Head: Professor Kwan, Alex Yui-huen
MA N. Dakota , MSW Br. Col. , PhD Louisiana State
Cert(Environmental Ed.) Wash. , Cert(Gerontology) Flor. State
Cert(SWK Faculty Dev.) UCLA, RSW (HK)
The strength of the Department lies in the diversity of its staff, who are criminologists, sociologists, psychologists, counsellor, social work educators and practitioners. The Department offers a broad range of social science programmes in professional and applied fields at both the undergraduate and postgraduate levels.
The Department offers four full-time BSocSc (Hons) programmes in Applied Sociology, Criminology, Psychology, and Social Work. It also offers a part-time BA (Hons) programme in Social Work with Minor in Counselling. The BSocSc (Hons) Criminology and the BA (Hons) programme are designed for associate degree/diploma holders.
Five part-time postgraduate programmes are provided by the Department. They are Postgraduate Diploma in Psychology, MSocSc in Applied Sociology, MSocSc in Counselling, MSocSc in Psychology of Education, and MSocSc in Social Work.
The Postgraduate Diploma in Psychology provides graduate students with a comprehensive and in-depth education in Psychology. Graduates of this programme are eligible to apply for graduate membership of the British Psychological Society and the Hong Kong Psychological Society. The four MSocSc programmes address community needs for enhancing knowledge and skills in the workplace and strong demand for professional training.
The Department is also entrusted with teaching a variety of minor programmes and courses in social sciences, applied sociology counselling and psychology to students throughout the University with the objective of broadening the curriculum of students under the credit-unit system.