Hong Kong

This course examines the politics of contemporary Japan, and focuses particularly on political changes since 1993, including the new electoral system and party realignment. This course surveys the core political institutions of the postwar era, explore the interaction of political leaders, political parties, the bureaucracy and interest groups, with an emphasis on the outgoing transformation of the Japanese political system.

This course introduces basic writing skills and career opportunities in the field of financial journalism. It focuses on reading financial documents, understanding macroeconomic issues, interpreting statistics, reporting on companies, and covering competition in a global economy. Students report and write business stories. Students are required to read the South china Morning Post and The Wall Street Journal Asia every day during the semester. Assessment: assignments (40%), discussion (20%), presentation (20%), and a final exam (20%). Attendance is required.

This course examines the connection between globalization and South Korea after World War II. It is also interested in accounting for the changes of political, economic, social and cultural aspects of South Korea in the last few decades and the transformation of the attitudes towards Globalization in South Korean society. This course covers a variety of topics including: brief overview of the historical development of South Korea since WWII; driving forces and features of the economic developments; foreign policy concerns; the characteristics of the traditional cultural identities; the recent Korean-wave phenomenon; opportunities and challenges brought by globalization to Korean society.

This course introduces fundamental computing principles, problem-solving methods and algorithm development, simple data structures, illustrative applications using the C++ programming language. Course topics include: introduction to computing; C++ Basics; selection and repetitive control structures; fundamental data types; functions and parameters; scope and namespace; arrays; pointers; OOP – classes and objects; string manipulation using string objects; C++ stream I/O and file processing; recursion; dynamic memory management.

This course explores the characteristics of modern Chinese literature and helps students to master the basic methodology and skills of analyzing the literary works of various genres of this period. Students analyze selected readings of the representative works of renowned modern Chinese writers.

The course provides an analytic study of the motivations, objectives, means, manifestations, and consequences of Chinese foreign policy. It discusses the Chinese foreign policy-making apparatus, procedures, and styles as well as China's role in the contemporary world, and foreign policy problems currently facing China. Other topics include territorial disputes, humanitarian intervention, human rights, energy supply, space technology, and public diplomacy. Note: Not for Government and Public Administration Majors. Text: Lanteigne, CHINESE FOREIGN POLICY: AN INTRODUCTION; Sutter, CHINESE FOREIGN RELATIONS: POWER AND POLICY SINCE THE COLD WAR. Assessment: group presentations and discussion (30%), midterm essay (20%), commentary paper (40%), class activities (10%).

This intermediate course vocabulary and grammar course provides the use of more vocabulary and grammar points. Vocabulary introduced is based on everyday conversations and daily usage with a focus on appropriateness in application. This course is taken in conjunction with Oral Skills Practice II (Putonghua). Assessment: student performance (25%), quizzes (50%), final exam (25%).

The overall aim of the course is to understand how creativity works in practice in different business situations in the creative industries. Lectures and readings focus on different forms of cultural production – advertising, book publishing, ceramics, design, fashion, film, food and music - and analyze how those concerned view the concept of creativity, how they put it into practice, and how they bring different values (many of them not immediately connected with creativity as such) to bear on its evaluation. The course's disciplinary emphasis is on social anthropology and its methodological emphasis on participant-observation (often called ethnography) in order to understand the social processes that go into creativity, on the one hand, and fashion magazines, films, pots, perfumes, and ads as the products of those processes, on the other.