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FOUNDATION LEVEL
English Speaking andListening Skills (A090)
DescriptionThis course aims to develop learners' un-derstanding of the English language; de-velop learners' listening and speakingskills in a number of different contexts;develop learners' interest in activities thatuse English as the medium of communi-cation.
ContentsUnit 1 Getting started
Unit 2 Having a conversation
Unit 3 Describing and explaining
Unit 4 Taking part in a discussion
Unit 5 Listening to a talk
Unit 6 Giving a talk
SetbookSwan, M and Water, C (1997) How Eng-lish Works, Oxford University Press.
University English WritingSkills (A101)
DescriptionThis course will improve students’ abil-ity to read, interpret and select materialfrom print and electronic sources and in-corporate this material into an academicessay that an academic that avoids pla-giarism.
ContentsUnti 1 Planning for writing
Unit 2 Getting information fromprinted sources
Unit 3 Using sources in academic writ-ing
Unit 4 Evaluating and revising writing
Unit 5 Organizing academic writing
Unit 6 Communicating in academicwriting
Unti 7 Getting information from non-print sources
SetbooksMarshall, L and Rowland, F (1998) AGuide to Learning Independently, 3rd edn,Melbourne: Longman Cheshire.
The Oxford Advanced Learners Diction-ary of Current English, 6th edn (2000), Ox-ford: Oxford University Press.
Newbrook, M (1991) Exploring EnglishErrors 1V, Hong Kong: Oxford UniversityPress.
Newbrook, M (1991) Exploring EnglishErrors 2V, Hong Kong: Oxford UniversityPress.
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Presentation Skills (A122)
DescriptionThis course aims to provide students witha practical approach to mastering face-to-face presentations effectively. It guidesstudents through all the principlesneeded for preparing and refining pres-entations so that they are appropriate fortheir specific audience and purpose. Italso covers the use and development ofvisual aids, non-verbal communicationand skills related to delivery and to deal-ing with questions from the audience.
ContentsUnit 1 What is an effective presenta-
tion?
Unit 2 Analysing the situation
Unit 3 Building the presentation
Unit 4 Managing body language andvoice skills
Unit 5 Managing visual aids
Unit 6 Setting the stage and deliveringthe message
SetbookThere is no set book for this course.
Social Sciences:A Foundation Course (SS101)
DescriptionThis course is multi-disciplinary in na-ture: it discusses the insights which poli-tics, economics, sociology and psychol-ogy bring to understanding the develop-ment of Hong Kong. It adopts a thematicapproach — namely, housing in HongKong. Both the theoretical differencesbetween the disciplines and their differ-ent approaches to this issue will reveal tostudents the main concepts involved ineach discipline.
ContentsUnit 1 A study of housing in Hong
Kong
Unit 2 The nature of the social sci-ences
Unit 3–6 Politics
Unit 7–10 Economics
Unit 11–14 Sociology
Unit 15–18 Psychology
Unit 19 The urban form of HongKong
Unit 20 The uses of the social sciences
SetbookThere is no set book for this course. Stu-dents will receive reading lists related toeach of the disciplines.
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MIDDLE LEVEL
Analysing English Grammar(A200)
DescriptionThis course aims to provide a good basicintroduction to the analysis of Englishgrammar. By the end of the course stu-dents should be able to identify and nameparts of speech; analyse the structure ofsentences; and understand the basis oftraditional grammar and concepts like‘correctness’ and ‘Standard English’.
ContentsUnit 1 Parts of speech I
Unit 2 Parts of speech II
Unit 3 The structure of simple sen-tences
Unit 4 Complex and compound sen-tences
Unit 5 Phrases and reduced clauses
Unit 6 The system of traditional gram-mar
SetbooksGreenbaum, S and Nelson, G (2002) AnIntroduction to English Grammar, 2nd edn,London: Longman.
Gucker, P (1966) Essential English Gram-mar, New York: Dover.
Young, D J (1984) Introducing EnglishGrammar, London:Routledge.
Modern China 1900-1978(AW202)
DescriptionThis course aims to provide learners withan understanding of the emergence ofmodern China as a nation state and aworld power.
ContentsUnit 1 Prelude
Unit 2 The Revolution of 1911
Unit 3 The rise of the warlords, 1912-1919
Unit 4 May 4th, 1919
Unit 5 Communism in China to 1927
Unit 6 The Nanjing regime, 1927-1937
Unit 7 Sino-Japanese relations and war
Unit 8 Civil war and the founding ofthe People's Republic, 1945-1949
Unit 9 Towards socialism, 1949-1966
Unit 10 The Cultural Revolution and af-ter, 1966-1978
SetbookJonathan D Spence, The Search for ModernChina, 2nd edn, New York and London:W W Norton & Co., 1999.
