Reorganisation of undergraduate course codes
24 July 2025
Beginning with the 2025/26 academic year, the Department will revise the course codes for various undergraduate courses to ensure consistency with University standards.
Current students are advised that they will not be permitted to enrol in a course under its new code if they have already completed the same course using its old code in a previous academic year.
The following courses are affected by this update:
Current course code | course title | New course code w.e.f. 2025-2026 academic year |
SOCI2002 | Social stratification and social class: finding and knowing your place | SOCI3002 |
SOCI2003 | China’s vision for humanity: critical issues facing contemporary Chinese society | SOCI3003 |
SOCI2006 | Critical issues in media studies | SOCI3006 |
SOCI2009 | Economic development and social change | SOCI3009 |
SOCI2010 | Education and society | SOCI3010 |
SOCI2011 | Gender and crime | SOCI3011 |
SOCI2012 | Gender and society | SOCI3012 |
SOCI2013 | Gender in Chinese societies | SOCI3013 |
SOCI2015 | Hong Kong popular culture | SOCI3015 |
SOCI2016 | Hong Kong society | SOCI3016 |
SOCI2017 | Japanese economic institutions | SOCI3017 |
SOCI2019 | Modern culture and lifestyles | SOCI3019 |
SOCI2021 | Marriage and the family | SOCI3021 |
SOCI2027 | Politics and society | SOCI3027 |
SOCI2035 | Selected topics in social and cultural anthropology | SOCI3035 |
SOCI2036 | Anthropology of South China | SOCI3036 |
SOCI2038 | Social control | SOCI3038 |
SOCI2041 | Social problems | SOCI3041 |
SOCI2044 | Economic sociology | SOCI3044 |
SOCI2046 | Sociology of law | SOCI3046 |
SOCI2047 | Sociology of punishment | SOCI3047 |
SOCI2049 | The body and society | SOCI3049 |
SOCI2052 | Traditional Chinese society | SOCI3052 |
SOCI2053 | Youth culture | SOCI3053 |
SOCI2054 | Triads and organized crime | SOCI3054 |
SOCI2055 | Tourism, culture and society | SOCI3055 |
SOCI2056 | Criminal justice: policy and practice | SOCI3056 |
SOCI2060 | Fraud, corruption and computer crime | SOCI3060 |
SOCI2061 | Religion and society | SOCI3061 |
SOCI2063 | Ethnicity, culture and identity | SOCI3063 |
SOCI2064 | Information society in global perspective | SOCI3064 |
SOCI2066 | The Asian economic miracles and beyond | SOCI3066 |
SOCI2067 | Crime and the media | SOCI3067 |
SOCI2068 | Religious movements and conflicts | SOCI3068 |
SOCI2073 | Global migration | SOCI3073 |
SOCI2075 | Hong Kong: community and cultural policy in the global context | SOCI3075 |
SOCI2076 | Globalization and crime | SOCI3076 |
SOCI2077 | Media, culture and communication in contemporary China | SOCI3077 |
SOCI2078 | Drug control in comparative perspective | SOCI3078 |
SOCI2081 | Sexuality, culture and identity | SOCI3081 |
SOCI2084 | Globalization and culture | SOCI3084 |
SOCI2085 | Understanding media | SOCI3085 |
SOCI2086 | Sociology of art | SOCI3086 |
SOCI2087 | Urban society and culture | SOCI3087 |
SOCI2088 | Sociology of knowledge, science and technology | SOCI3088 |
SOCI2089 | Japanese consumer society and popular culture | SOCI3089 |
SOCI2091 | Sociology of culture | SOCI3091 |
SOCI2092 | Social spaces | SOCI3092 |
SOCI2093 | Medicine and society | SOCI3093 |
SOCI2094 | Social movements and contentious politics | SOCI3103 |
SOCI2096 | Special topics in sociology | SOCI3096 |
SOCI2097 | Special topics in criminology | SOCI3097 |
SOCI2098 | Special topics in media and cultural studies | SOCI3098 |
SOCI2099 | Special topics in contemporary theory | SOCI3099 |
SOCI2100 | Culture and cognition | SOCI3100 |
SOCI2101 | Anthropology of artificial intelligence: human-like machines, machine-like societies | SOCI3101 |
SOCI2102 | Social demography | SOCI3102 |
SOCI3042 | Qualitative research methods | SOCI2043 |