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ENG3853 Communication Through Oral Interpretation
动感英语口语
This course aims to develop and improve students’ ability to become more verbal and confident with both speaking and overall communication through active pronunciation, read-aloud, and oral interpretation experiences. The main course objectives are to provide students with the linguistic and critical-thinking skills to interpret and to advance effective verbal and non-verbal communication in personal, professional, and community situations.
Check DetailsSTAT3053 Computer-Aided Data Analysis (for Non-STAT students)
电脑辅助数据分析（直译，非官方中文名称）
- AIMS & OBJECTIVES 1. To introduce the applications of statistical methods in real data analysis. 2. To enable student to visualize and analyze data by statistical software SPSS. 3. To familiarize students with the popular statistical software SPSS in data analysis. 4. To provide hands-on practice with real life data. 5. To provide a stimulus for the student to take a greater role in her/his data analysis. - COURSE CONTENT 1. Getting started with SPSS and data file learning 2. Data description: graphical and numerical 3. Comparing groups 4. Looking at distributions 5. The normal distribution and its testing 6. Testing a hypotheses about two population means 7. The tests for paired data 8. Comparison for means in several populations 9. Measures of association and related testing 10. Linear regression and correlation 11. Analyzing residuals 12. Multiple regression 13. Modeling techniques and statistical diagnostics 14. Categorical data analysis 15. Contingency table and its statistical analysis
Check DetailsENG3833 Creative Interpretation and Expression
英语语境诠释与表达
The course primarily aims at opening up for students a range of experiences with reading and listening, further enhancing their literacy skills. It empowers students to: (1) engage in interpretive reading and listening (2) create meanings and experiences from what they have read and heard (3) express their personal responses to written and spoken literary works and song lyrics.
Check DetailsENG3823 Critical Thinking in English
辩证思维英语
Critical Thinking in English is designed to facilitate the improvement of our students’ skills in logic and argumentation, whilst at the same time acting as an advanced language course. The course acts as an introduction to various elements of critical thinking including argumentation, rhetoric, and debate. In developing these skills students will apply critical thinking to real-life situations and issues, which will help develop their understanding of the English language, and students should expect to improve their confidence and clarity in both spoken and written English. The overall aim is thus to educate students on how to use critical thinking in English to develop both their academic work and analytic capabilities more generally.
Check DetailsDS2023 Data Analysis Using Python
Python 数据分析
This course introduces the concepts, principles and techniques of data analysis using python the programming language in domain specific fields. Students will learn about the basic concepts of data analysis and how to write and organize Python programs using control statements, functions, modules, and how to use Pandas module to do basic data analysis and visualization. After learning this course, students will know how to edit, debug, run Python programs and perform data analysis.
Check DetailsENG3263 English Language Study Skills
大学英文应用技巧
This course is on further developing language skills for academic studies. It aims to help students use English to a high standard in an English medium learning environment and further develop their English language proficiency for effective communication. To achieve these objectives, the course will emphasize core competencies that are essential to the development of language skills (particularly speaking and writing) and to the effective English learning strategies, skills and language usage.
Check DetailsCOMM1023 Fundamentals of Communication
传播学基础
The aim of this course is to provide an introduction to the basic concepts, processes and contexts in the study of communication. The course explains listening, perceiving, using verbal and nonverbal communication, and establishing climate. Then these processes are applied to various contexts such as interpersonal, small group, public, organizational, intercultural, mass communication, personal, and social media. Students will acquire the knowledge of communication concepts and processes and establish the link between fundamental concepts and various communication phenomena and contexts. The course eventually discusses the practices of communication in various areas, namely, journalism, public relations and advertising, cinema and television, and media arts and design, and the challenges and opportunities in the era of new media.
Check DetailsSOC1083 Gender and Sexuality
性别与性
It has been an interesting debate over centuries whether the construction of gender and sexuality in human society is biologically determined or socially constructed? Biological determinists and religious arguments claimed about the by-born nature of male and female whereas feminists and social scientists emphasized the social and cultural construction of gender and sexuality. This subject address topics from the debate including “Masculinity vs. Femininity”, “Politics of Sexuality”, “Rise of Feminism”, “Love, Marriage and Family”, “Women and Gender across China”, “Western Interpretation about Chinese Women”, “Chinese Man and Tobacco Consumption”, etc.
Check DetailsMCOM2073 History of East Asian Media and Culture
东亚媒体文化史
This course examines the history of the cultural production, circulation and consumption in East Asia in which the textures of mentality and experiences are constructed into popular narratives which recur and are re-contextualized in global cultural industry. With a focus on the interlocked relationship between textuality and historical conditions, students are expected to explore how the historical relations of East Asian capitalistic-socialization process, given by global political economy, has been co-evolving with the generative and circulation processes of various themes, motifs and subjects, explicitly or implicitly, embedded in the cultural texts such as literary works and film. The primary goal of this course is to provide students with a phenomenological angle to look at the formative process of heterogenous textures in global configuration and to consider the homogenous logic of various cultural formations in the present transnational circuit in East Asia.
Check DetailsEBIS3103 Introduction to Business Data Analytics
初级商业数据分析
The explosion of social media and the computerization of every aspect of social and economic activity have resulted in creation of large volumes of mostly unstructured data. Today, we have the ability to reliably and cheaply store huge volumes of data, efficiently analyse them, and extract business and socially relevant information. Therefore, local and global businesses are investing heavily in using data analytics to drive substantial enhancement in business models, business processes, and customer values. This course provides students with a solid understanding of the principles, methods, and technologies for business analytics to drive business innovations. It places special emphasis on working through applications and examples of analytics in the real world, while offering an accessible overview on some of the fundamental techniques in business analytics.
Check DetailsENG3843 Professional Public Speaking
专业公众演讲
This course aims to improve students’ professional public speaking abilities in English through a multi-cultural analysis of different oral communication models, styles, and practical speaking opportunities. The course provides a range of communication theories, vocabulary, semantics, and contexts; all of these are aimed at increasing confidence and communicative competence, in English, in a variety of settings. The main focus is to increase students’ ability to speak in any situation.
Check DetailsCOMP4153 Quantum Finance and Intelligent Financial Trading Systems
量子金融和智能金融交易系统
With the exponential growth of program trading in worldwide financial industry, Quantum Finance and its underlying technologies including quantum field theory and chaos theory become one of the hottest topics in the Fintech community. Many worldwide financial institutions and fund houses have the needs to recruit computer professionals with basic knowledge on quantum finance to develop intelligent financial systems. The objective of this course is to teach students the basic knowledge of quantum finance and its underlying theories and technologies including quantum field theory, chaos theory and chaotic neural networks and how to apply these technologies to finance industry to develop intelligent financial prediction and trading systems.
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