FAQ

For 4-Year Curriculum, an invitation email will be sent to you at the second term of your 3^rd year of studies (January). You will also form your group, set up your topic and know your supervisor in February. Please pay attention to our email and announcement on College’s social media (e.g. Instagram).

GEUC4011 will only be held at the first term. You are going to reserve 3 units for the course at T1 of your expected graduating year, and you will be pre-assigned on CUSIS.

If your major has internship/ placement requirement at your final year (e.g. Faculty of Medicine/ Faculty of Education), please check your study plan and plan to take GEUC4011 on time.

If you encounter difficulties in taking GEUC4011 in Term 1 of Year forth of study, please contact College General Education Team.

If you have indicated your interest in GEUC4012, you don’t need to join the GEUC4011’s groups. Please contact us to reconfirm your seat of GEUC4012 if you have doubts.

There is an Online Group Registration Platform for GEUC4011, students can form their group in maximum 4 people, and input the information of your groupmates on the platform. Each group of students should at least come from 2 different faculties and 4 different majors.

If you haven’t formed your own group by the deadline, please also register on the grouping platform.  The College will assign a group for you randomly.

If you are not using the CUHK network, you have to connect the CUHK VPN before logging in the platform.

For more details about the VPN settings, please read the ITSC guidelines (http://www.itsc.cuhk.edu.hk/en-gb/all-it/wifi-and-network/cuhk-vpn).

Before your final year, you must finish GEUC2103/*GEUC2213, which is a pre-requisite of GEUC4012.

In the class of GEUC2103/*GEUC2213, you will be asked to declare your interest in GEUC4012 and your preference of term in doing the 80- hour of internship. As seats are limited, final year students will have priority.

Students will be informed once they are enrolled, they will be pre-assigned on CUSIS and they don’t need to register the course.

*Applicable to admission cohort 2024-25 or thereafter

Only the following two UC Goal Programmes are accredited to be used for GEUC4011 exemption:

• Summer Programme at the University of Sydney, Australia
• Summer Programme at Utrecht University, the Netherlands

If you receive offer from these programmes, please send an email to College General Education Team and inform your FYP groupmates about leaving the FYP group.

Please note that the UC Goal Programme can only exempt GEUC4011. If you have indicated your interest in GEUC4012, please send us a request to change your preference. If the internship matching of social enterprises starts, you are not allowed to change your preference from GEUC4012 to others.

If you hold an associate degree or higher diploma, you are required to take 3 units of GEUC courses in total, and attend minimum of 3 College Assembly (GEUC1000) per term.

You will be pre-assigned for GEUC1111 (1-unit) at your first term, and you need to take a 2-unit Service-learning course (GEUC2211/ GEUC2212/ GEUC2214/GEUC2215) graduation

You are not required to take GEUC4011 or GEUC4012.

Please firstly check your graduation requirement on CUSIS or with your own department, different programmes have different curriculum on college general education.

Please contact us directly if you have any difficulty.