General Education (GE) plays a vital role in the University’s mission to provide a balanced undergraduate education for all students. It equips students with the intellectual capacity for understanding critical issues, ideas, and values of humanity in modern society. It nurtures students to be educated persons capable of making informed judgment and meeting the challenges of the ever-changing world. Providing a firm foundation for the well-rounded intellectual development of students, it prepares them to be lifelong learners and engaged citizens with a global awareness.
More specifically, GE of CUHK is designed to:
- provide a broad intellectual perspective and to instill an understanding of the values of different academic disciplines;
- develop sensitivity to the common concerns of human existence especially from the perspective of the Chinese culture;
- help students develop their own judgment and sense of values;
- cultivate awareness of the connections among different fields of knowledge; to develop the potentiality for integrating different fields of knowledge as needed;
- equip students with life-long learning capacities especially through understanding of the connections between academic pursuits and life experience.