This course studies the central questions in industrial economics, including imperfect competition, firms' strategies, market structure, and the implications of these for regulation and policies. We will cover the fundamental theories with an introduction to recent advances. We will also invite guest professors to talk about their latest research on industrial economics. It will start the process of preparing economics master students to conduct thesis research in the area, and may also be of interest to students working in other areas of economics and related fields.

020205C01

For students major in business or economics ONLY.

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This course aims at providing an introduction to the mainstream machine learning algorithms and their applications in economics and business. Throughout the course, we will utilize the statistical package R to illustrate how to implement each method on real-life data. This course will cover the two types of machine learning methods: i) supervised learning: linear regression, logistic regression, lasso, discriminant analysis, k-NN, decision trees, random forests, support vector machine, as well as neural network; ii) unsupervised learning: principal component analysis, clustering analysis, and text mining. In addition, model validation metrics will be presented to measure the predictive performances of each algorithms, including the mean squared error, confusion matrix, sensitivity, specificity, recall, receiver operating characteristic curve, precision-recall curve, KS curve and KS statistic, etc. This course focuses on the out-of-sample predictive performances with the use of cross-validation method.

020205D17

For students major in business/economics ONLY.

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This course helps to build up understandings of health and the health inequality issue within our society. First and foremost, we will discuss what health is and the prevalent health problems at the moment. Second, students are encouraged to discuss whether and to what extent health inequalities exist in the contexts of Mainland China, other developing countries and regions, and the Western World. A couple of middle-range theories will be discussed to help explore mechanisms leading to inequalities regarding health at the population level. Further, we will explore demographic and socioeconomic factors contributing to these health inequalities within a specific country or region. We will also investigate health inequalities between countries and regions from a global perspective. Finally, students are required to develop their research questions and give presentations.

030301D34

Students should have taken sociology and anthropology courses before.

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This course aims to introduce concepts and theories related to community and cultural identity from an interdisciplinary perspective. As a reflection of different forms of collective life, community is also the source of people's Cultural identity, sense of security and sense of belonging. Especially, under the ongoing trend of individualization, globalization and even anti-globalization,  by exploring and examining communities with different forms might provide a deeper understanding of the society and the world we live in.

Through case studies of local and multicultural communities, both at home and abroad, this course enables students to understand the different characteristics of communities under the influence of migration, urban renewal, religion and lifestyle, ethnicity and nationalism, disasters, the Internet and other factors, and gain a broader perspective. In addition, a small number of field trips and community service will provide students with first-hand experience in understanding the community.

030301D36

Students should have taken course of sociology or anthropology before.

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The course of New Media Reading and Application is divided into two parts: introduction the application of new media and introduction the current social situation of China. Students learn how to use the most common new media social tools in China, such as WeChat, Weibo, Tiktok and Dubbing Show, and experience Chinese pop culture. With the guidance of the teacher, students read short articles and watch videos, and they are also expected to make presentations about the topics they are interested in by using language knowledge and new media social tools learned through the class. Thus, students are able to have a better understanding of the present state of China, while improving their ability of reading and communication.

70000030

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For advanced Chinese leaners with a language proficiency equals to HSK 5.0.

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This course is an oral skills training course, which aims at developing students' daily communication skills. At the beginning, this course focuses on speech intonations and simple daily conversation training, and then gradually turns to develop students' dialogue ability and segmental expression ability. Students are guided to have a plenty of practice in oral communication at class. After the course, They will be able to use basic sentence patterns in Chinese to conduct daily conversations. Their communicative competence in Chinese will be improved.

70000050

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For beginner Chinese learners who could read PinYin and talk with short sentences in Chinese.

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