English

This course examines social change in Hong Kong since from the post-war period. The focus is on how industrialization, urbanization, globalization ,and modernity affect everyday lives, institutions, relationships ,and identities. The first two sections of the course will look at the mechanics of these changes and selected social problems associated with them: the transformation of community life, mental health, political, economic and gender inequalities. The final part will examine the implications of and responses to these problems; the rise of social movements for democracy, experiences of discrimination, the emergence of distinct Hong Kong cultural identities, the search for intimacy, and family life.

This course examines the knowledge, skills, and experience in starting up an innovative business, in looking for critical funding and in structuring a deal to make a business viable. The course is geared towards students who want to develop an entrepreneurial mindset, want to undertake innovative business cases, or have a general interest in start-ups.

This course provides an opportunity for students to gain experience in a research laboratory in the School of Psychology. Students will participate in the day to day running of a research laboratory, which may involve attending lab meetings, assisting with conducting research, and conducting literature searches. 

This course examines contemporary anthropological theory including post-modernism, post-structuralism, practice theory, political economy, globalization, feminist anthropology and the material turn. It introduces major figures in contemporary theoretical debates and key ongoing controversies in the discipline. 

This course examines some of the best contemporary writing in English, from a range of cultures. It covers a range of genres including the novel, the graphic novel, short fiction, and poetry. In addition to providing a grounding in contemporary literature, this course focuses on what it means to read and write in the twenty-first century.

This provides students with an understanding of the nature and structure of the disclosures that an acquirer must make when proposing a merger with a target. Particular attention is paid to data that is useful for valuation purposes when trying to appraise a target with a view to developing a target identification methodology. Course topics include the anatomy of a typical merger – mini case study; overview of Mergers Analysis – methods to identify prospective targets using financial statements; brief outline of US and European financial reporting requirements; required filings to raising finance to publicly fund transactions; obtaining a purchase price and creating a Pro Forma Valuation; special topic on fair values, goodwill, and intangibles valuation; applied examples; constructing projections including accretion and dilution; and ex-post analysis of deals. Prerequisites for the course: introductory level accounting.

This course explores the effect of taxes and how they should be imposed. It mainly focuses on microeconomic analysis. The first half of the course discusses the theoretical analysis of taxation, and the second half is related to specific taxation schemes and policy debates in Korea. 

This course focuses on philosophically interesting questions surrounding religion, including such issues as the evidential value of religious experiences and testimony of miracles; the existence of God; and the dependence or independence of morality and meaning on religious foundations.

This course introduces the microsociology of small groups and subcultures and reviews the sociological theories and research methods used to understand them. It examines how small groups and subcultures structure social life, as well as how they form and change over time. The course discusses key social aspects of group and subcultures such as norms, social structures, leadership, conformity, power, inequality, conflict, and cooperation. It identifies the different social roles that exist in small groups and subcultures and considers how small groups and subcultures affect identity, deviance, emotions, and creativity. The course highlights the significance of small groups and subcultures for social life and individual biographies, and provides an understanding of the complex interplay between micro and macro forms of social interaction.