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JOUR2053 Foundations of News and Feature Reporting I
新闻报道基础 I
This course introduces the techniques of basic news and feature writing and develops International Journalism students' abilities to work within an appropriate framework and to recognise and to communicate what is significant in the world.
Check DetailsJOUR2063 Foundations of News and Feature Reporting II
新闻报道基础 II
Topics introduced in Foundations of News and Feature Reporting I are taken up again at a higher level of difficulty as part of a progression of development.
Check DetailsPOLS1003 Foundations of Political Science
政治学导论
This is a first year, first semester course which introduces to students a comprehensive review of the field of political science. Basic concepts, political theories and methodologies, political institutions, political parties are all examined. The subfields of comparative politics and international relations are also integral parts of this course so as to lay down the foundation for further studies. Political developments in Europe, America and Asia are frequently employed as examples to the introduction of political ideas.
Check DetailsPOLS1013 Foundations of World Geography
世界地理导论
This course intends to familiarize Year 1 GIR students with basic concepts of world geography - and in particular human geography - which are essential for them to better make sense of the transnational socio-political and economic dynamics assessed in Year 2-Year 4 major courses. The course will introduce students to contemporary geography with particular focus on population, migration, linguistic and religious identities, nations, states, socio-economic development.
Check DetailsDS2003 Fundamentals of Database Systems
数据库系统
This course provides data representation in a database and practices data management given a real application. Topics include: ER model, relational algebra, SQL, advance SQL, relational database design, XML database model.
Check DetailsBIOL2003 General Biology
生物学
This course is for the Food Science and Technology Programme. This course provides the student with a solid foundation in the principles of biology, from molecular biology to cells to the diversity of life. Topics include the structure and function of representative organisms, and their diversity. Latest advances in biology are incorporated into the course. There is also an overview of the scientific process/method, and examples are reviewed to show how the process works.
Check DetailsBIOL2013 General Biology and Chemistry Laboratory
生物和化学实验
Experiments relevant to General Biology and General Chemistry are conducted to illustrate and consolidate students’ understanding of the fundamental concepts and basic principles of the subject. Solid training in basic laboratory techniques in Biology and Chemistry is provided through a series of well-chosen experiments. Students are provided with a solid training in basic laboratory techniques, practical skills, lab safety knowledge, and writing skills of lab report necessary for more advanced laboratory courses and project work.
Check DetailsCHEM2003 General Chemistry
化学
This course is for the Food Science and Technology Programme. This course gives a cursory treatment of topics from physical and organic chemistry pertaining to Food Science. The topics discussed include chemical bonding and intermolecular forces, basic concepts in thermodynamics, chemical kinetics, stereochemistry and conformation, chemistry of carbonyl and other important organic functional groups. Specifically, The course provides students with (i) a solid understanding of the fundamental concepts and basic principles of chemistry; (ii) knowledge in organic chemistry required for more advanced courses such as biochemistry and physiology, health and toxicology.
Check DetailsTRA3083 General Interpreting
通识传译
This course builds on Introductory Interpreting and aims at developing students’ intermediate-level interpreting skills in English to Chinese and Chinese to English. The focus is on the enhancement of students’ English listening comprehension and bilingual oral skills, and students are given access to innovative technological tools to improve on their skills in interpreting and self-evaluation. Further, the students are provided with feedback on their competence in sight interpreting and consecutive interpreting of increasingly complex source texts. The medium of instruction will be in English while teaching materials will both be in Putonghua/Chinese and English for C-E and E-C interpreting.
Check DetailsTRA2003 General Translation I
通识翻译 I
This course aims at providing a foundation in the theory and the practice of translation and applying that knowledge to communicate effectively in diverse cultural and linguistic contexts. Particular emphasis is placed on translation in accordance with different professional text types.
Check DetailsTRA2013 General Translation II
通识翻译 II
This course is a continuation of TRA2003 General Translation I. TRA2013 General Translation II builds on students’ knowledge base in theory and practice in order to translate effectively different text types in various professional and cultural contexts. Students will synthesise diverse strategies in order to practise translation successfully in a rapidly changing professional field.
Check DetailsMKT3013 Global Marketing
国际市场学
Global marketing addresses global issues that challenge today’s international marketer and describes the concepts relevant to all international marketers regardless of the extent of their international involvement. This course aims at students to keep pace with the changes facing businesses now and into the future. As global economic growth occurs, understanding marketing in all cultures is increasingly important. Progress toward the single market in Europe has continued, the former communist countries have continued to embrace free markets, a number of symptoms including major declines in currency values and wide spread bankruptcy of highly leveraged firms that had taken on an enormous burden of dollar debt to finance of dubious expansion projects. These are not simply news reports but changes that affect the practice of business worldwide.
Check DetailsPOLS3253 Global Routes of Trade and Investment
全球贸易与投资路线
This course investigates the most relevant trade and investment routes of our time, across both established and emerging contexts, such as “BRICS” countries, Central and South Asia, Sub-Saharan Africa. Course material shall cover managing institutions - from national governments to global and regional development banks - as well as infrastructure, key drivers and impact along the way. Particular attention will be dedicated to China’s increasing share of global investment, its prominent role as agent of change in world politico-economic governance, and its groundbreaking strategies such as the “One Belt, One Road”.
Check DetailsGLD3023 Globalisation: Trends, Issues and Opportunities
全球化：趋势、问题和机遇
As the world grows more integrated, as communication and business speed up the changes in our daily lives, the impact of events on our lifestyles deepens, and the necessity to understand and react intelligently to events and forces affecting us becomes more imperative. Lectures are used to inform and provoke students to apply concepts and data acquired in their time of study to current problems facing the global order, and thus, to themselves, their families, and their careers and regimes which play such a vital role in today’s world.
Check DetailsPSY4053 Health Psychology
健康心理学
Students will view health and illness through a bio-psycho-social lens, i.e. understand that physical well-being is the result of complex biological, social, and psychological factors. Students should develop the research skills and confidence necessary to critically examine advice about health they are given. Students will learn about behavioural interventions they could apply in their own life, either with others or themselves; modifying health behaviours, coping with stress or pain, or dealing with illnesses.
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