English

This course examines the increasing capacity of open-source GIS in disseminating spatial data sets in non-conventional formats. It covers a showcase of diverse datasets and their potential values and hands-on practices about the uses of these datasets. 

This course examines China’s natural environment; its institutional, legislative and administrative frameworks in environment protection and nature conservation; and discusses the government’s strategies for environmental protection and sustainable development.

The phenomenon of globalization is vital to our understanding of the world since the end of the Second World War, and particularly since the 1970s. In this course, students look at the processes that made the world a more integrated and interdependent place in the second half of the 20th century.

This course aims to introduce the fundamentals of environmental hydrology as well as some basic hydrological analysis and simulation methods. As an important tool for hydrologists, Geographic Information System (GIS) and its applications in hydrology are also introduced. Specifically, this course contains

three modules:

(1) introduction to the fundamental theories on hydrologic processes;

(2) introduction to some commonly used hydrological analysis methods

(3) introduction to using SWAT (Soil and Water Assessment Tool) for hydrological process simulations.

This research course allows a student to participate in 8-10 hours per week on lab tasks, including data analysis and preparation for meetings with the lab supervisor. 

The final grade is based on lab task participation and an oral presentation. 

This course belongs to the small class which is required for the Corporate Finance. The orientation of small-class teaching is: deepen understanding, locate interest, improve ability.

An introduction to the physical processes occurring in the Earth's atmosphere. Interpretation of weather maps and satellite images, cloud types and formation, atmospheric structure, thermodynamic processes, rain formation, solar and terrestrial radiation, energy balance at the surface, cumulus and cumulonimbus convection, and air pollution.

Political sociology examines the social origins and dynamics of political phenomena such as the state, nationalism, political mobilization, civil war, and conflict. It focuses in particular on the changing relationship between society and state. This course provides an overview of the major debates in the field, tracing the changing relationship between state and society in the modern era. It provides an introduction to both classical and contemporary issues in political sociology and reviews the leading theoretical and historical approaches in the field. The course explores how the nation-state became the dominant form of political organization and why it persists; why nationalism is such a powerful force; why people get involved in political parties and social movements; how civil wars break out; how governments maintain their legitimacy; the changing nature of warfare and its role in shaping societies and states; and the changing character of politics in the Information Age.
 

This course introduces students to the synergies and challenges across anthropological and psychoanalytic theory. It encourages students to think across methodologies and conceptual toolkits in their analysis of subjectivity, the psyche, and human experience.

Through the reading of a selection of classical Greek and Roman literature in translation, the course aims to introduce the students to some major authors and works of the classical period, and prepare them for the study of English literature.