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EMOTION, COGNITION AND BRAIN
Country
Hong Kong
Host Institution
University of Hong Kong
Program(s)
University of Hong Kong
UCEAP Course Level
Lower Division
UCEAP Subject Area(s)
Psychology
UCEAP Course Number
73
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EMOTION, COGNITION AND BRAIN
UCEAP Transcript Title
EMOTION & BRAIN
UCEAP Quarter Units
5.00
UCEAP Semester Units
3.30
Course Description
Humans are all emotional. What exactly is emotion? Why do we have emotion? Do animals have emotion? Can robots have emotion? To what extent can we control our emotion or is emotion actually controlling us? What are the relationships among emotion, cognition, and brain? This course explores the genesis of human emotion as it strongly affects human behavior, especially the extreme ones. To move more deeply into the above questions, we need to visit different fields of knowledge in, for instance, philosophy, psychology, and biology. This course provides new understanding and inspires new thinking about our emotional-self through linking the subjective feelings to objective scientific studies of the human brain and cognition—and to ask about the meaning of objective and subjective, thereby approaching our fundamental humanity through the channels of emotion.
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English
Host Institution Course Number
CCST9073
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EMOTION, COGNITION, AND BRAIN
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Common Core: Scientific and Technological Literacy
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MAKING MOVIES: CREATIVE EXPRESSION ON SCREEN
Country
Hong Kong
Host Institution
University of Hong Kong
Program(s)
University of Hong Kong
UCEAP Course Level
Lower Division
UCEAP Subject Area(s)
Film & Media Studies
UCEAP Course Number
70
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UCEAP Official Title
MAKING MOVIES: CREATIVE EXPRESSION ON SCREEN
UCEAP Transcript Title
CREAT EXPRS: SCREEN
UCEAP Quarter Units
5.00
UCEAP Semester Units
3.30
Course Description
This course examines digital technologies while exploring the motion picture as an artistic medium for creative self-expression, visual experimentation, critical commentary, social engagement, and personal storytelling. It covers lighting, framing, focus, camera positioning, color, movement, editing, sound design, space, time, motion, montage, short treatments, scripts, storyboards, festival publicity material, as well as narrative structure in fiction and nonfiction film. It explores ideas and concepts from other art forms such as fine art, literature, drama, dance, architecture and music in order to effectively communicate meaning on screen.
Language(s) of Instruction
English
Host Institution Course Number
CCHU 9070
Host Institution Course Title
MAKING MOVIES: CREATIVE EXPRESSION ON SCREEN
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2022-2023
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SPIRITUALITY, RELIGION, AND SOCIAL CHANGE
Country
Hong Kong
Host Institution
University of Hong Kong
Program(s)
University of Hong Kong
UCEAP Course Level
Lower Division
UCEAP Subject Area(s)
Sociology
UCEAP Course Number
20
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SPIRITUALITY, RELIGION, AND SOCIAL CHANGE
UCEAP Transcript Title
RELIGION&SOC CHANGE
UCEAP Quarter Units
5.00
UCEAP Semester Units
3.30
Course Description
This course reflects on spirituality and religion and on their relevance to contemporary social change. The course gives students exposure to, and an opportunity to engage with, the spiritual heritage of humanity. It discusses passages from the scriptures of the world's major religious traditions, and consider modern and contemporary movements which draw on spiritual teachings to orient modern life and effect social change. These include Daoist eco-spirituality; Confucian reforms; Gandhi's non-violent civil rights movement; Engaged Buddhism; Christian Liberation Theology; the Muslim Brotherhood; and the Baha'i International Community. Through these cases, students critically consider the contemporary social implications of religious teachings and spiritual principles when applied to questions of truth and knowledge, power and authority, conflict and cooperation, and sacrifice and service.
