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Minors

The Department of Cultural Studies offers three Minor Programmes:

  • Minor in Cultural Studies
  • Minor in Gender and Sexuality Studies
  • Minor in Performance Studies

Minor in Cultural Studies

Students whose Major is in any programmes* other than BA (Hons) Cultural Studies may qualify for a Minor in Cultural Studies after the successful completion of 15 credits (5 courses) in courses from the Cultural Studies Programme, as detailed below:

Required Course (choose either one)

  • CUS3317 Narrating Hong Kong
  • CUS3314 Hong Kong Popular Culture

Elective Courses

These must be made up of 12 credits of any CUS courses, except CUS4001 Capstone Project.

* A course in the 48-credit major disciplines of the BA (Hons) Film and Media Studies that is used towards fulfilment of the programme requirements cannot be double counted towards fulfilment of the requirements of this Minor.

Minor in Gender and Sexuality Studies

The Minor in Gender and Sexuality Studies, administered by the Department of Cultural Studies, is an interdisciplinary Minor involving courses from five programmes in the University: Cultural Studies, History, BSocSc (Sociology, Government and International Affairs), Digital Arts and Creative Industries and Translation.

What is love? What is intimacy? What are gender identities?

The Minor in Gender and Sexuality Studies addresses new forms of gender identities and new patterns of intimacies that have emerged in today’s globalised world. Adopting an interdisciplinary approach, this minor aims to provide an overview on major theoretical transformations within gender and sexuality studies, and to examine cultural politics within historical writing, media representations and literary texts. You will learn to address and analyse critical issues of gender and sexualities and to account for some of the broader impacts of gender and sexual subjectivities in our everyday life.

All undergraduate students who wish to pursue a Minor in Gender and Sexuality Studies are required to complete five courses (15 credits) as detailed below:

  • Minor Programme Structure (from 2021 – 22)*

    Required Course (3 credits)

    CUS3215 Gender and Cultural Politics

    Elective Courses (12 credits)

    Choose 4 courses, at least 1 course from each of the 2 groups listed below.

    CUS3004Media, Gender, and Sexuality (from 2019-20)
    CUS3014Sexuality and Cultural Politics (titled as Sexuality Studies in 2018-19 or before)
    CUS3132Gender and Sexuality in Comparative Perspective (titled as Cultural Transformation in Modern China in 2018-19 or before)
    CUS3309Film, Gender & Sexuality (titled as Film and Cinema Studies in 2018-19 or before)
    CUS3350Power and Body in Performing Arts (titled as Power and Body in the Performing Arts in 2018-19 or before)
    Gender and Sexuality in Cultural Politics
    CLE9026#The Everyday Culture of the Web
    CLE9028#Sexual Cultures in Asia
    ENG3003Language, Gender and Sexuality
    HST3256Critical Intersections in U.S. History since 1865: Race, Class, Gender, and Sexuality (titled as History of the United States since 1865 in 2018-19 or before)
    GOV3103Gender & Politics (course code is POL3013 in 2021-22 or before)
    SOC4002Gender and Society
    TRA4307Gender, Language and Translation
    VIS4311Women, Art and Society in China
    Gender and Sexuality
  • Old Minor Programme Structure (2020 – 21 or before)*

    Required Course (3 credits)

    CUS3215 Gender and Cultural Politics

    Elective Courses (12 credits)

    (Choose 4 courses, at least 1 course from each of the 2 groups listed below.)

    CLE9026#The Everyday Culture of the Web
    CLE9028#Sexual Cultures in Asia
    CUS3004Media, Gender, and Sexuality (from 2019-20)
    CUS3014Sexuality and Cultural Politics (titled as Sexuality Studies in 2018-19 or before)
    CUS3132Gender and Sexuality in Comparative Perspective (titled as Cultural Transformation in Modern China in 2018-19 or before)
    CUS3309Film, Gender & Sexuality (titled as Film and Cinema Studies in 2018-19 or before)
    CUS3350Power and Body in Performing Arts (titled as Power and Body in the Performing Arts in 2018-19 or before)
    Gender and Sexuality in Cultural Politics
    ENG3003Language, Gender and Sexuality
    HST3008Gender and Sexuality in History
    HST3010Gender and Religion in History
    HST3256Critical Intersections in U.S. History since 1865: Race, Class, Gender, and Sexuality (titled as History of the United States since 1865 in 2018-19 or before)
    HST4006Gender and the British Empire
    SOC4002Gender and Society
    TRA3221Topics in Bilingual Studies: Love in Chinese and Western Literatures
    TRA4307Gender, Language and Translation
    Gender and Sexuality

* Students of 2020-21 intake and before are allowed to follow either the old programme structure of minor or the new programme structure.

# According to the Academic Regulations for Undergraduate Programmes, at most two cluster courses can be double counted to fulfil both the requirement of the Core Curriculum and the requirement of any Minor programme.

Minor in Performance Studies

The interdisciplinary Minor in Performance Studies, administered by the Department of Cultural Studies, involves courses from six programmes in the University: Chinese, Cultural Studies, English, History, Digital Arts and Creative Industries, and the Wong Bing Lai Music and Performing Arts Unit.

Performance Studies examines “performance” in its various forms, from artistic performances (e.g. the performing arts, performance art, digital performance); social, political, and religious events (e.g. sports, ceremonies, rituals); speech acts and the enactment of literary texts; to the performance of identity. 

