Hong Kong

This course provides the managerial tools needed to understand and articulate the impact of an organization's business processes, and the ability to analyze and continuously improve these business processes.

This course examines real world examples of how analytics have been used to significantly improve business decisions. It covers decision trees, linear regression, logistic regression, classification trees, clustering, and optimization

This course examines how architecture and urbanism are represented in film and investigates how film influences and constructs the built environment and vice versa – how the built environment is experienced and perceived through moving images. It looks as the questions: How does architecture use its structure, form, enclosure, floor plans, materials, and lighting to produce effects and backgrounds? How does (built) space provoke emotions and influence everyday lives? Likewise, how does the film use space, architecture, and landscape to situate its characters and create dramatic action and emotions?  In other words, how does it produce narratives and iconic images and shape collective memories? 

In this interdisciplinary seminar students conduct research in small groups and prepare reports from a comparative perspective, especially a comparative analysis of Chinese and Western views. Research topics include current affairs; political, economic, societal, moral, technological, and art issues; university, Hong Kong, and global issues; and developments and discoveries in various fields. The course objectives are to conduct collaborative research, develop an interdisciplinary and comparative perspective, and achieve cross-cultural team building skills. Students prepare written reports, make an oral class presentation, and participate in discussion of the presentations. Assessment: oral presentation (20%), a 6,000- to 10,000-page written report (50%), and participation in class discussion (30%).

This course introduces the basic topics of management and provides an understanding of what the job of a manager involves. In addition to covering the basic theoretical concepts, the course provides hands-on practice as an effective manager. Topics include management of yesterday and today; strategic management; organizational culture and the environment; planning and decision making; organizational structure and design; managerial communication; and controlling and motivating employees and leadership. Assessment: participation (20%), group presentation (40%), group term paper (20%), final exam (20%).