Thirty students from the Department of Communication at Beijing Normal University-Hong Kong Baptist University United International College (UIC) won 13 awards in the 2023 Campus News Awards held by China Daily.Campus News Award has been held since 2012. Its jury consists of more than 80 government officials, journalism professors and media professionals. Tsinghua University, Renmin University ...
On September 15th, 18 TESOL students from the course "Materials Evaluation and Production for Language Teaching," were led by Dr. Edith Yan, Associate Professor of English Language and Literature Studies at UIC, Dr. Jackie Yeoh, Assistant Professor of ELLS, and Ms. Joanna Wang, the Assistant Instructor, to Dulwich International High School at Zhuhai (DHZH). At DHZH, they met with their mentor t...
ZHUHAI, Guangdong, June 10, 2023 -- Scholars from home and abroad attended the 3rd Media Anthropology Conference held at UIC on June 9–10 to discuss important topics related to media anthropology. The theme of the interdisciplinary conference this year is “Revisiting Global/Local Communities: Media, (Im)mobilities and (Dis)placement.”In the opening ceremony, Professor Zhou Yongming, the Vice...
Zhang Qifan is a UIC graduate from the Class of 2023. After studying for four years at UIC, he is prepared to embark on the next journey to Yale University.Zhang QifanFor Zhang, one of the attractions of UIC is its English teaching environment, because he believed that a language is not only about words and grammar, but communication and culture behind it.Intrigued by the diversity of world cul...
On May 13th, Associate Professor WONG Wei Chin from the Chinese Culture and Global Communication (CCGC) program, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences (FHSS) at BNU-HKBU United International College (UIC) led 35 students from the elective course “Chinese Diaspora and Transnational Migration” to the Guangdong Overseas Chinese Museum and Guangzhou Overseas Chinese Museum. This museum excurs...
From 10 May 10 to 18 May 2023, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences (FHSS) held FHSS Lecture Series on Media Accessibility and Translation Studies. Dr. Iwona Mazur, Prof. Anna Matamala, and Dr. Sharon Black were invited to give lectures on media accessibility and translation studies to students and faculty with different backgrounds. This Lecture Series was funded by the FHSS Teaching and ...
On May 12, the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences (FHSS) at BNU-HKBU United International College (UIC) invited Prof. Paul A. Van Dyke, a renowned scholar and retired professor from Sun Yat-sen University, to deliver a lecture on “Chinese Seamen and Passengers and their Global Adventures-1780s onwards”. The lecture was hosted by Dr. Wei Chin Wong, Associate Professor of Chinese Culture...
“Hope is a good thing, maybe the best of things, and no good thing ever dies.”On May 10th 2023, a launch party was held to celebrate the successful release of Elsewhere Issue 5. Elsewhere is an annual English literary magazine that showcases excellent writing and photography by students across UIC and beyond. Produced by Year 4 students in the English for Professional Communications (EPC) con...
