# List of Minors by Faculties/Subjects

**Source**: https://aas.hku.hk/list-of-minor/
**Parent**: https://aas.hku.hk/apply-scholarships/

## What is Minor

“Minor” or “Minor programme” means the study requirements for a single minor area of disciplinary, interdisciplinary or multidisciplinary study, accumulating not fewer than 36 credits nor more than 48 credits, as prescribed in the syllabuses for a degree curriculum.\
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## List of Minors by Faculties / Units

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### Common Core Office

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| - [Creative Arts (CA)](https://ugaa.hku.hk/showonemm.php?acad_year=2025&mm_code=CC003 "click here to view the print version of factsheet") (applicable to cohorts admitted in or after 2021-22) - [Gender, Sexuality, and Diversity (GSD)](https://ugaa.hku.hk/showonemm.php?acad_year=2025&mm_code=CC005 "click here to view the print version of factsheet") (applicable to cohorts admitted in or after 2021-22) - [Sustaining Cities, Cultures, and the Earth (SCCE)](https://ugaa.hku.hk/showonemm.php?acad_year=2025&mm_code=CC001 "click here to view the print version of factsheet") (applicable to cohorts admitted in or after 2017-18) | - [The Human Life Span (HL)](https://ugaa.hku.hk/showonemm.php?acad_year=2025&mm_code=CC004 "click here to view the print version of factsheet") (applicable to cohorts admitted in or after 2021-22) - [The Quest for a Meaningful Life (UQM)](https://ugaa.hku.hk/showonemm.php?acad_year=2025&mm_code=CC002 "click here to view the print version of factsheet") (applicable to cohorts admitted in or after 2020-21) / The Universe and the Question of Meaning (UQM) (applicable to cohorts admitted in 2017-18, 2018-19, and 2019-20) |

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### Faculty of Architecture

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| - [Architectural Studies](https://ugaa.hku.hk/showonemm.php?acad_year=2025&mm_code=AC004 "click here to view the print version of factsheet") - [Conservation](https://ugaa.hku.hk/showonemm.php?acad_year=2025&mm_code=AC002 "click here to view the print version of factsheet") | - [Landscape Studies](https://ugaa.hku.hk/showonemm.php?acad_year=2025&mm_code=AC001 "click here to view the print version of factsheet") - [Urban Studies](https://ugaa.hku.hk/showonemm.php?acad_year=2025&mm_code=AC003 "click here to view the print version of factsheet") |

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### Faculty of Arts

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| - [African Studies](https://ugaa.hku.hk/showonemm.php?acad_year=2025&mm_code=AR001 "click here to view the print version of factsheet") (only applicable to students admitted in 2023-24 and before) - [American Studies](https://ugaa.hku.hk/showonemm.php?acad_year=2025&mm_code=AR002 "click here to view the print version of factsheet") (only applicable to students admitted in 2023-24 or before) - [Arabic](https://ugaa.hku.hk/showonemm.php?acad_year=2025&mm_code=AR003 "click here to view the print version of factsheet") - [Art History](https://ugaa.hku.hk/showonemm.php?acad_year=2025&mm_code=AR011 "click here to view the print version of factsheet") (applicable for students admitted in 2021-22 and thereafter) or Fine Arts (only applicable for students admitted in 2020-21 and before) - [Buddhist Studies](https://ugaa.hku.hk/showonemm.php?acad_year=2025&mm_code=AR035 "click here to view the print version of factsheet") - [China Studies (Arts stream)](https://ugaa.hku.hk/showonemm.php?acad_year=2025&mm_code=AR032 "click here to view the print version of factsheet") (only applicable to students admitted in 2023-24 or before) - [Chinese History and Culture](https://ugaa.hku.hk/showonemm.php?acad_year=2025&mm_code=AR004 "click here to view the print version of factsheet") - [Chinese Language and Culture](https://ugaa.hku.hk/showonemm.php?acad_year=2025&mm_code=AR038 "click here to view the print version of factsheet") (for International Students and Non-Chinese Speaking Local Students) - [Chinese Language and Literature](https://ugaa.hku.hk/showonemm.php?acad_year=2025&mm_code=AR005 "click here to view the print version of factsheet") - [Comparative Literature](https://ugaa.hku.hk/showonemm.php?acad_year=2025&mm_code=AR007 "click here to view the print version of factsheet") - [English Studies](https://ugaa.hku.hk/showonemm.php?acad_year=2025&mm_code=AR009 "click here to view the print version of factsheet") - [European Studies](https://ugaa.hku.hk/showonemm.php?acad_year=20... [TRUNCATED: link-bomb detected]

