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Academic Courses
The CUHK Summer Institute offers a wide variety of online courses that cover topics in arts, business administration, education, engineering, law, medicine, science and social science which are specially designed for senior secondary school students as previews of university-level studies.
Students will be able to explore various subject areas through these short courses taught by outstanding CUHK faculty members. Students can take one or two courses, one in the morning and/or another one in the afternoon. Each course consists of 15 contact hours. Depends on the course design, course contents may include lectures, tutorials, discussions, laboratory demonstrations, quizzes and/or a final assessment.
Upon successful completion of the courses and fulfilling the requirements as specified by the courses, students may earn a maximum of two credits as free or major elective(s) which may count towards your undergraduate studies at CUHK in the future (with the exception of some programmes). See here to know more about how the credit system works.
In 2021, there were 16 online courses on offer. Courses were conducted online with live lessons in 2021. Some face-to-face sessions were also arranged as the pandemic subsided in Hong Kong.
SI 2021 Course List (for reference)
Online Course 1 (Morning Session – starting from 9:00am
Course Code / Course Outline |
Faculty | Course Title |
ARTS0002 | Arts | Understanding Hong Kong Society Topic 1: Transnational Exchanges of Popular Culture between Hong Kong and Japan |
BSAM0001 | Business Administration | Applied Game Theory for Business |
EDUC0201 | Education | Education: Societal Roles of Schooling |
BMEG1001 | Engineering | Electrocardiography (ECG) Circuit Theory and Design |
LAWS0002 | Law | Climate Change, Law and Politics |
BCME1105 | Medicine | Introduction to Chinese Medicine |
SBMS0201 | Medicine | Current Topics in Medical Sciences |
STAT0001 | Science | Statistics in Our Society |
ARCH1003 | Social Science | Structure in Architecture |
Online Course 2 (Afternoon Session – starting from 1:00pm)
Course Code / Course Outline |
Faculty | Course Title |
BSAM0002 | Business Administration | Introduction to Accounting |
SPED1002 | Education | Fitness Trends for Exercise and Health |
CSCI1201 | Engineering | Hands-on Introduction to Python and Machine Learning |
LAWS0008 | Law | The Avengers, Superheroes and the Law |
NURS1000 | Medicine | Discovering What Nurses Actually Do: A Snapshot of Nursing Practice |
SBMS0201 | Medicine | Current Topics in Medical Sciences |
LSCI1004 | Science | Frontiers in Biological Sciences |
GLSD0101 | Social Science | Understanding South Korea Through K-POP and K-Drama |
Course availability is subject to the final decision of faculties, programmes and units.
Each course has a limited enrolment quota.