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Teaching and Learning
First Steps, after Millet, 1890 by Vincent van Gogh
Faith and Global Engagement seeks to inspire academics, students and the public with authentic and meaningful dialogues on values, virtues, and life purpose. In addition to our research, we aim to do so through our HKU Common Core Courses, our McDonald Distinguished Public Lecture Series and through leading and designing HKU’s character leadership programme, Lead for Life.
The Sense of Sight, 1744-1747 by Philippe Mercier
common core programmes
We have established an interactive teaching and education platform through the University of Hong Kong’s Common Core course programme 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:
Please also browse Yale’s Live Worth Living website for information.
city & societies
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.
mcdonald distinguished public lecture series
The McDonald Distinguished Public Lecture Series is designed to connect academics, students and the general public with current world issues which impact the way we live and think. FGE engages world-class speakers to discuss life’s big issues such as: Leadership, Human Flourishing, Faith & Life, Power, Love, Hope, Happiness and Work.
Our McDonald Distinguished Public Lecture Series is graciously supported by the McDonald Agape Foundation.
Upcoming Lectures
Stay tuned for our new lecture series in the academic year 2025/26!
2024/25 Distinguished Lecture Series Playlist
Lead for Life (‘L4L’)
The HKU Character Leadership Programme
L4L is a two-year, transformational journey for HKU students to acquire the characteristics needed for lifelong leadership – leadership which is life-enriching, life-nurturing (for leaders and group members), and a way of life. Its purpose is to help students flourish during their time at HKU, and to equip them to build flourishing communities afterwards.
Built around the research on character leadership at Oxford University and the University of Hong Kong, our programme presents character leadership as acquirable and desirable as well as accessible to all personalities: quiet, outgoing or somewhere in between. The programme draws on deep, multi-cultural traditions of wisdom and virtue to enable HKU leaders to make a significant social impact locally and globally.
L4L’s inaugural programme began at HKU with the 2021/22 cohort. Since then, each year we have admitted around 200 freshmen into the programme. Upon successful completion of the programme, they are awarded a Character Leadership Certificate by HKU. Graduates, however, are encouraged to view their graduation as a ”commencement” of life-long leadership as well as to return and help lead in the ongoing programme. The programme’s content is developed and curated by Faith and Global Engagement in partnership with CEDARS and aims to involve collaboration and participation across all HKU faculties.
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