(Offering from 2022-23 onwards)
Introduction
| Aims and Objectives | This Minor introduces students to culturally-specific concepts of health, wellness, and care. It seeks to enhance students’ understanding of the contributions of creativity, self-expression, and self-understanding to human flourishing. Students will be able to engage creatively in projects and practices that conduce to wellbeing and health, and support the efforts of institutions and organizations to enhance their practices of caretaking and caregiving. |
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| No. of cps Required | 15 cps |
| Application Website | https://curriculum.eduhk.hk/minor.html |
List of Courses taken as Minor
New programme structure (For students admitted from the 2025/26 cohort)#
#Students admitted before the 2025/26 cohort should follow the old course list.
Students must take 1 of the 2 core courses and take 4 of the 6 elective courses on offer to fulfil the requirements of the Minor. The following is a list of the 8 courses included in the Minor.
| Domin | Course Code | Course Title | cps |
|---|---|---|---|
Core (choose any 1 course) | CUS3025 | Cultures of Care | 3 |
| CUS3026 | Writting and Mindfulness | 3 | |
Electives (choose any 4 courses) | LIT3046 | Creative Writing | 3 |
| LIT3051 | Children's and Adolescent Literature | 3 | |
| CAC2022 | Cultural Perspectives in Creative Arts | 3 | |
| Eco-cinema and Sustainable Community | 3 | ||
| MUS3338 | Popular Music and Society | 3 | |
| LIT4060 | Literature and the Environment | 3 |
Old programme structure (For students admitted before the 2025/26 cohort)
Students must take one of the 2 core courses and take 4 of the 7 elective courses on offer to fulfil the requirements of the Minor. The following is a list of the 9 courses included in the Minor.
| Domin | Course Code | Course Title | cps |
|---|---|---|---|
Core (choose any 1 course) | CUS3025 | Cultures of Care | 3 |
| CUS3026 | Writting and Mindfulness | 3 | |
Electives (choose any 4 courses) | CAC2022 | Cultural Perspectives in Creative Arts | 3 |
| GEM2018* | Music, Health, and Wellbeing | 3 | |
| LIT3046 | Creative Writing | 3 | |
| LIT3051 | Children's and Adolescent Literature | 3 | |
| MUS3338 | Popular Music and Society | 3 | |
| HCS4061 | Therapeutic Use of Music in Healthcare | 3 | |
| PSY3022 | Cross-cultural Psychology | 3 |
* The University’s double-counting policy allows double counting of up to nine credit points for a five-year programme and six credit points for a four-year programme to fulfil no more than two domain requirements (e.g. for both the first and second majors) within a full-time undergraduate degree programme.
Enquiries
Ms Sandy Chan 陳小姐 (LCS)
Tel.: 2948-6180
E-mail: yeeman@eduhk.hk