GIR Course List
POLS3263 Global Environmental Governance
全球环境治理
This course aims at familiarising students with issues relating to climate change and natural resource governance in a post-COP21 (2015 Paris Conference) world. Students shall not only analyse the most relevant environmental challenges at national, regional and global levels, but will also assess latest policies outputs and outcomes, as well as related market opportunities, thus analysing both public and private sector responses to the steep challenge of optimising human activities – such as energy consumption, waste disposal and food production - on a finite planet.
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 DetailsPOLS3033 Globalisation and World Order Issues
全球化及国际秩序问题
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 DetailsPOLS3323 Governance and Society in Latin America
拉丁美洲治理与社会
The course is designed for the discussion of a range of contemporary issues in the governance and society of modern Latin America, including the studies on cultural, social, and economic development for the countries in the region. Beginning in 1492, its conquest by the Spanish and Portuguese created a totally new social order based on domination, hierarchy, and the intermingling of European, African, and indigenous elements. After World War II, more analysts worked on describing Latin American economic growth and cultural traditions originated from their Spanish and Portuguese heritage. This course is designed deliberately to accommodate to the discretion and expertise of the instructor concerned, which would lead students to think and understand Latin American governance and society in a broad-gauge approach.
Check DetailsPOLS3313 Governance and Society in North America
北美治理与社会
The course aims at familiarizing students with the most distinctive traits of public governance and the most relevant socio-economic trends in USA and Canada, with additional reference to their closely tied southern neighbor, Mexico.
Check DetailsPOLS3303 Governance and Society in Northeast Asia
东北亚治理与社会
The course aims at familiarizing students with the distinctive traits of public governance as well as with the most significant social and economic trends characterizing modern Japan, North Korea (Democratic People’s Republic of Korea) and South Korea (Republic of Korea).
Check DetailsPOLS3273 Growth, Innovation and Development: Case Studies
经济增长、创新与发展：经典案例研究
As economic growth remains crucial to socio-economic progress, both national and international institutions are expected to devise, support and implement conducive capacity-building policies that, in an ever-changing age of knowledge economy, may not only prove to be “quantitatively” successful, but also mindful of the quality and sustainability of the very progress they deliver. The course will explore a selection of case studies from across the globe to highlight the connection between governments’ politico-economic strategies, economic growth and innovative entrepreneurship as crucial ingredients for lasting progress. Particular attention will be reserved to Chinese cases, so as to reflect the country’s ongoing transition towards a more sustainable, high-value, knowledge-based development model; the course content will also include the study of “Research, Development, Demonstration and Deployment” (RDDD) patterns and policies, and the analysis of “innovation ecosystems” in both Asia and the Americas.
Check DetailsGCIT1003 IT for Success in Everyday Life and Work
日常生活和工作中的信息技术
This course introduces students to the fundamental concepts of Information Technology (IT), and develops students’ confidence in using computers and computer applications. Useful and practical course contents are selected for learning how to be a competitive person in this information era. Students are introduced to the background of Computer Science, and the modern IT sector. Some of the major IT organisations are introduced, and current IT issues and questions are discussed. The basic architecture and design of a computer is explained. Software applications useful for students of all majors are introduced.
Check DetailsPOLS3293 International Migration
国际移民
This course analyses relevant issues related to contemporary international migration. First of all, it investigates underlying “push and pull factors” of socio-economic nature in both places of origin and of destination, assessing the broad range of bonds and frictions between migrants and host societies, as well as the persisting interactions with their native homelands. The course also explores the status of “refugee”, examining the core dynamics and implications of a selection of refugee crises occurred over the years in different regions of the world.
Check DetailsPOLS3093 International Organisations
国际组织
Increasingly over the last 130 years, nation-states have agreed to found, fund, and join international organisations whose task is to oversee and organise the myriad global interactions which have increasingly become a part of daily life. As the actions of people and governments in one place increasingly affect the lives of people and the prerogatives and responsibilities of government in others, nation-states have ceded portions of their day to day sovereignty to international agencies and actors. Today, international organisations exercise globe-girdling responsibilities in areas that affect the daily life of nearly everyone. From transport to environmental pollution, from drug smuggling to AIDS, international organisations play a vital part in protecting life and imparting order to international intercourse. This course examines these international organisations and regimes which play such a vital role in today’s world.
Check DetailsPOLS3183 International Relations in South and East Asia
南亚及东亚地区之国际关系
The course analyses the socio-economic and political development patterns of both South Asia and East Asia, examining key countries’ internal dynamics and their foreign relations. Particular attention will be dedicated to Sino-Indian relations, Chinese engagement in South Asia, as well as ASEAN / AEC regional integration process.
Check DetailsPOLS3233 Internship (GIR)
实习
This course will allow students to earn college credits for time spent working in the field with NGOs, research institutes, government organizations, media, publishing houses, or the private sector. Since some internships are very demanding of students’ time, offering course credits allows them to do the internship while earning credit towards their degree. It also strengthens connections between GIR and institutions that may hire GIR students in the future.
Check DetailsPOLS2063 Introduction to Comparative Politics
比较政治学导论
This course is designed to provide the students with an introduction to the comparative study of political institutions and processes in different areas of the world. It aims to stress importance of comparison in the context of an increasingly interdependent world and to help students develop conceptual, theoretical, analytical tools, which may enable them to understand politics across a broad range of countries and to assess alternative interpretations of political phenomena.
Check DetailsPOLS2023 Introduction to Political Economy
政治经济学导论
Political economy, with its roots in the European 17th and 18th centuries, was the forebear of what developed in the twentieth century into the two separate disciplines of political science and economics. However, it has become defined in the last twenty years as that sub-discipline of political science and economics which examines the relationship of the individual to society, the economy, and the state with a particular focus on state-market interactions and intersections. It is the study of relations and choices, of structures and institutions, of scales from the personal and local to the national, international, and global. Its originators include John Locke, Thomas Hobbes, Adam Smith, Karl Marx, and Max Weber. Including choice theory and market theory, system theory, development theory and public policy theory, contemporary political economy examines the historic and human behavioural linkages among values/morals, politics, economic reality and economic reasoning. Its prime question concerns the role of politics in the economy and the effects and constraints of the economy on the power and functions of politics and of the state.
Check DetailsPOLS3143 Introduction to Political Theory
政治理论导论
This course is conceived as an introduction to the study of political theory through the analysis of the thought of the most important western political theorists, from the ancient Greeks to the 20th Century, covering topics such as origin of government and law, man’s relation to society and state, forms of government, justice, religious authority and secularism, natural law and natural rights, political obligations, social contract and theory of utility.
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