Through lecture and seminar, students will be introduced to selected famous plays in the world. The latter part of the course will be dedicated to practical work including rehearsals and technical theatre operations in attempts to stage excerpts from these plays. The Shaw College Lecture Theatre will be used as the teaching, rehearsing and performing venue.

The teacher takes the opportunity to share her expeditions and explorations through pictures, documentary films and lectures on the extreme environments across the world. The coldest extremes like the Arctic and the Antarctic, the hottest extreme like The Taklamakan Desert, the highest extreme like The Mount Everest and the lowest extreme like The Yarlung Zangbo Grand Canyon. Within the lessons, students can learn more about the natural environment, cultural heritage, adventures and scientific expeditions on the world's most pristine yet austere environments.

This course introduces students to the intertwined relationship between the family and gender division of labor in society. On the one hand, the family is a domain where gender roles and relationships between women and men are socially constructed and reproduced. Through examining the social interactions between family members, allocation of resources and responsibilities, we shall be able to understand how individuals do gender and the maintenance of gendered division of labor in the wider society. On the other hand, gender is a key form of stratification in societies globally.

This course integrates meaningful social service activity with instruction and critical reflection in class to enrich the learning and the betterment of society, aims to foster students with genuine care and human concern for the needs and problems of society. Based on the principles of Service-Learning, volunteerism and reflective learning, students are required to apply theories and concepts to design and implement a series of services for a socially disadvantaged group.

This course is designed to give students a basic knowledge of the people with selected types of disabilities. The major objective of this course is to help students understand and assist people to face the challenge of living with disability. This course aims at facilitating students: 1) to turn the knowledge as a set of thinking and action strategies for social and attitudinal changes, and 2) to make use of this knowledge to improve the lives of all individuals with disabilities in society.

Since the genetic codes and sequences of human beings and many different organisms become available, their role in biological processes and diseases become more understood and comprehensible to human beings. Possibilities of making good use of these bioinformatics knowledge and manipulation of genes have opened a brave new world for us to explore. This course in intended to introduce basic concepts of gene structures, gene functions, genetic engineering, synthetic biology and the impacts of such gene technology on our society.