ME Course List

ECON4053 Development Economics

发展经济学

This course aims to introduce students (particularly undergraduate students majoring in economics) to the field of development economics. The course will explore key issues in development economics, such as growth theories, roles of technology, urbanisation, human capital, health, roles of government, poverty, income inequality, sustainable development, and financing for development. The course will put special emphasis on the related issues of developing economies and of under-developed economies. The course will enable students’ to understand the issues of development economics in a comprehensive manner, and will enable students to actively participate in the public discussions. To see how the theories are employed in real life scenarios, case studies will be employed.

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GLD3043 Development in Eastern Europe and Central Asia

东欧与中亚发展

This course aims at providing students with introductory information on governance, society and socio-economic development in Eastern Europe and Central Asia. It identifies opportunities as well as challenges that countries in the region encounter. It seeks to establish a basis for independent study and research of specific regional issues.

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GLD3033 Development in Post-Colonial British Commonwealth

后殖民时期的英联邦发展

This course intends to familiarise students with development trajectories and governance patterns across the former British colonies spanning from South Asia to Africa and the Americas.

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MATH4023 Differential Equation

微分方程

This course introduces differential equations and covers methods for solving these equations. The modelling of diverse phenomena by differential equations is demonstrated by a variety of examples.

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CTV4053 Digital Animation

数字动画

This course introduces the history, language, principles, aesthetics and digital tools used in the creation of animation within the context of art and design. The class will focus on understanding the development of animation, the mechanism of animation, and the techniques of animation sufficient to produce projects of merit. Through different styles of animation, the class will explore the foundations of animation history and its characteristics. In addition, through the use of the 3D software Maya, this course will teach students how to complete basic digital animation.

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MAD3043 Digital Drawing and Painting

数字素描与绘画

This course will introduce students to both the hardware and software that is used in digital painting. Students will use digital painting software in conjunction with a graphic drawing tablet and/or Cintq, a large capacitive screen where you can draw and paint directly on the display, to produce illustration and art. Entrepreneurial thinking will be encouraged, as New Media has created business models in which an illustrator or artist can produce, advertise, and distribute products through a variety of web-based platforms.

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MAD4053 Digital Image Manipulation

数字影像制作

This course seeks to provide students with a foundation in 2-D digital image processing. In doing so, the emphasis of this course will fall on techniques used in image processing, image filtering design, and the use of applications. Students will be exposed to the theories and methodologies underlying this discipline. Students will be constantly focussed on learning how to create and manipulate graphic and photographic artwork. They will learn how to interpret such artwork in a critical manner, and will also be exposed to these aspects regarding to how artists approach input and output of digital work.

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COMP4173 Digital Image Processing

数字图像处理

This course provides fundamentals of digital images processing including basic image operations in both spatial and frequency domains, image restoration, morphological image processing, image segmentation and applications, human visual system and color image processing.

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COMP4063 Digital Media Computing

数字媒体计算

This course introduces the basic properties of different types of digital media in the multimedia systems, namely audio, image, and video. As data compression is the most important enabling technology, making modern multimedia systems possible, data compression algorithms and the international standards of these digital media will be discussed.

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MAD3133 Digital Sound Production

数字音响制作

Students of this course will be introduced to the essence of digital sound production as it relates to vital aspects of sequential media. They will learn how to distinguish between the unique potential offered by sound media and its limitations, students will understand design fundamentals of discrete media as they relate to aural communication. Ideas will be created and developed in the practical component of this course. The course will provide students with hands-on skills in digital sound production by, inter alia, studying and understanding the aesthetic and theoretical studies of digital video and computer animation artworks. The use of sequential media in digital and computer environments will strengthen the students’ multidisciplinary knowledge.

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CTV4163 Digital Special Effects Workshop

数字特效实务

This course introduces the basic principles behind each process among the spectrum of special effects that are being practised in the film and video industry. Hands-on experience is provided in workshops in order to assist students in expanding their visual vocabularies.

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SWSA4113 Disasters and Social Work

灾难与社会工作

As natural and urban disasters have occurred increasingly frequently in the past decades, greater attention has been devoted to the lack of preparation among social workers to intervene effectively and offer help to survivors of these disasters. The aims of this course are to increase knowledge of different types of disasters ranging from personal disasters and to enhance understanding of the social and psychological impact, and also students will obtain knowledge of selected intervention models/approaches for effective assessment and intervention with individuals and their families affected by disasters.

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MATH3013 Discrete Mathematics

离散数学

This course aims to introduce basic ideas of discrete mathematics such as formal mathematical reasoning techniques, basic counting techniques and their applications for computer science students. The emphasis is on understanding the concepts and the ability to solve problems. The objective is for students to understand the basic theory and some applications of discrete mathematics. The course gives students training in the ability to think quantitatively and analyse problems critically.

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COMP4073 Distributed Computing Systems

分布式计算系统

This course introduces the needs, key concepts, and techniques underlying the design and engineering of distributed computing systems. The discussions will focus on communications, synchronisation and concurrency control, process management, distributed file services, and case studies. Also included will be an introduction to clustering computing and parallel algorithms.

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CTV3013 Documentary Film Production

记录片制作

The aims and objectives of this course are: 1) To examine the development of non-fiction filmmaking by comparing current documentaries with those made earlier. 2) To illustrate how the art has responded to social, political, and economic realities and to changes in technology and systems of distribution. 3) To familiarise students with the whole process of making a documentary film. 4) To help students gain documentary production experience working individually and in groups.

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