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General Education

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GEB 210 Artificial Intelligence (AI) in Everyday Life
1 Term; 3 Credits
AI is going to transform societies and economies. This course will explore AI in everyday
life using cases and applications in different industries such as AI in smart cities, AI in media
and entertainment, AI in financial service, AI in intelligent transportation, AI in computer vision,
AI in healthcare service, and AI in education. Students will learn basic AI concepts such as
supervised and unsupervised learning, deep learning, and neural networks. This course will
review various social issues surrounding AI such as ethics, security, and privacy. Students can
also demonstrate AI in action using “Colaboratory Tensorflow”.

Area 3: Global Citizenship

GEC 101 Environment and Society
1 Term; 3 Credits
This course is designed to raise students’ awareness to local and global environmental
issues and nurture their sense of social responsibility towards the environment. In order to
present a broad view of environment, this general education course will examine the social,
economic, and the political aspects of environmental issues, and survey different perspectives
in studying the dynamics between environment and society. By reviewing major empirical
studies, it also aims at fostering students’ understanding as to how institutions can alter the
trajectories of environmental degradation and protection. It will evaluate a variety of activities
initiated by consumers, industry, state, and civil society which can collectively contribute to the
sustainable development of our society.

GEC 102 The Struggling Self in the Global Society
1 Term; 3 Credits
What is “self”? How is the “self” related to the larger society? How is an individual’s life
course shaped by various social institutions, culture, and norms; and how does an individual
respond to these institutional forces? In other words, how does a person struggle to develop
an authentic self on one hand, and to cope with the influences of different social agencies on
the other? This general education course explores the answers to the above questions.
Borrowing the conceptual orientation from social psychology, this course begins with
introducing how the self is developed. But the larger part of the course will examine in detail
how major social institutions––gender, family, education, occupation, class and race and
ethnicity––influence our lives. We also explore how individuals face changes in our globalized
society where diversity is embraced as the emerging social values. Major topics will include
socialization, self and identity, social inequalities, cultural diversity and the impacts of social
institutions.

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