News in 2023-2024
30th Anniversary of the Department of Fine Arts
This year is the department’s 30th anniversary! In September 1978, Professor Chuang Shen with the aid of a few supporting staff members set up the Department in a corner of the Fung Ping Shan Museum. In that first year, there were 11 students who signed up for the very first course that the Department offered. In the 30 years since then, the Department has seen many changes: the addition of new teachers, office staff, and teaching areas; the move to the Main Building; and the growth of student numbers from a handful to over 800 in 2007-2008. We feel that this is an occasion worth celebrating, and we are [...]
Dr. Carolyn Muir’s Radio Program
Dr. Carolyn Muir’s Radio Program: “The American Musical” As part of a series of RTHK 4 radio programs featuring teachers from the University of Hong Kong’s Faculty of Arts talking about music that relates to their life and work, Dr. Carolyn Muir has hosted a program which was aired on Radio 4 FM on January 5, 2008. Titled “The American Musical,” the program explored the development of American musical theater ranging from early examples from the 1930s to the present day and included a variety of songs from musicals such as “Anything Goes,” “Oklahoma,” “My Fair Lady,” “West Side [...]
Please bookmark the new Fine Arts Department Library website
The online catalogue of the Fine Arts Resources Centre has moved to a new website. Click here to enter the new website and update your internet bookmark for easy access in the future.
Fine Arts Department Brochure 2007-2008
click here for the amendment to courses offered in the second semester (ARTH2046 to be replaced by ARTH2057)
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