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### Faculty of Business & Economics

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| - [Accounting](https://ugaa.hku.hk/showonemm.php?acad_year=2025&mm_code=BE001 "click here to view the print version of factsheet") - [Business and Economy in China](https://ugaa.hku.hk/showonemm.php?acad_year=2025&mm_code=BE013 "click here to view the print version of factsheet") - [Economics](https://ugaa.hku.hk/showonemm.php?acad_year=2025&mm_code=BE004 "click here to view the print version of factsheet") - [Finance](https://ugaa.hku.hk/showonemm.php?acad_year=2025&mm_code=BE005 "click here to view the print version of factsheet") | - [Human Resource Management](https://ugaa.hku.hk/showonemm.php?acad_year=2025&mm_code=BE007 "click here to view the print version of factsheet") - [Information Systems and Analytics](https://ugaa.hku.hk/showonemm.php?acad_year=2025&mm_code=BE011 "click here to view the print version of factsheet") (For students of 2020-2021 intake and onwards) - [Marketing](https://ugaa.hku.hk/showonemm.php?acad_year=2025&mm_code=BE008 "click here to view the print version of factsheet") - [Sustainability in Business](https://ugaa.hku.hk/showonemm.php?acad_year=2025&mm_code=BE015 "click here to view the print version of factsheet") |

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### Faculty of Education

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| - [Education](https://ugaa.hku.hk/showonemm.php?acad_year=2025&mm_code=ED001 "click here to view the print version of factsheet") - [Information Management](https://ugaa.hku.hk/showonemm.php?acad_year=2025&mm_code=ED003 "click here to view the print version of factsheet") | - [Social Data Science](https://ugaa.hku.hk/showonemm.php?acad_year=2025&mm_code=ED004 "click here to view the print version of factsheet") |

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### Faculty of Engineering

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| - [Electrical and Electronic Engineering](https://ugaa.hku.hk/showonemm.php?acad_year=2025&mm_code=EN002 "click here to view the print version of factsheet") - [Environmental Engineering](https://ugaa.hku.hk/showonemm.php?acad_year=2025&mm_code=EN103 "click here to view the print version of factsheet") - [Geotechnical Engineering](https://ugaa.hku.hk/showonemm.php?acad_year=2025&mm_code=EN004 "click here to view the print version of factsheet") - [Industrial Engineering and Logistics Management](https://ugaa.hku.hk/showonemm.php?acad_year=2025&mm_code=EN005 "click here to view the print version of factsheet") (This minor is available for the 2024-2025 intake or earlier) | - [Innovation and Design](https://ugaa.hku.hk/showonemm.php?acad_year=2025&mm_code=EN013 "click here to view the print version of factsheet") - [Mechanical Engineering](https://ugaa.hku.hk/showonemm.php?acad_year=2025&mm_code=EN007 "click here to view the print version of factsheet") - [Urban Infrastructure Informatics](https://ugaa.hku.hk/showonemm.php?acad_year=2025&mm_code=EN016 "click here to view the print version of factsheet") |

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### Faculty of Medicine

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| - [Biomedical Data Science](https://ugaa.hku.hk/showonemm.php?acad_year=2025&mm_code=ME009 "click here to view the print version of factsheet") - [Biotechnology and Clinical Research](https://ugaa.hku.hk/showonemm.php?acad_year=2025&mm_code=ME004 "click here to view the print version of factsheet") - [Digital Health](https://ugaa.hku.hk/showonemm.php?acad_year=2025&mm_code=ME008 "click here to view the print version of factsheet") - [Genetics and Genomics](https://ugaa.hku.hk/showonemm.php?acad_year=2025&mm_code=ME001 "click here to view the print version of factsheet") | - [Global Development in Asia](https://ugaa.hku.hk/showonemm.php?acad_year=2025&mm_code=ME006 "click here to view the print version of factsheet") - [Global Health](https://ugaa.hku.hk/showonemm.php?acad_year=2025&mm_code=ME007 "click here to view the print version of factsheet") - [Kinesiology](https://ugaa.hku.hk/showonemm.php?acad_year=2025&mm_code=ME005 "click here to view the print version of factsheet") |

