University of Hong Kong

This course examines an introductory overview of the field of migration studies. It covers why people move; theories of immigrant adaptation; immigration and citizenship; and how immigrant entrepreneurship is related to the adaptation and survival strategies taken by immigrants.

This course examines the material culture of modern China from the Republican period to the Reform era, with a focus on the Maoist era from 1949 to the late 1970s. By focusing on the design, production, consumption, and circulation of the material culture everyday life, this course will make sense of how the profound changes experienced during the twentieth century translated into the material, aesthetic, and cultural experiences of everyday people in China. It looks at how objects came to signify abstract concepts such as socialist modernity, feudal backwardness, or revolution, and ask how material goods can carry multiple associations, from the ideological to the aesthetic. The class will examine a variety of objects, including ceramics, consumer goods, enamelware, interior design and decor, lantern slides, photographs, posters, and textiles, paying particular attention to the relationships formed with objects and the cultural meanings ascribed to them.

This course provides a general overview of psychology. It explores various forms of human behavior, including thinking, using language, solving problems, and making decisions at the individual level, as well as forming social relationships and participating in group actions at the interpersonal level. Students not only learn about psychological theories and research, but also discover ways to apply such knowledge to their own experiences. Topics include personality, social psychology, motivation and emotion, development, perception, cognition and learning, body-mind, and mental disorders. Text: either W. Weiten, PSYCHOLOGY: THEMES AND VARIATIONS; or E.E. Smith et al., ATKINSON AND HILGARD'S INTRODUCTION TO PSYCHOLOGY. Assessment: tutorial attendance and participation (8%), research and experiment participation (6%), 800- to 1,000-word essay (8%), lab report (8%), test (10%), final exam (60%).

This course questions the assumptions that when compared to men, women who commit crime typically acquire a “double deviant status.” Women are perceived to be violating legal codes as well as gender proscriptions. Women offenders are not simply the shoplifter or the drug user, but the “fallen woman,” the “wicked temptress, and the “bad mother.” This image sharply contrasts with males, and have been the basis for the differential treatment of women in the media, the law and in punishment. It examines the gendered nature of crime and its control. In doing so, the focus on women necessarily entails a comparison with men. In addition to exploring the construction and treatment of gendered bodies, this course also examines gendered forms of work, institutions and criminological processes, such as criminalization, victimization and policing.