Full-Time 4-Year Undergraduate Degrees - Minor Programmes
Full-Time 4-Year Undergraduate Degrees - Minor Programmes
Full-Time 4-Year Undergraduate Degrees - Minor Programmes
1. Title of Minor Programme & Programme Code Minor in European Studies (71425-YES)
2. Offering Department(s) in Full & in Abbreviation Department of English and Communication (ENGL)
3. Requirement for Claiming the Minor Award For students admitted from 2013-14 onwards
^ Students can apply for counting the WIE, if carried out in an European country or context, as an elective for
fulfilling the credit requirements. Completed application form AR147(a) should be submitted to the Minor-offering
department (Minor Department) for approval and no later than your applying for graduation. In addition:
‐ Only credit bearing WIE (with a subject code) will be accepted.
‐ The WIE duration, should be a minimum of 60 working hours.
‐ Only students who have already passed the WIE and meet all the specified criteria can apply the
counting of WIE as elective.
‐ Maximum one WIE can be counted towards the minor.
‐ A maximum of 3 WIE credits will be counted towards the Minor.
‐ The Minor will follow the WIE level indicated by the Major department.
‐ The grade of WIE (regardless whether it is a Merit/Pass/Fail or a letter grade) would not be counted
towards the calculation of the Minor GPA, despite the double-counting of the credits.
#GEC1C40 Invitation to Western Philosophical Thinking, has been changed in title and subject code, with the
approval of the CoGUR, as GEC1C46 Aspects of Western Philosophy.
#ENGL3021 Understanding European Trade and Cultural Expansionism, has been changed in title and subject
code, with the approval of the WG, as ENGL3030 Introduction to the History of Europe: a Trade Perspective.
Remarks: ENGL1C09 Understanding Comics: Culture and Art is deleted from the minor list with effect from the
academic year 2019-20. ENGL2A08 To love, or not to love – Understanding human relationships through literary
texts is deleted from the minor list with effect from the academic year 2020-21. Students who have already taken and
passed these subjects can still fulfill the minor requirement.
For detailed syllabus and subject pre-requisite/co-requisite/exclusion requirement, please visit the following
website:
For details of the programme, please visit the Department website at https://www.polyu.edu.hk/engl/.