Hong Kong

The course focuses on challenges of managing service brands and delivering quality service to customers across industry sectors. Theattraction, retention, and building of strong customer relationships through quality service (and services) are all at the heart of the course content. The course is equally applicable to organizations whose core product is service (e.g., banks, transportation companies, hotels, hospitals, educational institutions, professional services, telecommunication, etc.) and to organizations that depend on services for competitive advantage (e.g., high technology manufacturers, automotive, industrial products, etc.).

The Global Migration Legal Clinic provides the skills and knowledge necessary to excel in a changing global legal environment by providing the opportunity to learn by doing and by providing service to the community. Students in this Clinic are tasked with focusing on specific legal cases and problems, and devising holistic solutions to said problems. While their solutions obviously involve legal recourse or research of some kind, students are required to also consider broader solutions, including: education and community legal empowerment, media and social media exposure, lobbying, and commercial solutions. This course covers the challenges and skills of affecting real change in real-life situations; expands opportunities for collaborative experiential learning; examines the theory and practice of various legal disciplines; gives students an opportunity to practice their professional skills and ethics; encourages students to identify and provide service for unmet legal needs; and encourages critical analysis of the law, the relationship between international and domestic legal systems, and the clients' place and the lawyer's role within the international legal system.

Nothing surpasses life and death, and the complicated decision to take one's own life, as an issue of profound significance. Despite the advances in quality of life that have been achieved, the World Health Organization estimates one suicide death worldwide every 40 seconds. Why do some countries have higher suicide rates than others? What can explain the cross-border trends and discrepancies for suicides in Hong Kong in relation to Mainland China and the rest of the world? How are new trends in social media informing suicide research? What are the biochemical and neurological links between depression, substance abuse, and suicide? How is the suicide note being studied as a literary genre? And, finally, what new developments have occurred in the field of suicide prevention? This course provides a wide range of perspectives (social science, neuroscience, legal, policing, ethics, and community outreach) to enlighten understanding of suicide and its prevention. The course evaluates the outlets available for coping – both for high risk contemplators and those bereaved from suicide losses; examines the neurobiology of suicide, head trauma and suicide risk, and the genetic imprint of early life adversity as it relates to suicide risk; compares how suicidal thoughts and suicides are communicated via social media outlets, the suicide note, and the interactions between attempt survivors/the bereaved and healthcare professionals; and identifies challenges and opportunities for suicide prevention and harm reduction, with an aim for practical interventions.

This course is the laboratory course to accompany PHYS 11S. Students conduct experiments in mechanics and heat to illustrate the experimental foundations of physics presented in the lecture course. Experiments include: the Atwood Machine, projectile motion, centripetal force, work, energy and friction, conservation of linear momentum, rotational motion, conservation of angular momentum, simple harmonic motion, standing waves on a vibrating string and specific heat and latent heat of vaporization. Co-requisite: PHYS 11S (HKUST course PHYS 1112) Text: Penger Tong and David Mak, GENERAL PHYSICS 1 LAB MANUAL. Assessment: lab performance (30%), lab report (70%).

This course provides a theoretical foundation of counseling and clinical psychology. After an overview on the therapeutic relationship and profession, the course focus is on a sample of major theoretical orientations in counseling and psychotherapy. Some practical experiences on self-understanding, behavioral change, and basic interview skills are included.

This course provides a survey to the fundamentals and general principles of the law as it interacts with individuals and institutions in society. It provides a deeper understanding of the processes by which laws are made, including both formal and informal, and the influence that laws have on different stakeholders in a society. Lecture and discussion topics include changing laws through the court system; historical Hong Kong laws; crimes, Mens Rea; contracts and undue influence; torts, medical costs for long-term disease; intellectual property; agency and employment; and ethics.

This course teaches the principles and skills of news photography, such as camera operation and digital editing. Assignments include using a point and shoot camera to demonstrate content and composition; standing in one spot and taking ten different photographs; telling a photo story in eight to twelve photos; producing a 1000-word essay about a contemporary photojournalist's work and style; and summing up an event in three photographs.