China

This course provides a rigorous treatment of the core concepts and skills in security investments and portfolio management. The main focus is on the trade-off between risk and return, which is analyzed in a mean variance framework. Along this line, two main theories of asset pricing are explained: the Capital Asset Pricing Model and Arbitrage Pricing Theory. The empirical tests of these two theories are discussed. A team based project asks students to exercise skills of security analysis, portfolio construction, and management. 

An introduction of chinese buddhist history, including important events , main figures and schools.

This course includes:

 (1) A comprehensive overview of the history of Chinese Buddhism based on the stages of its spread and development in early China;

 (2) Introduction to the translation, annotation, and dissemination of Buddhist classics; 

(3) Selective explanation of the main ideological thoughts, religious sects, and their theoretical characteristics in Chinese Buddhism through reading original materials; 

(4) Exploring the exchange and integration between Buddhism and traditional Chinese culture in the context of Chinese social and cultural backgrounds. Additionally, based on classroom teachings, selected readings will be organized, followed by open discussions.

This course provides an overview of the history, current status, and mitigation strategies for atmospheric environment. It covers the following contents: Formation of the atmosphere Urban atmospheric environment and environmental regulations Human activity and ozone hole After taking the course, you will be able to answer the following questions. Why do we have oxygen in the atmosphere? How does PM2.5 in Beijing form? How did ozone hole form? How have we been resolving these environmental issues in the atmosphere? 

This class will introduce Mindfulness Intervention for Emotional Distress. It includes concept of Mindfulness and evidence for Mindfulness intervention. It will teach the common practice of mindfulness, including body scan, mindfulness siting, body stretch, mindful walking, mindful eating. Students need complete 15 minutes mindfulness practice daily, and other relative tasks. The object of this class: through study and practice, students will learn mindfulness practice, the strategies of reduction of emotional distress.

The goal of this course is to introduce the classical theories in the field of digital and behavioral economics, combined with real cases. By taking the course, students can have a certain understanding of the basic knowledge, current development and research frontiers in the field of digital and behavioral economics.

This course will take digital economics as the main line and basis. Firstly, it introduces the composition and development of digital economics from the macro-perspective. Besides, it mainly focuses on the platform economics, which is a new organizational form spawned by the digital economics. The lecture will cover topics including the development of platform, the main characteristics, the core problem, special issues and the regulation. Some relevant behavioral studies will also be introduced in order to help better understand the platform and its participants ’strategic behavior and intention.

This class discusses the basic concepts and methods of information resource management, including capturing, representing, organizing, storing, processing and exploiting information. In particular, the introductory session will provide an overview of the definition and general types of information, the new forms of information in the era of social media, and the definition of information source. Web search engines, as one of the most important channels to obtain information in our daily life, will be discussed. Then, the class will cover the process of capturing, encoding, and initial processing of different information in digital media, followed by the essence of information management and extraction technologies, such as data warehouse, XML, and the Semantic Web. However, while more and more available information accelerates the development of new knowledge, issues pertaining to information security become evident too. Hence, this module also briefly explains the concepts of confidentiality, integrity and availability, as well as the mechanisms that provide security in various information systems and applications. Next, this module focuses on the applications of information resource management technologies in enterprises and in Web 2.0-baed e-commerce. First, the information architecture, strategies and services in enterprises w1 be introduced. Several cases on how information can be a strategic resource for companies will be studied. Second, several applications in Web 2.0-based e-commerce will be discussed in detail. Last but not least, in view of the abundance of information nowadays, this module will encourage student discussions on the problem of finding the relevant “needle in the haystack" and the problem of information overload.

Domestic and global financial systems are comprised of a variety of interlinked institutions whose interactions create the form and structure of the financial system. These institutions range from central banks, commercial and investment banks, institutional investors, and financial markets for stock, bond and other assets to currency regimes, the global balance of payments, and fiscal and regulatory policies that affect monetary conditions. The main objective of this class is to help construct a conceptual framework of the financial markets for finance students and to ensure that they are able to develop for themselves a context in which to place their more specialized finance classes. In this class we will attempt to outline and develop a “geography” of China’s financial system and its links to the global system in order to develop a framework within which to understand the Chinese financial system, its future development, and its role within the current global crisis. We will consider the purpose of a well-functioning financial market, the necessary components of such a market, the role of financial balance sheets in the way the system responds to shocks, and the implementation of monetary policy. We will examine the different kinds of financial markets and their inter-relationships.

The course is an introductory course to comparative democratization, ONLY open for the Mater students of Department of International Relation. Designed to introduce students to the study of democratization and assist students to developing research topics in democratization. The course is divided into three parts. First, we will review and basic concepts and theories of de- mocratization. Secondly, we will explore the determinants and consequences of democratiza- tion. Thirdly, we will put China into scrutiny and examine its democratic politics constructions. We will survey through a range of methodological approaches and explores key elements – eco- nomic development, political institutions, international factors as well as domestic structures, state-society relations, and elites decision making process, supplement with contemporary read- ing on democratization.

Apple, background, commutativity—underlying each of these words is a concept, which a language learner must identify and learn to decode and encode for parsing and constructing sentences. How do young children acquire words and know how to use their grammar correctly? Is learning apple just as easy as learning background? This class surveys classic and current views on cognitive underpinnings for language acquisition and how acquiring language impacts cognition.

This course situates an early Chinese understanding of the body within a cross-cultural and inter-disciplinary perspective. It trains analytical thinking and academic writing through bodily discussions. It introduces classical texts with contemporary theories from the fields of social epistemology, communication studies, social anthropology, disabled studies, and phenomenology. It shows students different ways of asking questions, finding evidence, forms of reasoning, and perspectives of discussions. Active and ethical engagement with AI reading and writing is also essential to this course.