GECW4010 is a student-orientated course for final-year students (but with initial preparation in the preceding spring term), in which students in small groups will select a topic ideally of interdisciplinary nature; conduct field, survey or literature research; make a presentation and submit a written report.
Relationship to Service Learning
Students of CW Chu College will be encouraged to take part in a range of social and civic service activities, on a voluntary basis. Some of these activities may be organized by the College; others may be organized by various units within CUHK. Such service per se is not credit earning.
However, students may wish to consider combining the service activities with Senior Seminar. While detailed arrangements will be worked out for each individual proposal, it is expected that the following guidelines will apply.
Students who plan to integrate their service activities with Senior Seminar will need to plan ahead of time, and submit to the College a preliminary project proposal for Senior Seminar before the service activities take place (which may typically be in the summer after Y1 or Y2, or during term time in Y2 or Y3).
The project for the Senior Seminar is not the service per se, but the related intellectual reflection or research. For example, a student may undertake service in an old peoples’ home, and conduct a Senior Seminar project on social service policy for the aged.
The project proposal must first be endorsed by the supervisor of the service learning. Moreover, the service agency or the recipient of the service must be made aware of and agree to any data collection that may identify the agency or the individuals. The usual rules for ethics approval will apply. With these endorsements and ethics approval, the proposal will be submitted to the College for approval.
Ideally the team for the Senior Seminar (typically four persons) should be assembled at the same time, and the entire team is engaged in the same or related service activities. But it is recognized that this may not be possible. In the event that the project is approved with less than a full team and the service is carried out, but by Y3T2 there are not enough fellow students willing to join the project mid-way, then the student(s) concerned will have to finish the Senior Seminar with the reduced team.
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