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CGE14402 Practical Psychology for Everyday Life
Psychology offers insights and strategies for dealing with everyday life. This course aims
at enhancing students’ self-awareness of his / her behaviour patterns, particularly when
interacting with others. Students learn how to understand themselves, how to achieve
effective communication with others, how to build up and maintain personal and
intimate relationships, how to develop a good mental health and manage a healthy
lifestyle, and how to be assertive in relating with others to achieve win-win relationships.
CGE24101 Ethics and Society
We are confronted with ethical issues on a daily basis during social interactions at the
workplace and school. The course discusses important concepts related to ethics (such as
morality, nihilism, good and right, benevolence, virtue, duty, utility, and justice) and
introduces basic ethical perspectives to help students examine moral issues
systematically. Students will be able to formulate their ethical positions on current real
life issues in contemporary society.
CGE24402 Understanding Human Communication
People can’t NOT communicate. The course explains how an individual’s self may affect
communication with others and discusses how interpersonal conflicts may arise due to
gender or cultural differences or organizational issues. The emergence of Internet
technology and the social media, their effects on communication among people and
social groups, and the social and ethical issues involved are discussed.
CGE25101 Globalization and Business
Nowadays, players must keep the global economies in mind when they operate their
business. The course examines the different forces of globalization, and their
transformations towards global convergence. The role of global communication and ecommerce,
global logistics, global mobility of talents, globalization of the marketplace,
and how globalization may lead to income redistribution and social disruption are
discussed.
CGE25401 Understanding Society
No man is an island; we all live in society. The course helps students to examine how
cultural, economic, political and technology forces shape society. Some particular
phenomena such as how McDonald’s and Disney transform society, migration and its
effects on the family, social inequality and the idea of M-form society, technology and
globalization, and the rise of citizen movement are examined.
CGE26504 Contemporary China: Challenges and Strategies
This course aims to help students develop a basic understanding of the social, economic
and political structures of contemporary China and a critical awareness of some major
contemporary issues such as economic inequality, one child policy and the aging
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