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GDHC1203 Life and the Soul: Existentialism and The Psychology of War in Twentieth-Century Europe
生命与灵魂：20 世纪欧洲存在主义和心理学的战争
In this course students will learn about key events, ideas, and historical figures that influenced European intellectual history in the 20th Century. Students will be introduced to some of the major figures in 20th Century Europe, and will explore fundamental ideas and psychology of events, that constitute contemporary European culture and civilisation.
Check DetailsGDHC1213 The Beginning of Western Civilization: A Journey in Time
西方文明起源：时间之旅
This course introduces students to the beginning of Western civilization. Starting with the world of Homer and Hesiod in ancient Greece, and working through the beginning of the Christian Age in the Roman period students will investigate and analyse key events, ideas and historical figures that impacted and influenced today’s European culture.
Check DetailsGDHC1233 History of the Middle East in the Twentieth Century
20 世纪中东史
This course gives a thematic overview of the major achievements and problems in the Middle East in the twentieth century, with emphasis on culture. It analyses the relationship between economic development, social ideas and cultural expressions. It introduces the main themes of political discourse, and discusses the tension between traditional religious views and rapid secularization. It explores Middle Eastern society through both major social movements and daily life, in rural and urban settings.
Check DetailsGDHC1253 China in Western Perspectives
西方视野中的中国
This course introduces students to specific themes and approaches of understanding Chinese civilization and its legacies in historical perspectives through the Westerners’ eyes. It explores the question of what constitutes “China” from a variety of conventional European-inspired historical perspectives, and testifies a multiplicity of intellectual thoughts and attitudes that Westerners have brought to their attempts to deal with the phenomenon of China. At the end of the course, students are expected to have developed a critical reading and thinking ability to explore the universal values, attitudes, and the way how the West has understood China in the context of West-dominated historical narratives.
Check DetailsGDHC1263 History of Traditional Southeast Asia
东南亚古代史
This course offers a comprehensive introduction to the diversity of the development of Southeast Asian civilization before the rise of modernizing indigenous states and Western imperialism from earliest times to 1500. Crossing both national and regional perspectives, this course introduces key elements of Southeast Asian history, geography, language, popular beliefs, artistic achievement, maritime and overland trade, state formation, gender and social relations. Throughout the course students are guided to identify and recognize Southeast Asian region’s interactions with the outside world, such as India and China, and enhance their comparative analytical and critical thinking skills by examining the ways in which Southeast Asians adapted new external ideas and technologies that shape the lives of mass populations and the civilization of each nation in the modern day Southeast Asia.
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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.
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亚洲佛教史
This course is billed as a comprehensive introduction to the history of Buddhism as a transnational religion in Asia. It covers the Buddhist traditions as it has developed in the Indic cultural region, Central Asia and East Asia. It provides students with a general knowledge of Buddhist historical developments, the life of the Buddha, key concepts and monastic practices, so as to lay down a foundation for a better understanding of the Buddhism in world history. It aims to underline common threads of historical facts and movements which unify the Buddhist world. In addition to chapters from the prescribed textbook, John Strong's Experience of Buddhism will also provide students with structured access to the foundational texts of this great tradition.
Check DetailsGDHC1083 World Religions: Ancient Traditions
世界宗教：古代的传统
For students of any religion or none, this survey course, with the focus on classical antiquity, helps them explore the diversity of ancient faiths that influenced East and West: from the Egyptian traditions, religions of Mesopotamia and Persia, to Judaism of the biblical period, Greco-Roman beliefs and early 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 in the evolution of ancient empires, founded on the roots of the western civilisation. The course is also a secure foundation for further investigation of Classical Studies and Western history.
Check DetailsGDHC1143 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.
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民俗文化史，1900-2000
This course centres on the major trends and problems in twentieth century popular culture around the world. It discusses the evolution of mass culture and in particular the role played by mass media. It analyses the relationship between economic forces, culture and society, and the roles played by corporations and key individuals in the arts and media.
Check DetailsGDHC1183 Conceptions of Nature from Aristotle to the 20th Century
亚里士多德到 20 世纪自然观发展
This course will examine diverse conceptions of nature and of man’s place in nature in different periods of history and in different cultures throughout the world. The course will explore the way in which religious traditions, philosophical thought and cultural traditions both influence people’s view of nature and are influenced by evolving conceptions of humanity’s relationship with nature.
Check DetailsGDHC1193 Traditional Philosophical Problems in Modern Cinema
现代电影中的传统哲学问题
This course will provide students with the ability to recognise philosophical themes in movies and analyse how such themes are handled in terms of both philosophical depth and logical consistency. Students will discuss important moral and metaphysical issues as they are portrayed in contemporary movies and develop the ability to debate philosophical issues both orally and in written assignments.
Check DetailsGDHC1273 Migration in World History
世界移民史
This course offers a comprehensive introduction to the interactions and events of human histories with a focus on migration in global and contemporary perspectives. The course examines the process and significance of human movement across the globe throughout history, including the origins, impacts, adaptations, interconnections, and contestations associated with the rise of civilization, global economic, political, ideological, and cultural flows since the prehistoric period. The comparison and contrast of the rise of civilization in different regional and temporal contexts will also be covered in this course, seeing how the migration processes in the past affect how we perceive our identity, nation, and the universe in the present world.
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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.
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Python 数据分析
This course introduces the concepts, principles and techniques of data analysis using python the programming language in domain specific fields. Students will learn about the basic concepts of data analysis and how to write and organize Python programs using control statements, functions, modules, and how to use Pandas module to do basic data analysis and visualization. After learning this course, students will know how to edit, debug, run Python programs and perform data analysis.
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