On 26 March 2024, the Department of Languages and Cultures (DLC) hosted a lecture entitled "Generative AI in Teacher Education: A Sociocultural Approach to Learning, Teaching, and Assessment Practices". The lecture, generously funded by FHSS Teaching and Learning Grant, featured Dr. Freek Olaf de Groot, a Visiting Assistant Professor at the Department of English, City University of Hong Kong, a...
On March 20th, Dr. Nan Zhang, Associate Professor in English Studies at the University of Hong Kong, delivered a speech entitled "Modernism and the Observant Eye" at UIC. As introduced by Dr. Xi XU, Dr. Zhang, with a dual background in International Finance and Literature, is a scholar with a unique perspective. Deeply fascinated by Virginia Woolf's writings, she wholeheartedly immersed herself...
New Chapter in UIC Liberal Arts Education: FHSS Professor Initiates First "Anthology of World Religions" in Chinese Academia Professor Shawn Wang, Head of the CFLC at FHSS, recently introduced the groundbreaking "Anthology of World Religions" to Chinese scholars worldwide. This publication stands as a milestone achievement, backed by the Guangdong Province Philosophy and Social Sc...
China Daily published a feature story on Dr Yegor Grebnev of UIC's Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Ukrainian scholar promotes Chinese history, introducing his academic studies on early Chinese history and his understanding of historical research.Dr Grebnev is fluent in seven languages, including Chinese, English, French, German, Japanese, Russian and Ukrainian to better read material...
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...
