MINOR IN HEALTH AND SOCIAL SCIENCES

• All courses read in fulfillment of the minor requirements should be graded. Courses taken on Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory basis may not be counted towards the minor requirements. (Cohort 2013 and before)
• Courses taken on Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory basis may be counted towards the minor requirements. (Cohort 2014 and after)
• Students are allowed to use up to 8 Units to meet the requirements for both the Minor and a Major or another Minor, at the same time; however, the Units for these courses would be counted ONCE. FASS students would still need to fulfill the Units required for the Unrestricted Electives (outside major) requirement.
• Students are not allowed to count the new coded GET/GEH/GES/GER/GEQ courses towards both the Major or Minor requirements. (Cohort 2015 onwards)
• For students on overseas exchange, Unit transfer of up to 8 Units of relevant courses for the Minor may be accepted. Please refer to the Maximum Number of Unit Transfer for SEP Students for more information. (Applicable to all Cohorts)
• Students are limited to taking up to maximum of three courses from a single department (outside the student’s major).
• Please refer to FASS website for specific guidelines governing Minor Programmes offered by Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences.

Adoption of New Academic Terminology

The University will adopt three new academic terms on 1 August 2023:

(a) “Module” will be renamed “Course”.
(b) “Modular Credit (MC)” will be renamed “Unit”.
(c) “Cumulative Average Point (CAP)” will be renamed “Grade Point Average (GPA)”.
For more information, please click here (undergraduate)

Requirements

Cohort 2018 and before:

Students must read and pass a minimum of 6 courses (24 Units) from the list of Health and Social Science Minor courses, which include:

(1) Essentials (8 Units)

• GEK1900 or GEH1049 Public Health in Action
• SC2211 Medical Sociology

(2) Electives (16 Units)

• At least 8 Units must be at level-3000.

Cohort 2019 and after:

Students must read and pass a minimum of 5 courses (20 Units) from the list of Health and Social Science Minor courses, which include:

(1) Essentials (8 Units)

• GEH1049 or GEC1015 Public Health in Action*
• SC2211 Medical Sociology

(2) Electives (12 Units)

• At least 8 Units must be at level-3000 or above.

 

FASS Level-4000 courses

Starting from Semester 1, AY2023-24, there will be modifications to the course codes of Level-4000 courses offered by FASS:

(a) Course codes with “HM” suffixes will be offered at 5 Units; and
(b) Course codes without the “HM” suffixes will be offered at 4 Units.

Students from Cohort 2020 and before - to read FASS Level-4000 courses with the “HM” suffix at 5 Units
Students from Cohort 2021 onwards - to read FASS Level-4000 courses without the “HM” suffix at 4 Units

 

*GEH1049 for cohort 2020 and before; GEC1015 for cohort 2021 and after