IJ Course List
GCCH1023 Selected Themes in Chinese History and Civilisation
中国历史与文明专题
This course aims to provide students with (1) knowledge on the various aspects of China’s unique cultural qualities and achievements from past to present; (2) a rich vocabulary for them to be able to illustrate the historical eras of Chinese civilization; (3) the ability to critically analyse various cultural phenomena by looking at a wide spectrum of traditional Chinese ways of life; and (4) the awareness, interests and curiosities in Chinese history and civilization from a cultural perspective.
Check DetailsJOUR3143 Selected Topics in Journalism: Citizen Journalism
新闻专业选题：公民采访与报道
This course introduces students to the role of citizen journalism and its relationship to professional journalism and mainstream media. Citizen journalism is the gathering, writing, editing, production and distribution of news and information by people not trained as professional journalists who collect, disseminate and analyse news on blogs, wikis and sharing websites using tablets, laptops, cell phones, digital cameras and other mobile and wireless technologies. Citizen journalism is also referred to as "alternative media”, an activist form of professional newsgathering and reporting that functions outside mainstream media institutions, often driven by different objectives and ideals and relies on substitute sources of legitimacy than traditional or mainstream journalism. Content from citizen journalists is now increasingly also known as user-generated content. Its relevance for professional journalists and media companies lies in the growing integration of such content onto online mainstream media platforms and the move by professional journalists into citizen journalism.
Check DetailsJOUR3073 Selected Topics in Journalism: Green Writing
新闻专业选题：环保报道
Green Writing is a course geared to making the student conversant in research and reporting writing on environmental issues. The formats for presentation will include, but are not limited to, investigative journalism, feature journalism, bulletin-style articles, broadcast news report scripts, public relations tracts, and policy papers. To develop a better understanding of these forms of writing, readings will range broadly across the subject of the environment and nature, particularly in China. The course covers areas where students will engage in becoming more observant about environmental conditions and changes, as well as the forces that underpin these conditions and processes.
Check DetailsJOUR3093 Selected Topics in Journalism: Radio Broadcasting
新闻专业选题：电台广播 新闻
This course aims at equipping students with the theory and practice of the radio industry while developing foundational skills in announcing and writing, with an emphasis on diction, expressiveness, and clarity. In this course students will produce a series of radio feature news programs, from planning stages, through writing, and eventually to producing these features. This course teaches radio production techniques, including using the internet for research, story selection and sequencing, contacting subjects, interviewing and follow-up, writing and editing. This course will explore the different forms of radio news as well, finding stories and turning them into good radio. Journalistic ethics and a study of the legal restrictions within which broadcast journalists’ work will be emphasised throughout.
Check DetailsJOUR4023 Social Aspects of Media Technology
传媒技术与社会
This course explores the relationships between media technology and society. In the context of the debates that surround technology and social change, it examines how new media technologies are changing communication, identity, and community. The situation in Hong Kong is highlighted.
Check DetailsGCNU1003 Speaking of Statistics
统计漫谈
This course provides students with an understanding of fundamental statistical techniques commonly used in social science, business, and science today. The emphasis is on statistical thinking, concepts and data analysis. Students are required to solve a variety of problems using statistical packages.
Check DetailsJOUR3193 Stock Market Reporting
股票市场报道
This course will teach the practical principles and practical skills of financial and stock exchanges reporting. Students will learn the fundamentals of company analysis and skills of due diligence with case practice.
Check DetailsJOUR3153 Study on Intercultural Communication Issues
跨文化传播研究
This course serves as an introduction to the field of intercultural communication by looking at the practical application of theory and research, particularly in acknowledging the influence of context and power in intercultural interactions. It identifies the key intercultural communication challenges both at home and abroad and how those challenges affect people, their jobs, and their relationships. It focuses on the strategies and skills needed to deal effectively with these challenges in a broad variety of interaction contexts.
Check DetailsJOUR3223 The Language of Journalism
新闻语言学
This course emphasizes the language use of contemporary journalism from a critical linguistic perspective. Students will learn basic and intermediate linguistic concepts and analytic tools. They will then learn how to apply these tools to analyse a variety of news texts, both written and visual. This will emphasize both a greater understanding of language use in production of the student’s own news texts and a critical understanding of the language use of other news texts.
Check DetailsGCCH1003 University Chinese
大学国文
This course aims to (1) help students to master advanced knowledge and skills in Chinese listening, speaking, reading and writing; (2) teach some of the advanced features of Chinese literature, and the interrelationship between literature, society and culture in ancient and contemporary China, and (3) develop students’ ability to analyse, evaluate and appreciate literary writings.
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