The Professional Seminar is an innovative feature of the MSc programmes that provides an opportunity for students to acquire some soft skills, as well as interact with industry leaders. This is what the course director , Dr Paul Wu, says about the course:

Professional Seminar is a division-wide course that aims at developing professionalism and communitarian values among students with very diverse background. Industrial veterans and experts are invited to address as well as interact with students about contextual issues and development trends surrounding the information profession in cultural institutions, business organizations, and various industries. More particularly, students are oriented to, following a Consturctivist Pedagogy framework, form an interdependent learning community where individual as well as peer-to-peer learning are encouraged and cultivated. Through practical group activities, students help each other sharpen their soft skills and develop excellence in leadership, communication, critical thinking and professional ethics which are needed in their future vocation.