Program
Initiatives
Responding to the need for social transformation and economic
development, the School of Engineering and the School of Business
and Management jointly organized a number of Master of Technology
Management (MTM) programs. The first of their kind in Hong Kong,
these MTM programs are designed to offer mid-career technical
professionals opportunities for further studies, to develop
their professional and managerial careers. The first program,
offered in Fall 2000, was the Master of Technology Management
Program in Information Technology. This will be followed by
the Master of Technology Management Program in Global Logistics
Management in Fall 2001.
The School of Business and Management launched its 20-month
Master of Science Program in Electronic Commerce Management
in June 2001. Students who take this program must already
have an MBA degree. The School also signed an agreement with
Peking University's Guanghua School of Management to jointly
offer an International Executive MBA program in Shenzhen.
The Program is specially designed for middle- to senior-level
Mainland executives.
The School of Humanities and Social Science established the
Y K Pao Visiting Chair in Cultural Studies Fund with a generous
donation of US$2 million (approximately HK$15.6 million) by
Dr Helmut SOHMEN, a member of the University Court. The Fund
sponsors internationally renowned academics and artists as
visiting professors and artists-in-residence. The Visiting
Chair program supports the University's objectives of providing
all-round education and enriching the intellectual and cultural
life of the University community. The first scholar invited
was distinguished social scientist Prof Immanuel WALLERSTEIN.
The second invitee was renowned academic in the humanities
Prof Gayatri C SPIVAK, who offered a postgraduate course on
modern literary theory this year.
New programs were also initiated at the undergraduate level.
The Department of Mathematics and the School of Engineering
began offering minor programs this year. These programs provide
students with more opportunities to develop their personal
interests outside their majors, as well as to enhance their
competitiveness in the job market.
In collaboration with three secondary schools in Hong Kong,
the Department of Computer Science launched a pilot program
to offer a credit-based online computer course to secondary
school students in September 2000. Under the program, academically
gifted secondary school students were able to take university-level
courses in advance. The results were very promising. In June
2001, the Department received a grant of HK$2.2 million from
the Government's Quality Education Fund to run the "Cyber
University for Academically Gifted Secondary School Students"
project. With the support of six secondary schools on Hong
Kong Island, and in Kowloon and the New Territories, the project
will set up six regional multimedia education centers to facilitate
the offering of online courses. These schools are: Ho Fung
College, Kowloon Technical School, Pui Ching Middle School,
Queen Maud Secondary School, Sha Tin Government Secondary
School, and Wah Yan College. Two computer science programs
and a physics program will be available in September 2001.
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