Dean's Message
Welcome to the School of Humanities and Social Science (HSS) of the Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen (CUHK-Shenzhen).
HSS has two important missions for our university’s education. Besides offering unique and innovative education at the school level, HSS also provides university core courses for all undergraduates in multiple areas, including General Education, English , Chinese, Physical Education and Information Technology , which lays the foundation for the holistic education that all CUHK-Shenzhen students receive.
HSS now has Bachelor of Arts (BA) program in Translation, Bachelor of Science (BSc) program in Applied Psychology, Bachelor of Arts (BA) program in English Studies, Bachelor of Social Science program in International Organization and Global Governance , Bachelor of Social Science program in Urban Management. Master of Arts in Translation and Interpreting Studies (MAT&I), Master of Arts in Simultaneous Interpreting (MASI), Master of Arts (MA) in Global Studies, Master of Science(MSc) in Applied Psychology, Master of Social Science in Urban Studies, Master of Arts(MA) in Public Policy, Master of Arts (MA) in Chinese Language and Literature, Master of Science(MSc) in Computational Social Science and MPhil-PhD in Global Studies, MPhil-PhD in Translation Studies, MPhil-PhD in Applied Psychology, MPhil-PhD in Computational Social Science, MPhil-Phd in Urban Studies.
HSS will give full play to its cross-disciplinary academic resources and world-class faculty to establish interdisciplinary programmes and research centers, and to cultivate interdisciplinary talents with international visions and cross-cultural communication skills, as well as analytical and strategic thinking skills.
Now HSS has gradually built up a team of high-caliber faculty members. We recruit professors, senior experts, and academics globally with the uniformly rigorous standards that apply to world-class universities, such as the Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK). We now have more than 170 full-time teachers, most of whom had learning, teaching and research experience overseas.
At present, the total number of students in HSS reaches 979. In recent years, students from HSS have made continuous progress in academic research, publishing many journal papers and conference papers in international leading journals and important conferences, and made achievements in important competitions nationwide. We now have four cohorts of translation undergraduate graduates, totaling 265 students. More than 65% of these graduates went on to pursue master's degrees at universities ranked in the top 50 of the QS World University Rankings. Their fields of study were diverse, covering not just languages but also areas like marketing, media, education, philosophy, sociology, international relations, law, art and design. In 2023, the first cohort of 59 undergraduate students will graduate with degrees in Applied Psychology. 15% were admitted to universities ranked in the QS top 10, and 22% to universities in the QS top 20. Notably, one graduate received full funding for a master's program at the University of Oxford, while three others were offered PhD program places.
HSS continues to carry out domestic and foreign exchanges and cooperation at various levels. As of September 2021, HSS has signed cooperative agreements with many well-known universities overseas to establish various cooperative frameworks such as exchange & visiting programs, joint cultivating programs, including Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey, Columbia University, University of Southern California, University of Bristol, and University of Sussex, and University of Westminster. HSS will continue to actively expand overseas exchanges & visiting programs, and deepen cooperation with well-known overseas universities.
