Hong Kong Shue Yan University

Department of Journalism and Communication

Guidelines for Online Course Selection – Compulsory and Departmental Elective course(s) (Fall 2023)
For Bachelor of Arts (Hons) in Journalism and Mass Communication (Applicable to Year 4 students only)

Please read the following instructions carefully before processing the course selection:

1. Students are required to login to Online Course Selection System (https://sims.hksyu.edu/course-selection/)

and select the Compulsory and Departmental Elective course(s) during the following periods:

Year Starting Date Starting Time End Date End Time

Year 4 04/08/2023 10:00 05/08/2023 09:00
Year 3 04/08/2023 13:00 05/08/2023 09:00
Year 2 04/08/2023 16:00 05/08/2023 09:00

2. Year 4 students are required to enroll 15 credits in F23 as follows:

F23
Compulsory Courses 3 - 6 credits
Departmental Electives / Free electives 9 – 12 credits
Total 15 credits

For details on the Programme Requirements, please refer to the attached JMC Course Offered List.

3. General Education (GE) courses requirements:

- Students admitted into Year 1 shall complete a total of 12 credits of General Education (GE) courses
consisting of 3 credits in each of the four main areas in order to fulfill graduation requirements.

4. For the procedures of online course selection, students are required to read carefully the attached guidelines
and FAQs before the course selection period.

5. Students are given priority to select the Departmental electives (if any) offered by their own Department.
Remaining quotas will be shared with students in other Department during Elective/GE course selection period.
 6. List of Compulsory courses and available Departmental Elective courses

I. Compulsory Courses (必修科)

- Year 4 students are required to take JOUR410 Media Ethics in either 1st or 2nd semester. For those
who did not enroll the following pattern, JOUR410 will be pre-enrolled in your timetable of 2nd
semester.
- Year 4 students should have completed their Professional Internship during Summer. All yearly
students are enrolled to JOUR403 in 1st Semester.

Pattern A: (Quota: 82)

Course Code and Course Title Section Credits Day Start End Instructor
JOUR410 Media Ethics 1 3 5 B D Liauw, CP
JOUR403 Professional Internship 1 3 6 A A

Pattern B: (Quota: 80)

Course Code and Course Title Section Credits Day Start End Instructor
JOUR403 Professional Internship 1 3 6 A A

II. Departmental Electives (系內選修科)

- Students are required to choose at least 3 Departmental Electives (9 credits) in F23.
- Available Departmental Elective courses are listed as follow:

