Arts, Design & Culture Culture & Philosophy

This programme will focus on key debates on popular culture and cultural consumption in relation to the media. Issues of pleasure, politics, meaning and value will be raised in connection with a range of cultural forms. Situated historically in the twentieth century, the programme analyses the development of mass culture as a socio-economic form, and as a term emerging in relation to other media forms, such as Hollywood movies, television programmes, music, art, print and new media. A range of theoretical perspectives will inform the analysis. The consumption of popular culture is addressed through recent ethnographic and qualitative work on audiences. 

The main objective of this programme is to introduce students to the key theories, thinking and debates surrounding new media studies. This programme will also contextualise the social functions and cultural meanings of digital/ new media technologies and their changes in different social and historical environments. The programme will encourage students to explore different forms of new media experiences and participations, and equip students with practical digital media production skills by designing, producing and publishing creative new media projects.

This programme aims to introduce students to the key meanings and structures of visual culture and thus help them investigate the ways in which cultural meanings are articulated, interpreted and communicated through different forms of visual-cultural practices, such as films, photographs, advertisements and museum displays etc. This programme will also introduce a range of visual research methods and media production techniques which develop students’ capacities in both analysing and creating visual-oriented projects.

Through a combination of lectures, tutorials and student presentations, this programme enables students to define methodological terms, concepts, and processes in media and cultural studies. This helps students make critical judgments on researches commonly used in media and cultural industries, and to design and apply research methodologies to research on media messages, media production and consumption. The programme also aims to equip students with the independent research skills they will need to flourish in academic and vocational contexts, and to carry out basic research in order to produce a piece of academic writing.

The Postgraduate Diploma in Media and Cultural Critique programm aims to develop students’ critical understanding of media and cultural institutions, ideologies and policies and their relationships with social and economic reality. This programme provides a grounding in the media and then visual, socio-cultural and economic content, and makes it possible for graduates to further study in media and cultural studies, creative industries, media management and advertising.

 

 

死亡，是中國人之忌諱，而忌諱往往源於對現象本身的不解。殯葬 (funeral rites) 是一門博大精深的學問，每一項看似高深莫測的儀式，其實都根植於地域文化意義；而殯葬之所以神秘，是因為基於社會對死亡的恐懼，很多與之相關的人事物都隱藏於大眾的視線之外。

本課程旨在讓學員有系統地掌握中國哲學的源流、主要學派的思想、演變及影響；希望藉着傳授有關之理論知識，能培養學員對中國哲學的欣賞及興趣，進一步能夠根據中國哲學的觀念，探討普遍的哲學問題。故除基礎文本研究外，本課程亦著重訓練學員就特定理論進行延伸討論與分析。

This programme aims to introduce to students the nature, functions and techniques used in records management, the principles of transferring records to archives and the current practices of digitization of different media in various industrial and commercial sectors as well as in government departments.

本課程旨在讓學生認識易學作為一門學問所涉及的術語及原理，從而掌握其箇中的理論關係。

課程目標
本課程將跳脫時間軌跡的限制，以特定的地域、圖像或信仰等為主題，構築課程的核心命題，深入探討佛教藝術在多元視角下的映現。課程期望學員於特定專題中開展多層次的對話，並進一步尋找與自我的心靈連結，為學員帶來當代人生的啟發，以及更多面向的文化視野與思考。