Peking University, Beijing

The primary objective of this course is to build the foundation of cost and managerial accounting, which provides information that is essential for management’s strategic planning and decisions. Unlike financial accounting, which is intended for external parties, cost and managerial accounting is primarily designed for internal management and staff. Therefore, this course is designed to help you (1) develop the necessary skills and knowledge to prepare reports essential for management decisions and (2) understand the usefulness and limitations of cost and managerial accounting information.

The aim of this course is to introduce students to modern British history, focusing on the continuously improvisational nature of the UK state, the interconnectedness of the UK and the British Empire, and its rise and decline through war. A secondary objective is to introduce students to major historiographical debates about modern British history.

This course will focus on the complicated role that law has played in the economic reform. It will analyze such a role from five perspectives, namely, constitution, government, property, regulation, and globalization. Together, these perspectives will help the students to build a multi-dimensional understanding of the political economy of law in modern China.

The main content of this course consists of several kinds of polynomials of graphs, groups and graphs, and strongly regular graphs. It will enable the students know the algebric method to study combinatorial structures.

This course is an introduction to statistical methods of empirical social research, and how they are used to assemble, describe, and draw inferences from data. This course emphasizes on the most widely used statistical methods by social scientists, and how they can be applied on data from sample survey and archives.

This course will cover the concepts, nature, fundamental pricing principles, major models, applications, and underlying risks of financial derivatives. The derivatives discussed include forwards, futures, options, interest rate derivatives, commodity derivatives, credit derivatives, and other non-standard derivative instruments. In addition to introducing essential theoretical foundations, the course emphasizes the integration of theory with practice. Through real-world case studies, students will gain a deeper understanding of the role and limitations of derivatives in the economy. Furthermore, students will be required to use computational tools (such as VBA-Excel or other programming languages) to implement derivative pricing models and risk management strategies.

This course investigates material properties from the perspective of condensed matter physics. We will cover the mechanical, thermal, electrical, magnetic and optical properties of materials, learn to apply qualitative and quantitative analysis and understand these properties based on the interaction between atoms and molecules, crystalline structure, electronic and magnetic structures and morphology. Through the course of study, we will know the most dominant factors affecting material properties and know how to estimate material properties in a certain range.

This course focuses on the key principles of jet propulsion technology, the basic structure of aircraft engines, and key design methods. It will help students understand the key criteria for selecting engines for current aircraft, and familiarize them with the basic structure, primary functions, and fundamental technical parameters of each aircraft engine component. Students will also learn how to apply this foundational knowledge to complex engineering problems. This course will empower students to select power systems for various aircraft and design the key technical parameters of powerplants for new flight systems.

Business Simulation Game aims to help students develop management decision-making skills without running real-world risks. Students build teams to run businesses in the computer-simulated competitive market. They make various top management decisions for sequential periods, and the performance is evaluated based on multiple indices. The team that achieves the best overall performance will win the game! Also, top performers will get chance to participate the National Competition.

Film Music focuses on the seven core points to discuss, concept, characteristics, history, function, direction, aesthetics and critic on it of. The course aims to presenting the frontier knowledge, leading the method, supporting the possibilities about how to questioning and analysis as a film goer and an observer. Comprehensive dimensional scope involved and synchronization both theory and practice will be undertaken. The systematic analysis on film music, the categorization of film music, shown an important feature of the course.