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Social
Sciences
BS 301:
Doing Business in China (3 credits, fall)
This course introduces students to China's multi-faceted business
culture as well as practices. It includes topics such as capital
markets, banking system, tax structure, labor relations, consumer
behavior, government-business relations. It prepares students
for both understanding practical aspects of business and starting
a career in multinational firms.
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BS 302:
International Finance (3 credits, spring & fall)
This course focuses on international financial markets, exchange
rates, China's balance of payments.
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BS 303:Organizational Behavior (3 credits, spring & fall)
This course targets to understanding and management of the human side of an organization. It not only deals with concepts and theories, but also research and case studies, especially the ones in the Chinese social milieu.
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EC 401:
Rural Economics (3 credits, spring & fall)
This course is designed to help students understand the rural
dimension of China's economic transition. It examines the
impacts of economic reforms on the life of Chinese peasants,
including the effects of marketization and globalization on
income structure, labor mobility, ownership rights and other
major aspects of the rural economy. It also provides an overview
of the implications of the changing economic landscape for
social and political development in rural China. The reading
materials include a diverse and balanced collection of studies
done by both external and domestic specialists.
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PS 401: America and China (3 credits, spring & fall)
The course concentrates on Post Cold War events in the context of American predominance, decline of Soviet power and emergence of China as a new force on the international scene.
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EC 402: China in Global
Economy (3 credits, spring & fall)
This
course will examine the evolution of China's increasing role
in the global economy. It will deal with different aspects of
China's foreign economic relations, including trade, investment,
the impact of WTO accession, regional integration and international
economic institutions.
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PS
402: Chinese Political Reforms (3 credits, spring & fall)
This course aims at understanding the two and half decades
of reforms in the People's Republic of China. By discussing
the reforms' background conditions, international context,
policy options, difficulties, achievements, failures, and
possible future, the instructor intends to lead an advanced
course on contemporary Chinese political economy.
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SO 301:
Chinese Women's Studies (3 credits, spring & fall )
The contemporary status of Chinese women and the issues they
face will be the focus of this new course. Besides the treatment
of women under the old society, most attention will be devoted
to women's uphill struggle for equality in the 20th century.
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SO 302:
Chinese Media Studies (3 credits, spring & fall )
This course will examine how Chinese media emerges and evovles against the background of modern Chinese history.
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Independent
Studies (1-4 credits, spring & fall)
Independent studies can be arranged with faculty. Topic range
covers research projects from contemporary political, economic,
and diplomatic issues to historical inquiries. Different credits
will be rewarded in accordance with the amount of research
work.
BS 401: Internship (3 credits,
spring & fall)
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Humanities
AR 301: Chinese Arts & Culture (3 credits,
fall)
This course aims to give students a better
understanding of ancient and modern Chinese fine arts (painting,
sculpture, architecture, etc), as well as folk and popular
arts (crafts, opera and film). A comparative approach will
be employed to highlight differences with Western genres.
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LIT
301: Chinese Literature and Society (2-3 credits,
fall)
This course explores the relationship between literature, man, and society by analyzing the works and minds of major 20th century Chinese writes and against the background of anti-traditionalism and East-West culture encounters.
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HIS
202: Beijing, Its History and Urban Culture (3 credits, fall)
Beginning with Beijing¡¯s Mongol heritage at the time of Marco Polo¡¯s visit, this multi-disciplinary seminar studies the history and urban culture of one of the world¡¯s most fascinating capital cities. Topics include Confucian ecology and fengshui, native-place lodges and alley neighborhoods (hutong), court society in the Forbidden City, the Boxer Rebellion, high-modernist planning, and the New Beijing of the 2008 Olympics.
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HIS
303: China in Transformation, 1840s-1960s (3 credits, spring
& fall)
The course aims at understanding of China's transition from
a traditional society to a modern nation by examining the
historical forces since the mid-19th century. Nationalism
and Communism will be two organizing themes that provide a
framework to thread various phenomena all the way to Chinese
Communist victory in 1949. The post-Mao reforms that undid
China's communist economic system will also be discussed.
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HIS 401: Philosophy
and Science in Pre-modern China (3 credits, fall)
By examining Chinese philosophy, science and technology, this
course will elaborate on the relationship between culture
and the advancement of science and technology in Chinese historical
contexts. It seeks to explain both the preeminence of Chinese
tradition and, so some extent, the lack thereof in modern
times as a result of East-West encounters.
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HIS 402: Language Reforms in Modern China (3 credits, spring & fall)
As part of the efforts to westernize China, leading Chinese intellectuals in the 20th century tried to rid the nation of Chinese characters, the only living hieroglyphic language. The course traces the rationale, the cultural conflicts and the ultimate failure of this iconoclastic movement.
PH 301: Ethics in Cross Cultural Contexts (3 credits, spring & fall)
This course deals with basic issues in general ethics. Though western philosophy will be extensively discussed, more attention will be paid to individual and society in Chinese cultural tradition.
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