Peking University, Beijing

"Economic Geography" is a major component of geography, which is the most developed sub-discipline in most National Geographic Science Systems. The development and characteristics of economic geography, on one hand, are closely related to the development of economic activities. On the other hand, they are greatly influenced by geography, economics and other related disciplines. As an independent discipline, economic geography has only a history of over a hundred years. However, its origin and development can be traced further.

This course targets at helping students not only understand and master a specific research method, but also enhance the level of maturity of students towards academic research, more specifically the concepts, skills, and confidence required to learn new methods, or the “Data Quotient”. The lectures may cover basic Machine Learning, frontier methods in causal inference, and some Bayesian statistics. The course also aims at helping enrolled students develop research professionalism – the ability to be a good reader, listener, and speaker for the academia.

Language is often considered a “tool” of communication, but what kind of “tool” is it? What are some other ways of perceiving language? Do people with different mother tongues and cultures tend to think and behave differently? How do misunderstandings in intercultural communication happen? How can we develop a competence that will enable us to reach better understanding of ourselves as well as people from various cultures? These are some of the questions examined in this course. The course introduces some major topics concerning language, culture, and intercultural communication.

This course covers the following specific forms of tort litigation and the corresponding respective legal rules, legal principles and public policies: unlawful infringement of land, unlawful infringement of movables, unlawful infringement of person, intrusion, reputational damage, negligence law, statutory tort liability, tort liability for dangerous premises, defective product liability, strict liability, liability for animal harm, domestic tort liability, economic tort liability, fraud and harmful lies, abuse of legal proceedings, etc. On this basis, this course will also discuss legal theory, including the moral theory of tort law, the political theory of tort law, the economic theory of tort law, and the feminist theory of tort law.

This course is designed to acquaint students with the concepts and values underlying the rhetorical traditions in China and the West (esp. rhetorical traditions which affect how native speakers of Chinese and English communicate). Students are expected to better understand the differences and similarities which affect the key concepts and values in rhetorical practice across cultures. Materials that will be studied and discussed include the Analects (Chinese and English bilingual version) by Confucius and Aristotle’s On Rhetoric (English translation), and important literature on comparative rhetoric with a focus on Chinese and Western (mainly Greco-Roman) rhetorical traditions.

This course is launched by the Center for Studies in Politics and Law and Hong Kong Bar Association, lectured by practicing lawyers who have been practicing common law in Hong Kong for a long time.This course is to introduce students to the common law tradition and the legal systems in the common law world; and to examine common law principles, the doctrine of precedent and the rules of natural justice.The lectures will be given through case study, group discussion and moot arbitration. After all the lectures, excellent students in this course will be provided with an opportunity to visit Hong Kong.

1) Teach the essence of software and the basic ideas and the main methods of software engineering systematically based on software lifecycle. 2) Organize the students to develop new software systems of medium size in groups by adopting a new generation of information technology and the new application mode. Guide the students to apply software engineering principles, methods, techniques and tools for software development, management and maintenance. 

This course provides a solid understanding of business and management and how to translate this understanding into practice. Topics include sustainable development-oriented entrepreneurial opportunities; sustainable development and future market, business case brief introduction; management framework for entrepreneurship; innovation in the traditional field of entrepreneurship; innovative business and corporate entrepreneurship; market innovation; venture financing; start - up enterprises; innovation and entrepreneurship of the institutional environment; strategic entrepreneurship, social enterprise and entrepreneurial social responsibility. .

In this course we will introduce some basic models in life insurance, and the method for calculating net premium and reserve.

This course aims to help students come to grips with the essential characteristics of entrepreneurial logic and the corresponding thinking skills by virtue of theoretical propositions, analytical frameworks, cognitive models, and empirical research findings contributed by domestic and foreign entrepreneurship-related research in recent years as well as the success and failures of entrepreneurial practices of real time.