Language(s) of Instruction
English
Host Institution Course Number
CCHU9014
Host Institution Course Title
SPIRITUALITY, RELIGION, AND SOCIAL CHANGE
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INTERMEDIATE CHINESE I
Country
Hong Kong
Host Institution
University of Hong Kong
Program(s)
University of Hong Kong
UCEAP Course Level
Lower Division
UCEAP Subject Area(s)
Chinese
UCEAP Course Number
55
UCEAP Course Suffix
A
UCEAP Official Title
INTERMEDIATE CHINESE I
UCEAP Transcript Title
INTERMED CHINESE I
UCEAP Quarter Units
5.00
UCEAP Semester Units
3.30
Course Description
This intensive course is intended for foreign learners who have completed CHIN9502 (first year) or have attained an equivalent level of competency. It develops audio-lingual proficiency as well as raises reading and writing ability and the ability to converse on daily topics with Chinese people, and present short speeches based on the assigned topics. Emphasis is placed on everyday topics and common patterns facilitate communication in Chinese. Students learn to write 250 new characters on top of approximately 500 characters acquired at the previous level. Students should be able to recognize no less than 1000 Chinese characters accumulated through previous learning. Students are taught to write short compositions of about 200 characters.
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CHIN9503
Host Institution Course Title
CHINESE AS A FOREIGN LANGUAGE III
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Chinese
Course Last Reviewed
2022-2023
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HONG KONG AND THE WORLD
Country
Hong Kong
Host Institution
University of Hong Kong
Program(s)
University of Hong Kong
UCEAP Course Level
Upper Division
UCEAP Subject Area(s)
Political Science
International Studies
UCEAP Course Number
119
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HONG KONG AND THE WORLD
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HONG KONG & WORLD
UCEAP Quarter Units
5.00
UCEAP Semester Units
3.30
Course Description
This course examines the Special Administrative Region's unique international status, the political implications of its external socioeconomic ties, and its complex identity as a Chinese global city. It discusses how Hong Kong's interactions with the outside world are critical to its survival as a major international city and how they shape its ability to position itself as the leading gateway to the mainland of China. It also explains how Hong Kong retains considerable autonomy in shaping its international destiny although China manages its foreign affairs. Prominent members of the Hong Kong community are invited to share their perspectives on Hong Kong's track record in facing the challenges and opportunities associated with today's highly interdependent global system. By exploring these themes in light of the changing nature of the global system, students gain an in-depth knowledge of Hong Kong's international links and the complex problems of global governance.
Language(s) of Instruction
English
Host Institution Course Number
POLI3019
Host Institution Course Title
HONG KONG AND THE WORLD
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Politics & Public Administration
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HUMAN-ANIMAL RELATIONSHIPS IN THE GLOBAL MARKETPLACE
Country
Hong Kong
Host Institution
University of Hong Kong
Program(s)
University of Hong Kong
UCEAP Course Level
Lower Division
UCEAP Subject Area(s)
Sociology
UCEAP Course Number
52
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UCEAP Official Title
HUMAN-ANIMAL RELATIONSHIPS IN THE GLOBAL MARKETPLACE
UCEAP Transcript Title
HUMAN-ANIMAL RELATN
UCEAP Quarter Units
5.00
UCEAP Semester Units
3.30
Course Description
This course topic is human-animal relationship in the global market place. Animals are everywhere and nowhere in modern societies. Except for the pets and animals in zoos, most animals are segregated from human's everyday lives. Yet we eat them, wear them and “consume” them on a daily basis. In a globalizing world, our diverse relationships with animals stimulate questions on compassion, economics, urbanization, transnational mobility, global ethics and citizenship. The promotion of animal rights and ending animal cruelty is often regarded as one key mission for 21st century global citizens and has become a global social movement. There is now an increasing awareness of the global economy of animal trading and entertainment industry, rethinking the sociological, anthropological and scientific distinctions of human and non-human animals, and also of the new patterns of human-animal co-existence in urban cities. This course aims at stimulating students' critical reflections upon different social constructions and moral implications of our relationships with the non-human creatures across cultures in the global marketplace.
Language(s) of Instruction
English
Host Institution Course Number
CCGL9052
Host Institution Course Title
SOME WE LOVE, SOME WE EAT: HUMAN-ANIMAL RELATIONSHIPS IN THE GLOBAL MARKETPLACE
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Common Core: Global Issues
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NUTRIGENOMICS
Country
Hong Kong
Host Institution
University of Hong Kong
Program(s)
University of Hong Kong
UCEAP Course Level
Upper Division
UCEAP Subject Area(s)
Biological Sciences
UCEAP Course Number
125
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UCEAP Official Title
NUTRIGENOMICS
UCEAP Transcript Title
NUTRIGENOMICS
UCEAP Quarter Units
5.00
UCEAP Semester Units
3.30
Course Description
Advances in the understanding of human genome have resulted in the emergence of a new science called Nutrigenomics. This course provides an understanding of the biochemical mechanisms underpinning nutrition research and the relation between genetics and diet-related diseases. The course also reinforces the role of nutrition at the molecular level and the concepts of nutrigenomics and nutrigenetics. Topics covered include principles of molecular biology, the study of gene and its function, structure and function of chromosomes, DNA replication, control of gene expression, epigenetics, genetic variation and human diseases, and tools of molecular biology.
