What is Science? How did/does/will it change the way we live? Is our food safe to eat? What are GMOs? Why are we prone to diseases? Are radioactive substances friends or foes? How are weather data collected and what these data meant to us?
Dear Students,
Once again, a new season and a new vista are upon us as we welcome the Year of the Rat, the Chinese zodiac animal often associated with ingenuity and vivacity. We wish you the same ingenuity and vivacity in a successful and healthy new lunar year.
Film genres have been popular since the beginning of this artistic medium and remain quite popular today. This class will examine the cultural and economic reasons for their continuing popularity. Film showings and film clips will demonstrate how genres evolve over time, how some of the great film directors have made genre films of lasting impact, and how others seek to subvert them and their norms on commercial or ideological grounds. This class assumes no prior knowledge of film.
Professor Ezra VOGEL, Henry Ford II Professor of the Social Sciences Emeritus, Harvard University
Through a combination of experiential learning activities and web-based delivery, this course aims at expose students to a number of intense debates surrounding globalization such as free trade, global culture, national sovereignty, the question of multinational corporations and labour rights and the anti-globalization movement. The objective is to build basic knowledge of the opposing views on globalization, their political and ideological bases, and implications for political and personal actions.
The objective of this course is to understand human nature, including our desire, fear and virtue, through interdisciplinary reading and discussion of movies from different parts of the world. Students will discuss in groups and present their opinions/findings in class based on the class work they have done and make references from their daily life experiences and the situation in Hong Kong.
By introducing students to the socio-economic, political and cultural foundation of complex and pluralistic modern societies, it also presents the major social trend creating modern society and life. It helps students to reflect on their roles and participation. It is hoped that it could enhance students’ self-awareness of the need of recognizing differences and being tolerant, as well as the diversity of moral values and beliefs in modern society.
This course is designed to provide some basic information about social welfare and social services in Hong Kong to meet the needs of the non-social work major students. Students are required to study the provision of current social services funded by public monies. Further, they will examine the role played by professional social workers in helping society develop suitable social programs and services to satisfy the needs of the disadvantaged.