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This course examines the social, cultural and economic processes that have shaped and transformed cities over the last several decades. It considers the impacts of these transformations on the people living in urban areas and whether they enhance or hinder the opportunities of different social groups in the city, and what this might mean for our global efforts to meet the UN SDG, especially goals 5 (gender equality), 10 (reducing inequalities) and 11 (sustainable cities and communities). Through the use of case studies, students will explore notions of difference, encounter and inequality in the city. Students actively participate in geographical enquiry through independent research on difference and diversity in the city. This courses utilizes active and action-orientated pedagogies to work with students to build their own knowledge of the city and urban experiences and to develop a range of graduate attributes to enable students to be confident researchers, effective communicators of geographic knowledge and socially responsible global citizens who understand the complex nature of social life and inequalities in cities across the globe.

This course examines the configuration of space, place, and identity in relation to languages, gender, and social class in Sinophone literature and culture. Engaging the issues of multiculturalism, linguistic plurality, narrative heteroglossia, and transnational im/mobility. This class probes the concept of the Sinophone and how it relates to, complicates, and challenges China and Chineseness. What is the Sinophone? How does it inform our readings of texts produced outside and on the margin of China and Chineseness? In challenging existing centers of power and hegemony, does the Sinophone form new centers? How does migration during different time periods and across different space shape the cultures of these Sinophone sites? Building on recent scholarship on Sinophone studies, this course draws on postcolonial and postmodern theories to examine a culturally and geographically diverse body of contemporary Sinophone fiction and film.

The science of particle physics is to understand our world by studying particles that constitute the universe and their interactions. This course explains the basic concept of the particle physics as well as the Standard model and its related important experiments and results.

The course covers the following topics: 

• Elementary particles and their types and characteristics of interactions
• Properties of nuclei
• Elementary particle detectors and accelerators
• Collider experiments and nuclear structure
• Quark and strong interaction 
• Weak interaction and symmetry breaking
• Standard model and verifications
• Neutrino oscillations

This course introduces a holistic approach to an exploration of normal patterns of development from infancy to old age. Social and familial conditions affecting growth at different stages in the life-cycle will be studied, together with related problems of adaptation and adjustment.

This course examines dominant schools of political thought in the 20th century and political theory relevant to assisting interpretation of the politics of development. Modern liberal democratic thought and 20th century Marxist thought; Nazism and Neo-conservatism; Anti-colonial thought and Nationalism; and West Indian political thought will be reviewed and assessed. This course will also provide exposure to critical methodologies used in contemporary political sciences.

This course introduces the concept of strategic management through case analyses, and considers the basic direction and goals of an organization, the environment (social, political, technological, economic, and global factors), industry and market structure, and organizational strengths and weaknesses. The course focuses on the strategic management of the company in a dynamic global context. Strategic Management combines the knowledge and skills of the highest levels of management and corporate management in the long term and is considered the key to success. The study of the external environment and internal resources and capabilities of the company, in order to guide strategic decisions, is addressed. The course is based on readings and case studies of companies around the world, with special attention to regional and national contexts.

This course provides an analysis of multi-sided platform businesses like those run by Alibaba, Amazon, Apple, Facebook, Google and Tencent that dominate the current economy. Students will examine the economic and strategic questions these business raise that that policymakers and market participants are grappling with and the unique economic issues pertaining to these businesses. Topics include (i) the economic features of multi-sided platforms (e.g.., definitions of platforms, network externalities, pricing and competition between platforms); (ii) strategic issues faced by platforms (e.g., launching, platform design, leakage, revenue model); (iii) emerging policy issues (e.g., platform mergers, self-preferencing, abuse of dominance). This course has pre-requisites in microeconomics. 

This course examines cutting edge concepts in genetics, genomics and evolution: genome structure (the components and organization of genomes), genomics (genome sequencing and annotation), genome variation and the forces that shape it (mutation, recombination and genetic drift) and applications of genomics (conservation genomics, host-pathogen interactions, genome engineering, and systems biology). Multiple aspects of genome biology will be studied and integrated to understand how genomes function and evolve. Core concepts and methods in genomics, molecular evolution and gene regulation will be supported by an integrated set of workshops, science communication tasks and bioinformatics analysis. Modern research methods will be applied to the analyses of differential gene expression in RNA sequencing datasets.

This course examines the historical precedence to some of the philosophical issues with reference to ancient Greek Philosophy. Three philosophers will be examined, with major emphasis on Plato and Aristotle. The focus will be mainly on metaphysical and epistemological aspects as discussed by those major classical philosophers.

By teaching the basic concepts, basic theories and practical applications of fluid mechanics, students will be able to enter flow-related professional studies, scientific research or engineering design to lay a solid foundation in fluid mechanics.

This course focuses on training students' comprehensive and detailed observation and computational analysis skills of flow phenomena, and cultivates students' scientific thinking methods to grasp the key points from the complex fluid movements and then extract fluid mechanics models from the basic principles. Actively guide students to pay attention to the understanding of physical concepts and the nature of flow, and learn from theory and practice through the study of engineering examples.