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### Faculty of Science

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| - [Actuarial Studies](https://ugaa.hku.hk/showonemm.php?acad_year=2025&mm_code=SI032 "click here to view the print version of factsheet") (only applicable to students admitted in 2024-25 or before) - [Astronomy](https://ugaa.hku.hk/showonemm.php?acad_year=2025&mm_code=SI003 "click here to view the print version of factsheet") - [Biochemistry](https://ugaa.hku.hk/showonemm.php?acad_year=2025&mm_code=SI004 "click here to view the print version of factsheet") - [Chemistry](https://ugaa.hku.hk/showonemm.php?acad_year=2025&mm_code=SI007 "click here to view the print version of factsheet") - [Computational & Financial Mathematics](https://ugaa.hku.hk/showonemm.php?acad_year=2025&mm_code=SI021 "click here to view the print version of factsheet") - [Earth Sciences](https://ugaa.hku.hk/showonemm.php?acad_year=2025&mm_code=SI022 "click here to view the print version of factsheet") - [Ecology & Biodiversity](https://ugaa.hku.hk/showonemm.php?acad_year=2025&mm_code=SI009 "click here to view the print version of factsheet") - [Environmental Science](https://ugaa.hku.hk/showonemm.php?acad_year=2025&mm_code=SI010 "click here to view the print version of factsheet") - [Food & Nutritional Science](https://ugaa.hku.hk/showonemm.php?acad_year=2025&mm_code=SI011 "click here to view the print version of factsheet") | - [Marine Biology](https://ugaa.hku.hk/showonemm.php?acad_year=2025&mm_code=SI025 "click here to view the print version of factsheet") - [Mathematics](https://ugaa.hku.hk/showonemm.php?acad_year=2025&mm_code=SI014 "click here to view the print version of factsheet") - [Molecular Biology & Biotechnology](https://ugaa.hku.hk/showonemm.php?acad_year=2025&mm_code=SI026 "click here to view the print version of factsheet") - [Operations Research & Mathematical Programming](https://ugaa.hku.hk/showonemm.php?acad_year=2025&mm_code=SI029 "click here to view the print version of factsheet") - [Physics](https://ugaa.hku.hk/showonemm.php?acad_year=2025&mm_code=SI017 "click here to vi... [TRUNCATED: link-bomb detected]

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### Faculty of Social Sciences

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| - [China Studies (Social Sciences stream)](https://ugaa.hku.hk/showonemm.php?acad_year=2025&mm_code=SS017 "click here to view the print version of factsheet") (only applicable to students admitted in 2024-25 or before) - [Cognitive Science](https://ugaa.hku.hk/showonemm.php?acad_year=2025&mm_code=SS001 "click here to view the print version of factsheet") - [Computational Social Science](https://ugaa.hku.hk/showonemm.php?acad_year=2025&mm_code=SS022 "click here to view the print version of factsheet") - [Counselling](https://ugaa.hku.hk/showonemm.php?acad_year=2025&mm_code=SS002 "click here to view the print version of factsheet") - [Criminology](https://ugaa.hku.hk/showonemm.php?acad_year=2025&mm_code=SS003 "click here to view the print version of factsheet") - [Geography](https://ugaa.hku.hk/showonemm.php?acad_year=2025&mm_code=SS006 "click here to view the print version of factsheet") - [Geospatial Data Science](https://ugaa.hku.hk/showonemm.php?acad_year=2025&mm_code=SS023 "click here to view the print version of factsheet") - [Human Resource Management](https://ugaa.hku.hk/showonemm.php?acad_year=2025&mm_code=SS008 "click here to view the print version of factsheet") | - [Journalism & Media Studies](https://ugaa.hku.hk/showonemm.php?acad_year=2025&mm_code=SS009 "click here to view the print version of factsheet") - [Media & Cultural Studies](https://ugaa.hku.hk/showonemm.php?acad_year=2025&mm_code=SS021 "click here to view the print version of factsheet") - [Neuroscience](https://ugaa.hku.hk/showonemm.php?acad_year=2025&mm_code=SS019 "click here to view the print version of factsheet") - [Politics & Public Administration](https://ugaa.hku.hk/showonemm.php?acad_year=2025&mm_code=SS011 "click here to view the print version of factsheet") - [Psychology](https://ugaa.hku.hk/showonemm.php?acad_year=2025&mm_code=SS012 "click here to view the print version of factsheet") - [Social Policy and Social Development](https://ugaa.hku.hk/showonemm.php?acad_year=2025&mm_code... [TRUNCATED: link-bomb detected]

