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The course is designed to equip students with experience, knowledge, and skills for succeeding in globally interdependent and culturally diverse workplaces. Throughout the course, students will be challenged to question, reflect upon, and respond thoughtfully to the issues they observe and encounter in the internship setting and local host environment. Students will have the opportunity to cultivate professional and personal development skills as defined by the National Association of Colleges and Employers (NACE). Assignments focus on building a portfolio that highlights those competencies and their application to workplace skills. Students complete 45 hours of in-person and asynchronous online learning activities and 225-300 hours at the internship placement.

This course covers a range of films that map issues affecting Galician culture and society. It identifies the major historical, socio-economic, political, and cultural shifts that have affected Galicia in the 20th and 21st centuries. It provides an understanding of key issues affecting Galician society such as linguistic diglossia, climate change, migration, rural abandonment, industrialization and Minoritization. This course helps develop key skills in film analysis, how to read and critically evaluate academic sources on a range of topics related to Galician cinema, culture and society, and how to combine the studied themes into a coherent overview of Galician culture and society.

This course explores and experiments with applying new technologies (such as Blockchain, Augmented Reality and the Internet of Things) to support social interaction and collaboration in new ways. It starts by covering how to study diverse workplaces, drawing on established theories of computer supported cooperative work (CSCW). The goal is to learn how to study users and their practices, and to learn from how technologies are used in "real world" organizations. Students then bring these new insights into the Makerspace and start a design process learning how to develop and apply novel technologies in a user-centered way. The overall goal is to rethink and innovate the future of workplace, and build new collaborative technologies that fit with real users needs. The course has three parts: ethnographic empirical study of a selected workplace drawing on theoretical theories of computer supported cooperative work; design and prototyping collaborative technologies in the Makerspace using user-centred approaches; and re-thinking and innovating the future workplace creating design fictions. 

This course examines the many roles of the media in the web of modern life. It equips students with basic concepts of the operation, information of the landscape and ecology of media and social media. An experiential learning model is implemented where outings are arranged for students to understand what is news or information content, how news or information content is produced, presented, delivered on different platforms to consumers. Students experience how what happens in the real world is transformed into content which they read or watch in the virtual world. Being informed consumers and content producers, students have the real life experience of having the two roles and in this course they learn how their lives, study, work and their health physically and mentally are affected by the media and social media. Concepts such as news reporting, information gathering, news writing, feature writing, preparing materials in different forms for social media posts as professional journalists and social media account operators are introduced. The course also covers concepts such as media ownership, credibility, and how to construct and deconstruct news products in various forms including text, video, visual and audio as content consumers. 

This course introduces Hong Kong popular music and the basic operations of the music industry. It covers a wide range of practical operation of record companies, including Artist and Repertoire Management, production of music and lyrics, marketing and sales, promotion and distribution. Besides the practical and management aspects, it also covers history and issues of popular music in Hong Kong, music commentary and the board theoretical, legal and social implications of the industry.

This course introduces the basics of dynamical oceanography, the study of forces that control ocean processes, and the resulting interaction with large scale bio-geochemical cycling. Students learn how to assess what forces and interactions are important for a particular scenario relating to an ocean feature/process. 

This course is a foundational course that introduces students to some of the central problems involved in the interpretation of literature. At the same time, the course provides students with an introduction to some of the most influential and challenging theories of interpretation itself. Throughout the history of literature, there have arisen various competing interpretations of literary texts and, with that, the need to adjudicate between rival interpretations from interdisciplinary backgrounds. "Theory" has therefore emerged as a means of justifying particular interpretations over and against others. This course demonstrates the connections between different theoretical perspectives within English Literature, and helps students to understand why these opposing "readings", theoretical perspectives, and interpretations occur, and how to analyze some of the more ambitious and compelling theories through which these readings have been generated.

This course introduces students to the principles and practice of automated program processing, covering both mainstream application areas, and selected more exotic applications. It covers program transformation and analysis paradigms; applications areas of automated program analysis, such as optimisation, verification, and specialization of programs; principles of semantics-based program transformation; applications of program transformation, such as translation, synthesis, and maintenance; software systems and tools supporting analyses and transformations; selected examples of advanced analyses and/or transformations.

The course examines the key economic challenges facing developing countries understand why some nations remain poor while others achieve sustained growth. Blending macro and micro perspectives, the course covers a wide range of topics including inequality, poverty, health, education, nutrition, labor markets, migration, gender dynamics, agriculture, and institutions.

This course offers a critical study of the conditions of cultural production, its formalization as a changing ideological foundation, and the mechanisms of selection, transmission, and reception throughout various historical periods. It explores how classical ideas were preserved and transformed in medieval and Renaissance Europe. This course also discusses the role of gender, education, and politics in shaping culture, from cathedral schools and early universities to humanist learning. It examines how culture was produced and shared and how intellectuals connected knowledge, power, and creativity across the centuries. 

Pre-requisites: Culture in Its Historical Dimension