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A History of Hong Kong1842–1984 (AW213)
DescriptionThis course deals with the modern devel-opment of Hong Kong and aims to ex-plain the present situation. It focuses onthe formation of Hong Kong society andinternal and external sources for socialchange as well as the emergence of a lo-cal culture and identity.
ContentsUnit 1 Introduction
Unit 2 East and West 1842–1882
Unit 3 The Chinese community ex-pands 1883–1911
Unit 4 The people’s livelihood 1912–1941
Unit 5 The China factor 1912–1941
Unit 6 The war and its consequences1942–1949
Unit 7 Hong Kong’s Industrial Revolu-tion 1950–1964
Unit 8 Riots and reforms 1965–1970
Unit 9 The Maclehose years 1971–1981
Unit 10 Towards the future 1982–1984
SetbookFaure, D (1995) A History of Hong Kong1842–1984, Tamarind Books.
Understanding ChineseSociety (CS201)
DescriptionThis course introduces the nature of Chi-nese society, both past and present,through the analysis of the political, so-cial and economic changes that have af-fected China since the early 20th century.Its aim is to help you understand conti-nuity and change in Chinese society, in-cluding what is different from the pastabout contemporary China and what issimilar. More specifically, the course willexamine the character of the Chinese fam-ily and kinship in their traditional andcurrent forms, as well as the roles and sta-tus of women in traditional and contem-porary China. It will also compare therural and urban sections of Chinese soci-ety, and examine the way power, stratifi-cation, social mobility and educationalpolicies operated in traditional Chinesesociety and continue to do so since the20th century.
ContentsUnit 1 Introducing Chinese society
Unit 2 Historical contexts
Unit 3 Family, kinship and individual
Unit 4 Women
Unit 5 Rural Chinese society
Unit 6 Urban Chinese society
Unit 7 Power, stratification and socialmobility
Unit 8 Education
Unit 9 Social inequality
Unit 10 Continuity and change in Chi-nese society
SetbookStockman, N (2000) Understanding ChineseSociety, Cambridge: Polity.
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Economics of E-Commerceand Technology (EC201)
DescriptionThis course provides students with eco-nomic tools to understand the industriesinvolved in using information technologyincluding the Internet, electronic com-merce and computer industries.
ContentsUnit 1 Electronic commerce and the
Internet
Unit 2 Telecommunications and net-works
Unit 3 Economics of the Internet accessmarket
Unit 4 Information products and theirmarket structure
Unit 5 Quality uncertainty and marketefficiency
Unit 6 Signalling and consumer'ssearch for information
Unit 7 Product choices and discrimina-tory pricing
Unti 8 Financial intermediaries andelectronic payment systems
Unit 9 Lock-in effects and economies ofscale in information technologies
Unit 10 Economic and policy implica-tions of Internet and e-commerce
SetbookChoi, S-Y, Stahl, D and Whinston A (1997)The Economics of Electronic Commerce,Indianapolis, IN: Macmillan TechnicalPublishing.
Hong Kong Economy(EC203)
DescriptionThis course provides students with acomprehensive understanding of the op-eration of the Hong Kong economy withparticular emphasis on the salient factorsaffecting its performance.
ContentsUnit 1 An overview of the Hong Kong
economy
Unit 2 Development and structuralchange
Unit 3 Banking and financial systems inHong Kong
Unit 4 Housing market
Unit 5 Regulation of public utilities andcompetition policy
Unti 6 International trade and foreigninvestment
Unit 7 Labour market
Unit 8 Public finance in Hong Kong
Unit 9 Hong Kong economy: problemsand prospects
SetbookThere is no set book for this course.
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Introduction toMicroeconomics (EC231)
DescriptionThis course aims to provide students withan introduction to the microeconomicsconcepts needed to understand currenteconomic and business issues. It providespractice in applying economic analysisand is designed to improve learners’ un-derstanding of how the Hong Kongeconomy operates.
ContentsUnit 1 What is economics?
Unit 2 Demand, supply and markets
Unit 3 Firm organization, productionand cost
Unit 4 Market structure and marketpower
Unit 5 Factor markets
Unit 6 Externalities and public goods
SetbookMankiw, N G (2004) Principles of Econom-ics, 3rd edn, Thomson, South-Western.
