Honours Core Module 1: HA2001 Self-Awareness and Interpersonal Skills
This is a lecture-based Honours Core Module for all HA Students to take in their first HA year.
This module will focus on the self-awareness process and analysis to develop students’ awareness of their own values, beliefs, and leadership potential, as responsible citizens and leaders locally and globally. This module will also foster an HA membership identity and team spirit through a range of individual and group learning. Students will be able to learn about and exercise self-management abilities to regulate their own behavior and emotion to reach goals. At the same time, they will be able to recognise the strengths of their own and others, enhance their self-image, and nurture a group identity.
This module will also provide theories, framework and practice that will help students understand interpersonal communication skills to strengthen relationships, build network, and resolve conflicts when interacting with people with different cultural, national, and racial backgrounds. Students will be equipped with the ability to understand and appreciate diverse values, beliefs, behaviour and cultures, through practising interpersonal skills in small groups, receiving professional and peer feedback, conducting self-assessments on their communication skills and strategies.
Honours Core Module 2: HA2002 Service Leadership and Public Policy Engagement
This is another blended-learning Honours Core Module for all HA Students to take in their first HA year.
This module will first introduce theories, literature and development of service leadership to build leadership competencies in our HA Students, including critical thinking, global vision, open-mindedness, creativity, social responsibility, and empathy. Through critical reading, writing, debates, discussions, and workshops, students are trained to develop characteristics of a socially responsible and effective leaders, and to practise service leadership aiming to fulfil goals serving the greater good.
Built upon students’ leadership competencies, this module will also engage the HA Students in a new way of thinking about how governments, stakeholders, communities and citizens can cooperate to achieve societal goals. Through participating actively and effectively in the policy-making process, students will learn to analyse, measure and exert impact on public policies that influence lives in different societies or even different countries.
This module will adopt a blended-learning mode, consisting of lectures, workshops, forums, and group work where students, in groups, are to initiative a service-leadership or service-learning project where one significant public policy is chosen for each group to develop, present and execute a plan for a change-making service.
