8 Performing Arts Degree Programs in Hong Kong

As the first of its kind in Asia, the MJ-DFS programme empowers aspiring documentarians to harness the power of authentic visual storytelling. The one-year intensive programme provides hands-on experience in documentary making, learning from top filmmakers from around the world.

Hosted by the Department of Visual Studies (VS) and the Department of Philosophy with the support of the Centre for Film and Creative Industries (CFCI) of Lingnan University, the Master of Arts in Creative and Media Industries (MACMI) provides both basic and advanced courses on creative and media industries, i.e. connected fields in film, television, music, performing arts, architecture, visual arts, and interactive media, as well as archive, museum and amusement services, which collectively constitute the most dynamic sector of the cultural economy in Hong Kong. It combines established studies on cultural and creative industries. In response to the needs of Hong Kong society and economy, it aims to provide an interdisciplinary understanding for students to collectively explore the most dynamic sector of the cultural economy and foster development of the emergent field of creative and media industries studies, new to Hong Kong and the region. Aside from required and elective courses, students can complete a research dissertation as a capstone experience, they will engage in independent research and interrogate relevant scholarly perspectives on the object of their study.

Launched in 2012, the four-year BFA (Honours) Degree in Drama programme is structured to produce professional practitioners with a vision of the arts in society and a concern for their importance, relevance and development. To a rigorous regimen of practical craft-skills work are added conceptual knowledge of the development of theatre practice, both historical and contemporary, Western and Asian.

The programme offers educational opportunities to mature, talented, and focused artists who are well beyond the initial throes of exploration and discovery and seek specialised education to prepare for their professional career. The programme provides the time, the aesthetic and intellectual resources, the production facilities, and the synergistic creative environment to allow students to broaden, deepen, and synthesise their knowledge, skills, and training with a notable degree of excellence and self-confidence.

This is a four-year full-time study programme. According to their major study, graduating students will be awarded BFA in Chinese Opera (Cantonese Opera Performance) or BFA in Chinese Opera (Cantonese Opera Music).

The Department of Architecture, Interior and Product Design runs a one-semester three-dimensional broad-based curriculum common to all first-year Higher Diploma students studying in Event and Exhibition Design, and Stage and Set Design.

The Bachelor of Music program offers students a well-rounded education in music performance, composition, and musicology. Students can choose from a variety of specializations, allowing them to focus ...

Film and Television Concentration provides broad training in film, video and television, with attention to relevant areas of theory, history, and practice.