New enrolment to the Minor programme will be suspended with effect from the 2024-25 academic year. 

  • Declaration in or after Term 2, 2020-21

    All undergraduate students (including CS Majors) who wish to pursue a Minor in Performance Studies are required to complete five courses (15 credits) as detailed below*:

    Required Course (3 credits)

    CUS3359 Introduction to Performance Cultures (previously Introduction to Performance Studies until AY 2018-19)

    Elective Courses (12 credits)

    Elective courses are categorized into three distinct modules. Students must take at least 3 credits (one course) from each module. Students are encouraged to take the last remaining 3 credits (one course) from a module chosen by the student.

    CLA9008Performance Arts in Modern Times
    CUS3002Curating Performance and Cultural Practice
    CUS3008Special Topics in Creativity and Performance Cultures
    CUS3350Power and Body in Performing Arts (formerly Power and Body in the Performing Arts until 2018-19)
    HST3352History of Religions in China
    CUS3006#Social Drama and Everyday Life
    CUS3329f^Special Topics in Socio-Political Studies: Performance Studies in the HK Context (no longer offered from 2019-20)
    CUS3333^Culture, Pleasure and Feeling (no longer offered from 2019-20)
    Module 1: Theory and Applications
    ENG3399aSpecial Topics in English: the Musical
    HST2001Modern Revolutions and Musical Performance (formerly Changing the World through Music: Modern Revolutions and Musical Performance until 2018-19)
    MPA3001Musical Expression in Film and Theatre
    MPA2002#Musicality and Well-Being
    CLB9022#Music in World Cultures
    CLD9016#Music and the Science of Sound
    CUS2222^Kunqu Opera 崑曲與崑劇 (no longer offered from 2019-20)
    ENG1373^English in Popular Song (no longer offered from 2019-20)
    MPA2001^Creative Instrumental Ensemble (no longer offered from 2019-20)
    Module 2: Music and Sonic Expressions
    CUS3325Workshop on Creativity & Cultural Production
    CUS3360Performance Practices Workshop
    MPA3001Musical Expression in Film and Theatre
    CHI3203Literature and Modern Drama 文學與戲劇
    CHI3221Ming-Qing Drama 明清戲曲
    CHI3239Classical Chinese Drama 古典戲曲
    CHI4323Selected Readings in Yuan Qu 元曲選
    ENG3205Contemporary Literature in English II: Drama and Poetry
    ENG3277English Drama Performance
    VIS3001Video Art
    Module 3: Embodied Time-based Performance

    * Courses in the 48-credit major in the BA (Hons) Film and Media Studies cannot be double counted towards fulfilment of the requirements of this Minor.

    ^ The courses will be counted as electives if students have already completed the courses in 2018-2019 or before.

    # New additionsx

  • Declaration in or before Term 1, 2020-21

    All undergraduate students (including CS Majors) who wish to pursue a Minor in Performance Studies are required to complete five courses (15 credits) as detailed below*:

    Required Course (3 credits)

    CUS3359 Introduction to Performance Cultures (titled as Introduction to Performance Studies in 2018-19 or before)

    Elective Courses (12 credits)

    Choose 4 courses, at least 1 course from each of the 2 groups listed below.

    CLA9008Performance Arts in Modern Times (from 2019-20)
    CUS3002Curating Performance and Cultural Practice (from 2019-20)
    CUS3008Special Topics in Creativity and Performance Cultures (from 2019-20)
    CUS3325Workshop on Creativity & Cultural Production
    CUS3329f^Special Topics in Socio-Political Studies: Performance Studies in the HK Context (not offered from 2019-20)
    CUS3333^Culture, Pleasure and Feeling (not offered from 2019-20)
    CUS3350Power and Body in Performing Arts (from 2019-20) (titled as Power and Body in the Performing Arts in 2018-19 or before)
    CUS3360Performance Practices Workshop
    HST3352History of Religions in China
    Performance Art/Cultural-Social Performance
    CHI3203 Literature and Modern Drama 文學與戲劇
    CHI3221Ming-Qing Drama 明清戲曲
    CHI3239 Classical Chinese Drama 古典戲曲
    CHI4323Selected Readings in Yuan Qu元曲選
    CUS2222^Kunqu Opera 崑曲與崑劇 (not offered from 2019-20)
    CUS3350^Power and Body in Performing Arts (titled as Power and Body in the Performing Arts in 2018-19 or before) (deleted from 2019-20)
    ENG1373^English in Popular Song (deleted from 2019-20)
    ENG3205 Contemporary Literature in English II: Drama and Poetry
    ENG3277English Drama Performance
    ENG3399aSpecial Topics in English: the Musical
    HST2001Modern Revolutions and Musical Performance (titled as Changing the World through Music: Modern Revolutions and Musical Performance in 2018-19 or before)
    MPA2001Creative Instrumental Ensemble (not offered from 2019-20)
    MPA3001Musical Expression in Film and Theatre (from 2018-19)
    VIS3001Video Art (from 2019-20)
    Performing Arts

    * A course in the 48-credit major disciplines of the BA (Hons) Film and Media Studies that is used towards  fulfilment of the programme requirements cannot be double counted towards fulfilment of the requirements of this Minor.

    ^ The courses will be counted as electives if students have already completed the courses in 2018-2019 or before.

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