The Faculty of Arts consists of five departments: Chinese Language and Literature, English Language and Literature, Music, Religion and Philosophy, Language Centre; and four research centres: Centre for Applied Ethics, Centre for Chinese Cultural Heritage, Centre for Sino-Christian Studies, and Centre for Translation. The Faculty of Arts offers six undergraduate programmes in Chinese Language and Literature, English Language and Literature, Humanities, Music, Religious Studies and Translation. The Faculty also collaborates with the Faculty of Social Sciences in jointly offering the double degree of BA (Hons) in English Language & Literature and BEd (Hons) in English Language Teaching.

As for taught postgraduate programmes, the Faculty offers MA in Chinese Literature, Language and Culture, MA in Language Studies, MA in Music, MA in Liberal Studies and Ethics, and MA in Translation and Bilingual Communication. The research postgraduate programmes are a natural outgrowth of the undergraduate programmes and staff research emphases within the University. MPhil or PhD may be pursued either in full-time or part-time mode. A student is required to fulfil the coursework requirements and to complete an approved programme of supervised original research culminating in the submission of a written dissertation. Students are admitted to various disciplines in areas such as Modern/Classical Chinese Literature, Chinese Language and Etymology, English Language and Linguistics, English Literary Studies, Translation Studies, Humanities, Music Education, Music Composition, Philosophy, Christian Studies, and others.

The Faculty of Arts offers programmes which seek to direct students into academic, intellectual, spiritual, moral and cultural adventure. Courses in the Faculty attempt to fill the needs of the community for graduates who possess strong language abilities in both Chinese and English, a range of transferable skills and creativity. Apart from academic programmes, the Faculty of Arts organizes activities to develop a rich cultural environment for students. Creativity-inspiring activities such as "The Lion Rock Poetry Reading" which promotes the appreciation of classical and modern Chinese poetry is held twice a year, and "The Intervarsity Creative Writing Competition" is held biennially to enhance university students' creative writing. In addition, the International Writers Workshop was established in 2004 to cultivate literary creativity by organizing writing workshops, public lectures, symposia and creative writing recitals for the internationally acclaimed Writer-in-Residence and a number of overseas Visiting Writers every year.

Upon the solid foundation on both teaching and research, and with the advantage of having a number of faculty members who are established writers, composers and music performers, the Faculty of Arts is developing a new focus to nurture students' creativity in language and music.

Our graduates are valued for their ability to learn quickly, their analytical and critical thinking skills, their bilingual and bicultural training, and their creativity and flexibility. Graduates from various major disciplines of the Faculty of Arts go into a wider variety of fields for career development.