Greater China),
2015/2016

 No. 10 Asian Top 100 Universities in Social

Science and Management: Asia 2015
 No. 26 World’s Top 400 Universities for Social
Sciences & Management, 2015 (No. 2 in Greater
China)
 No. 37 Asian Top 100 Universities in Arts &
Humanities, Asia 2015

 No. 76-100 World’s Top 200

Universities in Social Science, 2015
* Includes HKUST School of Business and Management
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HKUST Social Science World Rankings

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45000+ HKUST SHSS Google Citations
August 2016
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SHSS Research
 5 disciplinary concentrations:
in economics, in history / anthropology, in
political science, in sociology, and in technology /
sustainability

 5 connected research foci:

on economic development, on human capital, on
inequality, on energy / sustainability, and on
state / society relations
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SHSS Disciplinary Research PG Training

Humanities Social Science

 Anthropology  Applied Economics
 History  Political Science
 Linguistics  Psychology
 Literature  Sociology
 Philosophy  STS

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SHSS Teaching Strategies

 Research Embedded Teaching

 Teaching Supported Research
 Integrated UG/PG curriculum
 Whole UG Person focused with emphasis on
language, leadership, numeracy, values

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SHSS Taught PG Training

 MA in Chinese Culture
 MA in International Language
Education
 Teaching Chinese as Second Language
(TCSL)
 Teaching English as Second Language
(TESL)
 Dual-Degree (MA & MAT-TESOL) with
University of Southern California (USC)
 MA in Social Science
 MSc in Global China Studies
 3+1 & 1+x pathway for MGCS Consortium
University
 4+1 pathway 9
SHSS Massive Open On-line Courses

 HKUST is the first university in Asia to offer Massive

Open On-line Courses (MOOCs)
 Making Hong Kong’s best education available world-
wide, including the PRC
 Flipping the classroom and improving elite education
in Hong Kong

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SHSS E-Teaching & Blended Learning

Prof James Lee

MOOC Offerings

 “Understanding China: A Data Analytical Approach”

(1&2)

 Summer 2013/Fall 2014 (Part I): 16,903 active, 16

percent completion

 Fall 2015 (Part II): 3,170 active students from 110

countries / regions (83% students holding a
bachelor or higher degree), 50 percent completion

 No. 8th HKUST blended class in Summer 2015/16

(June 27-July 25, 2016)
 “Science, Technology, and Society in China” (1&2)Prof Naubahar Sharif with help of Prof Christian Daniels
Spring 2013/Fall 2013,
7,637 active, 21,934 total students,
10 percent completion, 9.5 percent graduation)

Prof David Zweig

 Chinese and World 1&2

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SHSS E-Teaching & Blended Learning

English Language MOOCs

Concentration
 Business English
Mr. Sean McMinn (Senior Instructor)

 English for Doing Business in Asia-Speaking

 English for Doing Business in Asia-Writing

Ms. Delian Gaskell (Instructor)

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SHSS E-Teaching & Blended Learning

MOOC In-development
 China's Economic Transformation (1&2)
Prof Albert Park

 Social Science Approaches to the Study of Chinese Society

Prof Cameron Campbell

 Intimacy of Creativity: Entering the Minds of Composers

 Inequality and Hard Times in the Past

Prof Bright Sheng

Professor Matthew Tommasini

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Blending MOOCs, Global Studies,
and International Partnerships
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 University of Virginia/University of Iowa Global Studies and
HKUST Global China Studies
 UVa College of Arts and Sciences Jeffersonian Global Seminars
 UI College of Liberal Arts and Sciences MOOC collaboration
 Waseda University (早稲田大学) Dual-Degree
 Waseda: BA in Economy, Political Science, and Global
Political Economy
 HKUST: MSc in Global China Studies

 Global China Studies Online Curriculum-Blended Learning

 Local, Mainland China, and International partners

 Proposed AEARU Conference on Teaching and Learning Development

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SHSS TPG Program Highlights:
MSc in Global China Studies
Best combined class, “4+1”,
“3+1”, “1+x” students
 A GPA of 3.0 or above (out of 4.0);
 A TOEFL >=100 (iBT)/600 (PBT) or IELTS 7 (all
sub-sets >=6.5)
The very first “3+1” Elite
International Program for
advanced and ambitious
undergraduate students from
the Global China Studies
Consortium member universities
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MSc in Global China Studies
(MGCS)

 HKUST is the First University in the World to

offer UG and PG programs in Global China
Studies
 Global Studies is the study of what has become or is
becoming global, local accommodation and resistance
to the Global, and the tensions and interactions
generated by these processes.
 Global China Studies is the study of the Global and the
Local in China.

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MGCS Consortium
Nanjing University, National Taiwan University, Shandong University,
Shanghai Jiaotong University, Shantou University, Sichuan University, Sun Yat-
sen University, Xi’an Jiaotong University, Waseda University, Huazhong
Science & Technology University and Zhejiang University

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MGCS Student Composition
（2013-16）

Individual
Applicants Consortium
26% Member
Universities
“3+1”
Consortium
Member Us students
non “3+1” 64%
10%

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MGCS Graduate Placement
(2013-2016）
%
60

 The proportion of MGCS graduates 50

pursuing further study is 35 % 40

(2013/14), 25 % (2014/15), and 50% 30
Professional Career

(2015/16); whereas the HKUST Further Study

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average is approximately 7.5%,
including 10

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3+1 alumni non-"3+1" alumni

 Five full-ride PhD scholarships @ U  Career & Placement

of Virginia, USC, UT (Austin),
HKUST, Utrecht
 Master programs at HKUST,
Tsinghua University, Sun Yat-sen
University, Columbia U, Chicago,
Oxford, UCSD, Warwick, NTU, etc.
 Hong Kong：KPMG, AIA, Pfizer 、
HKUST, Our Hong Kong
Foundation, etc.
 Mainland China：Bank of China,
PwC, Huawei, KPMG, Deloitte,
Jiangsu TV, Beijing TV etc.

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SHSS Grad School Journey

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Thank you