Student-Centered Learning Opportunities

at CUHK Physics

 

The CUHK Physics Department has put much effort in developing effective student-centered learning activities, which form an integral part of a high quality education. Many of these activities are unique among physics programs in Hong Kong .  Examples of such extra-curricular learning opportunities include:

 

Summer Undergraduate Research Exchange (SURE): Each year the Department ends selected students to take up summer research projects in leading institutes overseas. The aims are to expose our students to forefront research and for them to gain invaluable research and learning experience. Previous statistics are summarized in the table shown. For more details, please visit www.phy.cuhk.edu.hk/sure.

 

Year

No. of Students joined

No. of Universities

2005

6

4

2006

6

5

2007

5

3

2008

7

4

2009

4

4

2010

3

3

 

Summer Teacher AppRenticeship (STAR): The best way to learn something is to teach it! Each summer the Department sends selected students to work as assistants to experienced physics teachers in secondary schools, so that they can broaden their perspectives in learning physics and to gain invaluable experience for a possible teaching career.  Since 2002, more than 57 undergraduates have joined the programme. For summer 2010, 6 students will take up the apprenticeship, receiving a stipend from the Department, in six secondary schools. For more details, please visit www.phy.cuhk.edu.hk/star.

 

Here is a table for the numbers of students joined and schools participated in STAR in the past years:

Year

Students joined

Schools participated

2010

6

6

2009

7

7

2008

6

6

2007

5

5

2006

5

5

2005

11

7

2004

9

6

2003

8

7

2002

7

6


Overseas Program for Undergraduate students (OPUS):  The program was launched in 2006, and it has provided an opportunity for students to take courses and carry out summer research in three leading universities outside Hong Kong – University of California Berkeley , Fudan University and Peking University . For more details, please visit www.phy.cuhk.edu.hk/opus.

 

These efforts, together with the final year research projects, of involving undergraduates into research activities have led to publications of research papers in international journals with undergraduates as co-authors.  The Department  also supports our students to report their research results in local and international conferences.