GED Course List
GDHC1223 American History I: The Emergence of Modern America
美国历史 I：现代美国的崛起
This course explores the major political, economic and social themes in modern American history, relates America’s evolution to the rise of globalization, and prepares students for global citizenship. Students enhance their critical thinking skills through comparative analysis of America with other nations, and through detailed investigation of concepts, processes and events associated with turning points in American history. Throughout the course students are guided to recognize the social forces that transform the lives of individuals and mass populations, and alter relationships between nations.
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美国历史 II：美国文化与思潮
This course explores the major cultural and intellectual themes in modern American history, relates America’s evolution to the predominant issues in modern social discourse, and prepares students for global citizenship. Students enhance their critical thinking skills through comparative analysis of America with other nations, and through detailed investigation of concepts, processes and events associated with cultural themes in American history. Throughout the course students are guided to recognize the cultural influences that change the beliefs of individuals and mass populations, and alter relationships between nations.
Check DetailsGDHC1073 Buddhism Across Asia
亚洲佛教史
This course is billed as a comprehensive introduction to the history of Buddhism as a transnational religion in Asia. It covers the Buddhist traditions as it has developed in the Indic cultural region, Central Asia and East Asia. It provides students with a general knowledge of Buddhist historical developments, the life of the Buddha, key concepts and monastic practices, so as to lay down a foundation for a better understanding of the Buddhism in world history. It aims to underline common threads of historical facts and movements which unify the Buddhist world. In addition to chapters from the prescribed textbook, John Strong's Experience of Buddhism will also provide students with structured access to the foundational texts of this great tradition.
Check DetailsGDBM1003 Business and Society
商业与社会学
This course aims to give non-business students an understanding of the role that business plays in society as well as providing them with meaningful and real-world-oriented information about how businesses function and their rights and responsibilities in society. A wide range of business topics will be covered to increase the students’ awareness of the role of business in society. This course will also help the student understand the issues that corporations and professional managers experience. As this course introduces students to an array of principles and new perspectives that will encourage critical thinking to contest their pre-existing ideas and beliefs, it will help them throughout their careers, either as an employee or as a manager.
Check DetailsGDHC1253 China in Western Perspectives
西方视野中的中国
This course introduces students to specific themes and approaches of understanding Chinese civilization and its legacies in historical perspectives through the Westerners’ eyes. It explores the question of what constitutes “China” from a variety of conventional European-inspired historical perspectives, and testifies a multiplicity of intellectual thoughts and attitudes that Westerners have brought to their attempts to deal with the phenomenon of China. At the end of the course, students are expected to have developed a critical reading and thinking ability to explore the universal values, attitudes, and the way how the West has understood China in the context of West-dominated historical narratives.
Check DetailsGDHC1183 Conceptions of Nature from Aristotle to the 20th Century
亚里士多德到 20 世纪自然观发展
This course will examine diverse conceptions of nature and of man’s place in nature in different periods of history and in different cultures throughout the world. The course will explore the way in which religious traditions, philosophical thought and cultural traditions both influence people’s view of nature and are influenced by evolving conceptions of humanity’s relationship with nature.
Check DetailsGDHC1143 Environmental History in World Perspective, 1900-2000
1900-2000 全球环境状况
This course explores the historical development of the world's critical environmental problems in the twentieth century. It centres on the evolution of industrial culture in the West and its international effects on societies and biospheres. It examines various categories of solutions: proposed, failed, and successful.
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探索亚洲音乐与文化
This course will introduce the diversity of Asian cultures and music development in Asia. Its geographic coverage spans from East Asia (China, Korea, and Japan) to Southeast Asia (Indonesia), as well as South Asia (India) and Central Asia (Mongolia). It will focus on selected and representative musical cultures and genres as well as their historical background. It will introduce a careful selection of Asian music, culture, genres, and the performing arts in their cultural and historical context. Cross-cultural issues will also be raised in this course.
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探索现代西方音乐：美国音乐剧
This course is a social, political, and cultural survey of the American musical theatre in the twentieth century. It will examine its historical development in the United States, significant genres and periods by focusing on selected important masterworks. The course will consist of lectures, discussions, presentation, class exercises, and written examinations.
Check DetailsGDST1073 Food Appreciation
食品鉴赏
This course provides a basic scientific introduction of food sensory science and food technologies in food and beverage production. Students will be involved in making food products by themselves and the sensory evaluation of the food products using the principles and techniques obtained in the lectures.
Check DetailsGDFL1003 French I
法语 I
This course is intended for complete beginners in French according to the CEFRL (Common European Framework of Reference for languages) Level A0 – A1 (Part 1). It aims at developing basic knowledge in the four areas of competence (listening, speaking, reading and writing) and at developing students linguistic, communicative skills and cultural competence in the target language.
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德语 I
This course is an introduction to German language. Designed for students with no prior knowledge of the German language, the course aims at building students’ linguistic and communicative skills in the four areas of language learning, i.e. listening, speaking, reading and writing according to CERF A1.1 (Common European Framework of Reference for Languages) as well as to enable students to apply communication strategies in the target language. Besides, students will gain a brief insight into German culture(s) and develop « cultural literacy » towards the German cultural area at a basic level.
Check DetailsGDHS1013 Government and Society
政府与社会
This course aims to help students develop a critical understanding of social science approaches to the study of the fundamental relationship between government and society then offer an international and interdisciplinary approach to topics related to the development and problems of governments and societies and foster critical perspectives on different types of government and societies, their different development paths and problem-coping capacities.
Check DetailsGDHC1153 History of Popular Culture, 1900-2000
民俗文化史，1900-2000
This course centres on the major trends and problems in twentieth century popular culture around the world. It discusses the evolution of mass culture and in particular the role played by mass media. It analyses the relationship between economic forces, culture and society, and the roles played by corporations and key individuals in the arts and media.
Check DetailsGDHC1263 History of Traditional Southeast Asia
东南亚古代史
This course offers a comprehensive introduction to the diversity of the development of Southeast Asian civilization before the rise of modernizing indigenous states and Western imperialism from earliest times to 1500. Crossing both national and regional perspectives, this course introduces key elements of Southeast Asian history, geography, language, popular beliefs, artistic achievement, maritime and overland trade, state formation, gender and social relations. Throughout the course students are guided to identify and recognize Southeast Asian region’s interactions with the outside world, such as India and China, and enhance their comparative analytical and critical thinking skills by examining the ways in which Southeast Asians adapted new external ideas and technologies that shape the lives of mass populations and the civilization of each nation in the modern day Southeast Asia.
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