Prospective students visiting the Hong Kong Polytechnic University's (PolyU) open day had mixed feelings about changes to its design courses.
The existing five bachelor's degree programmes in fashion, graphic, industrial, interior and photographic design will be replaced by a single BA (Hons) degree course starting from the 1998- 99 academic year.
Students visiting the open day had varying opinions about the changes.
Ng Yin-kuen, 17, a Form Five student from St Catharine's School for Girls, said she preferred the previous course structure.
'It provides more specialised training,' she said.
'Yet, we can learn other aspects of design under the new arrangement which allows more flexibility in making our choice.' Although less specialised than the previous separate courses, the new degree course allows students greater freedom in choosing electives in the five areas of design .
Cecilia Ma Pui-sze, 17, also a fifth-former from Heep Yunn School, said: 'It's better. It gives a clearer idea of design and its different aspects.' Both girls, who are interested in studying design at university level, attended the open day hoping to get more information about the range of courses offered by PolyU.