University of Hong Kong

This experiential learning course is an opportunity to work directly for social ventures in management level roles under the guidance of a faculty instructor and professional mentors. Students have opportunities to manage teams, solve real-life problems, and gain hands-on business experience, which will strengthen soft skills, help implement academic business concepts in a practical way, and greatly improve students' ability to compete in the job market. 

This course examines the fundamental ideas and important methods in causal inference. Combining statistical theory, scientific principles of research design, and hands-on experience with real data, this course will provide students with a solid basis for being good consumers and practitioners of empirical research in economics and other quantitative social sciences. The course will draw on applications from development, labor, and business economics with particular attention to policy evaluation. 

This course presents how to recognize and appreciate the importance and values of cultural heritages in Hong Kong, China and around the world, and to understand how digital technologies can be used to conserve and preserve cultural heritage worldwide. Three digital preservation projects serve as running examples throughout this course: one from Hong Kong (King Yin Lei virtual reality website), one from Mainland China (e-Dunhuang online gallery), and one from Europe (European digital collections). The course also gives a broad understanding on how economic development and heritage preservation impact us as global citizens in this information age. The capstone of the course is a group project where each group of students uses an off-the-shelf and easy-to-use Web application to create a digital gallery for a cultural heritage in Hong Kong or their own places of origin. The digital gallery is a unique contribution to preserving cultural heritage of the world!

This course focuses on philosophically interesting questions surrounding religion, including such issues as the evidential value of religious experiences and testimony of miracles; the existence of God; and the dependence or independence of morality and meaning on religious foundations.

This course examines the links between environmental protection and economic development. It focuses on how the world manages its natural and environmental resources to meet the human needs of the present while at the same time preserving these resources for future generations. The course introduces students to different views on how human society achieves the goal of economic growth without depleting earth’s capital and jeopardizing the planet’s life support system. Other topics include the concept of sustainable development and its evolution; the challenges, equity issues, technology development, and free trade; sustainable development indicators and ecological footprints analysis; governance and international cooperation; and the sustainability of city and country. The course uses Hong Kong and China for case studies.