Teaching and logistics
|
CUHK Teaching Postgraduate Code of Practice may be downloaded from here. Teachers Full-time and part-time faculty of the
School will teach the courses. To ensure that the Programmes
are the best in the field, eminent visiting professors and researchers from
around the world will be invited to contribute. See teachers page. |
||||||||||||||||||||||
|
Mode of “block” teaching For the taught courses, lectures will be offered as block teaching. This has many advantages. Firstly, it is possible to invite eminent overseas instructors to offer courses in the form of intense workshops in the context of their own teaching and research schedule. Secondly, it is easier for PT students, to set aside short but quality time for taking the courses. All classes will be conducted in the evening
and during weekends. Students will be given preparation materials 2 weeks
before the course. It is anticipated that students will read the materials
and come to the class prepared. After
the 1 week block teaching week, students are required to complete the reading
list and assignments within 5 weeks. Student will have email and/or direct
contact with the course instructor during this period. The assignments will
be graded and sent to the external examiner for final assessment. A typical 3 credit lecture course lasts 8
weeks.
|
||||||||||||||||||||||
|
Programme Workshops Organised workshops of focused studies are frequently arranged. They normally last for 1 long weekend (Sat and Sun) of 12 contact hours. They are optional to students of MSc-SENV but can enrich their learning. Subject to the prior approval of the Programme Director, students may attend 3 orgniased workshops of the Programme, and submit an essay related to the workshops that have been taken to the Programme Director to substitute ONE of the elective courses (SENV7005, SENV7006 or SENV7007or SENV7008). Student may late-add for the elective during the LAST semester of his/her nominative study period. Academic advising Please
refer to CUHK Academic Advising Handbook here. Graduate Attributes The University’s taught programmes address societal needs by educating students
to acquire the knowledge that helps them become specialty experts or leaders
in their professions, working for example as senior managers in enterprises,
practitioners in private practices or public organizations, teachers in
educational institutions, or other types of career professionals. The Programmes
expect our graduates to be aware of the latest issues and knowledge related
to sustainable and environmental design.
They should have a good understanding of the key areas of
environmental and sustainable design; with that understanding, they should
have acquired skills allowing them to tackle the passive and integrative
design of buildings in an urban setting in particular, and to improve the
environmental design of the built environment in general. Our graduate should have IT skills adequate
for them to carrying out works related to the subject matter. Through independent studies and the
dissertation work, our graduate should acquire life-long, independent and
critical self-learning skills. They
will know how to independently draw on a wider expertise and knowledge base
in their works. Our graduate should
have acquired the needed vocabulary of the subject matter, be proficient in
English, and have communication and language skills appropriate for them to
be engaged in knowledge exchanges related to the subject matter. Graduates
of the Programmes are expected to already possess
attributes of first-degree holders from CUHK or other leading universities,
for example in domains such as honesty and integrity, in particular academic
honesty, critical and independent thinking, cultivation of global
perspective, desire to serve society, communication and language skills, and
others. Facilities Electronic news, publications, seminars, lectures, conferences and
exhibitions related to the study will be online. Students may enrich their
learning experience by participating in
these outside events. Located in the Design Technology
Laboratory of the School, a reference shelf of important books and
technical materials for the Programmes is available
for self-study. The intention of the
reference shelf is to give students the first point of contact to some of the
key learning materials of their courses. The shelf will be arranged based on
courses. The laboratory has advanced
environmental measurement equipment and a number of high performance
workstations. Students have access to powerful computers and I.T. resources of the
School and the University. The School has licenses of some of the most
commonly used and most powerful software.
|
||||||||||||||||||||||
|
Medium The medium of instruction, all notes, assignments and projects will
be in English. Proficiency in English is a pre-requisite. Full Time MSc
Students may be requested to take English lessons if necessary. |
||||||||||||||||||||||
|
Group learning Students will be grouped into small
working units of 4 to 5. A unit should have a mixture of interest and
background so as to facilitate mutual learning among members. |
||||||||||||||||||||||
|
Social activities Informal
gatherings, dinner lectures, and forum sessions may be arranged from time to
time, allowing students to socialise with each
other and to invite their spouses, office colleagues, and friends. |
||||||||||||||||||||||
|
Research The
School has rich ongoing research projects on environmental and sustainable
studies. Students of the programme will benefit
from this on-going work and may be allowed to participate as part of their
studies. Selected
on-going funded research projects in the School related to the programme are: ⊙ Daylighting Design and Simulation
Studies in High Density Cities ⊙ Air Ventilation Assessment for City and
Planning Design ⊙ International Daylight Monitoring
Station (IDMP) and defining sky types ⊙ Thermal and Comfort study of Bioclimatic
buildings ⊙ Urban space, comfort and community ⊙ Parametric studies of urban wind and the
key design attributes ⊙ Greening and urban vegetation for urban
thermal comfort ⊙ Remote sensing and urban heat island ⊙ Traverse measurements and urban heat
island ⊙ Radiation fluxes of urban surfaces and
the urban thermal environment ⊙ Renewable energy ⊙ Computational Fluid Dynamics and Meso-scale meteorological modelling ⊙ Solar Access and urban planning ⊙ Sustainable earth dwellings and school
buildings in north west China ⊙ The Dog houses -- experimental studies
on Thermal and Ventilation Design ⊙ Urban ventilation design ⊙ Wind pattern of sky gardens ⊙ Building Environmental Assessment Method
(Passive Design) ⊙ Urban
daylight ⊙ Green
Building Challenge and Assessment methods ⊙ Light pollution ⊙ CEPAS
(comprehensive environmental performance assessment scheme) for HK ⊙ Geographic Information System and Urban
Climatic Mapping ⊙ Urban Solar Design |
||||||||||||||||||||||
|
Grading All taught courses, design project and dissertation would be graded
normally based on the grading scheme of the
|
||||||||||||||||||||||
|
University Requirements A student is required to discontinue studies
if his/her performance is unsatisfactory.
