GENERAL EDUCATION & EXCHANGE GENERAL EDUCATION
MORNINGSIDE COLLEGE
Morningside continued to provide two College General Education courses in 2013-2014 – GEMC1001 (Current Dilemmas and Their Histories) and GEMC3001 (Service Learning & Civic Engagement). Both courses are supervised by the Dean of General Education, ANN HUSS, in collaboration with Fellows and Junior Fellows. The preliminary lectures on Virtue Ethics, Utilitarianism, and the Categorical Imperative were delivered by Senior College Tutor DAVID PARKER and Junior Fellow BRIAN SKERRATT. The Master of Morningside, SIR JAMES MIRRLEES (Economics), along with College Fellows ROSSA CHIU (Chemical Pathology), COLIN GRAHAM (Accident & Emergency Medicine), SIMON HAINES (English), and XI CHAO (Laws) lectured on dilemmas in their fields. Tutorial instruction was provided by three Junior Fellows, chosen via a rigorous application and interview process. Morningside’s 2013-2014 Junior Fellows were JULIA HOBBS (Johns Hopkins University, BA, 2013), DARAH PHILLIPS (Wellesley College, BA, 2011), and BRIAN SKERRATT (Princeton University, AB, 2004; Harvard University, PhD, 2013).
The College General Education Committee awarded its first General Education Best Essay Prize in 2013. First-year student EDNA TOH (Laws) received the prize for her essay analyzing the dilemma proposed by the Brazilian government’s decision to demolish favelas, or slums, in preparation for the 2014 World Cup and 2016 Olympics. Edna, who hails from Malaysia, was also one of only four CUHK first-year students to receive a HKSAR Government Targeted Scholarship. The scholarship is designated for students from Southeast Asian countries, India and Korea, and fully covers the annual tuition at a Hong Kong university. The Office of University General Education, with sponsorship from the General Education Foundation Development Fund, began awarding annual Best Essay Awards to CUHK students in 2011. Selection criteria include: soundness of argument, level of originality, organisation and structure, use of language, creativity in the form of delivery, and use of reference. Morningside’s WONG KEI WING (Medicine) received a Best Essay Award in 2013 for “My Dilemma” (photo, opposite page, top). The reviewer commented that Wong’s “charm as a storyteller” allowed him to “integrate [the thinking of Aristotle and Marx] without creating a theoretical tension between them”. Congratulations to Wong Kei Wing! In addition to leading GEMC1001 tutorials and supervising student service projects, the Junior Fellows organized a range of cultural activities for Morningsiders this year. Julia and Darah coordinated a weekly Film Club. The “Exploring Hong Kong’s Cultural Resources” Programme continued to provide subsidies to Morningside students to participate in cultural activities around Hong Kong. All three Junior Fellows took small groups of students to a variety of lectures and performances throughout the year, including panel discussions during the Hong Kong Literary Festival and music, dance, and drama performances during the Hong Kong Arts Festival. Morningside’s Writers Series continued into its second year. Julia and Darah collaborated with former Junior Fellow HARRISON KELLY (2012-2013) to bring three authors to campus this year – XU XI (Habit of a Foreign Sky), MA JIAN (The Dark Road) (photo, opposite page, second from top), and ROB
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