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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.

This course is intended for students whose work interacts with user interface issues in the design of social and software systems. The course stresses the importance of user-centered design and usability in the development of software applications and systems. Students will receive theoretical training on the analysis, design, and evaluation of user interfaces. They will also acquire hands-on design skills through a graphical user interface design project. The module takes into account contextual, organizational, and social factors in system design.

This course is a freshmen seminar, aiming to equip students with basic knowledge of the unique research and development methodologies, application scenarios, and hands-on practices of large language models (LLMs). The topics covered in the course include the using LLM for in-context learning, end-to-end application development using LLMs, fine- tuning, data management for AI, and development tools and services for large language models. The course consists of lectures and a significant amount of programming labs. Under the guidance of teaching assistants, students will complete several independent mini-experiments and team up to design a real-world LLM-based application. In this course, students will:

1) Learn how to use LLM for in-context learning with modern open-source frameworks; 2) Understand the fine-tuning methods of large language models, the usage of distributed training systems, and metrics to evaluate the quality of LLMs;
3) Learn the end-to-end practical development methods of LLM applications by designing and developing a non-trivial LLM application project;

4) Know the latest application scenarios of large language models and cutting-edge research problems in LLM;
5) Learn practical skills to work on a shared cloud computing environment;
6) Improve their team collaboration skills and project presentation skills.

Science and technology (S&T) permeate everyday international exchange and increasingly drive change in international relations in complex ways. The criticality of competition in S&T at all levels of international interactions warrants systematic study from social science perspectives. This graduate seminar studies key aspects in S&T affecting the broad notion of International Political Economy, with China being an actor and factor, in the contemporary world. The substantive focus of this course is on how S&T manifests in diplomacy, international laws and norms, economic growth, trade, sustainable development and geopolitical risk assessments. The course invites students to appreciate and analyze these complexities through situating the role of S&T in examples include environment, health, manufacturing technology, energy, and AI. The course draws heavily on recent research to showcase how social scientists and policy-makers have evaluated and navigated debates over the interplay between S&T and international relations.

Prior knowledge about a particular topic covered in the syllabus is not required. The course will introduce basic concepts required for understanding the issues covered. The load of required readings is deliberately kept low to incentivize comprehension and questioning before the class meeting so that students from diverse backgrounds can have as much of a common plate to relate with each other during class.

Upon completing the course, participants can expect to have enriched knowledge base and appreciation for the scientific and technological dimensions of the broader issues they are interested in. The main objective is to enable students to produce research on current topics by practicing critical thinking.