Peking University, Beijing

The course is designed for senior undergraduates that are interested in qualitative methods and of some research experience. The course introduces two major approaches to analysing qualitative data, namely, grounded-theory based coding approach and chronological sequence-based process data analysis. As well, the course also covers related topics to provide comprehensive guidance to students, including the philosophy of qualitative methods, collection of qualitative data, reporting qualitative findings, and ethical issues in qualitative data analysis.

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.