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This interdisciplinary course introduces the field of public health, highlighting its distinct role from clinical medicine and its collaborative approach to complex health issues. Students explore topics such as health promotion, disease prevention, and global health through an interdisciplinary lens, incorporating insights from social sciences, natural sciences, mathematics, economics and political sciences. Real-world case studies demonstrate the interplay between biological, environmental, social, and economic factors affecting health outcomes. The course emphasizes applying public health frameworks to understand the design, implementation, and evaluation of health interventions. Students learn how theories and methods from various disciplines converge to address public health challenges and improve population health. Group projects simulate real-world public health scenarios and encourage students to integrate diverse perspectives, develop innovative solutions, and communicate effectively within interdisciplinary teams. Students gain a thorough understanding of how interdisciplinary approaches are vital for addressing complex public health issues and are prepared to apply these methods in future practice.

This course examines Chinese literature from the Song Dynasty to the late Qing Dynasty. The course will help students gain an understanding of cultural history and the internal development of literary history. Students will gain basic knowledge about Chinese literary works in this course knowledge and understanding of the relationship between historical conditions and literary production.

This course covers the world of luxury fashion from a brand management perspective. Topics include the nature of luxury, brand promise, and brand engagement. The course also discusses how global market dynamics, digital transformation, and customer expectation shifts shape the future of luxury fashion.  

Students gain a deep understanding of how luxury fashion brands differentiate themselves from mass market brands as well as strategic brand management skills. 

This course is aimed to train the undergraduate students of SOE in terms of both technological and management knowledge. It is thus a cross-disciplinary course that encourages students to learn independently and collaboratively with the purpose to address complicated issues in energy, resource, environmental, economy and policy areas under the globalization circumstance.

This course will introduce you to an evidence-based roadmap and practical tools for gaining control, living a life you aspire to, and functioning effectively. Students will gain insight into their well-being and how it may impact their and others’ lives and work. This course offers an in-depth exploration of the intersection between social psychology and individual well-being. Field trips to historical sites, museums, and community organizations offer experiential learning and cultural immersion opportunities. Lectures delve into how social factors influence human behavior, cognition, and emotion, ultimately shaping our choices and overall health. Well-being is not about being happy. The pursuit of happiness falls short, while real contentment comes from living a fulfilling and meaningful life. Students will examine fundamental concepts in social psychology, such as social influence, conformity, obedience, group dynamics, attribution, and attitudes. They will gain insights into how these concepts manifest in real-life contexts and impact individual decision-making processes through theoretical frameworks and empirical research. The course emphasizes the role of social relationships, cultural norms, and societal structures in shaping perceptions of well-being and the pursuit of happiness. Students will critically evaluate theories and research findings regarding subjective well-being, life satisfaction, and the factors contributing to happiness.

This course tackles a central political and social issue of our times: the role of emotions such as hatred, anger, patriotism, shame, and offence in our politics and society. Students investigate questions such as, what is the social and moral value – or disvalue – of these emotions? When are these instrumentally beneficial, and when are they corrosive of our democratic culture or society? Informed by contemporary work in psychology, ethics, feminist philosophy, and political philosophy, this course explores a range of emotions. 

This course provides a basic understanding of research design and statistics that provide the foundations for independent empirical research and critical analysis. Emphasis is placed on the acquisition of analysis skills. Topics include core aspects such as basic statistics, technical writing, and the use of statistical packages.

This course illuminates the role of dynamics in climate change and variability through presenting some major climate phenomena in the climate system. These phenomena include monsoons, the El Niño-Southern Oscillation, the Madden-Julian Oscillation, the Pacific Decadal Oscillation, thermohaline circulation, and global warming.

By studying Principle of Economics, students should learn some basic knowledge of Economics, master fundamental economic concepts and use economic theories to analyze micro- and macroeconomic phenomena in our daily life. In addition, students should lay a solid foundation to study further economic courses.

This course introduces soil mechanics and engineering geology for geotechnical engineering applications such as foundations, rail construction, and tunnels. It considers the fundamental mechanics of soils as a heterogeneous mixture of air, water, and solid particles and the origin of these materials from their parent rocks. It analyses the deformation of natural and man-made structures that comprise or are built upon soil, and the flow of fluids within them. It develops an understanding of how the fundamental principles of geological sciences influence the design and construction of engineering structures.