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SWSA4133 Integrative Seminar II
综合研习 II
Integrative Seminar II aims at providing students with a comprehensive orientation to fieldwork and community settings. Students are psychologically and professionally prepared to tune into the field situations and embark on direct services. Conducted in the form of workshop, group discussions, simulation exercises and others, this course provides students with the opportunities to discuss, reflect, and integrate what they have learned in both classroom and field settings to direct practice. Students are helped to acquire the academic and professional competence and confidence in their work with clients/community people, and practise social work independently in the field.
Check DetailsSWSA4143 Mental Health and Social Work
精神健康与社会工作
This course aims (1) to gain an overview of mental disorders and mental health practice; and (2) have working knowledge of practice models that have been identified as essential for effective interventions with people having mental health problems; (3) To instil service delivery ethics, recognition of ethical issues and dilemmas, and ethical decision-making in mental health practice.
Check DetailsSWSA4153 Occupational Social Work
职业社会工作
Occupational Social Work, formerly known as Industrial Social Work, which offers social work services in occupational settings, serves both developmental and social security purposes. The aims of this course are: (1) to enhance students’ understanding of the social and psychological situations of general workers, particularly migrant workers from other provinces; (2) to enable students to develop a thorough understanding of the theories of Organisational Behaviour, Functional community work, Crisis Intervention, and Positive Psychology; (3) to become familiar with social work practice competencies that have been identified as essential interventions in different occupational settings; and sharpen students’ intervention skills in selecting contact points, establishing service locales, employing major social work methods, conducting social and psychological assessments, developing referral protocols and conducting service evaluations in industry.
Check DetailsSWSA4163 Social Work in Health Care
健康社工服务
The aims of this course are: (1) to increase knowledge of the mental, emotional and social dimensions that contribute to, and interplay with, physical health and illness experiences; (2) to enhance students’ understanding of current policies that influence the delivery of healthcare and the barriers that confront individuals and families affected by illness and disability; (3) To explore selected theoretical approaches that are known to be effective in healthcare practice with individuals and families; (4) to acquire practice skills and techniques appropriate for effective assessment and intervention with individuals and their families in a variety of healthcare settings.
Check DetailsGDHC1053 The American Renaissance: the History and Literature of an Era
美国文艺复兴的历史与文学
This course gives an overview of the American Renaissance with emphasis on its history and literature. It analyses the Transcendentalist period, Jacksonian democracy and the reform movements of the time. With this framework around both the intellectual background and the historical foreground, it explores egalitarianism, the divinity in each man, as well as the presence of evil of the human spirit represented by different writers in the era.
Check DetailsGDHC1063 The American Dream and Modern Sensibility
现代情美国梦
The course provides an overview of the American Dream in the history of American culture and literature. It traces the trajectory of the Dream and uses it as the central concept, to analyse the unique ways American writers have adopted to represent their major concerns in their works, and finally to compare and contrast it in the works by different writers, at different times, in different genres, from different societal expectations, or different value systems.
Check DetailsGDHC1133 Indian Civilization and Society
印度的文明与社会
India, the inheritor of the Indus civilization is a dynamic sub-continent with diverse cultural, religious and ethnic background. This continent has a history of external occupation, cultural interaction and exchange over the millenniums by the Vedic Aryan, Greeks, Mongols, Persians, Arabs, Moguls and the Europeans. This course perceives India not as today’s territorial category governed by a particular geo-political reality but as a cultural entity extended all over South Asia and beyond. This course addresses the historical root of Indian civilization and social heritages including religion and politics; medicine and health; social and economic formation; ecology, food and dietetics; and issues from present-day India such as; gender, sex and social hierarchy; and economic globalisation.
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 DetailsGDHC1223 American History I: The Emergence of Modern America
美国历史 I：现代美国的崛起
This course explores the major political, economic and social themes in modern American history, relates America’s evolution to the rise of globalization, and prepares students for global citizenship. Students enhance their critical thinking skills through comparative analysis of America with other nations, and through detailed investigation of concepts, processes and events associated with turning points in American history. Throughout the course students are guided to recognize the social forces that transform the lives of individuals and mass populations, and alter relationships between nations.
