艺术、设计及文化 文化及哲学

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.

媒体及文化分析深造文凭旨在培养学生对媒体及文化机构、意识形态及政策，以及它们与社会及经济现实的关系的批判性理解。本课程为学生认识媒体、视觉、社会文化及经济提供了扎实的基础，让他们能够於媒体及文化研究、创意产业、媒体管理及广告等范畴作进一步学习。

哲學概論證書是哲學系列課程的入門課程。通過對古今中外哲學家對宇宙人生終極問題探索路向和結果的學習、研究和探討，使學員明瞭哲學的特性與意義；通過對哲學主要問題和中西哲學主流學派思想的研究，揭示哲學與現代生活關係，訓練閱讀哲學著作能力，提高批判思考能力。

死亡，是中国人之忌讳，而忌讳往往源於对现象本身的不解。殡葬 (funeral rites) 是一门博大精深的学问，每一项看似高深莫测的仪式，其实都根植於地域文化意义；而殡葬之所以神秘，是因为基於社会对死亡的恐惧，很多与之相关的人事物都隐藏於大众的视线之外。

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.

本课程旨在让学生认识易学作为一门学问所涉及的术语及原理，从而掌握其个中的理论关系。