Common Core Programmes

Faith and Global Engagement’s educational mission is achieved by providing a variety of dynamic courses and grammes to students. 

The Sense of Sight, 1744-1747 by Philippe Mercier

COMMON CORE PROGRAMMES

Faith and Global Engagement’s educational mission is achieved by providing a variety of dynamic courses and grammes to students. 

The Sense of Sight, 1744-1747 by Philippe Mercier

We have established an interactive teaching and education platform through the University of Hong Kong’s Common Core course program and the Lead for Life character leadership program. In both of these streams, Faith and Global Engagement provides learning experiences that emphasize meaning, purpose, and virtue, both in and outside the classroom. Through these opportunities, we aim to equip students with the knowledge, skills, and character necessary to engage with global challenges from a faith-based perspective.

While our courses and workshops vary from semester to semester, the most recent offerings in Common Core and Lead for Life are as follows:

 

Common Core Study:

CCHU9065 A Life Worth Living 

 

What does it mean to live a worthy life? This is one of the most fundamental questions of human existence and this course addresses this question through an engagement with various philosophical and religious traditions, including contemporary advocates of those traditions (by interview). These traditions include Hinduism, Buddhism, Confucianism, Taoism, Christianity, Islam and Secular Humanism. We discuss how the teachings of important historical figures from these traditions have influenced the choices of people over the centuries, and how they have been adopted in contemporary society. We examine how these figures regard the place of bodily pleasures, intellectual pursuits, power, status, possessions, accomplishments, virtues, relationship with other human beings and the relationship (or not) with the transcendent in their vision of a good life.

Please also browse the Live Worth Living website for course information.

CCGL9070 The Birth of the City and the Shaping of Societies


Cities are said to be our greatest inventions. As spatial, political, socio-economic, and cultural centres in their environs, they are demonstrations of human ingenuity, power, and capacity to manipulate resources and the environment. They also play crucial roles in shaping human development on both individual and collective levels, as such, defining our civilizations. This course invites students to explore the making and remaking of cities and their impact on the development of urban societies, from the rise of cities in the fourth millennium BC in ancient West Asia to the emergence of metropolitan cities and megacity regions in today’s world.

CCHU9090 Love, Morality, and the Meaning of Human Relationships

 

From dating apps to family life, Instagram to the workplace, we all want to have good relationships and live a good life. What does that look like in the modern world? Everyday life is complex and we are often presented with relationships, situations, and technologies that ask us to make compromises, whether we know it or not. This course looks at some of these everyday ethical questions through the lens of different scales of human relationships. It will equip students with ethical frameworks through which to view these relationships, enabling them to identify and develop their own values to navigate them. It will examine five key relationships through cross-cultural perspectives: (1) with oneself—including self-care, self-forgiveness, and conscience; (2) with friendship and dating; (3) with one’s immediate community—including family and professional life; (4) the larger society in which one lives—including social media and the politics of respect; and (5) with the transcendence of mystery, the divine, and the sacred—including urban space and the ecological other with which we participate.


Lead for Life Learning:

Lead for Life Character Leadership
courses, workshops, and activities