Faculty of Arts

Master of Arts in Ethics and Public Affairs

Programme Director: Prof Kwan Kai Man

This programme provides two streams: full-time (1 year) and part-time (2 years). For full-time stream, classes will be scheduled on weekday evenings & Saturday afternoons during semester 1 and 2 and on weekdays (whole day) during the summer term. For part-time stream, classes will be scheduled on weekday evenings and Saturday afternoons during three semesters in two years.

The aims of this programme are:

a)	To enable students to develop multiple interpretive perspectives (religious and philosophical) on perennial and contemporary issues in different contexts of public affairs.
b)	To help students appreciate and respect diversity within modern society in order to assess and handle conflicting values in critically informed and creative ways.
c)	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.
d)	To equip future secondary school Liberal Studies teachers with subject knowledge of most modules.
e)	To stimulate the students’ interest in, and a reflective understanding of, public affairs.
f)	To enhance awareness and knowledge of the value dimensions of discourses on economic, political, legal, social, cultural, and environmental affairs.
g)	To provide a transition to the eventual pursuit of further studies in various disciplines.