23 Jul

Ann Hui, winner of Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement at the 77th Venice International Film Festival

2020-07-24T13:55:08+08:00Jul 23rd, 2020|School of Humanities|

Congratulations to filmmaker Ann Hui for winning the Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement at the 77th Venice International Film Festival!

Ms. Ann Hui is an internationally renowned film director who has played a paramount role in the history of Hong Kong cinema and has won numerous awards.  She is an alumna of the Faculty of Arts and a graduate in English and Comparative Literature, and she has also been appointed as the University Artist for the Faculty of Arts’ University Artists Scheme (UAS) from 2008-2010.

 

14 Jul

SoH Online Teaching and Learning Support Scheme

2020-07-14T15:12:20+08:00Jul 14th, 2020|School of Humanities|

Our students’ expectations of online teaching are increasing. Courses offered in semester 1 next year must make materials available online for the first 3 weeks. And it’s possible that a local resurgence of coronavirus cases might result in classrooms again being closed.

So, as announced at our School meeting of 17 June, SoH is launching a new scheme to support online teaching and learning. The aim of this scheme is to make the process of innovation less laborious and to facilitate the organization and delivery of effective online learning.

To flexibly support enhanced delivery of online teaching and learning the School will set aside up to approx. 62k of funding for each programme unit. Programme leaders are invited to discuss with colleagues and put forward proposals for the use of funding to enhance online teaching and learning.

One suggested use of the scheme is to hire a TA who would then serve as a dedicated point of contact for each unit, coordinating the upload of teaching materials, assisting in the delivery of interactive online teaching and learning, and handling the extra work that this creates.

Programme teams are invited to complete and submit the application form to the School office via Kitty (kittymak@hku.hk) for processing. There is no deadline. Funds will remain available throughout 2020/21. Early applications are welcome and the School is glad to try to help units to locate TAs.

Download Application Form
26 May

Teaching arrangements for Summer Semester and Academic Year 2020-21

2020-06-16T09:03:11+08:00May 26th, 2020|School of Humanities|

Message from Vice President (Teaching and Learning)

Dear colleagues and students

I’m writing to inform you about our teaching arrangements for the Summer Semester and Academic Year 2020-21. Our core aim is to make a gradual and partial return to face-to-face (f2f) teaching. To do that, we will have to observe detailed health and safety protocols covering the entire campus, which will be announced well in advance. This email only addresses scheduling issues.

Parameters
The broad parameters we will observe for teaching are listed below. Where circumstances allow, there may be variation within individual programmes.

  • Small-group classes (up to 25 students) will be scheduled as normal.
  • Lectures will be scheduled in classrooms that can accommodate at least twice as many students as are in the class. Thus, a lecture with 60 students will be scheduled in a classroom that can accommodate at least 120 students.
  • For TPG courses, our available teaching rooms will enable us to deliver f2f lectures for most classes of up to 90 students.
  • For UG programme courses, our available teaching rooms will enable us to deliver f2f lectures for almost all classes of up to 90 students.
  • For UG Common Core courses, our available teaching rooms will enable us to deliver f2f lectures for roughly half of our courses with 120 students.
  • The Grand Hall will enable us to schedule a small number of large lectures (up to 300 students) for TPG and UG students.
  • However, most courses with more than 90 students will deliver their lectures online.

Summer Semester
Building on these parameters, we will make a gradual return to f2f teaching for the Summer Semester. We will also offer a small number of online UG courses for students who would like to pick up some credits but will not be in HK.

Academic Year 2020-21
In 2020-21, we will continue with partial f2f teaching:

TPG programmes
Small-group classes of up to 25 students: f2f
Most lecture classes of up to 90 students: f2f
Other lecture classes: online (apart from a small number in the Grand Hall)

UG programmes
Small-group classes of up to 25 students: f2f
Almost all lecture classes of up to 90 students: f2f
Other lecture classes: online (apart from a small number in the Grand Hall)

UG: Common Core
Small-group classes of up to 25 students: f2f
Lecture classes of up to 120 students: roughly half f2f, roughly half online
Mega classes of up to 288 students: just a few f2f in the Grand Hall

All TPG and UG courses
For the first three weeks of S1, we will cater for the needs of TPG and UG students who are unable to come to campus because of visa, quarantine and other issues. Mostly this will be done by making course materials available both f2f and online for that period.

Technical support
As there will continue to be a significant element of online teaching in the months ahead, we are actively enhancing our technical support for both teachers and students.

With so many aspects of the future uncertain, we can’t be sure everything will unfold exactly as planned. As of now, though, this is how things look. Should there be any changes, we will inform you as quickly as possible. In the meantime, please do drop me a line with any queries (ian.holliday@hku.hk).

Best wishes for the summer – Ian

Professor Ian Holliday
VP/T&L

21 Feb

Online teaching: SoH plug and play mic scheme

2020-07-14T15:16:35+08:00Feb 21st, 2020|School of Humanities|

Dear SoH Teachers,

Early feedback from students suggests that one of the areas of online teaching that could be improved is the audio quality of online meetings and video/audio uploads.

To support the enhancement of online teaching and learning the School will make available good quality USB microphones to teachers. We will aim to provide one ‘Samson Go’ plug-and-play mic to every SoH teacher who requests one.

http://www.samsontech.com/samson/products/microphones/usb-microphones/gomic/

We hope to be able to provide you with a mic and have it set up and ready to use by the time online teaching recommences in the week beginning 2 March.

If you would like the School to provide a mic for you to use in online teaching please contact Jeff to place your order (jeffk@hku.hk).

School of Humanities

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