To: All BSc students admitted in 2009-10 or before and admitted directly to the second year in 2010-11 

First Semester Examination Results, Graduation Requirements, Application Forms and Deadlines

First Semester Examination Results

To enable you to make timely course selection, the first semester examination results is now announced in SIS from 6 pm on Wednesday January 18, 2012 (i.e. today). To view your grades, please go to SIS => Self-Service => Enrollment => View My Grades

Students who wish to apply for rechecking of their examination results due to procedural irregularity or technical error shall apply in writing to the Faculty Office by submitting a separate application for each course to be checked within 14 days after the announcement of the assessment results, i.e. on or before February 3, 2012. For details, pls refer to http://www.scifac.hku.hk/ug/current/exam/appeal

Graduation Requirements

As you know, the second semester course add/drop period is as follows: 

From:   Monday, January 16, 2012 (10:00 am)

To:       Friday, February 3, 2012 (4:00 pm) 

We would like to take this opportunity to remind you of the following graduation requirements: 

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(a) Take 180 credits of courses 

(b) Pass 180 credits**of courses of which at least 90 credits must be gained from Science courses, of which no less than 60 credits must be gained from advanced Science courses

(c) Pass

i. ECEN1801/CAES1801 Academic English for Science Students
ii. ECEN2802/CAES2802 Advanced English for Science Students
iii. CSCI0001 Practical Chinese Language Course for Science Students
iv. a 3 credit broadening course in “Humanities and Social Sciences Studies” *Ω
v. IT proficiency requirement : YITC1002 Information Technology Proficiency TestΩ
vi. all required courses as prescribed in the major and minor curriculum; and the Faculty Electives ^#

** Students are also required to pass a 3-credit broadening course in Culture and Value Studies^?or a 3-credit course in an area outside the BSc curriculum. This requirement will be waived if students have successfully completed a second major or minor in a non-science discipline.

*  This requirement will be waived if students have successfully completed a second major or a minor in a non-Science discipline.

^# Faculty Electives refer to a pass of at least 6 credits from each of the Blocks A, B and C. This requirement is only for students admitted to the first year of the BSc programme in 2007 or thereafter.

Ω For students admitted directly to the second year in 2010-11, (a) they are required to take and pass 12 credits of courses in the Common Core Curriculum, selecting no more than one course from each Area of Inquiry, to fulfill the broadening course (“Humanities and Social Sciences Studies” & “Culture and Value  Studies”) requirements; and (b) they have been granted a waiver of the IT proficiency requirement.

   For students admitted in 2009-10 (or before), should they not be able to satisfactorily complete the outstanding IT Proficiency Test or broadening courses within 2010-11, Senate has approved that students be required to take Common Core courses in 2011-12 to satisfy outstanding UG3 graduation requirements.They will therefore be required to take an equivalent number of credits in any Area of Inquiry of the Common Core Curriculum to make up for the outstanding credits. Should the IT Proficiency Test or 3 credits for a broadening course be outstanding, this means they will have to overload by 3 credits and take one 6-credit Common Core course to satisfy the requirement.

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As there will have no Common Core course on offer in the Summer semester of 2011-12, should any students still fail to fulfill the broadening course and/or IT requirement(s) upon graduation time, they will then be required to extend their study year in order to fulfill the outstanding graduation requirement(s) for graduation.

Application Forms and Deadlines

This is to remind you of the respective deadlines for the following applications:

(a)    Application for taking course load deviating from normal load
[ Deadline: January 27, 2012 (6:00 PM) ] 

If you wish to select less than 24 or more than 36 credits of courses in the second semester or take more than 72 credits in this academic year, you are required to submit the “Application Form for taking course load deviating from normal load”, with the prior (written) endorsement from the Chief Actuarial Science Course Selection Advisor, to the Faculty Office for approval by the above deadline. Late application will NOT be considered. 

Should your application for the specified credit load be successful, the approved maximum credit limits will be updated in SIS from 6:00 pm on February 1, 2012. You may then add your extra courses on-line up to the approved maximum credit limit during this course add/drop period. The confirmation email will be sent to the applicants thereafter. For your reminder, the online course selection will close on February 3 (4 pm).

(b)    Application for change of subclass for CAES2802
[ Deadline: February 3, 2012 (6:00 pm) ]

(c)    Application for submission of Course Approval Form
[ Deadline: February 3, 2012 (6:00 pm) ]

(d)    Application for taking a replacement course for the course required in two different majors/minors
[ Deadline: February 3, 2012 (6:00 pm) ]

The application forms are available on the Science Faculty webpage ( http://www.scifac.hku.hk/ug/current/download).

NO LATE APPLICATION WILL BE CONSIDERED.

Faculty of Science