Language(s) of Instruction
English
Host Institution Course Number
BIOL3211
Host Institution Course Title
MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND NUTRIGENOMICS
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Biological Sciences
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DESIGNS ON THE FUTURE: SUSTAINABILITY OF THE BUILT ENVIRONMENT
Country
Hong Kong
Host Institution
University of Hong Kong
Program(s)
University of Hong Kong
UCEAP Course Level
Lower Division
UCEAP Subject Area(s)
Urban Studies
UCEAP Course Number
10
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DESIGNS ON THE FUTURE: SUSTAINABILITY OF THE BUILT ENVIRONMENT
UCEAP Transcript Title
SUSTAINABILITY
UCEAP Quarter Units
5.00
UCEAP Semester Units
3.30
Course Description
The course examines a broad range of sustainability issues such as population and urbanization; transportation and logistics; resources: water, energy, and food; (natural) disasters; community and governance; technology and mobility. These are explored through the perspective of contemporary and historical examples of how people, in their visions of the future, have sought to perfect built environments as the setting for model communities. The ideas raised are discussed in weekly tutorial sessions and are brought together at the end of the course with an intensive workshop, in which students look to define their own vision of a sustainable community. This course is intended to inspire thinking about the way we should construct our living environments in future, in order to find a sustainable balance.
Language(s) of Instruction
English
Host Institution Course Number
CCHU9001
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DESIGNS ON THE FUTURE: SUSTAINABILITY OF THE BUILT ENVIRONMENT
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COGNITIVE PSYCHOLOGY
Country
Hong Kong
Host Institution
University of Hong Kong
Program(s)
University of Hong Kong
UCEAP Course Level
Upper Division
UCEAP Subject Area(s)
Psychology
UCEAP Course Number
128
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UCEAP Official Title
COGNITIVE PSYCHOLOGY
UCEAP Transcript Title
COGNITIVE PSYCH
UCEAP Quarter Units
5.00
UCEAP Semester Units
3.30
Course Description
This course explores the information processing approach and its central concepts in the study of human cognition; the methods and skills used in empirical investigation of cognitive processes; the writing of empirical reports; and the relations between cognition and other areas of psychology. Topics covered include information processing model: transduction, sensory store, rapid attentional integration; preattentive processes and selective attention; pattern recognition and reading and top-down and bottom-up processes; working, short-term, and long-term memory; rehearsal, transfer, and loss of information; semantic memory; implicit and explicit memory; concept learning and the structure of concepts; cognitive style and cognitive processes of the Chinese; and cognition and emotion.
Language(s) of Instruction
English
Host Institution Course Number
PSYC2007
Host Institution Course Title
COGNITIVE PSYCHOLOGY
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Psychology
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SEXUALITY AND CULTURE
Country
Hong Kong
Host Institution
University of Hong Kong
Program(s)
University of Hong Kong
UCEAP Course Level
Lower Division
UCEAP Subject Area(s)
Women’s & Gender Studies
Sociology
UCEAP Course Number
40
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UCEAP Official Title
SEXUALITY AND CULTURE
UCEAP Transcript Title
SEXUALITY & CULTURE
UCEAP Quarter Units
5.00
UCEAP Semester Units
3.30
Course Description
This course examines the relationships between sexuality and cultural issues in contemporary society. Apart from different sexual orientations and gender issues, it looks into ethical, and social conflicts with sexuality; for example, how sexuality is portrayed in creative social media which, in turn, shapes our perception of sexuality; the root causes of the stigmatization and discrimination of the commercial sex industry and sexually transmitted infections; the significance of sex education and family planning; and, how our legal system in the global community has been changing across time on non-mainstream sexuality and sexual violence.
Language(s) of Instruction
English
Host Institution Course Number
CCHU9039
Host Institution Course Title
SEXUALITY AND CULTURE
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Course Last Reviewed
2022-2023