Humanities in Focus
The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
Humanities in Focus is about raising questions rather than providing you with answers. You will engage in ongoing conversations about social issues in film, challenges and opportunities in art, experience and consciousness in history, and the power of language. This type of humanistic inquiry will allow you to uncover the many insights that draw from the topics in this course, and more importantly to reflect on the fundamental question: Why does humanities matter? The questioning, humanising,...
About this Course
Humanities in Focus guides learners to explore: 1. What Humanities is 2. Why Humanities matter 3. Why Humanities matter to me In each learning sequence, learners will first explore the topic through interactive discovery activities. Then our instructors will guide learners to question, humanise and connect problems and issues in those topics, and will share why they believe humanities matters. After watching each lecture video, learners will then reflect on their understanding through discussing selected issues with humanities in focus. To help learners personalise the course content, presenters specialising in different majors and professional fields will share how a humanities perspective helped them solve problems and issues they faced in their fields. Learners will then reflect on how a humanities perspective can make a difference in their own field of expertise. New integration with GenAI allows learners to dive deeper into the issues raised in the course and end up getting more from the insightful lecture videos!
What You'll Learn
- engage in the big questions facing humanity today
- apply what they learn to their own life
- compare Asian and Western approaches to the world
Instructors
Dr Renia Lopez
Associate Professor
Dr Margo Turnbull
Assistant Professor
Ivy Wu
PhD Student
Prof Bernadette Watson
Honorary Professor