The BA (Hons) in Humanities degree is a three-year full-time programme. Students undertake a core of interdisciplinary, cross-cultural courses and a concentration of single-discipline courses from a participating department. The programme is coordinated by the Programme Management Committee, the Faculty Board of the Faculty of Arts, and the staff of the departments involved.

In considering the Humanities in the contemporary Hong Kong context, the Humanities Programme at Baptist University adds two distinct features to the traditional disciplinary and interdisciplinary approaches to thinking about humanity. First, the programme is thoroughly bilingual. Students will read, write and speak in Chinese as well as English, developing their skills in both languages. By doing so, students will simultaneously respond to Hong Kong's specific linguistic environment, and they will experience one of the hallmarks of the study of the Humanities, the broadening of the human mind made possible with access to knowledge and wisdom through the mastery of two languages. Second, the programme is cross-cultural. Most of the Humanities core classes will emphasize the comparison of Chinese and Western cultures, with frequent reference to other Oriental cultures.

From these comparisons, students will reflect on the similarities and differences in Chinese and Western approaches to knowledge, conceptions of humanity and values. In the process of these reflections, students will learn to make vital determinations for themselves: What is it to be an individual? What is it to be a citizen? What is it to be a citizen of Hong Kong? A citizen of the world? How and why does one participate in the culture of one's time and place? How does one translate humane values in one's daily and professional life? To be able to answer these questions in both passionate and rational ways is one goal of a humanistic education.