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Exemplary Teaching Award in General Education

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ষོႵ௲ۏىॷ෫ϛМσᏰఀ୛ོ೽ᜋఀ Presented by Senate Committee on General Education THE CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG ጀፑిᐯጨġġġġijıIJĴڈশสКћЂᐯ഼ᝊి Exemplary Teaching Award in General Education, CUHK

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⼿䋶Ṣṳ䳡 Introduction of the awardees 嫡㬌农屨炰 ὗ‹㲘㔁㌰枺䋶Ḱ⼿䋶Ṣ Presentation of awards by Prof. Hau Kit Tai

Ever since the founding of The Chinese University of Hong Kong ⼿䋶ṢṢ栆⬠䲣㜿凇㔁㌰农录 (CUHK), General Education has been a key part of the undergraduate Speech by awardee Prof. Joseph Bosco, Department of Anthropology curriculum which aims at nurturing students as educated persons with the intellect and inclination to appreciate broad issues of concern to humanity ⼿䋶Ṣ⛘䎮冯屯㸸䭉䎮⬠䲣㜿崭劙㔁㌰农录 and modern society. Speech by awardee Prof. Lam Chiu Ying, Department of Geography & Resource Management Over 200 teachers offer General Education courses at CUHK, many of whom are dedicated and outstanding. In recognition of their contributions, ⎰䄏 the Senate Committee on General Education (SCGE) resolved in 2006 to Group photo launch the Exemplary Teaching Award in General Education. Nominations are invited from all the GE teachers and undergraduate students. The nominations are reviewed by the SCGE Standing Committee basing on the course design, teaching and learning activities, and tutelage in the General Education courses they offered.

This year, ten teachers were nominated for the Award and the Exemplary Teaching Awards in General Education go to Prof. Joseph Bosco of Department ℠䥖⬴䔊!㔔⁁勞溆! of Anthropology and Prof. Lam Chiu Ying of Department of Geography & Tea reception after the ceremony Resource Management.

Our heartiest congratulations! ষོႵ௲ۏىॷ෫ϛМσᏰఀ୛ོ೽ᜋఀ Presented by Senate Committee on General Education THE CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG

www.cuhk.edu.hk/oge/eta ጀፑిᐯጨġġġġijıIJĴڈশสКћЂᐯ഼ᝊి “One of my primary objectives as an anthropologist is to help students see how culture Exemplary Teaching Award in General Education, CUHK shapes our view of the world. I want them to be able to see things from a different culture’s perspective, and to see beyond their naturally ethnocentric perspective.”

Awardee Prof. Joseph Bosco But the owl is not only a symbol of wisdom; it is nocturnal and has large eyes, Department of Anthropology so is believed to see things that are hidden or secret. It is associated with omens, clairvoyance, and intuition. It could be the mascot for “Magic, Myth and the Prof. Joseph Bosco obtained his BS in Biology from the University of Supernatural,” the course I created to take Notre Dame and MA, MPhil and PhD degrees from Columbia University advantage of students’ curiosity about magic in the City of New York. He has been teaching in the Department of to focus on the cultural creation of reality. Anthropology since 1992. He has taught four General Education courses Many things in life are culturally real even over the years: UGEC2662 Culture and Business, UGEA2180 Chinese if they are not physically real. For example, Culture and Society, UGEC1681 Humans and Culture, and the popular WKHFODVVH[SORUHVWKHFXOWXUDOGH¿QLWLRQRI course UGEC2960 Magic, Myth and the Supernatural. ghosts. Chinese ghosts are said to lack feet, while American ghosts are mere shadows, or may not be visible at all, but can make unexplained noises and move furniture. While many people think Asian I am honored to receive the Exemplary Teaching Award in General Education. There are many good FXOWXUHVDUHPRUH³VXSHUVWLWLRXV´ZH¿QGWKDWWKHUHPDQ\VXSHUQDWXUDOSKHQRPHQDLQWKH:HVW teachers in this university, so it is a special honor to be singled out. (e.g. UFOs, alien abductions, good luck charms, and even much stock picking advice), so magical thinking is not “backward” or “old-fashioned” but part of the human condition. This course allows 0\WHDFKLQJSKLORVRSK\LVFDSWXUHGE\WKHRZOZKLFKLVWKHV\PERORIWKH2I¿FHRI8QLYHUVLW\ XVWRVHHKRZLPSRUWDQWFXOWXUHLVLQGH¿QLQJRXUVHQVHRIUHDOLW\7KHFRXUVHDOVRDOORZVVWXGHQWV General Education. In the West, the owl is associated with Athena, the goddess of knowledge and to learn how to discuss strongly held beliefs in a respectful manner. wisdom. Owls look smart, with eyes on the front of their head like humans; many species appear to be wearing glasses. The owl embodies my goal as a teacher, which is to help students develop I am continuously improving and adapting wisdom. A university education is not vocational training; we are preparing students not only for my courses. I have experimented with WKHLU¿UVWMREEXWIRUDOLIHRIOHDUQLQJLQDUDSLGO\FKDQJLQJZRUOG weekly quizzes and class simulations. I divide my class into 20 minute segments, 2QHRIP\SULPDU\REMHFWLYHVDVDQDQWKURSRORJLVWLVWRKHOSVWXGHQWVVHHKRZFXOWXUHVKDSHVRXU with lectures broken up by discussions or a view of the world. I want them to be able to see things from a different culture’s perspective, and video clip. I learned early on in my teaching to see beyond their naturally ethnocentric perspective. I do not seek to change students’ values, but that most people cannot pay attention for to make them aware of their values. If they recognize the a full 45 minute lecture. This is especially range of possible values that exist across cultures, they true for our current generation of students can understand other people and communicate better in who grew up with many choices of media, this increasingly interconnected and diverse world. and who will pull out their smartphone and check Facebook if the class gets boring. My role as a teacher is to coach, encourage, and inspire students to learn. I am not primarily there to impart The world is complex. Theories are only partial explanations, and many theories seem to contradict NQRZOHGJH²WKDW FDQ EH GRQH PRUH HI¿FLHQWO\ E\ D each other. Owls also symbolize this complexity and contradiction. Owls can symbolize ancient book or a video. The two hours of lecture are too short wisdom and intuition, but also hidden knowledge, secrets and omens, and even, when associated for direct knowledge transfer, and the lecture format ZLWK WKHLU HHULH KRRW GHDWK DQG PLVIRUWXQH 6WXGHQWV QHHG WR OHDUQ WR UHFRQFLOH FRQÀLFWLQJ can be very boring for students, so it is not effective theories, and balance opposing points of view. Finding that balance, that golden mean, or ύன in helping students see the world in new ways. I try “Zhongyong´WDNHVZLVGRP0\JRDOLVWRJLYHVWXGHQWVWRROVDQGWRVXSSRUWWKHPLQWKH¿UVW to use valuable class time to explore ideas and deepen IHZVWHSVRQZKDWZLOOEHDOLIHORQJMRXUQH\RIOHDUQLQJDMRXUQH\WKDWKRSHIXOO\ZLOOKHOSWKHP VWXGHQWV¶XQGHUVWDQGLQJRIWKHPDWHULDOUDWKHUWKDQMXVW approach the owl’s wisdom. imparting information.

