China

The course will explore Shanghai’s modern social and cultural development from the perspective of China-West cultural exchange. It will cover Shanghai's geography, the arrival of Jesuits, the opening of the port, language interactions, the press and publishing industry, education, modern life, and business development. 

The goal of this course is to enable students to have an overall understanding of the field of computer networks and a preliminary understanding of related technologies, and to further understand and master the key technologies of the new generation of Internet (including the principles and specific implementation of the technology), and to initially cultivate students' research capabilities in the field of computer networks.

This course teaches how a common law jurisdiction like the United States approach the problem of torts—accidental and other harms that occur between private individuals and how this law has developed and changed over the years.

This course will introduce the historical development of Chinese culture and its changes from ancient times to the present, important common sense (involving various aspects such as thoughts, systems, and life), and the impact and changes of the world on Chinese culture.

This course is structured around the organizational content of general mergers and acquisitions (M&A) activities. Beginning with the institutional environment of M&A, it systematically elaborates on the strategic choices, procedural steps, valuation modeling, transaction structure design, and financing strategies involved in M&A, all supported by specific case studies. Additionally, the course provides a comprehensive introduction to restructuring activities such as corporate alliances, exit and restructuring strategies, and the dissolution of failing enterprises, as well as cross-border M&A activities. Through this approach, the course aims to thoroughly and systematically present and teach the processes, tools, and solutions related to acquisitions, mergers, and corporate restructuring.

The course shall provide an overview of modern financial technology. Topics include digital banking, trading, artificial intelligence applications, big data, textual analysis, blockchain and regulatory challenges.

This class is about writing and academic inquiry, with a special emphasis on literature. Good arguments stem from good questions, and academic essays allow writers to write their way toward answers, toward figuring out what they think. In this writing course, students focus on the creation of complex, analytic, well-supported arguments addressing questions that matter in academic contexts. 

As goods and services are produced and distributed, they move through a set of interrelated operations or processes. The design of these operations for strategic advantage, investments in improving their efficacy, and controlling these operations to meet performance objectives is the domain of Operations Management. Taking the process view of the organization we will examine, using case studies, readings and models, a variety of industrial applications. In the first part of this course, by studying how the manager can improve the efficacy of processes, we will develop a unifying theme to the subject. In the second part of this course, the focus will be on inventory theory and its application to supply chain management. In contrast to the first part of this course that developed a broad brush approach to the process view of operations, we will take a more analytical and detailed approach in model development in the second part of this course.

The basic purpose of this course is to deeply understand mathematical thought and values behind classical knowledge in mathematics.

The course is for learners with intermediate Chinese and a vocabulary of more than 600. It aims to expand students’ vocabulary and develop their Chinese ability. After studying, they can use the language accurately when tackling everyday scenarios and address regular topics with short speeches, including writing and speaking.