Check DetailsGDHC1243 American History II: American Culture and Ideas
美国历史 II：美国文化与思潮
This course explores the major cultural and intellectual themes in modern American history, relates America’s evolution to the predominant issues in modern social discourse, and prepares students for global citizenship. Students enhance their critical thinking skills through comparative analysis of America with other nations, and through detailed investigation of concepts, processes and events associated with cultural themes in American history. Throughout the course students are guided to recognize the cultural influences that change the beliefs of individuals and mass populations, and alter relationships between nations.
Check DetailsGDHC1283 Women in 20th-Century Russian History and Culture
20 世纪俄罗斯历史和文化中的女性
This multimedia course covers the role of Russian women artists as cultural creators and witnesses from the reign of Tsar Nicholas II to President Vladimir Putin’s fourth presidential term. We shall look at the tragedies of twentieth century Russian history as reflected in the verse of Marina Tsvetaeva and Anna Akhmatova, the country’s two most important female poets, and their celebration of its two historical capitals, Moscow and Saint Petersburg, which were also depicted by the memoirists Irina Odoevtseva and Nina Berberova. The course will explore the way in which peasant women and girls are portrayed in the paintings of Zinaida Serebriakova, an important representative of early Russian modernism, and the stories of the Nobel Prize-winning writer Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn. We shall also examine the representation of the female experience and its associated traumas and hopes in the literature, music, and film of the post-communist transition. Finally, the course will include portraits of a selection of today’s female celebrities who have impacted the nation’s culture.
Check DetailsGDHC1023 Modern Europe
现代欧洲
This course is designed as an introductory survey of modern European history. It aims at acquainting students with the main developments in the history of Europe from the middle of the eighteenth century to the present. It offers a comprehensive and a close examination of these developments, through a rigorous scrutiny of their origins, character, and evolution. The course is, thus, an inquiry into the historical origins and evolution of contemporary Europe. As such, it addresses directly the fifth Programme Intended Learning Outcome of the General Education Programme at UIC: the pedagogical objective of developing in students the intellectual ability to “use historical and cultural perspectives to gain insight into contemporary issues.”
Check DetailsGDHC1033 Modern European Thought and Culture
现代欧洲思潮与文化
This course is designed as an introduction to the history of modern European ideas and culture. It aims at acquainting students with the central ideas and movements in European thought and culture from the middle of the eighteenth century to the present. It offers a comprehensive and a close examination of these ideas and intellectual and cultural movements, through a rigorous scrutiny of their origins, nature, and evolution. In a similar way to Modern Europe, this course seeks to achieve the pedagogical objective of cultivating in students the ability to “use historical and cultural perspectives to gain insight into contemporary issues.”
Check DetailsGDHC1043 Modernism in Western Culture
现代主义西方文化
Modernism is one of the most significant intellectual and cultural movements in the history of the modern West. Originating in the second half of the nineteenth century, it became a leading mode of Western thinking and artistic expression in the first half of the twentieth century. To a significant extent, Modernism defines Western thought and culture today. This course is designed as an introduction to the intellectual and cultural history of Modernism. It starts with an historical overview of European thought around the middle of the nineteenth century. It then commences its analysis of Modernism by dissecting the critiques of the modern West articulated by two of the leading thinkers of Modernism: the philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche and the founder of psychoanalysis Sigmund Freud. After that, the course scrutinises the central movements in Modernist painting - Impressionism, Expressionism, Cubism, Futurism, Dada, Surrealism. This inquiry is followed by a sustained and rigorous analysis of Modernism in literature, which explores in depth the ideas and art of Modernism in the three main genres of literature - fiction, poetry, and drama. The course concludes its exploration of Modernism with a reflection on the movement’s historical significance, and on its relevance to the world of the early twenty-first century
Check DetailsGDHC1093 World Religions: Eastern Traditions
世界宗教：东方的传统
This survey course invites you to explore the most influential faiths in the East with a measure of openness and empathy: from Hinduism and Sikhism in the Indic cultural traditions; to Confucianism and Shinto of the East Asian traditions. In addition to elaborations on the richness of history and appreciation of traditional spirituality, this course also seeks to introduce a rich variety of topics of the living religions in the evolution of a global civilisation, founded on the universal values of peace, solidarity, justice, and liberty. The course is also a secure foundation for further investigation of East Asian culture and South Asian Studies.
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