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PROGRAMME STRUCTURE

DURATION &

MODE OF STUDY

1 year full-time

MEDIUM OF INSTRUCTION

English

MINIMUM UNITS REQUIRED

27 units

PROGRAMME STRUCTURE

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Each course carries 3 credit units

  • 4 Programme core courses (12 units)

  • 2 Concentration core courses in one from five concentrations  (6 units)

  • 2 Elective courses (6 units)

  • 1 Summer term course (a concentration core course) (3 units):

Independent project on Global Society / Professional Placement

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Overseas trip

STUDY PLAN

Semester 1

2 Programme core

+

2 Concentration core

&

an overseas study trip

(non-credit bearing)

Semester 2

2 Programme core

+

2 Electives

&

an overseas study trip

(non-credit bearing)

Summer term

1 Concentration core

:

Independent project 

or

Professional Placement

PROGRAMME CORE

 

Students are required to take 4 programme core courses

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Programme Core

CONCEPTS, THEORIES & INSTITUTIONS OF GLOBAL STUDIES

Semester 1

SOSC 7310

This core course introduces the key concepts, theories and institutions that make up the field of Global Studies. It provides students with a common language and academic repertoire that enables their own inter-disciplinary and professional development.

RESEARCH METHODS FOR GLOBAL STUDIES

Semester 1

SOSC 7410

In this course, students will be guided through the essential components of research, including doing preparatory work such as research design, literature review and research ethics; thinking through the practicalities of data collection; planning how to manage and analyze the data generated from these techniques; and thinking about how to present and write up the findings of the research. Students are exposed to various skills and transdisciplinary thinking and get the opportunity to apply them in the development of their research proposal.

DEBATING GLOBAL SOCIETY

Semester 2

SOSC 7320

The course aims to introduce students to the expository and critical literature concerning globalization in order to consider the origins and development of global society and its consequences. The objectives of the course include engaging students with debates concerning globalization and alternate economic approaches, the political economic issues raised by globalization (including neo-liberalism), the transformation of faith communities through globalization, educational and knowledge consequences of globalization and related themes.

GLOBALIZATIONS

Semester 2

SOSC 7330

Globalization is not just a contemporary phenomenon, nor is it to be understood simply in the singular. Ideas, institutions, goods, and people have always travelled, only at times more so. This course presents various trajectories, and politico-economic configurations of globalizations throughout history, engaging critically with the genealogy of ideas such as; universal values, free trade, global governance, cosmopolitanism, and multiculturalism. From Marxist, postcolonial, and ecological perspectives we furthermore evaluate the effects globalizations has had on people, communities, and the environment. The underlying questions put to the various historical examples concerns what is good and bad in globalization, all in order to understand better our own responsibilities, possibilities, and positions in an increasingly connected world.

CONCENTRATION CORE

 

Students are required to take 3 core courses; 2 in one from five concentrations, plus Independent Project or Professional Placement. All concentration core courses will be given in the first semester. Independent project or Professional placement will be given in the summer term. 

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*Depending on the number of students enrolled or other circumstances such deemed as force majeure, the programme may not offer Professional placement (SOSC7400)

Concentration Core

GLOBAL CULTURES

  • Global Cultural Industries

  • Global Colonial and Postcolonial Cultures

GLOBAL POLITICAL ECONOMY

  • International Political Economy

  • Theory of International Relations

GLOBAL SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT

  • Education and Social Development in a Globalized World

  • Globalization and Development: Visions and Issues

GLOBAL URBAN SYSTEMS

  • Global Urban Systems

  • Socio-spatial Dynamics of Cities

GLOBAL ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH

  • Medicine, Society & Culture: Public Health Perspectives

  • Environmental Contaminants and Health Risk Assessment

*Depending on the number of students enrolled or other circumstances deemed as force majeure, the programme may not be able to offer all concentrations, or could offer only one concentration. 

# Global Urban Systems and Global Environmental Health will not be offered in the AY2022/23

ELECTIVE

 

Students are required to take 2 elective courses. All elective courses will be given in the second semester

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Elective

  •  Overseas Field Studies

  •  Urban Planning

  •  Urban Cultural Landscape

  •  Urban Development in China

  •  Sociological Issues in Urban and Regional Development

  •  Managing Change in Schools

  •  Socio-cultural Context of Human Development

  •  Teaching Individuals with Developmental Disabilities

  •  Managing learning Diversity in Inclusive Educational Settings

  •  Public Health

  •  Health Inequalities in a Global Context

  •  Topic Studies in Social History: Global Health and Human Society

  •  East Asia: Economic Miracles and Social Change

  •  Globalization and WTO

  •  World Order Issues

  •  Public Affairs and Public Policy

  •  Current Issues of European Integration

  •  Topics in Asian Politics

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*Course offerings are subject to change.

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