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GEB 206 Understanding Korean Society through Dramas
1 Term; 3 Credits
This course aims to introduce different aspects of contemporary Korean society covering
family, youth, gender, class, social inequality, education, labour market, mental health, and
Korean Wave. As Korean Wave pervaded Asia as exemplified by a dominant role played by
South Korea in exporting dramas from the 1990s onwards, this course provides students with
ample opportunities to analyse how various issues pertaining to Korean culture and society are
portrayed in Korean dramas. Students are exposed to a variety of dramas that deal with various
issues pertaining to gender, class, education and labour market. This course also equips
students with the knowledge and skills in assessing the impact of diverse forces emanating
from economic transformation, familism, collectivization and globalization on contemporary
societies in Korea and other regions.

GEB 207 Hong Kong Popular Culture
1 Term; 3 Credits
This course introduces the development of popular culture in the context of Hong Kong.
It consists of four sub-areas: 1) ideologies in media texts; 2) youth sub-culture and multiple
meanings in consumption; 3) identity formation; and 4) post-colonial subversion and global
interconnectedness. This course will discuss the normative and subversive potential of popular
culture. Concepts will be introduced to equip students to critically reflect upon the relationship
between their experience of popular culture and the social and cultural contexts in Hong Kong.

GEB 208 Writing Apps for Both Android and iOS Mobile Phones
1 Term; 3 Credits
This course aims to build students’ abilities to develop mobile apps for both the Android
and iOS platforms with only one code base by using Google's mobile apps creation framework
– Flutter. This course breaks down complex concepts and tasks into easily digestible segments
with examples, pictures, and hands-on labs for beginners. Students will acquire practical skills
in the usage of the new mobile software development kit, Flutter and Dart programming
language, to develop their own mobile apps. Computer security, ethics, and other popular
mobile apps creation frameworks such as Kotlin and React Native, will also be discussed.

GEB 209 Visual Culture and Art Practice
1 Term; 3 Credits
This course explores the vital topics of visual culture study by contemplating the word-and
image relationship, examining the images through the lens of art, and elucidating different ways
of seeing in revealing the cultural phenomenon, aesthetic sense, and hegemonic system
behind. We will study the essential visual theories and analyse the connection between
literature and painting, graphic design, photographs, and films by case study. Students will
narrate in word-and-image perspective and incorporate elements in graphic design in their

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