The Associate Degree (AD) and Higher Diploma (HD) programmes of HKCC are designed to help students achieve the following six institutional learning outcomes at a standard that is achievable for a two-year full-time sub-degree programme, commensurate with the Qualifications Framework and Level 4 Generic Level Descriptors, and meets the competence level required of a paraprofessional:
Competent Paraprofessional: Graduates should be able to integrate and apply in practice the fundamental knowledge and skills required for functioning effectively as an entry-level paraprofessional.
Critical Thinker: Graduates should be able to examine the validity of information, arguments, and different viewpoints, and reach a sound judgement on the basis of credible evidence and logical reasoning.
Effective Communicator: Graduates should be able to comprehend and communicate effectively in English and Chinese, orally and in writing, in professional and daily contexts.
Practical Problem Solver: Graduates should be able to identify and define problems in professional and daily contexts, and produce workable solutions to the problems.
Lifelong Learner: Graduates should recognise the need for continual learning and self-development, and be able to plan, manage and improve their own learning for future academic pursuit and other self-determined development goals.
Ethical Citizen: Graduates should recognise their leadership potential in their own roles, and should acknowledge their responsibilities as paraprofessionals and citizens to the society and their own nation, and be able to demonstrate ethical reasoning in professional and daily contexts.
Competent Paraprofessional: Graduates should be able to integrate and apply in practice the fundamental knowledge and skills required for functioning effectively as an entry-level paraprofessional.
Critical Thinker: Graduates should be able to examine the validity of information, arguments, and different viewpoints, and reach a sound judgement on the basis of credible evidence and logical reasoning.
Effective Communicator: Graduates should be able to comprehend and communicate effectively in English and Chinese, orally and in writing, in professional and daily contexts.
Practical Problem Solver: Graduates should be able to identify and define problems in professional and daily contexts, and produce workable solutions to the problems.
Lifelong Learner: Graduates should recognise the need for continual learning and self- development, and be able to plan, manage and improve their own learning for self- determined development goals.
Ethical Citizen: Graduates should recognise their leadership potential in their own roles, and should acknowledge their responsibilities as paraprofessionals and citizens to the society and their own nation, and be able to demonstrate ethical reasoning in professional and daily contexts.
All PolyU HKCC Associate Degree and Higher Diploma Programmes are pitched at Level 4 of the Qualifications Framework (QF). For QF-related details, please refer to the Associate Degree and Higher Diploma programmes page.