Course List
JOUR3173 Gender, Identity and the Media
媒体与性别认同
The aim of the course is to help students to be informed consumers of media, to examine gender and diversity portrayals in the various media, and to explore how the media industry and culture treats gender and identity. These objectives will result in a raised awareness of how both sexes can participate equally in the world around them.
Check DetailsJOUR3183 Persuasion in Media
媒体游说
The aim of the course is to help students to be informed consumers of media, to examine Media Persuasion theory, forms and uses in the various media channels, and to explore how the media industry and culture treats persuasive messages. These objectives will result in a raised awareness of how Media influences society.
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 DetailsJOUR3203 Journalism and Truth
新闻与事实
This course introduces students to a variety of journalistic epistemologies, including their theoretical and practical aspects. The course emphasizes not only practice with these epistemologies, but also a theoretical understanding of how these epistemologies have evolved. How they impact journalism regarding writing, publication, distribution, and consumption will be covered as well.
Check DetailsJOUR3213 New Media, Culture and Society
新媒体,文化与社会
This course provides a critical survey of the field new media studies and communications. It begins with thinking about the individual as living in a fast-changing new media ecology; it then examines the political-economic and cultural aspects of new media as it develops in contemporary societies such as the U.S. and mainland China. The course will introduce students to some leading research as well as creative works on new media developments in order to explore the role of new media and media practices in modern life.
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 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 DetailsJOUR4033 Media and Liberalism
媒体思想史
This course will examine ideas and issues involving the role of the media in the western tradition. It introduces to students the key works in the history of liberalism which have guided the development of media institutions in modern society. It then takes students to contemporary issues regarding the contentious practices and understandings of media and journalism.
Check DetailsJOUR4053 Business and Financial Reporting
财经新闻报道
This course prepares students to report on economic events and trends in Hong Kong, China, and the broader Asia-Pacific Region. A global perspective of economic and financial situations is explored.
Check DetailsJOUR4133 Analysis of Media Content and Media Frames
媒体内容与框架分析
This course aims at providing students with: (1) Knowledge of theory and logic of both systematic quantitative content analysis and systematic qualitative content analysis procedures; (2) Understanding: students reflect the underlying epistemological problems. Also the study of classic content analysis helps both understand this method better and inspire applications in our own research; (3) Practice: Students carry out the different steps in both types of content analysis, so they are able to carry out content analysis research and to become familiar with procedures as well as common problems in setting up and carrying out content analysis; (4) Evaluation: Understand how to critically evaluate and improve content analysis methods used in previous studies; (5) Facilitating: For Bachelor thesis writing.
Check DetailsSWSA1003 Introduction to Social Welfare
社会福利学导论
This course a) introduces students to the scientific field of social welfare by providing elementary insights on as well as elementary theoretical understanding of social welfare and all its key related issues; b) examines the functioning, structures, problems of social welfare systems, as well as the changes occurring within those systems; c) provides students with a compact, comprehensive and integrated understanding of social welfare systems in a comparative perspective.
Check DetailsSWSA1013 Introduction to Social Work
社会工作学导论
This course orients students to the Social Work profession. It provides students with an overview of the philosophical foundations and basic elements of social work covering such aspects as its purposes, values, sanction, knowledge, and skills. Students will examine the approaches/methods of direct and indirect social work practice; the various fields of social work practice and the types of clientele served as well as the roles and functions of social workers. Field trips and visits to social service agencies may be organised to enable them to gain a better idea of the different agency settings and their services.
Check DetailsSWSA2003 Social Work Skills
社会工作技巧
This course facilitates students’ self-understanding and awareness of their own behaviour and attitude related to the role of a social worker, as well as students’ reflection of values and to identify value conflict, if any, in the application of the international Social Work Code of Ethics to practice. The main part of the course concentrates on students’ acquisition of basic knowledge and micro skills of social practices with individuals, groups, and community.
Check DetailsSWSA2013 Social Work Intervention and Processes
社会工作介入与过程
This course is an introduction to the integrative model as a conceptual framework for the study of social work theory and practice. Student will learn the practice content that encompasses the generic knowledge and skills common to social work practice at micro, mezzo, and macro levels. This content includes the activities of intervention and processes of engaging clients in an appropriate working relationship, identifying issues, problems, needs, resources and assets; collecting and assessing information; and planning for service delivery. Exercises based on case, group, and community studies will be used to help students develop their practical and analytical skills. This course runs concurrently with SWSA2003 Social Work Skills.
Check DetailsSWSA2023 Human Development
人类发展
This course focuses on the study of human adjustments and coping behaviours with references to the various features and characteristics of human development from prenatal stage to death. Students will examine the developmental problems, adjustment difficulties, and changes in human behaviour as a result of interaction of biological, psychological, socio-cultural factors across lifespan, and their implications for social work practice.
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