English

This course introduces the politics and power dynamics of policy making and implementation. Students examine how selected social problems (e.g. teenage pregnancy and welfare reform) are constructed and why some are high on the policy making agenda whilst others are not. This course challenges taken-for-granted assumptions about policy responses to selected social problems via an examination of politics and power; explores the ways in which social problems are socially constructed in political discourse, public debate and policy presentation; locates the lived experiences of social problems within the context of global and local inequalities; and differentiates between policy design, implementation, and lived experience.

This course teaches how a common law jurisdiction like the United States approach the problem of torts—accidental and other harms that occur between private individuals and how this law has developed and changed over the years.

This course provides a firm foundation in aural skills for the 21st Century musician in the globalized Singapore context, drawing in particular on Western Classical music, popular music/jazz, and music from diverse cultures (e.g., Chinese, Malay, Indian). The course introduces to key listening skills to develop a critical ear, aural awareness, and cross-cultural sensitivity to music across different traditions, styles, and genres. Throughout the course, students develop foundational aural skills (e.g., sight-singing/solfege-singing (including using cipher notation), dictation/aural transcription skills, and abilities to identify harmonies, timbres, other musical and stylistic features through a spiral approach. This course requires an audition.

This course studies and analyzes the tradition of autobiographical writing in English. Through a diachronic study, it explores the evolution of the genre from its origins to the present. Through a synchronic study, it discusses the different manifestations and subgenres of life writing such as memoirs, diaries, lyric essays, autofiction, etc. 

This course examines digital humanities. It will introduce the resources available at CUHK for digital humanities (DS Lab, VR Studio, 3-Printing space, etc.). It will also involve the study of some exciting applications of tools, like VR, text analysis, 3-D modelling and printing, historical mapping, etc. 

This course explores masterworks of short fiction from Nobel Prize winners in Literature from across the globe.  

The course covers the following works and authors: John Steinbeck’s classic American novella about migrant workers and class struggle during the Great Depression, Of Mice and Men; the magical realism of several short stories by Gabriel Garcia Marquez (e.g., A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings); the magical power of fiction in the service of telling gripping stories will be further illustrated by short stories from the Egyptian writer Naguib Mafouz, and the Chinese laureate Mo Yan. 

The course concludes with the most recent Nobel winner Han Kang’s work about resistance and transcendence, The Vegetarian. 

Topics in this marketing and sales management course include today's client; contemporary sales; CRM, sales technology and analysis; market research and messaging; negotiation and closing; territory organization; recruitment, selection, and training; motivation of sellers; remuneration and evaluation of sales; international sales prospects. NOTE: This course is the same as BUS 152 but taught in the UC3M International School.

This course explores revolutionary thought and practice from the early 20th century to the present day. Reading the cultural production of anticolonial, anti-caste, feminist, indigenous, and anti-capitalist activism, students critically examine the relationship between revolutionary social movements and the autobiographies, essays, poetry, and music they produced.  Students consider the theoretical work of these revolutionary movements as essential to the development of a Marxist tradition that is rooted in praxis. The course also includes a self-organized reading group component to encourage students to extend their engagement with these ideas beyond the university.

This course covers the physical, emotional, social, and cognitive changes that occur during adolescence and how these changes affect adolescent behavior and life. Drawing from developmental science, education, psychology, sociology, and other disciplines, this course analyzes adolescent development from an interdisciplinary perspective and explores effective ways to understand and interact with adolescents. 

After taking this course, students should be able to: describe and critically discuss major theories and research findings related to adolescent development, discover practical ways to solve problems related to adolescent development, and communicate effectively with youth. 

This course explores the relationship between religion and violence through a close reading of one of the foundational texts for the understanding of this relationship - R. Girard's Violence and the Sacred. The course analyzes this text, while examining criticisms or developments of Girard's thought from William Cavanaugh, Luce Irigaray, Sarah Coakley, and John Milbank.