HONG KONG

This course examines Hong Kong’s culture and its people from an anthropological perspective. Through close readings of ethnographies, viewing of videos, and fieldtrips, the class explores the interaction of different cultural flows in various social systems, and learns about the linkage between the past and the present, the local and the global, and the Chinese and the rest. 

This course focuses on how psychological theories are applied to learning, teaching, and facilitation of human growth. It covers major developmental theories and their application to learning and instruction, learning theories from both behavioral and cognitive traditions, effective teaching methods and practices, learners' individual and group differences, achievement motivation, and assessment. Students participate in learning activities that require self-reflection and integration of daily life experience. 

Modern healthcare has changed the way we approach medicine. We are now increasingly in charge of our health, assuming new roles in seeking information, understanding rights and responsibilities, and making health decisions. Underlying these demands, however, are the needs for the knowledge and skills to navigate the sea of information (and misinformation) to make smart decisions about health. Health literacy goes beyond having the basic ability of understanding and applying language, literacy and numeracy skills to process health information. It is also about having the knowledge, confidence and skills to interpret information. This course will equip students with the necessary skills and knowledge to understand health information to the fullest, empower them to make informed decisions, to question the reliability of information, and to think critically about scientific evidence. 

This course examines advanced macroeconomics and its application to real-world issues. The emphasis will be on the microeconomic foundations and decisions that underlie the behavior of aggregate variables. 

This course examines basic properties of metric spaces; openness; closedness; interior; closure; derived set; boundary; compactness; completeness; continuity; connectedness; pathwise connectedness; uniform continuity; uniform convergence; and Banach's fixed point theorem.

This course examines Buddhism and its art from ancient times to the present. Rather than portraying Buddhist art as a timeless ideal, the class deploys case studies to foreground the dynamics of its development. In particular, it examines how styles, iconographies, and media have been purposefully selected and reconfigured in varying contexts across and beyond Asia. The class also explores contemporary art inspired by Buddhist concepts, and the role of collecting and curatorial practices in shaping the interpretation of Buddhist artifacts.

This course examines the systems approach to planning, scheduling, control, and evaluation of business project management. Topics include management on scope, time, cost, quality, resources, organization, communication, risk, and procurement. 

This course examines the analytical and managerial tasks involved in developing strategies that create value by satisfying customer demands and stakeholders’ interests in an everchanging competitive landscape. it covers strategy issues from the perspectives of Western firms as well as emerging market firms, both of which increasingly exposed to international competition.