Ethics and Public Affairs

Hong Kong Baptist University

Overview

Programme Mission

• To help students appreciate and respect diversity within modern society in order to assess and handle conflicting values in critically informed and creative ways. 
• 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. 
• To equip future secondary school Liberal Studies teachers with subject knowledge of most modules. 
• To stimulate the students’ interest in, and a reflective understanding of, public affairs.

Career and Further Studies

All our students have a bachelor degree in various fields. After finishing the Ethics and Public Affairs program from Hong Kong Baptist University, they can continue to pursue their original fields but now they are better equipped. First, they get a further qualification. Second, they will have a broader and deeper knowledge about the society and many public issues. Third, they will have an enhanced capacity for critical thinking and careful analysis. These three aspects of improvement will be quite helpful for basically all professions. 

Moreover, if the original field is related to social policy or philosophy (e.g. social work, law), a further training in the ethics of public affairs will strengthen the student’s area of expertise and open up new directions in career like working in the government and the NGOs, teaching, further study and so on. Most students came from Mainland China.