Hong Kong

This course examines handling and analyzing business data, including learning R, which is rapidly becoming the default analytics platform as it supports diverse set of analytic tools and statistical methods. Specifically, it looks at basic concepts in business analytics, and techniques and skills related to data exploration, data utilities, conducting statistical tests, data mining and modeling.

This course examines frontiers of urban environmental sciences and technologies. Course materials comprise scientific literature on urban climate, air pollution, urban acoustics, resilience and energy systems. Students are also exposed to prevailing simulation and data analytics and gain awareness of their application in environmental-conscious design at city scale. 

This course examines regulation of technological platforms, the different types of platforms and forms of technology, and the challenges brought by Artificial Intelligence. It covers how platforms are regulated in the fields of hate speech and obscenity, defamation, privacy and data protection, copyright, and political communication; and the limits of competition law in the regulation of platforms. The approach will be comparative, though particular reference will be made to the law of Hong Kong, the United Kingdom, and the European Union.

This course examines the close connections of fashion and politics in a globalized world. It covers how fashion circulates as a robust geopolitical, commercial, and personal element of global, national, and local cultures.

This course examines a wide range of topics on the commercialization of sports, tourism/leisure as an encounter of cultures/citizens/space, shopping mall and public sphere, and the impact on social and cultural life by the phenomenon of McDisneyization. Other topics such as advertising and pop culture, broadcasting (narrowcasting on the Net), merchandising and iconography in fashion will be examined to review key contemporary issues and debates about cultural consumption. Bringing together work on reception theory in literary studies and philosophy, studies on consumer culture in anthropology and sociology and those on media audiences within media studies, we will address the consequences and effects of increasing cultural commodifiaction and globalization, by exploring into the complex interactions of cultural production and consumption which are relevant in topics such as place and identity, visual culture and hyperreality, representation and communication technologies. 

This course examines the societal, economical, and cultural impact of integrative systems and the importance of integrating design into the creation of integrative systems. It covers basic design principles, design terminology, design skill-sets, design thinking and process, and how a good design relates to the design principles. Students will also learn about what is an integrative system and the importance of using technology to build an integrative system and how it is decomposed into different sub-systems that involve multiple technology components, interacting with each other.