The definition of unsatisfactory performance is as follows: (a) the cumulative grade point average
is 1.0 or below, or (b) the student fails to have probation
lifted after being put on academic probation for two consecutive terms of
attendance, or (c) additional
requirements laid down by the Graduate Division concerned are not satisfied. On the other hand, a student shall be
put on academic probation if s/he has obtained a cumulative GPA below 2.0 in
the preceding term unless s/he is required to discontinue studies at the
University. A student on academic probation shall be reviewed by the Graduate
Division at the end of the term in which s/he is put on probation, at which
time if s/he has obtained a cumulative GPA of 2.0 or above, probation shall
be lifted, otherwise probation shall continue to apply in his/her next term
of attendance unless s/he is required to discontinue studies owing to unsatisfactory
performance. Please also refer to Graduate School
website for the latest news and requirements |
||||||||||||||||||||||
|
Visits Local
and overseas visits may be arranged. Overseas trips, if organised,
will be self-funded by the students. In 2004, a trip was arranged together
with HKIA to |
||||||||||||||||||||||
Maximum Period of Study
1 year Full Time MSc Programme = 3 years 2 year Part Time MSc Programme = 4 years Student
may apply to lengthen (spread out taking of courses) his/her study over a
longer period of time within the maximum period of study of the programme. Extra fee is payable for students wishing to
take up the lengthening of study. (See below) |
||||||||||||||||||||||
|
Other fees Students
of the Programme who wish to remain registered past the normative period must
pay a continuation fee (HK$6,000
per semester in 2015-16). The normative period is 1 year for MSc (full-time),
and 2 years for MSc (part-time). Students
of the Programme who take additional courses must pay an additional course fee#.
Additional courses are those taken after the normative period or those
retaken because of failure (whether during the normative period or after it).
The additional course fee is pro-rated. In 2015-16, the fee is HK$4,815
per unit#. The additional course fee does not apply to SENV7100 Dissertation. #
All fees quoted are subject to changes. |
||||||||||||||||||||||
|
Other fees 2 CUHK
has directed that it is beneficial to make the SENV courses available to other
CUHK students. SENV7200, SENV7300, SENV7400, SENV7005 and SENV7006 are opened
to them subjected to the approval of the Programme Director - only very
limited places are available. Students
of the home department (School of Architecture included) will be charged HK$1,800/credit-student
(CUHK 2015-16 rate) #. Other
students taking SENV coded courses of the programmes
(and gaining credits): Non-CUHK students (but students of other tertiary
institutions in Hong Kong (HKU, HKUST, HKPolyU, HKCityU, HKOU, HKBU and HKIE) will be charged HK$4,815/credit-student
(CUHK 2015-16 rate) #. #
All fees quoted are subject to changes. Refund of tuition fee paid CUHK
has stated: The student fees, once
paid, will not be refunded except in the sole circumstance that the student
can provide before the Deadline documentary proof from the institution that
he/she is unable to fulfill the relevant Condition. However,
with good justification (e.g. proven unforeseen financial hardship and/or
personal health reasons), the Programme Director may exceptionally and on a
case by case basis recommend to CUHK the refund of the tuition fee paid
subjected to the deduction of 1 semester continuation fee of the Programme (ie. HK$6,000 in 2015-16). |
||||||||||||||||||||||
|
“Sit in students Sit
in student may be allowed exceptionally subject to the approval in advance of
the Programme Director and course instructor, and the availability of
facilities. |
||||||||||||||||||||||
|
MSc degree with distinction Students
may be award a Certificate of
Distinction by the department based on their outstanding results.
Distinction may be awarded to students with outstanding results with a
Cumulated GPA in the order of 3.5 or above. The award of distinction could be
nominated by the Programme Director, endorsed by the External Examiner and
approved by the School Director. Students may also be awarded a Dean s List by the Faculty of Social Sciences,
CUHK. |
||||||||||||||||||||||
|
Certificate of Merit Students
entering the programmes with previously earned
Certificate of Merit(s) as Continue Professional Development (non degree) participants, by attending and passing the
course(s), may be offered exemption. The Program Director will evaluate the
application of exemption on a case by case basis. There
will be no reduction of fee payable.
That is, students will still enrol and pay
the tuition fee normally for the programme. The
only difference is that the student need not have to attend the exempted
course(s). |
||||||||||||||||||||||
|
*** Plagiarism *** Attention is drawn to University policy and regulations on honesty
in academic work, and to the disciplinary guidelines and procedures
applicable to breaches of such policy and regulations. Details may be found
at http://www.cuhk.edu.hk/policy/academichonesty/
. With each assignment, students will be required to submit a statement
that they are aware of these policies, regulations, guidelines and
procedures. 請注意大學有關學術著作誠信的政策和規則，及適用於犯規事例的紀律指引和程序。詳情可瀏覽網址： http://www.cuhk.edu.hk/policy/academichonesty/。學生的每份作業均須連同有關聲明一併提交，表示他們知道那些政策、規則、指引及程序。 |
||||||||||||||||||||||