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### School of Computing & Data Science

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| - [Computer Science](https://ugaa.hku.hk/showonemm.php?acad_year=2025&mm_code=SC001 "click here to view the print version of factsheet") (applicable to students admitted in 2025-26 and thereafter) - [Risk Management](https://ugaa.hku.hk/showonemm.php?acad_year=2025&mm_code=SC002 "click here to view the print version of factsheet") (applicable to students admitted in 2025-26 and thereafter) | - [Statistics](https://ugaa.hku.hk/showonemm.php?acad_year=2025&mm_code=SC003 "click here to view the print version of factsheet") (applicable to students admitted in 2025-26 and thereafter) |

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### List of Minors by Subjects

The following programmes can be taken as minor:\

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| - [Accounting](https://ugaa.hku.hk/showonemm.php?acad_year=2025&mm_code=BE001 "click here to view the print version of factsheet") - [Actuarial Studies](https://ugaa.hku.hk/showonemm.php?acad_year=2025&mm_code=SI032 "click here to view the print version of factsheet") (only applicable to students admitted in 2024-25 or before) - [African Studies](https://ugaa.hku.hk/showonemm.php?acad_year=2025&mm_code=AR001 "click here to view the print version of factsheet") (only applicable to students admitted in 2023-24 and before) - [American Studies](https://ugaa.hku.hk/showonemm.php?acad_year=2025&mm_code=AR002 "click here to view the print version of factsheet") (only applicable to students admitted in 2023-24 or before) - [Arabic](https://ugaa.hku.hk/showonemm.php?acad_year=2025&mm_code=AR003 "click here to view the print version of factsheet") - [Architectural Studies](https://ugaa.hku.hk/showonemm.php?acad_year=2025&mm_code=AC004 "click here to view the print version of factsheet") - [Art History](https://ugaa.hku.hk/showonemm.php?acad_year=2025&mm_code=AR011 "click here to view the print version of factsheet") (applicable for students admitted in 2021-22 and thereafter) or Fine Arts (only applicable for students admitted in 2020-21 and before) - [Astronomy](https://ugaa.hku.hk/showonemm.php?acad_year=2025&mm_code=SI003 "click here to view the print version of factsheet") - [Biochemistry](https://ugaa.hku.hk/showonemm.php?acad_year=2025&mm_code=SI004 "click here to view the print version of factsheet") - [Biomedical Data Science](https://ugaa.hku.hk/showonemm.php?acad_year=2025&mm_code=ME009 "click here to view the print version of factsheet") - [Biotechnology and Clinical Research](https://ugaa.hku.hk/showonemm.php?acad_year=2025&mm_code=ME004 "click here to view the print version of factsheet") - [Buddhist Studies](https://ugaa.hku.hk/showonemm.php?acad_year=2025&mm_code=AR035 "click here to view the print version of factsheet") - [Business and Economy in China](http... [TRUNCATED: link-bomb detected]

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\* **Note**: Students pursuing curricula with major / minor programme(s) must complete at least one major programme from their home Faculties upon graduation. **Disclaimer**: The information mainly applies to students admitted in 2025-26 and thereafter. For students from different cohorts, the information is only for reference. Please check with Faculty/offering department for details. The pre-requisite requirements / conditions are subject to changes by Faculties from time to time, and students are advised to check with their Faculty Office in case of doubt.