Course Code and Course Section Credits Day Start End Quota Instructor MOI
Title
1 3 1 B D 5
Wong, CM Cantonese
2 3 4 B D 5
JOUR301 Intermediate
1 3 1 A B 10 Wong, WK
Audio-Visual Production
JOUR301T Intermediate 1 1 C C 5 English
Audio-Visual Production Wong, WK
2 1 D D 5
(Tutorial)
1 3 3 2 4 5
JOUR320 News Translation Yeung, ML English
2 3 3 7 9 5
1 3 3 2 4 5 Team7:
JOUR341 Digital News &
Lee, KM English
Information Production 2 3 4 5 7 5 Ho, YS
JOUR350 Feature Writing 1 3 4 8 A 5 Ng, HL Cantonese
JOUR380 Business and
1 3 3 B D 5 Lam, WS English
Financial Reporting
JOUR381 Advanced
1 3 4 2 4 10 Pui, HF English
Financial News Analysis
JOUR390 Computer
Animation in Journalism & 1 3 2 B D 5 Au, KY English
Communication
JOUR400 Editorial and 1 3 6 2 4 25
Kwok, KF English
Commentary Writing 2 3 6 6 8 25
JOUR421 Enterprise
1 3 3 B D 30 Chan, QUIN English
Journalism
JOUR431 Script Writing 1 3 1 5 6 50
1 1 7 7 15
JOUR431T Script Writing Pun, MH English
2 1 8 8 15
(Tutorial)
3 1 9 9 20
JOUR440 Entertainment & 1 3 2 B D 30
Lam, WS English
Pop Culture Production 2 3 1 B D 30
JOUR441 Dissertation I 2 3 6 C C 20 Lam, WS Cantonese
JOUR450 Honours Project 1 3 6 B B 35 Lam, WS Cantonese
Course Code and Course Section Credits Day Start End Quota Instructor MOI
Title
JOUR460 Digitization &
1 3 4 1 3 28 Cheung, RIN English
Interactive M-Media
Team6:
JOUR480 China Reporting 1 3 4 2 4 35 Kwok, KF Cantonese
Tam, TAMMY
MDIT410 Sound Production 1 3 3 9 A 40 Team10:
MDIT410T Sound 1 3 B B 20 Leung, LH English
Production (Tutorial) 2 3 C C 20 Lam, HY
PRA310 Advertising 1 3 4 3 5 3
Lai, P English
Copywriting 2 3 4 7 9 3
PRA320 PR Disciplines in
1 3 4 7 9 3 Tong, SC English
the Digital World
1 3 1 7 9 3
PRA340 Event Management Lau, ESME English
2 3 5 B D 3
PRA350 PR Writing for 1 3 4 2 4 3
Tong, SC English
On/Offine Context 2 3 3 7 9 3
PRA420 Integrated
Marketing Strategies & 1 3 4 B D 30 Wong, TK English
Planning
PRA430 Audio-Visual
1 3 3 B D 30 Cheng, TH English
Production in PRA
PRA450 Risk and Crisis 1 3 1 B D 30 Chan, QUIN English
Communication 2 3 4 B D 30 Lau, ESME English
PRA460 Media Planning 1 3 3 7 9 30 Lai, P English
 Important Notes on choosing Compulsory courses and Departmental Electives:
- Students MUST choose the Compulsory Pattern (if applicable) before choosing Electives.
- Please pay attention to the “Pre-requisite” and “Remarks” to check if there are any registration restrictions
for the course. If you do not meet the pre-requisite requirements of a course and enroll it during the online
course selection, such enrolled course will be removed by Registry without prior notice.
- If you intend to add any course(s) with tutorial, please be reminded that you must select lecture section
first and then select one of the tutorial sections. If the course is full, student who has only enrolled tutorial
section without lecture section will be considered as “Unsuccessful Course Enrolment”. Enrolled tutorial
will be automatically deleted by the Registry without prior notice. The remaining quota of the tutorial
will base on the queue on the waitlist for student who has enrolled lecture section without tutorial.
- Students will be placed in queue on the waitlist when the selected Elective is full. The queue on the
waitlist will be expired after such course selection period.
- Please be aware that the credits of the course(s) on the waitlist will not be counted into the enrolled credits.
However, the system will check students’ maximum credits before enrolling them into the class from the
waitlist (e.g. A student has already registered 16 credits, system will not enrol him/her from the waitlist
of a 3-credit course if the maximum credits of student are 18 credits, even if the course has quota available
and the student is in position 1 of the waitlist).
- Think twice before swapping/dropping courses. When you drop a course during the course selection
period, the place will immediately be released for other students to enroll if there is a waitlist. The queue
on the waitlist will also immediately move forward. Hence, it is not possible to add back to the original
queue position or register to the course that you have dropped.

7. Other Important Information:

- The classes for the F23 will begin on September 1, 2023 (Friday). Academic Calendar is located at:
https://registry.hksyu.edu/academic_calendar.html
- List of available Free Elective and/or GE course(s) (if applicable) during Online Course Selection will
be announced by your study programme on or before August 15, 2023 via Moodle.
- Students are required to check their enrolled courses record including class timetable and venue via
WEBSIMS (“My Time Table”) before the commencement of the semester.
- Students are required to enroll at least 12 credits in any one semester during normal duration of their study
programme.
- Student should select their courses in accordance with the requirements of their Major and/or Minor
programme and the GE programme. Students shall be responsible for ensuring the timely completion of
all requirements for graduation.
- Courses will be randomly assigned to students who have missed the Online Course Selection.
- The Course Add/Drop period will take place in early September 2023. Details will be announced by
Registry via Moodle in due course.
- In case of any disputes, the Registry reserves the right of the final decision of Course Selection (including
but not limited to randomly add course(s) to students who did not enroll sufficient course(s) in respective
semester/academic year or randomly delete extra enrolled course(s) to students without the prior approval
by the Registry/Department).
- - For enquiries, please contact DEPT Administrative Staff through email jour@hksyu.edu .