FOUNDATION LEVEL University English Writing Skills … · English Speaking and Listening Skills (A090) Description This course aims to develop learners' un-derstanding of the English

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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


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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


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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


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.


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


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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


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


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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


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.


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


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


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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


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

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Unit 17 The microsystem of social sci-ence research

SetbookDooley, D (2001) Social Research Methods,Englewood Cliffs, 4th edn, NJ: Prentice-Hall.

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FOUNDATION LEVEL University English Writing Skills … · English Speaking and Listening Skills (A090) Description This course aims to develop learners' un-derstanding of the English