Introduction toMacroeconomics (EC232)
DescriptionThis course aims to provide students withan introduction to the concepts in macr-oeconomics needed to understand cur-rent economic and business issues. It pro-vides practice in applying economicanalysis and is designed to improvelearners’ understanding of how the HongKong economy operates.
ContentsUnit 1 What is economics?
Unit 2 National income accounting
Unit 3 Long-run economic perform-ance — the real side
Unit 4 Long-run economic perform-ance — the financial side
Unit 5 Short-run economic fluctuations— business cycles
Unit 6 Macroeconomics of open econo-mies
SetbookMankiw, N G (2004) Principles of Econom-ics, 3rd edn, Thomson, South-Western.
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Introduction to PublicPolicy and Administration(PA201)
DescriptionThis course increases students' knowl-edge about public policymaking and theadministration of the public sector.
ContentsUnit 1 The study of public policy
Unit 2 The policy-makers and their en-vironment
Unit 3 Agenda setting and policy for-mation
Unit 4 Budgeting, decision making andpublic policy
Unit 5 Policy implementation andpolicy impact
Unit 6 Policy evaluation and account-ability
Unit 7 The study of public administra-tion
Unit 8 Organization and public person-nel administration
Unit 9 Privatization and regulatory ad-ministration
Unit 10 Public administration and thepublic
SetbooksHowlett, M and Ramesh, M (1995) Study-ing Public Policy: policy cycles and policysubsystems, Toronto: Oxford UniversityPress.
Hughes, O E (2003) Public Managementand Administration: an introduction, 3rdedn, Melbourne: Macmillan Education.
Hong Kong Criminal JusticeSystem (PS201)
DescriptionThis course introduces students to thedevelopments, structure and operation ofthe Hong Kong criminal justice system.
ContentsUnit 1 Crime and justice
Unit 2 The Hong Kong criminal justicesystem
Unit 3 The Hong Kong Police Force
Unit 4 The Customs and Excise Depart-ment
Unit 5 The Immigration Department
Unit 6 The Independent CommissionAgainst Corruption
Unit 7 The Prosecutions Division of theDepartment of Justice
Unit 8 The Criminal Courts
Unti 9 The Correctional Services De-partment
Unit 10 The future of criminal justice inHong Kong
SetbookThere is no set book for this course.
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Police and Society(PS202)
DescriptionThe course provides learners with a sys-tematic and critical review of the relation-ship between the police and society ingeneral, and in Hong Kong in particular.
ContentsUnit 1 An introduction to police and
policing: the role and functionsof police in society
Unit 2 The origins of western policingand the history of the HongKong police force
Unit 3 Policing and its significance inthe process of criminal justice
Unit 4 Police power: Misconduct andaccountability
Unit 5 Police culture—the issues of re-cruitment and socialization
Unit 6 International police cooperation:Interpol and cross border coop-eration in Hong Kong
Unit 7 Police and the ‘administration’:the government in Hong Kong,Legco and the historical relation-ship between the police and thegovernment
Unit 8 Media, public perceptions ofcrime and policing
Unit 9 Community policing: its rel-evance in Hong Kong and the is-sue of problem-focused policing
Unit 10 Lessons for the Hong Kong po-lice and Hong Kong society
SetbooksNg-Quinn, Ma (1991) Bureaucratic Responseto Political Change: Theories Use of the AtypicalCase of the Hong Kong Police, Hong Kong In-stitute of Asia-Pacific Studies
Police Force Ordinance (Issue 26), The Gov-ernment Printer.
Psychology for LawEnforcement (PS203 )
DescriptionThis course introduces the methods usedby psychologists in their research and inthe development of theories, and assessesthe usefulness of a number of well-estab-lished psychological theories and princi-ples to specific areas of police work.
ContentsUnit 1 Understanding psychology and
its application to some policingsituations
Unit 2 Social skills and interactionswith others
Unit 3 Understanding aggression, vio-lence
Unit 4 Dealing with aggressive, violentand out-of-control individuals
Unit 5 Understanding the nature of per-ception and memory
Unit 6 Obtaining accurate and reliableinformation from victims andwitnesses
Unit 7 Investigate interviewing withvulnerable groups
Unit 8 Conducting interviews with sus-pects
Unit 9 Understanding stress and its ap-plication to policing
Unit 10 Analysing crime patterns andprofiling offenders
SetbookAinsworth, P B (2002) Psychology and Po-licing, Cullompton, UK: Willan Publish-ing.
