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ENG3823 Critical Thinking in English
辩证思维英语
Critical Thinking in English is designed to facilitate the improvement of our students’ skills in logic and argumentation, whilst at the same time acting as an advanced language course. The course acts as an introduction to various elements of critical thinking including argumentation, rhetoric, and debate. In developing these skills students will apply critical thinking to real-life situations and issues, which will help develop their understanding of the English language, and students should expect to improve their confidence and clarity in both spoken and written English. The overall aim is thus to educate students on how to use critical thinking in English to develop both their academic work and analytic capabilities more generally.
Check DetailsENG3833 Creative Interpretation and Expression
英语语境诠释与表达
The course primarily aims at opening up for students a range of experiences with reading and listening, further enhancing their literacy skills. It empowers students to: (1) engage in interpretive reading and listening (2) create meanings and experiences from what they have read and heard (3) express their personal responses to written and spoken literary works and song lyrics.
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专业公众演讲
This course aims to improve students’ professional public speaking abilities in English through a multi-cultural analysis of different oral communication models, styles, and practical speaking opportunities. The course provides a range of communication theories, vocabulary, semantics, and contexts; all of these are aimed at increasing confidence and communicative competence, in English, in a variety of settings. The main focus is to increase students’ ability to speak in any situation.
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动感英语口语
This course aims to develop and improve students’ ability to become more verbal and confident with both speaking and overall communication through active pronunciation, read-aloud, and oral interpretation experiences. The main course objectives are to provide students with the linguistic and critical-thinking skills to interpret and to advance effective verbal and non-verbal communication in personal, professional, and community situations.
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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 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 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 DetailsCOMP4153 Quantum Finance and Intelligent Financial Trading Systems
量子金融和智能金融交易系统
With the exponential growth of program trading in worldwide financial industry, Quantum Finance and its underlying technologies including quantum field theory and chaos theory become one of the hottest topics in the Fintech community. Many worldwide financial institutions and fund houses have the needs to recruit computer professionals with basic knowledge on quantum finance to develop intelligent financial systems. The objective of this course is to teach students the basic knowledge of quantum finance and its underlying theories and technologies including quantum field theory, chaos theory and chaotic neural networks and how to apply these technologies to finance industry to develop intelligent financial prediction and trading systems.
Check DetailsPRA3113 Photography and Videography in Advertising
广告摄影
This course aims to equip students with foundational advertising photography and video production theory and skills, to better prepare them for the professional field of advertising and public relations. By successful completion of this course, students are expected to be able to 1) Critically analyze works of advertising on multimedia platforms; 2) Produce and integrate the production to the central strategy of a campaign.
Check DetailsJOUR3233 International Communication
国际传播
This course is an introduction to International Communication as both histories and the restructuring order in political economy and culture in the contemporary world. We will trace major changes since the Cold War period when communications have come to constitute one most dynamic industry and the concept of "nation" has been increasingly questioned as a fruitful framework to understand the globalization of communication. This will remain as one focal point in our discussion along the semester.
Check DetailsTRA3123 Computer-Aided Translation
计算机辅助翻译
This course aims to provide students with basic training in computer-aided translation (CAT), helping them acquire knowledge in and understanding of CAT, machine translation (MT) and other translation technology utilized by translators in the industry. Significantly, this course equips students with hand-on experience in the application of MT and CAT tools, including Trados and/ or Déjà vu: technology designed to increase translation efficiency and enhance translation quality.
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