University of Hong Kong

This course considers the socio-political stakes of global environmental change under ongoing conditions of crisis and emergency. It pays special attention to the ways in which environmental change has always been a driver of violent conflict abroad, as well as a key terrain of racial management and pacification at home. Through a combination of detailed case study work and close readings of academic and non-academic texts, students get a clearer sense of how environmental change and conflict is intimately bound up in questions of racial capitalism, settler colonialism, militarism, and imperialism. Drawing inspiration from the work of activists, communities, and collectives across the Pacific – including the Mauna Kea Kiai and Indigenous water protectors across Turtle Island – the course emphasizes how the politics of environmental justice is always the politics of racial, gender, class, and social justice.

This course examines major developments in world history, in the period from the late eighteenth century to the present, with particular emphasis on the theme of globalization. It covers areas of culture, religion, politics, society and the world economy.

This course introduces management and operation of organizations in the nonprofit sector. In particular, it examines issues unique to the governance and administration of nonprofits, including board management, fundraising, philanthropy, innovation, technology, capacity, nonprofit accounting and reporting, leadership, and network management. Lecture topics include an introduction to the nonprofit sector, governance and accountability, institutional and legal environment, innovation and technology, and collaboration and networking. Students learn both the theories and practical techniques required for an effective manager in nonprofit organizations. Assessment: tutorial assignments (20%), group project (40%), final exam (40%).

This course examines venture management in innovation development and commercialization for those who believe they have what it takes to build new businesses and ventures. It covers market analysis and opportunities; business and financial model design; intellectual property management; sources of investment and equity/shareholder structures; and sustainable business operation management and risk management.

This course introduces theoretical concepts of personality, that is, people's behavior under influence of internal and external forces. Topics: significant 19th- and 20th-century theorists who have contributed to the history and development of personality theory, examining how their theories were shaped by the period in which they lived, and assessing the utility of these theories today. The theorists studied include Sigmund Freud, Alfred Adler, Carl Gustav Jung, Eric Erikson, James McKeen Cattell, Hans Jurgen Eysenck, Albert Bandura, George Kelly, Carl Rogers, Abraham Maglow, and Francis Hsu. 

This course examines the historical beginnings of philosophy, especially (though not exclusively) in ancient Greece, and the developments some of its early forms underwent over the succeeding centuries within those traditions. It is also about how those philosophical traditions conceived of beginnings themselves: the beginnings of the world, its primary elements, and the first principles of philosophical enquiry.