Hong Kong

This course examines financial regulations and compliance relevant to intermediaries (company and individuals) licensed to engage in regulated activities. Embedded in regulations and compliance are ethics, professional standards and applicable laws.

This taster course is for international students who are interested in studying Putonghua. Students will be systematically introduced to Chinese characters (formation, history, stroke orders, etc.). Additionally, students will have a chance to learn some basic daily conversations in Putonghua.

This course is an upper intermediate listening and speaking course in Putonghua, focusing on students’ fluency in speaking and appropriateness in usage. In addition to daily situations and semi-formal situations, students will also be introduced to various aspects of Chinese culture and society. 

This course examines sensory and perceptual processes, with an emphasis on psychophysical and scaling methods and experimental techniques. Contents include: psychophysics and scaling, sensory systems, perceptual development, constancies and illusions, and attention.

This course examines major religious traditions in the world from a phenomenological and historical point of view. Topics include Christianity, Judaism, Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism, Confucianism, Daoism and local religions. 

This course examines the fundamentals of engineering project management. It covers project environment; project evaluation; risk management process; project selection and proposal preparation; project scheduling and contingency setting and control; control of variation and claims; project management methodologies and techniques, change management; multi-criteria decision making process; analytic hierarchy process; PERT/GANTT techniques for project control and resources allocation; simulation of critical paths; case studies.

This course examines option pricing and hedging. It will concentrate on the theory and idea of derivatives pricing and risk management. Topics include option market; European and American options; conditional expectation and discrete-time martingale, discrete-time option pricing theory; true probabilities vs. risk-neutral probabilities; estimating volatility; the Black-Scholes formula; implied volatility; option Greeks; market-making and hedging; and exotic options.

This course examines contemporary Korean popular culture, and more specifically the 21st century South Korean cultural phenomenon called Hallyu (Korean wave) – its promises and limitations as well as its popularity and backlash against it. By taking an interdisciplinary approach to the topic, we will study food, film, television, music, fashion and sports and ask how they participate in the transnational production, distribution and circulation of culture, identity, modernity, tradition, ideology and politics both regionally and globally. One of the major questions this course will explore is the curious ways in which these popular media continuously re-stage and re-define Korea’s historical past in order to comment on its present. 

This course enables students to acquire some basics of Hong Kong Sign Language and the general principles for communicating with deaf people in a visual-gestural modality. With different videoed scenarios, students are systematically guided to acquire elementary signing skills for fulfilling basic communication needs in everyday situations. Emphasis will be placed on a range of simple, general-purpose expressions, which allow students to converse with local deaf people, as well as prepare themselves for learning the language further.

This course examines the "auteur" or "author" theory by focusing on several directors each time the course is offered. Each term the selection of directors will ensure a mix of past and present, as well as American, European and Asian filmmakers.