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Piloting "Freshman Seminar in Humanities"
(TDG 2009/12)
Leader: Dingxu Shi (CBS)
Leader's email: dingxu.shi@polyu.edu.hk
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Objectives:
This project aims to pilot the Freshman Seminar subject "Humanities - Wehre Language, Culture and Science Converge" which aims to achieve the following objectives:
- introduce to students the nature and characteristics of language and cultural studies, its contribution to the society and possible career paths;
- cultivate students' creativity, critical thinking, problem-solving ability through research, data collection and verification;
- expose students to the basic concept and understanding of entrepreneurship;
- develop students' global outlook;
- engage students in desirable forms of learning at university that emphasises self-regulation, autonomous learning and deep understanding;
- intrdouce students to research strengths and current intellectual interest of the academic staff members with the Faculty of Humanities; and
- provide students with an opportunity to meet the faculty members in a small class environment.
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