CO129-538-2 Hong Kong University 23-6-1932 - 15-3-1933 — Page 214

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A note setting out the action taken by the University with reference to the reorganization of its arrangements for the

Teaching of Chinese.

In April 1931 the Court of the University appointed

a special committee to review the existing arrangements and to advise with regard to the future provision which should be made for the teaching of Chinese at the University.

After a close and exhaustive survey of the position

the special committee unanimously decided to recommend that the University should confine its teaching of Chinese to those students who have passed the Matriculation examination and that the basis of such teaching should be suitable and adequate courses of Chinese to be prescribed by the Board of the Faculty of Arts and the Senate to form part of that Faculty's groups of studies, leading to the degree of Bachelor of Arts.

The adoption of this policy involves the abolition of the existing School of Chinese Studies which as at present constituted provides a course of teaching which is not recognised as a course leading up to a University degree. The School moreover depends for its maintenance upon a special supplementary grant of $25,000 a year from Government. The grant will be discontinued with effect from January, 1933.

The report of the special committee has been considered in detail by the Faculty of Arts and the Senate who have decided to recommend the adoption of the proposal that in addition to the arrangements for teaching Chinese in the existing groups in the Faculty of Arts, two more specialised groups of Chinese Studies should be organised in the Faculty as detailed below:-

First Year:

Group 6 Chinese and English.

Second Year:

Third Year:

Fourth Year:

First Year:

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English, Chinese Language and Literature, Translation and Comparison, History or Logic.

English, Chinese Language and Literature, Translation and Comparison, Chinese Philosophy.

English, Chinese Language and Literature, Translation and Comparison, Chinese History, Ethics.

English, Chinese Language and Literature, Translation and Comparison.

Group 7 Group of Chinese Studies

Second Year:

English, Chinese Philosophy, Chinese History, Chinese Language and Literature, Translation and Comparison.

English, Chinese Philosophy, Chinese History Chinese Language and Literature, Translation and Comparison.