Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST)

This course introduces the essential elements of telecommunications in support of business activities. Topics include: OSI Model and TCP/IP Protocol Suite; LAN and WAN technology; voice and data communication technologies; communication architectures; networking and security; protocols and standards.

This course examines the economic situations of low and middle-income economies, considering many important topics in the field of development economics. It addresses questions such as what factors help explain why some countries are rich and others poor and whether economic policies can affect these factors. The coruse also studies key aspects of life for poor households in the developing world, such as inequality, gender and the intra-household division of resources, education, child labor, health, savings and credit, institutions and globalization. Students read recent research in the field and examine empirical evidence on these topics.

This course is the laboratory course to accompany PHYS 12 (HKUST course PHYS 1114). Students conduct experiments in static and current electricity and magnetism and optics to illustrate the experimental foundations of physics presented in the lecture course. Experiments include: Coulomb's Law; capacitance and electrostatic energy; Coulomb Constant; DC circuits; magnetic field generated by a coil; current balance; introduction to the oscilloscope; Faraday's Law of induction; AC circuits; two-slit interference and diffraction grating. Corequisite: PHYS 12 (HKUST PHYS1114). Text: Penger Tong and David Mak, GENERAL PHYSICS I LAB MANUAL. Assessment: lab performance (30%), lab report (70%).

This course mainly explains the most typical representative works of Chinese opera - Tang Xianzu's PEONY PAVILION, which enables students to actually read a traditional Chinese classic in their university life and comprehend PEONY PAVILION as a drama in Chinese literature. The course emphasizes the historical location and value in the development of ideas and culture. The course uses Bai Xianyong's YOUTH EDITION PEONY PAVILION as a reference to help explain the text of Peony Pavilion, combines fun and seriousness, and finally enhances students' aesthetic taste and ability to understand beauty.

This course covers simple electronic circuits as functional building blocks and tools. Topics: fundamental electronic concepts for DC and AC circuits, KVL and KCL, Thevenin's and Norton's Theorems, linearity and superposition, nodal and mesh analyses, sinusoidal steady state and phasor, transient analysis, transfer functions and Bode plots, op-amp, diodes, MOS transistors and related circuits.

This course is taught in Putonghua and requires that students be able to read Chinese. Taoism is a major philosophical tradition in China. It plays an important role in the shaping of the minds of the Chinese people, and has great impact on the formation of Chinese culture. It is still a living tradition influencing the way of life of many people, regardless of whether it is being practiced consciously or being submerged into the unconscious of the Chinese mass. This course introduces Taoism as a philosophy of life. Emphasis, however, is on Lao Tzu and Chuang Tzu, the two most significant figures of Taoism. While some scholarly researches on them will be introduced, the primary texts of the Lao Tzu and Chuang Tzu are the foci for explanation and discussion in class. It is believed that an understanding of these basic materials provides students with a solid foundation to comprehend the Taoist philosophy in its originality. The course offers an introduction to Neo-Taoism, as the development of early Taoism, if time allows.