HIST2501 Hong Kong History in the Field
(Not for History Major Undergraduate students)

本科將會從「田野」的角度考察香港史。本科將會探討田野區域（如廟宇、博物館、史蹟徑和經過修葺的歷史建築）如何有助於我們理解從古到今香港不同地區、事件、人物的歷史。

講課會首先簡介香港的歷史發展，然後剖析不同層面的香港鄉村以至城市的歷史面貌。最後一部分的講課將會討論香港社群、文化和宗教的多元性。

為了讓學生更能深入認識香港，本課程將會包含數次香港島、九龍半島和新界的半天遊。

This course will introduce the history of Hong Kong by focusing on its “fields”. It will examine how various field sites (such as temples, museums, historical trails, and renovated historical buildings) could be used to understand the history of different places, events, and people in Hong Kong from the ancient period to the present. After a brief introduction to the historical development of Hong Kong, the course will discuss aspects of rural Hong Kong history before moving on urban Hong Kong. The last section of the course will explain the diversity of Hong Kong’s communities, cultures, and religions. To help students understand Hong Kong, the course will organize several half-day trips to Hong Kong Island, Kowloon Peninsula, and the New Territories.

Field reports (40%)
Group Project (40%)
Reflective essay (20%)

A detailed reference list will be available in the first lecture.

Attention is drawn to University policy and regulations on honesty in academic work, and to the disciplinary guidelines and procedures applicable to breaches of such policy and regulations. Details may be found at http://www.cuhk.edu.hk/policy/academichonesty/.

With each assignment, students will be required to submit a signed declaration that they are aware of these policies, regulations, guidelines and procedures.

• In the case of group projects, all members of the group should be asked to sign the declaration, each of whom is responsible and liable to disciplinary actions, irrespective of whether he/she has signed the declaration and whether he/she has contributed, directly or indirectly, to the problematic contents.
• For assignments in the form of a computer-generated document that is principally text-based and submitted via VeriGuide, the statement, in the form of a receipt, will be issued by the system upon students’ uploading of the soft copy of the assignment.

Assignments without the properly signed declaration will not be graded by teachers.

Only the final version of the assignment should be submitted via VeriGuide.

The submission of a piece of work, or a part of a piece of work, for more than one purpose (e.g. to satisfy the requirements in two different courses) without declaration to this effect shall be regarded as having committed undeclared multiple submissions. It is common and acceptable to reuse a turn of phrase or a sentence or two from one’s own work; but wholesale reuse is problematic. In any case, agreement from the course teacher(s) concerned should be obtained prior to the submission of the piece of work.