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Security Practice andManagement (PS204)
DescriptionThis course provides generic skills in se-curity management for large private andpublic organizations in Hong Kong, whileoffering practical methodologies that areapplicable universally.
ContentsUnit 1 Introduction to security manage-
ment in the Hong Kong context
Unit 2 Introductory criminology for thesecurity manager
Unit 3 Legal issues in private security
Unit 4 Investigative services
Unit 5 Risk management
Unit 6 Physical/material security
Unit 7 Corporate security
Unit 8 Retail security
Unit 9 Computer security
Unit 10 Security management as a pro-fession
SetbookThere is no set book for this course.
Introduction to PoliticalScience (SS201)
DescriptionThis course aims to provide students witha comprehensive and up-to-date intro-duction to the study of politics which isdesigned to be of use to students takingcourses in any field of the discipline.
ContentsUnit 1 Foundations of political science
Unit 2 Political ideologies and culture
Unit 3 Public opinion and politicalcommunication
Unit 4 Interest groups, political partiesand voting
Unit 5 Structure and power of govern-ment
Unit 6 Legislatures
Unit 7 Executives
Unit 8 Legal systems and the judiciary
Unit 9 Public policy and administration
Unit 10 Political development
Unit 11 International relations
SetbookRoskin, M G, Cord, R L, Medeiros, J A,and Jones, W S (2002) Political Science: AnIntroduction , 8th edition, Upper SaddleRiver, NJ: Prentice-Hall International, Inc.
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Hong Kong Society(SS202)
DescriptionThe overall aim of this course is to de-velop students’ understanding of thestructure and development of Hong Kongsociety through a comprehensive andcritical examination of a growing body ofresearch studies.
ContentsUnit 1 A developmental overview of
Hong Kong society;
Unit 2 Family and social change;
Unit 3 Social class and social mobility;
Unit 4 Culture and society;
Unit 5 Social control and education;
Unit 6 Social policy;
Unit 7 Social conflict and social move-ment;
Unit 8 Political development.
SetbooksLeung, Benjamin K P (1996) Perspectiveson Hong Kong Society, Hong Kong: OxfordUniversity Press.
Chan, C W (1998) The Myth of Hong Kong'sLaissez-faire Economic Governance: 1960sand 1970s, Occasional Paper 79, HongKong Institute of Asia-Pacific Studies, TheChinese University of Hong Kong.
Government and Politics ofHong Kong (SS211)
DescriptionThis course provides analytic tools forunderstanding the evolution of the politi-cal system of Hong Kong. It explorestheoretical frameworks, introduces rel-evant concepts, and describes the insti-tutional structures of the political system.
ContentsUnit 1 Introduction
Unit 2 The constitutional framework.
Unit 3 The Executive Branch
Unit 4 The Legislative Branch
Unit 5 The administration
Unit 6 Local politics
Unit 7 Informal actors
Unit 8 The political culture
Unit 9 The external environment
Unit 10 Conclusion
SetbookMiners, N (1998) The Government and Poli-tics of Hong Kong, 5th edn., Hong Kong:Oxford University Press.
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HIGHER LEVEL
Introduction to Semanticsand Pragmatics (A330)
DescriptionThis course helps students to understandhow we use lexical, grammatical, meta-phorical, and interactional devices to ex-press meanings; how the meanings ofwords and structure change dependingon context and circumstance; and howsemantic and pragmatic factors influenceour choice of language in social interac-tion.
ContentsUnit 1 Introduction to semantics and
pragmatics
Unit 2 Word and word meaning
Unit 3 Tense, aspect, reference
Unit 4 Phrase, sentence, paragraph
Unit 5 Metaphorical expression
Unit 6 Understanding metaphor
Unit 7 Meaning in context
Unit 8 Meaning in interaction
Unit 9 Indirectness and politeness
Unit 10 Meaning and imagination
SetbooksGrundy, P (2000) Doing Pragmatics, 2ndedn, London: Edward Arnold.
Hofmann, Th R (1993) Realms of Meaning:An Introduction to Semantics, London andNew York: Longman.
Lakoff, G and Johnson, M (1980) Meta-phors We Live By, Chicago: Chicago Uni-versity Press.
Thomas, J (1995) Meaning in Interaction:An Introduction to Pragmatics, Harlow,Essex: Longman.
Language and Society inHong Kong (A331)
DescriptionThe course introduces students to the sys-tematic study of language and society andincreases students’ awareness of anumber of language issues in Hong Kong.
