University of Hong Kong

This course provides students with in-depth learning on managing multinational corporations across various product, business, and geographic markets. Specifically, the course focuses on three central issues that are critical to the successful formulation of corporate strategy: (1) the decisions on which businesses bring resources together inside the company and how they could create value, (2) how the company can grow in different settings through acquisitions, partnerships, or internal development, and (3) how the company manages its business portfolio. Overall, this course highlights the criticality of making decisions about the right pathways to firm growth. It provides theoretical frameworks and guiding principles for analyzing practical problems at the corporate or group level as experienced by managers.

This course introduces various population theories, concepts and facts to develop a critical understanding of the inter-relatedness of the demographic, social, cultural, economic and political issues between Hong Kong and Mainland China and its sustainable development.

This course introduces the characteristics of different structures of the Operating Systems (OS), such as microkernel, layered, virtualization, etc., and identifies the core functions. Topics: principles behind the core functions and comparison of the algorithms on which the core functions of the OS are built; how OS manages processes/threads and the mechanisms and policies in efficiently sharing of CPU resources; principles and techniques used by OS in effectively virtualizing memory and resources; the underlying causes of concurrency and deadlock issues; principles and techniques used by OS to support concurrency and synchronization control as well as the principles and techniques used by OS to support persistent data storage. During this course, students demonstrate knowledge in applying system software and tools available in modern operating system (such as threads, system calls, semaphores, etc.) for software development. Prerequisites: COMP2113 or COMP2123 or ENGG1340; and COMP2120 or ELEC2441.

The media plays an extremely influential role in the public’s conceptions of crime and order. This course is designed to look at the different ways in which the media shapes our ideas and responses to crime. The course is divided into two main sections. The first half of the course examines representations of crime in different media forms and theoretical explanations for why crime is portrayed in particular ways. The second half of the course focuses on the representation of crime in popular culture, particularly in films and novels.

The course covers major aspects of the physiology of the human body using an integrated approach. The course covers fundamental principles of how the body works. Topics include: the physiological systems and homeostasis; neural and hormonal communication; nervous system physiology; digestive system; cardiac physiology, blood vessels and blood pressure; respiratory system; urinary system; skeletal and muscular system; sensory mechanisms; biological rhythms; central-peripheral communication in energy homeostasis. 

This course provides a systematic introduction of concepts, theories and practices, with a focus on handling conflict and negotiation. The course content is composed of two intimately related parts. The beginning introduces the nature and types of conflict, mechanism of conflict escalation and de-escalation, and conflict resolution styles. The rest of the class sessions discuss the characteristics of interest-based negotiation and negotiation strategies. Specifically, the course teaches strategies to avoid various cognitive biases in conflict situations and negotiation, the building blocks of negotiation, the difference of distributive versus value-creating negotiation approaches, the strategies of achieving integrative outcomes, building trust and controlling emotions, utilizing power and persuasion, the importance of non-verbal communication in gaining information and ethics. Some topics are also covered in the context of cross-cultural negotiation and computer-mediated negotiation to cater to the need of today’s international business environment. 

The philosophy of economics investigates what distinguishes economics as its own discipline, addressing questions about the distinctiveness of the subject matter and the metaphysical, epistemological, and ethical status of its assumptions and methods. In particular, the course examines the core philosophical commitments from the formative stages of the discipline’s development which endure and continue to undergird modern economic theory. As such, the course emphasizes the classical theory that guided the development of economics as a discipline, with a focus on the divergence—oftentimes drastic and premonitory—from the philosophical commitments of other social sciences, in particular sociology.

This course is inquiry-based, interactive, and hands-on, focusing on how to design effective, human centered generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) applications in business contexts. It is suitable for undergraduate students with no technical background. The course builds AI literacy through simulation games developed by the instructor. The core of the course guides students through real-world applications of GenAI across text, code, image, audio, and video. Students gain practical experience using GenAI tools and applying them to solve business problems. The course includes critical discussions on the implications of GenAI, covering issues such as privacy, algorithmic bias, labor impact, job displacement, and ethical design. It helps students consider not only what GenAI can do, but what it should do. From a career perspective, the course equips students to act as effective consultants for AI applications, organizational change, leadership, digital transformation, and sustainability. 

Film-making and TV production are becoming increasingly international, rendering translation almost indispensable to the industry. Translating films and TV shows for dubbing and subtitling requires specialized skills distinct from those used in other fields. This course focuses on such skills, with an emphasis on audio-visual awareness and cinematic elements such as drama, dialogue, vernacular, and pacing. Critical theories on media and on cultural production and consumption are introduced. Students learn through hands-on translation of feature films and TV programs, as well as critiques of film and TV translations.

This course cultivates the fundamental literacy skills required for commercial music composition. The topics covered include pop songwriting, beat making, film scoring, and jingle production. Students are introduced to contemporary practices in the music industry through music demos, instrumental tracking, music arrangement, and music production techniques.