Hong Kong Shue Yan University has taken the opportunity to showcase our aspiration to combine technology and humanities in tertiar y education at the Education & Career Expo 2023.
The 48th Graduation Ceremony of Hong Kong Shue Yan University was held on the 1st, 2nd and 5th of December at the Lady Lily Shaw Hall in campus. A total of 1084 graduates were awarded degrees from the University’s undergraduate and postgraduate programmes.
About 100 alumni (seniors), guests and students attended the event, the present guests included Prof. HU Yao Su, Provost of HKSYU, Dr. HU Fai Chung, Deputy President of HKSYU, Prof. CHEUNG Siu-Keung, Vice President (University Administration), Dr. LI Wang On, Associate Academic Vice President (University Research) and Ms. YIP Sau Yin, Associate Vice President (Student Affairs), department heads and teachers were also present to witness the 20th anniversary of the “Mentorship Programme”.
The P.E. Section held the “Sports Teams Pledging Ceremony” on 21 October 2022. In addition to the members of the 16 school teams, the attendants include Dr. HU Fai Chung, Deputy President, Prof. CHEUNG Siu-Keung, Vice President (University Administration), Dr. WONG Kwan Leung, Associate Academic Vice President (Teaching & Learning Development), Ms. YIP Sau Yin, Associate Vice President (Student Affairs), Dr. GONG Xiao En, the Director of Physical Education, the coaches who received the Long Service Awards and the three outstanding athletes of the previous year. All staff, students and the University Senior Management Team attended the ceremony in the school team windbreaker jackets, the ceremony began with a short video introducing the 16 school teams.
HKSYU is committed in promoting digital humanities in teaching, learning and research. The report reflects the research impacts to the academic community produced by colleagues and the recognitions of their works internationally.
The "Hong Kong Cantopop Lyrics " lecture, co-organized by the Department of Chinese Language and Literature and the Loke Kok Kuen Chinese Culture Legacy Research Trust, was successfully held earlier.
Hong Kong Shue Yan University (HKSYU) has been successful in obtaining HK$15 million in funding for 8 research projects under the Research Grants Council (RGC)’s 2022/2023 Competitive Research Funding Schemes for the Local Self-financing Degree Sector.
Learning Arts Tech with a Cultural Twist! This programme immerses students in digital culture and trains them to be innovative, knowledgeable, skilled and forward-thinking leaders of the arts, culture and creative sectors.
This programme aims to equip graduates with cross-disciplinary skills to understand and overcome the challenges associated with interpreting large volumes of data and communicating the results to the intended audience to enable data-driven decision making and solve real-world problems.
The University's Info Day with a theme of "50+1: Digital Humanities – We Innovate!" was successfully concluded on 26 November. Our teachers and students worked together to show visitors how Shue Yan innovates and develops.
The Social Research Centre of Hong Kong Shue Yan University organized an online seminar entitled “Youth in Turbulent Times: Constructing and Strengthening Youth Identity in Hong Kong” on August 13, 2022.
The Department of Business Administration (BA Department), Faculty of Commerce of the HKSYU, organizes Academic Week (A-Week) in October every year to connect the practitioners and professionals in various business fields with students and teachers alike to understand more about the changing trends and practices of the business world in reality. On October 17-20, 2022, the BA Department successfully held the Academic Week 2022, on the theme of “Indus try 5.0.”
The Department of English Language and Literature organized a seminar on the 5th of November, 2022 on the topic “Children’s Literature, City, and Language”.
There is an encouraging quote from the movie " Warriors of Future ", it said: "We should not lose hope even when the sky and earth look gloomy”. Hong Kong Shue Yan University’s postgraduate programmes dedicate to cultivating professional psychologists in various fields to help people ride out emotional troughs and improve their mental health.
The Department of History adds the Education Concentration courses, in an interview with Shue Yan Newsletter, Dr. AU Chi-Kin, Assistant Professor of the Department of History and Associate Director of the History Teaching Support & Research Centre, shared that the University has been studying the creation of the courses for some time, in the face of the departure tide of teachers in Hong Kong in recent years, Dr. AU considered it necessary to teach students explicitly about the knowledge related to education work
