China

This course introduces the main theories of career development and consulting and its research (e.g. job matching theory, career development and construction theory, social cognitive theory, theory of career decision-making, etc.), and cultivates professional skills (e.g. professional psychological evaluation, professional information resources, etc.).

Contemporary International Relations refers to the span of time from about 70 years after the end of the Second World War to the present, that is, from 1945 to 2016. From the perspective of the history of international relations, this course introduces the evolution of international relations since World War II through the comprehensive use of a variety of materials, including declassified government archives. This course is divided into two parts, the Cold War and the post-Cold War, marked by the disintegration of the former Soviet Union in 1991. In terms of content, it involves three aspects: the evolution of great power relations characterized by the "Cold War" between the United States and the Soviet Union; the regional integration process with the EU as the main representative; the evolution of international mechanisms with global governance as the main expression.

This course in world literature introduces basic knowledge of literature, basic research methods, appreciation perspectives, and cutting-edge phenomena. Students read literature while considering genre, country, literature type and theme, select some classic works of contemporary world literature to analyze them in different research methods. The course selects representative works for analysis and research including selections from Europe, America, Latin America, and East Asia. Literary types include drama, novel, poem, film text, and genres include romanticism, realism, modernism, and postmodernism; topics include fate, love, war, and gender; other regions, types. Genres and motives of literature are briefly introduced.

This course introduces the background, theory and method of historical anthropology, and its application in historical research. Course topics include culture and tradition, structure and interpretation, meaning and metaphor, state and power, time, space, memory and imagination, and modernity and world system.

This course introduces common visual knowledge to provide a minimum of visual media literacy. Topics: the basic situation of visual communication development; basic theory and knowledge of visual communication; and entry-level visual communication practice skills.

This course examines the basic theoretical knowledge of the legal norms and ethical norms of news dissemination, carries out research on important legal and ethical issues that have emerged in the current practice of news communication in China through a combination of theories and case studies, helps students to learn, use, and obey news laws and ethics, so that they can not only conform to the characteristics of the Internet era, but also use relevant theoretical knowledge to analyze practical problems. Through the course, students will be trained and improve their legal literacy; maintain the right of news dissemination; fulfill the obligation of news dissemination; and observe the professional ethics of journalism.

This course includes the following topics: legal basis and legal thinking; overview of Chinese and foreign news communication laws and regulations; news communication activities and national security; news communication activities and social order; administrative management of news communication; news infringement; news communication activities and reputation protection; news communication activities and privacy protection; advertising message release and management; overview of news ethics; internet rumors and internet governance in China; internet governance and freedom of expression; internet and copyright infringement; Internet and personal information rights protection; Internet industry innovation and compliance research; financial information disclosure misrepresentation and insider trading, etc. ; maintain the authenticity of news; "hidden interviews"; prohibit news sensation, hype, and vulgarity; supervision of public opinion and "news trials"; prohibit "paid news", "paid negligence" and news blackmail.

This course examines the modern analysis of economic growth, productivity increment and innovations. Topics include three categories: (1) theoretical part: neoclassical growth model, models of endogenous technological change, misallocation, basic network analysis; (2) dataset part: Chinese annual firm-level surveys, Chinese administrative registration records, patent registration data (EP, US, CN), patent citation data, patent transaction data; (3) software part: stata, matlab, gephi, latex.

The course introduces the principles of international law with a focus on basic theory of the contemporary international legal system including the relation between international and domestic laws, international legal personality, territorial sovereignty, law of sea, and international organization. The course requires prior- knowledge of the law and politics. It explores the sources of international law and its general principles, jurisdictions, subjects, and objects, as well as the laws of treaty, diplomatic relation, international organization, state responsibility, and peaceful settlement of international disputes. The course includes several international moot courts.