Hong Kong

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. 

This course examines various big data sources covering different urban aspects and the extensive information carried by big data. It looks at various urban dynamics, including but not limited to the everyday issues of housing, mobility, consumer markets, social
interactions, and environmental sustainability. 

This course examines the increasing capacity of open-source GIS in disseminating spatial data sets in non-conventional formats. It covers a showcase of diverse datasets and their potential values and hands-on practices about the uses of these datasets. 

This course examines China’s natural environment; its institutional, legislative and administrative frameworks in environment protection and nature conservation; and discusses the government’s strategies for environmental protection and sustainable development.