Ethics and Public Affairs

The aims of this program are:

1. To enable students to develop multiple interpretive perspectives (religious and philosophical) on perennial and contemporary issues in different contexts of public affairs.
2. To help students appreciate and respect diversity within modern society in order to assess and handle conflicting values in critically informed and creative ways.
3. To help students further develop and reflect on their own values, so that they will be able to justify their own decisions, judgments and convictions, and so become informed and responsible citizens in their community, nation and the world.
4. To equip future secondary school Liberal Studies teachers with subject knowledge of most modules.
5. To stimulate the students’ interest in, and a reflective understanding of, public affairs.
6. To enhance awareness and knowledge of the value dimensions of discourses on economic, political, legal, social, cultural, and environmental affairs.
7. To provide a transition to the eventual pursuit of further studies in various disciplines.

Academic Qualification

Applicants should possess:

1. a bachelor’s degree from a recognised university or comparable institution; or
2. a qualification deemed to be equivalent.

Language Proficiency Requirement

Proof of English proficiency is required for all applicants whose bachelor’s degrees were obtained from non-English medium institutions. These applicants must meet the following minimum requirements for English proficiency:

1. a score of 537 (paper-based) or 74 (internet-based test) in TOEFL; or
2. an overall band score of 6.0 in IELTS; or
3. a score of 450 in the new College English Test (CET-6) of China; or
4. a score of 60 (pass grade) in the Test for English Majors Level 8 (TEM-8) of China; or
5. pass in both oral and written examinations in the Public English Test System Level 5 (PETS-5) of China.

The Government offers financial assistance in the form of non-means-tested loan to all students.  The beneficiaries are expected to repay their loans within a specified period after graduation. 
Scholarships are bestowed upon selected recipients including new students on the basis of academic merits and other criteria stipulated by the donors.