ষོႵ௲ۏىॷ෫ϛМσᏰఀ୛ོ೽ᜋఀ Presented by Senate Committee on General Education, The Chinese University of Hong Kong www.cuhk.edu.hk/oge/eta ጀፑిᐯጨġġġġijıIJĴڈশสКћЂᐯ഼ᝊి “I hope to urge as many students as possible to resolve to be Exemplary Teaching Award in General Education, CUHK a good man/woman in the rest of their life.”

motivating the students. For example, I always say “good morning” to all students coming into the classroom even those who are late.

Awardee Prof. Lam Chiu Ying I consider it important that all university students should develop a world-view informed by basic science, geography and history, which carry both the senses of both time and space, in great depth Department of Geography & and wide span. This world-view I endeavour to help students built it up themselves. Resource Management I feel that as a university teacher, I have the responsibility to help students realize that, armed with the knowledge and intelligence they acquire from university, they have the potential to do either ‡ Adjunct Professor, Department of Geography and Resource great good or great harm to human society. I further consider that a university teacher has the Management, CUHK responsibility of instilling in the young mind of students the determination to do good and not to do ‡ Chairman, HKSAR Environmental Campaign Committee harm to people and the world. ‡ Chairman, Hong Kong Countryside Foundation ‡ Honorary President, Hong Kong Bird Watching Society Guided by these thoughts, I always go to ‡ Ex-Director, classes with a smile and:

‡ let students bring up news reports Prof. Lam is a long-time fervent bird-watcher and after retirement, has turned into an active speaker. Starting with of current interest, which I would climate change, he promotes love of and respect for Nature as well as simple life-styles to a wide audience. Prof. Lam then turn into a demonstration of the has been offering a general education course ‘UGEB2114 Climate, Energy and Life’ at CUHK since 2010. His connection between course contents publications include: Thoughts on Wing (in Chinese,Ƞ०Գઓࡘȡ), Birds of Hong Kong and South China (in and current affairs, often involving Chinese,Ƞ३ෝϷ๮ࠄചᜪȡ)(co-author), Director’s Blog (in Chinese,ȠѠߏᆛᇞȡ)(co-author), Where unexpected intellectual acrobats for Peace in the Changing World (in Chinese,ȠϺӦᡂՖೀӼЈȡ). surprising to students, ‡ prompt students with questions which I come to teach at the Chinese University with a hidden agenda. I hope to urge as many students as they could collectively answer, and reward them whenever they participate actively, possible to resolve to be a good man/woman in the rest of their life. I am determined to exert my ‡ walk among students during the class, utmost to give students good education useful to their transition from adolescence to adulthood. ‡ let ample humour come into the talking I do in class, ‡ as the opportunity arises, drift into side-tracks of immediate interest to students so as to hold I see students as “intelligent machines” their attention throughout the class. waiting to be switched on. I believe that they would be switched on if: *XLGHGE\WKHVDPHWKRXJKWV,GHVLJQWKHFRXUVHVSHFL¿FDOO\WRVKRZWKHinter-connection among Climate, Energy and Life, three components which most students would not realize are related. ‡ their curiosity is re-ignited, Indeed, there is a 4th component viz. information. It is incorporated into the course material too, but ‡ they discover the beauty in the inter- is not explicitly included in the formal course title, in order to keep it short. connection among things they encounter, 7KHFKRLFHRIFRXUVHPDWHULDOUHÀHFWVP\VSHFL¿FZLVKWRVKRZVWXGHQWVDPRQJRWKHUWKLQJV ‡ WKH\¿QGRXWWKDWWKH\FDQDFTXLUH knowledge through their own effort, ‡ how the human condition has evolved in relation to natural climate change and attendant ‡ they realize that what they learn in ecological changes, class is immediately relevant to what is ‡ that the inclination to do good to the community is not an accident but a necessary condition happening around them everyday, for human survival so far, ‡ they realize that what they learn in ‡ how civilization especially urban life has led to deviations from the natural human condition class has a global dimension which is also relevant to their life. and eventually to a changed physical world unfavourable to human existence.

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