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CTV4023 History and Aesthetics of the Chinese Cinema
中国电影史与美学
This course explores the expressive possibilities of Chinese cinema through the analysis of major aesthetic categories of narrative, mise-en-scene, cinematography, editing and sound. The course aims to provide students with the attitudes and skills required to judge and appraise Chinese films and write about the achievements of major films from an aesthetic and industrial perspective.
Check DetailsJOUR1003 History of Mass Communication
大众媒体演变史
This course aims at giving students an orientation on the evolution of various mass media technology and what affects the efficiency and effectiveness of communication, and the ever-changing landscape of mass communication. By the end of the course, students will have a better understanding on how messages are conveyed through different medium, the impacts on various mass media when different technology is applied.
Check DetailsECON3033 Hong Kong Economy
香港经济
This course aims to introduce to students both the state and the running of the Hong Kong economy. It also attempts to show what are the major problems facing Hong Kong’s economy and how Hong Kong should deal with these problems. Especially, the competition from the Pan‐Pearl River Delta region and how Hong Kong’s economy should be integrated into this region will be carefully discussed. The course also intends to teach students how to apply basic economic theories to the real world analysis of the Hong Kong economy.
Check DetailsCTV4083 Hong Kong and Taiwanese Cinema
港台电影
This course is designed to investigate histories, aesthetics, genres, directors and modes of production of Hong Kong and Taiwan cinema. Students need to have a basic understanding of cinema as an artistic medium as well as a cultural product subject to market economy and cultural policy of nation-states. Lectures focus on the idea of cinema as a never-ending process of struggles among filmmakers, film languages, the film industry, official cultural agendas, the audiences, and film culture. Each class meeting consists of screening, lectures, and discussion.
Check DetailsMHR4013 Human Resource Management in China
中国人力资源管理
This course offers an advanced study of human resources policies and problems in Mainland China. The aims of this course are (1) to introduce to students the current and practical issues of doing HRM in Mainland China, (2) to enable students to understand and analyse the contextual forces of the labour market, characteristics of workforce and prevailing HRM functions and policies in China and develop them to evaluate and apply those learned skills and principles in managing human resources in China.
Check DetailsMHR4003 Human Resource Strategy and Planning
人力资源规划战略
This course is designed to consider the theories and role of human resource planning and link it to the policies and practice required for effective human resource management. This course examines internal and external environmental factors and trends that have crucial impacts on HR objectives and strategies in organisation. The role of human resource information system and the use of information technology in HRM and employee planning are also key issues to study in the course.
Check DetailsEBIS3043 IT Governance, Audit and Control
资讯科技治理、审计及控制
IT Governance and policy are concerned about two things: IT’s delivery of value to the business and establishing quality management of IT. In the course, students will study the role of executive management in managing and governing IT as well as issues related to controls and auditing of IT. They will learn specific objectives of IT governance; frameworks that help chart a roadmap for this function to support business values, and tool and techniques that are used in specific areas of IT governance, and policies and performance measure that need to be put in place for effective IT management and governance. This course is aligned with the COBIT control objectives, and provides a fundamental understanding of IT governance, as well as controls and auditing applications. The course will supplement the academic literature with practice oriented contents.
Check DetailsECON4013 Industrial Organisation
产业组织
The objective of this course is to equip students with the analytical skills of helping a firm to make an optimising strategy. Through studying various market structures and environments, students will learn the firms’ optimal decisions, such as pricing decisions, production decisions, location decisions, merging decisions, and outsourcing decisions, etc. Other than studying from the perspectives of firms, students will also learn what policies and regulations a government should introduce in order to promote competition and increase welfare of the whole economy.
Check DetailsPSY4043 Industrial and Organisational Psychology
工业与组织心理学
This course will introduce the major aspects of Industrial and Organisational (I/O) Psychology. Students will learn and apply psychological principles and research methods pertaining to a variety of I/O psychology issues, such as individual factors in selection, placement, job analysis and design, safety and training. Students will examine the role of interpersonal relations, and individual differences in modifying and changing organisations, they will also gain insights to the decision making, group dynamics, leadership, employment law, job satisfaction, work motivation, organisational development and change processes within and between organisations.
Check DetailsCCM4073 Industrial and Retail Design Management
工业和零售设计管理
The course aims at introducing the role of industrial design and retail design management as part of the cultural industries. It introduces industrial design as a creative thinking process by working through a practical project. Emphasis will also be put on retail design management and visual merchandising of the industrial product. A wide range of theoretical and practical cases on package design and displays will be used to illustrate the creative thinking methods and how these concepts could be realised in the real world.
Check DetailsECON4063 Information Economics
信息经济学
This course aims to offer students the basic training in information economics, a relatively young field of economics but of increasing importance, to enable them to recognise and deal with the commonly encountered informational problems in real practice, a skill more than just helpful in this information age for many professional careers. As the course is also to show new ways of thinking relevant in many contexts in both micro-and macroeconomics, students will learn to integrate their knowledge from a new perspective, for enhanced skills in these contexts. They will also be exposed to the frontiers of the field, so as for them to follow the advances in the field as part of their life-long learning.
Check DetailsCOMP4123 Information Retrieval and Search Engine
信息检索及搜索引擎
This course introduces the basic principles of information retrieval and search engines. Advanced models and techniques in information processing and retrieval will be covered.
Check DetailsEBIS4063 Information Security Management
信息安全管理
This course will provide a comprehensive introduction and study into a broad selection of contemporary information security issues, concepts and policies, including the survey of state-of-the-art technology used to address security problems. The technical content of the course gives a broad overview of essential concepts and methods for providing and evaluating security in information process systems (operating systems and applications, networks, enterprise systems, protocols, and so on). In addition to its technical content, the course touches on the importance of management and administration, the place information security holds in overall business risks, social issues such as individual privacy, and the role of business and public policies.
Check DetailsENV4013 Integrated Solid Waste Management
综合固体废物管理
This course provides an understanding of solid waste problems, waste generation, handling, and treatment with the emphasis on recycling. The course will include the study of the waste generation scenarios in developed and developing countries with special reference to waste generation in China. It will discuss the various waste treatment technologies, their pros and cons and the success stories. The emphasis will be on how to reduce solid waste and various issues such as producer responsibility, polluter pays, etc. The resource conservation using the three “R”s and the role it plays in the integrated waste management scenario will be emphasised in order to: (1) to understand the origins of waste and the social, political and economic issues involved with waste disposal; (2) to review the waste generation problem and to examine various physical, chemical and biological waste treatment methods; (3) to introduce the various technologies in reducing and reutilising the various types of wastes; and (4) to have a comprehensive knowledge of the current and projected legislation regarding waste and their potential implications.
Check DetailsBUS4063 International Business
国际商务
The primary objectives of this course are: (1) to provide students with a basic understanding of the theories and concepts of international business; (2) to discuss the economic, cultural and political factors in shaping the international business environment; (3) to introduce different functional areas of international corporations management with reference to problems and issues of doing business with developing countries and centrally planned economies’ and (4) to familiarise students with the international business activities of Hong Kong companies.
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