ContentsUnit 1 The Hong Kong speech commu-
nity
Unit 2 Introduction to Asian sociolin-guistics
Unit 3 The sociolinguistics of Chinesein Hong Kong
Unit 4 The sociolinguistics of English inHong Kong
Unit 5 Code-switching and code-mix-ing
Unit 6 Varieties of language
Unit 7 Language and gender
Unit 8 Language management andplanning in Hong Kong
Unit 9 Revision and research
SetbooksHolmes, J (2001) Introduction to Sociolin-guistics, 2nd edn, London: Longman Pub-lishers.
Pennington, M C (ed) (1998) Language inHong Kong at century's end, Hong Kong:Hong Kong University Press.
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Stylistics and DiscourseAnalysis (A332)
DescriptionThis course introduces the basic conceptsin the fields of stylistics and discourseanalysis and develops a practical andprincipled approach to the analysis ofboth written and spoken language.
ContentsUnit 1 Introduction to stylistics and dis-
course analysis
Unit 2 Discourse, stylistics and texts
Unit 3 Words and sentences
Unit 4 The texture of texts — cohesionand coherence
Unit 5 Genre analysis
Unit 6 Speech
Unit 7 Conversation analysis
Unit 8 Critical discourse analysis
Unit 9 Stylistics, discourse and culture
Unit 10 Discourse, stylistics and socialchange
SetbooksGee J P (1999) An Introduction to DiscourseAnalysis, Theory and Method, Routledge.
Wright L & Hope J (1996) Stylistics: a prac-tical coursebook, Routledge.
Culture and Translation(A335)
DescriptionThis course is suitable for advanced trans-lated students who wish to acquire theknowledge and skills necessary to iden-tify and process culturally-specific lan-guage occurring in Chinese and English-language source texts to achieve a moreeffective translation.
ContentsUnit 1 Travelling in the realms of gold
— culture and translation
Unit 2 I believe — sacred scripture andtranslation
Unit 3 Once upon a time — myths, sto-ries and translation
Unit 4 I think — ideas and translation
Unit 5 If music be the food of love —poetry and translation
Unit 6 House and garden, love and il-lusion — translating fiction
Unit 7 River and lake — martial arts fic-tion and translation
Unit 8 Mao-speak — politics and trans-lation
Unit 9 Mandarin duck tea — translat-ing the taste of Hong Kong
SetbookThere is no set book for this course.
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Critical Issues inContemporary China(CS301)
DescriptionThis course provides students with an up-to-date and comprehensive examinationof a number of the social, political andeconomic problems which China faces onthe eve of the 21st century. It also helpsstudents develop analytical skills for ana-lysing the critical issues from contendingperspectives and research skills.
ContentsUnit 1 Critical issues in 20th-century
China
Unit 2 Critical developments in Chi-nese politics
Unit 3 Ethnic minorities
Unit 4 Uneven economic development
Unit 5 Privatization in China
Unit 6 Demography and food produc-tion
Unit 7 China’s environmental problems
Unit 8 Cross-strait relations
Unit 9 Critical socio-cultural issues
SetbookThere is no set book for this course.
Global Politics and China(CS312)
DescriptionThis course provides students with abroad knowledge of contemporaryinternational relations and of China's per-spectives on and its role in world affair.
ContentsUnit 1 Introducing global politics and
China
Unit 2 Explaining global politics
Unit 3 The changing nature of conflict
Unit 4 Power in global politics
Unit 5 Conflict and global economics
Unit 6 Diplomacy
Unit 7 International organizations
Unit 8 Arms control and disarmament
Unit 9 The fundamentals of war
Unit 10 China and global politics
SetbookThere is no set book for this course.
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Economic Analysis ofBusiness and Public Policies(EC301)
DescriptionThis course provides students with theframework to analyse the economic be-haviour of individuals in the business andpublic sectors, and to understand thepolicy options for economic growth andeconomic stabilization.
ContentsUnit 1 Consumption
Unit 2 Production
Unit 3 Perfect competition
Unit 4 General equilibrium and Paretoefficiency
Unit 5 Imperfect competition
Unit 6 Special topics in microeconomics
Unit 7 National income and economicgrowth
Unit 8 The short-run economic fluctua-tion
Unit 9 The open economy
Unit 10 Economic theory and policy de-bate
SetbooksPashigian, P B (1998) Price theory and ap-plication, 2nd edn, New York: McGrawHill.
Mankiw, G N (2002) Macroeconomics, 5thedn, New York: Worth.
