Bachelor of Arts [B.A] [Social Policy and Administration] From The Hong Kong Polytechnic University

Students are also expected to develop informational literacy, critical thinking, problem solving skills and to uphold core social values. The programme also helps students to build the skills and knowledge necessary for lifelong learning.

Programme Characteristics

This programme is designed to integrate theory and practice. The curriculum is heavily geared towards meeting the growing demands for trained professionals and practitioners in the fields of social policy and social administration. Students are expected to be equipped not only with the theoretical knowledge necessary for but also real-life exposure to working in a wide range of organizations dealing with welfare, health care, housing, labour, law and order, advocacy, education and environmental protection, performing designated policy and administrative tasks through specially designed professional attachments. They will learn to balance and resolve competing values involving bureaucratic versus human concerns and private profit-making versus public good and well-being.