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General Education

GEC 109 Art, Self-exploration and Spirituality
1 Term; 3 Credits
This course enables students to appreciate and do art through experiential learning. It
covers selected concepts in art psychology, aesthetics, and introduces how people can gain
deep understanding of themselves and spirituality through their art work. Using guided reading,
workshop based art making activities, experiential learning, and self-reflection, the course
provides abundant opportunities for students to appreciate various art works and explore key
life themes through art making. In experiential workshops, students are facilitated with
expressive art and focusing techniques to go through self-exploration and self-growth process
with various art media, such as painting, drawing, dancing, photographing and video making.

GEC 110 Exercise and Wellbeing
1 Term; 3 Credits
The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) defines
healthy as “a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being and not merely the
absence of disease or infirmity." (WHO, 1984) Therefore, we should take a proactive role in
maintaining fitness of our physical body and mentality by making exercise part of our daily life,
keeping a balanced diet as well as learning how to relax. This course will introduce students to
basic concepts of human anatomy and exercise, physical fitness evaluation, nutrition, and
stress management. There will also be basic training of using the fitness equipment in gyms.
Students will be guided to develop their individual training programme according to their own
physical fitness and needs.

GEC 111 Positive Education for Well-Being in University Life
1 Term; 3 Credits
This course allows students to learn about the foundation and core components of positive
education and its application in their university life to improve their well-being. Students will
identify, reflect and write a short reflective essay about how to apply their strengths/potentials
in their university life. Students will also have opportunities to assess, evaluate, and practice
each core component of positive education and to construct their own individualized well-being
journal/diary. Students will then develop and conduct a 4-week individualized and experiential
whole-person well-being project by using one of their strengths/potentials to improve one of the
core components of positive education related to their university life. Finally, students will share
how positive education can support their own and other’s personal growth and potentials
(strengths) to face the challenges encountered in their university life through experience
sharing of their own well-being projects and presentation with their talent shows.

GEC 112 Basketball and Volleyball
1 Term; 3 Credits
The Chinese women's national volleyball team has a brilliant record, and the NBA
matches are even more exciting. By studying these two popular sports in the world, students
will learn the basic skills and theoretical knowledge. Through group project and discussion,

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