Business and EconomicForecasting (EC302)
DescriptionThis course exposes students to the basicstatistical techniques in forecasting. Stu-dents will learn how to collect data andspecify forecasting models, and they willbecome familiar with the utilization ofcomputer software in solving forecastingproblems.
ContentsUnit 1 The nature of econometrics and
description of major economicdata
Unit 2 A review of the basics in statis-tics
Unit 3 The simple linear regressionmodel
Unit 4 Multiple regression models
Unit 5 Model selection and introduc-tion to simultaneous equations
Unit 6 Qualitative variables in regres-sion models
Unit 7 Simple time-series forecastingmodels
Unit 8 The Box-Jenkins forecastingmodels
Unit 9 The management of forecasting
SetbooksGujarati, D (1999) Essentials ofEconometrics, 2nd edn, McGraw-Hill.
Wilson, J H and Keating, B (2001) Busi-ness Forecasting, 4th edn, McGraw-Hill.
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International Trade andFinance (EC303)
DescriptionThis course provides a broad and system-atic discussion of the theories and prac-tices of international trade and finance,and their relevance to the local and glo-bal economy.
ContentsUnit 1 Introduction to international
trade
Unit 2 Why do countries trade?
Unti 3 International trade policy (1)
Unti 4 International trade policy (2)
Unit 5 Topics in international trade
Unit 6 Introduction to international fi-nance and national income ac-counting
Unit 7 International financial marketsand exchange rate determination
Unit 8 Money, income and the balanceof payments
Unit 9 Exchange rate regimes
Unit 10 Topics in international finance
SetbookKrugman, P R and Obstfeld, M (2003) In-ternational Economics: Theory and Policy, 6thedn, New York: Harper Collins.
Money and Banking(EC305)
DescriptionThis course aims to provide students witha basic understanding of the theories ofmoney and banking and how operationsin the monetary and banking sectors af-fect business and investment decisions.It also covers the operations and institu-tional set up of the monetary and bank-ing sectors of Hong Kong, China and theUnited States.
ContentsUnit 1 Definition and functions of
money
Unit 2 Banking systems in Hong Kong,China and the US
Unit 3 Asymmetric information, finan-cial structure, and banking regu-lation
Unit 4 The money creation process andcentral bank operation
Unit 5 Money demand
Unit 6 The behaviour of the interest rate
Unit 7 The risk and term structure ofinterest rates
Unit 8 Targets and tools of monetarypolicy in the US, China, andHong Kong
Unit 9 Monetary policy in the aggregatedemand and supply analysis
Unit 10 Inflation
Unit 11 Exchange rate determination
Unit 12 The international financial sys-tem and monetary policy
SetbookMishkin, F S (2006) The Economics ofMoney, Banking, and Financial Markets, 7thedn update, US: Addison WesleyLongman.
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Public Finance (EC307)
DescriptionThis course provides students with theconcepts and theories needed to under-stand the essence of public finance. Thefocus of the course lies on the expendi-ture and tax policies in government budg-eting. Theories and practices of optimalpublic finance policies, such as fiscalpolicy, debt policy and capital accumula-tion, and the provision of public goodsfrom the perspectives of efficiency andequity are also provided. The course alsogives a general understanding of policydesign by government in certain impor-tant areas such as pension systems andhealth care financing.
ContentsUnit 1 Introduction: the public sector
Unit 2 Externalities, public goods andpolitical economy
Unit 3 Economics of taxation I: taxationand efficiency
Unit 4 Economics of taxation II: taxa-tion and income distribution
Unit 5 Economics of government ex-penditure
Unit 6 The economics of social securityand unemployment insurance
Unit 7 The economics of health care fi-nancing and environmental pro-tection
Unit 8 Fiscal policy and stabilization
Unit 9 The economics of public debt
Unit 10 Topics in public finance: interna-tional issues and the federal sys-tem
SetbookHarvey S Rosen (2002) Public Finance, 6thedn, New York, NY: McGraw-Hill
Advanced Economics ofE-Commerce andTechnology (EC308)
DescriptionThis course provides students with ad-vanced economic principles and methodsto analyse the companies and industriesinvolved in using information technology.It also focuses on analysing the interactionbetween economic forces and the develop-ment of e-commerce and IT and how mar-kets are shaped by these interactions. Thedevelopment of e-commerce/finance, thestrategy and performance of e-businesscompanies, and investment in start-up e-business companies are discussed as wellas the impact of technological progress onmarket structure and economic growth.
