Hong Kong

This course examines important topics related to e-commerce, including: history of e-commerce, unique features of e-commerce technology, Porter’s five forces analysis, business models for e-commerce, successful examples of e-commerce companies in various business areas, the new social, mobile and local marketing, and the ethical, social and political issues associated with e-commerce.

This course examines the social scientific study of gender, sexuality, and family in Japan from the postwar to the contemporary period from a comparative perspective. 

This course examines the theoretical and practical foundations of games and gamification and the game phenomenon from neural and cognitive perspectives. It covers the history and latest development of game studies; neural and cognitive theories of the game phenomenon; the concept of game; the psychological, social, economic, and educational benefits of game application; the potential harms and risks of gaming activities; the basic principles of game studies. 

This course examines Hong Kong’s history through the narratives of women, a group often made invisible in history writing, as social actors in the fabric of (post-)colonial Hong Kong. From elites’ households to squatter huts, from brothels, textile factories to convents and schools, from public housing estates, government offices to LegCo Chamber, women of different generations and ethnicities have been caregivers, breadwinners, and pioneers, contesting the prescribed gender role and identity in a patriarchal society. By examining their private lives and public voices informed by their (marginalized) positions interweaved in different social and historical contexts, this course seeks to not only explore how they lived, or how their lives are shaped and reshaped by their own unyielding efforts, but also how their stories can make their ways into narratives and representations in the history of Hong Kong. 

This course provides an analysis of the power of social media, such as Facebook, twitter, blogs, mashups, wikis, etc. It examines how social media can facilitate creativity and collective intelligence, through enhanced information sharing and online collaboration among netizens; ultimately building the social pool of knowledge. It also examines the downside of this participatory culture. With the growth of web sites like Facebook, Wikipedia, YouTube, Flickr, blogs, and open source development communities, the web is no longer just about delivery of information. It is about participation and collaboration. This course examines the impact of the open and peer-to-peer collaborations that are the underpinning Web 2.0 on which most of us are spending more time than ever before. In addition to learning Web 2.0 enabling technologies, students examine the social and philosophical implications of this phenomenon. Assessment: Assignments (15%), project presentation (8%), project reports (7%), midterm (25%), final exam (45%).

This course examines the impact of China’s opening and internationalization on the Chinese economy, and proceeds to examine the challenges of the rise of China to the global economic order. Topics include the impact of China on world trade and investment, the internationalization of Renminbi and its prospect as a global reserve currency, China’s bilateral and regional trade agreements, China and global energy and environmental issues, China’s impact on international bodies of economic coordination and governance (such as the Group of Twenty, the World Trade Organization, and the International Monetary Fund), and the analysis and assessment of the challenges of China to global economic, monetary, and financial governance.

This course examines the allocation, production and distribution theories in microeconomics. Topics include utility and preference, consumer demand, production and cost, market structure, general equilibrium and welfare economics. 

This course examines traditional and contemporary jazz literature in a variety of idioms and styles. Students prepare for an end-of-semester concert in weekly rehearsals that enable them to develop their technical proficiency, stylistic accuracy, improvisation skills, and creative expression.

This course examines the analysis of the equilibrium and dynamic behavior of mechanical systems. It covers equilibrium of particles and of rigid bodies; distributed forces; analysis of structures, including, trusses, frames, cables and beams; kinematics of particles; kinetics of particles, Newton's second law, energy, momenta, impact dynamics; systems of particles; kinematics of rigid bodies; and kinetics of rigid bodies in two and three dimensions.