China

This course introduces financial report auditing and internal control auditing, including basic concepts and theories, and auditing procedures and cycles, specifically how to make auditing plans, complete auditing tests, conduct analysis based on auditing evidence, and make the final auditing report. It also covers the characteristics, ethics, and legal responsibilities of auditing, as well as concepts such as auditing goals, responsibilities, evidence, risks, and plans.

This course examines theories of museum informatization, including introduction; digital management of museum collections; digital museums (including digital tour/on-site multimedia display content and online exhibition digital methods); theories and technologies of the museum collection information management system including the function setting principle and operation method; text and multimedia information collection.

This course examines the theory and practice of the management of museum collections; standard processes of daily collection management work; content of museum collections from the collection of sources to the registration, storage and retrieval; relevant reports and documents in the development of collection management; policy formulation and working procedures related to collection management; direction of museum collection management at home and abroad.

This course examines the basic principles and basic procedures of social survey methods. Using the general process of social surveys as the layout logic and small research projects, it introduces survey design, measurement, questionnaire design, survey sampling, data collection, data processing, statistical software application and statistical analysis preparation, data statistical analysis, survey report writing, and method selection.

This course introduces the origin and development of Chinese Buddhism. It describes the main schools of Chinese Buddhism and the lives and thoughts of important thinkers. This course introduces the basic ideas of Indian Buddhism and the general process of its introduction into China. It provides an analysis of two important works in the early history of Chinese Buddhism: Zhao Lun and Awakening of Faith in the Mahayana, the main sects of Sui and Tang Dynasty Buddhism (Sanlun, Tiantai, Weishi, Huayan , Pure Land, Zen)’s main works and thoughts.

This course examines the major issues of global urban planning and governance of Chinese global cities such as Shanghai, Hong Kong, and Beijing with reference to New York, London, and Tokyo. It looks at the structure and institutions of urban government; efficiency/democracy/distribution/developmental goals; types of public policy; urban self-governance and its limits; inter-governmental conflict/competition/cooperation; privatization/partnership/governance grid; theories of pluralism/elitism; metropolitan government school/public choice theory/neo-regionalism/zonal restructuring; economic growth; industrial development; infrastructure; spatial planning; growth machines; urban limits; urban mechanisms; neo-Marxism; the historical institutional school; regulation; developmental state; citizenship and civic participation; neighborhoods and communities; urban social movements; social capital; gender and migration; and political parties and interest groups.