ContentsUnit 1 Internet technology, computer
industry and informationeconomy
Unit 2 Pricing, versioning and lock-inUnit 3 Waging a standards war and
forming alliancesUnit 4 Online auction and e-marketplacesUnit 5 Corporate governance and e-fi-
nanceUnit 6 E-business strategy and revenue
modelsUnit 7 Venture capital and e-businessplanUnit 8 The new economy and the stock
marketUnit 9 Technology, innovation and mar-
ket structureUnit 10 Technology progress and eco-
nomic growth
SetbookShapiro, C and Varian, H R (1999) Infor-mation Rules, Mass: Harvard BusinessSchool Press.
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Japanese Studies (IS321)
DescriptionThis course introduces you to the socialscientific study of modern and contem-porary Japan. The course describes bothdomestic and international events shap-ing the postwar role of Japan in the worldas an economic, political and nascent mili-tary power.
ContentsUnit 1 The atomic bombings of Japan:
competing interpretations
Unit 2 Postwar reconstruction and Oc-cupation policies
Unit 3 Japan's integration into the cold-war political economy
Unit 4 The alternative: 'unarmed neu-trality' and the opposition
Unit 5 The development of the politicalsystem, 1955-90
Unit 6 Japan's political role in the devel-oped world, 1955-90
Unit 7 The consequences of the reform
Unit 8 Japan's regional role in East Asia,1955-90
Unit 9 Restructuring the Japanese po-litical economy in the 1990s
Unit 10 Japan's role in the post-Cold Warera
SetbookThere is no set book for this course.
Chinese Government andPolitics (IS322)
DescriptionThis course helps students gain a betterunderstanding of the political develop-ment of the PRC. It is intended to offeran interpretative survey of China’s devel-opment since the start of the 20th century.
ContentsUnit 1 China between 1900 and 1949
Unit 2 China under Mao Zedong
Unit 3 The Chinese Communist Party
Unit 4 The Constitution and the struc-ture of government
Unit 5 The People’s Liberation Army
Unit 6 The post-Mao reform
Unit 7 The consequences of the reform
Unit 8 Greater China
Unit 9 China’s foreign policy
Unit 10 China’s current and future chal-lenge
SetbookLiberthal, K (1995) Governing China: fromRevolution through Reform, 1st edn, W WNorton.
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Public Sector Managementin Hong Kong (PA301)
DescriptionThis course assists students to develop acomprehensive understanding of thetheory and recent research in new publicmanagement and public sector reform indeveloped countries; to acquire theknowledge of the structure and functionsof the public sector and civil service sys-tem in Hong Kong; to understand thecontexts within which Hong Kong's pub-lic sector reforms have been launched andthe contents of those reforms: and to ana-lyse Hong Kong public sector manage-ment in the wider international context.
ContentsUnit 1 Public administration and new
public management
Unit 2 Public sector reform in devel-oped countries
Unit 3 An overview of public sector re-form in Hong Kong
Unit 4 Trading fund reform
Unti 5 School management reform
Unit 6 Human resources reform
Unit 7 Housing reform
Unit 8 Reform in the Hong Kong police
Unit 9 Accountability in the public sec-tor: Hong Kong reforms in a glo-bal context
SetbookCheung, A B L and Lee, J C Y (eds) (2001)Public Sector Reform in Hong Kong: Into the21st Century, 2nd edn, Hong Kong: TheChinese University Press.
Government and Business(PA302)
DescriptionThis course provides learners with aframework to understand the role of gov-ernment and business in general, andtheir role in promoting economic devel-opment in particular.
ContentsUnit 1 Introduction
Unit 2 Market failure and governmentfailure
Unit 3 Government & business in ad-vanced countries: I
Unit 4 Government & business in ad-vanced countries: II
Unti 5 Government & business innewly industrializing countries
Unit 6 Government & business in HongKong, China, and Taiwan
Unit 7 Re-examining the East Asiandevelopmental model
Unit 8 International political economy: I
Unit 9 International political economy: II
Unit 10 Managing business-governmentrelations
SetbooksWeidenbaum, M L (1999) Business andGovernment in the Global Marketplace, 6thedn, Upper Saddle River, NJ: PrenticeHall.
Stiglitz, J E and Yusuf, S (eds) (2001) Re-thinking the East Asian Miracle, Oxford:Oxford University Press and the WorldBank.
Gilpin, R (2001) Global Political Economy:Understanding the International EconomicOrder, Princeton, NJ: Princeton UniversityPress.
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Core Issues in Policing(PS301)
DescriptionThis course enables students to under-stand the relationship between police andsociety, examine the responsibility andaccountability of police, and understandcommunity policing, private policing andpartnership policing.
