Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST)

This course examines social change in Hong Kong since from the post-war period. The focus is on how industrialization, urbanization, globalization ,and modernity affect everyday lives, institutions, relationships ,and identities. The first two sections of the course will look at the mechanics of these changes and selected social problems associated with them: the transformation of community life, mental health, political, economic and gender inequalities. The final part will examine the implications of and responses to these problems; the rise of social movements for democracy, experiences of discrimination, the emergence of distinct Hong Kong cultural identities, the search for intimacy, and family life.

This course introduces matrix algebra and its applications. Key topics include: systems of linear equations; linear transformations; matrix representation of linear transformations; linear operators, eigenvalues and eigenvectors; similarity invariants and canonical forms, and inner product spaces, elementary matrices, determinants and its properties, Cramer’s Rule and inverse formula, areas and volumes, vector spaces and subspaces, subspaces associated with matrices, linear independent sets and bases, coordinate systems and dimension, orthogonality and orthonormal sets, orthogonal projections and Gram-Schmidt process, least square solutions and applications. Text: David C. Lay, LINEAR ALGEBRA AND ITS APPLICATIONS. Assessment: homework (10%), midterm exam (30%), final exam (60%).

This course examines experimentation, concept implementation, editing, camera skills, styles and concept.

This course examines identity, cultural and urban space issues in Hong Kong in the local-national-global nexus, focusing on how popular culture, the state and civil society shape meanings, values, discourses and ideologies, and vice versa, from colonial times to the post-colonial era.

This course examines the various forms of photography; explores the relationship between visual communication and art; the collaborative process between light and graphic; concepts and skills; and influences of images and trends from visual media. 

This course examines flight dynamics, with emphasis on aircraft performance and stability. It covers the fundamentals of flight dynamics, focusing more especially on the key concepts pertaining to flight performance and stability; the methodological tools (fundamental theories and mathematical models) that are commonly used for analyzing the performance and stability characteristics of aircraft; and how these theoretical and methodological knowledge are used across aerospace industries for the safety and efficiency of aircraft can be maximized.