MISC Course List
GDHC1143 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.
Check DetailsWPEX2013 Experiential Arts
艺术体验
This module offers a variety of different art and music workshops, which aim to provide students with a “hands-on” aesthetic learning experience by having apprentice-style interaction with talented artists, while working together with other students as a team. The final product or performance from each workshop will be presented at a final exhibition or show on campus.
Check DetailsWPEX1003 Experiential Development
体验拓展
This module aims to develop students’ self-motivation and team spirit, encouraging positive attitude and active lifestyle. It comprises a set of activities, usually active and taking place outdoors, that emphasise a unique learning process, which combines direct experience with guided reflection and analysis. Through processing and discussions, students are encouraged to share personal experiences, understanding and emotions with each other. Team spirit and coherence will be promoted through this process.
Check DetailsWPEX1003 Experiential Development - Base Extended
体验拓展 - 基地拓展
The base extended course is taught in experiential learning way which themed on "Trust, Collaboration, Innovation, Self-breakthrough", guided by the integrative activities involving physical, intelligence and skills. This course adapts a sub-group mode, using ground, medium-altitude, high-altitude, display, sharing and other types of programs. It aims at achieving students' cognition, inclusion, bravery, dedication, self-breakthrough and other excellent qualities as well as excellent team spirits, cultivating the talents who have the characteristics of "In knowledge and in deeds, unto the whole person".
Check DetailsWPEX1003 Experiential Development - Outdoor Extended
体验拓展 - 户外拓展
The course aims to develop students’ self-motivation and understanding of team spirit, encourage positive attitude and active lifestyle. It is designed to prepare students for participation in a wide range of wilderness and backcountry activities, including wall climbing & repelling, trail walking and outdoor team building games that emphasize a unique teaching and learning process, which combines direct experience with guided reflection and analysis. Through processing and discussions students are encouraged to share personal experiences, understanding and emotions with each other. Team spirit and personal willpower will be promoted through this process.
Check DetailsWPEX1003 Experiential Development - Water Extended
体验拓展 - 水上拓展课程
The water extended course is taught in experiential learning way which takes the basic technical of kayak, rescue, team competition, maritime travel and other projects as the carriers, achieving the goals of promoting self-knowledge, mental quality and team spirit with the help of multiple natural environment such as lakes, seas, and islands. This course can promote students' abilities in cognition, intention, perseverance, leadership, dedication and other aspects mainly through team building, practical simulation, self-breakthrough, reflection, sharing and other parts.
Check DetailsGDHC1293 Exploring Culture and Music in Asia
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.
Check DetailsGDHC1173 Exploring Modern Western Music: The American Musical
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.
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 DetailsGDFL1013 German I
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 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.
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