China

With globalization, the Internet, and the general shrinking of time and space, cross- cultural interaction has become a necessity in people’s everyday lives. This course is designed to interrogate different aspects of cross-cultural communication and cultural differences: family life, social relationships, the workplace, government, education, gender, romance, and religion. Throughout exploring these topics, we will strive to engage in personal self-reflection, hands-on experience, and to understand the connections to larger social structures.

Course Description

The module aims to provide students with a new perspective in understanding the making of the People’s Republic of China’s foreign policy. The “third world” and “internationalism” will be the key concepts of discussion for this course. It will address key issues such as the Afro-Asian national independence movement in the mid-20th century, Chinese revolution, the Korean War, the Bandung conference, the Sino-Arab relations, and the P.R. China’s admission into the UN. In addition to the linear historical narrative of major events in P. R. China during the Cold War period, this course will also allow students to understand from an analytical perspective the relations between Chinese foreign policy and its domestic nation building concern, between the aim of national salvation and the ideal of international solidarity. The primary materials discussed in this course will include political documents/writings, historical archives, posters, music, literature, and films.

Course Objective

1. Delineate a broader historical and socio-political landscape in which the Chinese foreign policy in the Cold War period was formed;
2. Enable students to engage with multidisciplinary primary and secondary sources in both English and Chinese languages for studying IR.
3. Familiarize key discussions and debates on the issue of internationalism, modernization, national independence, nation-building, and international cooperation in the 20th century in China, and other Third World countries.
4. Develop transferable skills in data collection, synthesizing information, critical thinking, and English academic writing.

The main contents of this course include: the development history of shooting sports at home and abroad, basic knowledge of weapons, basic principles of shooting, military rifles, steam rifles, steam pistols shooting basic skills and live-fire training.

Private and public sector firms increasingly use marketing strategies to engage their customers and stakeholders around social impact. To do so, managers need to understand how best to engage and influence customers to behave in ways that have positive social effects. This course focuses on social marketing strategies for changing the behavior of a target segment of consumers on key issues in the public interest (e.g., health behaviors, energy efficiency, poverty reduction, fundraising for social causes). In addition, it examines the growing role of social enterprises and benefit corporation (B corp) play in today’s marketplace. This class also offers students an opportunity to work on a real business problem that are tied to social initiatives.

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.