ContentsUnit 1 IThe principles of modern polic-
ing
Unit 2 Police culture and modern polic-ing
Unit 3 Police accountability and itsmonitoring
Unit 4 Community policing
Unti 5 Private policing and its link topublic policing
Unit 6 Partnership policing
Unit 7 Globalization and its impact onpolicing
Unit 8 The Hong Kong context: the de-velopment of the Hong KongPolice
Unit 9 The Hong Kong context: policeaccountability and private polic-ing
SetbookThere is no set book for this course.
Public Order Management(PS302)
DescriptionThis course allows students to develop asufficiently broad understanding of thearea of public order and public securitymanagement in terms of both theoreticaland practical issues and to relate them tothe local context.
ContentsUnit 1 Theories and perspectives on
public order management
Unit 2 The nature of the relationship be-tween the disciplined servicesand the public
Unit 3 Planning for public order man-agement
Unit 4 Managing risk and crisis
Unit 5 Public order and public interests
SetbookThere is no set book for this course.
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Research Methods in LawEnforcement and SecurityStudies (PS304)
DescriptionThis course provides a systematicgrounding in the various theories andmethods by which evidence can bebrought to bear upon policy issues of rel-evance to a wide range of activities, in-cluding law enforcement and securitymanagement. Students will be madeaware of the various philosophical under-pinnings of conceptions of science and thesocial research methods they have givenrise to.
ContentsUnit 1 The philosophy of social re-
search: the positivist project andits problems
Unit 2 Interpretative philosophies, so-cial realism and research meth-ods
Unit 3 The nature of qualitative re-search
Unit 4 Types and methods of qualita-tive research
Unit 5 Collection and analysis of quali-tative data
Unit 6 The process of quantitative re-search
Unit 7 Quantitative research methods
Unit 8 Collection and analysis of quan-titative data
Unit 9 Researching the Internet
SetbookThere is no set book for this course.
Major Issues in Criminologyand Penology (PS305)
DescriptionThis course discusses the major issues inunderstanding crime, punishment andrehabilitation, which are likely to preoc-cupy the minds of people working in lawenforcement agencies.
ContentsUnit 1 The focus of criminology
Unit 2 The classical perspective
Unit 3 Positivist criminology
Unit 4 Sociological criminology
Unit 5 Environmental criminology
Unit 6 Criminology and wider socialchanges
Unit 7 Punishment and its goals
Unit 8 The notion of rehabilitation
Unit 9 Crime prevention and the fear ofcrime
Unit 10 The new penology and widersocial changes
SetbookVold, G, Bernard, T and Snipes, J (2002)Theoretical Criminology, 5th edn, NewYork: Oxford University Press.
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International Organizations(SS301)
DescriptionThis course is designed for students witha general interest in world affairs and aspecific interest in how international or-ganizations work in the contemporaryworld.
ContentsUnit 1 Definitions and history
Unit 2 Classification of international or-ganizations
Unit 3 Approaches to the study of in-ternational organization
Unit 4 Roles and functions of interna-tional organizations
Unit 5 Global organizations: UN, WB,IMF, WTO
Unit 6 Regional organizations I: Euro-pean Union, NATO
Unit 7 Regional organizations II:ASEAN, APEC
Unit 8 The impact of the rise of inter-national organizations on inter-state relationships
Unit 9 China, Taiwan, Hong Kong andinternational organizations
Unit 10 Current research on interna-tional organization
SetbookArcher, C (2001) International Organiza-tions, 2nd edn, London: Routledge.
Principles of SocialResearch (SS313)
DescriptionThe course discusses the main strategiesof research designs, data collection andanalysis used by social researchers withexamples from the social sciences (e.g.psychology, sociology, political science,economics) and applied areas such aseducation and health.
ContentsUnit 1 Introduction: social science and
research
Unit 2 Varieties of social science re-search
Unit 3 The research process and initiat-ing social science research
Unit 4 Measurement
Unit 5 Data collection method I: Ques-tionnaires and interviews
Unit 6 Data collection method II: Obser-vation
Unit 7 Data collection method III: Indi-rect methods of data collection
Unit 8 Sampling
Unit 9 Research designs and true ex-periments
Unit 10 Quasi experiments
Unit 11 Processing and analysing quan-titative data I
Unit 12 Processing and analysing quan-titative data II
Unit 13 Field studies and groundedtheory research
Unit 14 Processing and analysing quali-tative data
Unit 15 Communicating research
Unit 16 Being a 'consumer' of social sci-ence research