Admissions Information

What is Geography?

• A diverse discipline that involves both natural and social sciences with a focus on the major issues facing societies in a rapidly changing world.
• Provides students with an understanding of the relationships between people and the natural environment, how these relationships have changed with space and over time, and the role of geography in the issues and problems facing people, places and society.

What is Politics & Public Administration?

• Aims to provide students with basic knowledge in political science and public administration and to develop students’ ability in critical analysis of complex political issues in the real world.
• Students may choose to specialise in one of the following four streams: Comparative Politics, International Politics, Political Theory and Ethics and Public Administration.

What is Psychology?

• Allows students to develop basic skills across all areas of psychology, including the biological and cognitive bases of behaviour, developmental changes, social influences, and psychopathology.
• Students may pursue professional training in applied aspects of psychology (e.g. Clinical Psychology, Educational Psychology) and advanced research training in psychology after completion of the programme.

What is Social Policy and Social Development?

• Aims to build students’ competency to become change agents in the society and their communities. Students are exposed to contemporary social development issues and social policy responses to these issues in the local and global contexts.
• Students are equipped to be competent to work in non-profit, for-profit, and social enterprise sectors for social changes and to be innovators in these sectors.

What is Sociology?

• Seeks to nurture students to become knowledgeable, critical and caring members of society.
• The major offers students a solid foundation in Sociology. Its wide ranging course offerings also allow students to examine in a more concentrated manner a number of specialist areas within the discipline, including media and culture, cultural heritage, and criminology.