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Sociology

          SOC 302    Environmental Sociology
                                                                            1 Term; 3 Credits
              Environmental  Sociology  provides  a  framework  for  understanding  the  relationship
          between human societies and the physical environment. The main objectives of this course are
          to introduce students to research in environmental sociology and to reveal how sociological
          perspectives can inform our understanding of how human activity has contributed to the current
          ecological crisis. This course will present a broad spectrum of theoretical perspectives and
          research methods employed by environmental sociologists to analyse and evaluate existing
          efforts in mitigating global and local environmental problems.

          SOC 307    Entrepreneurship and Society
                                                                            1 Term; 3 Credits
              This  course  will  introduce  a  rigorous  sociological  approach  to  study  both  social  and
          commercial  entrepreneurship  and  the  role  of  entrepreneurship  in  enhancing  balanced
          development of the community. This course will first introduce the principles of entrepreneurship
          including the economics of entrepreneurship and innovation, how to attract talents and how to
          develop creativity. Second, it will examine what social enterprises are and how they relate to
          social economy. It explores responsible management in relation to the sustainability of social
          enterprises, including how social entrepreneurs generate income, how to secure social and
          ethical  capital,  and  how  to  measure  social  impact  assessment.  Third,  it  will  discuss  the
          challenges  faced  by  entrepreneurship  in  enhancing  sustainable  development  in  the
          community.

          SOC 308    Culture, Heritage and Society
                                                                            1 Term; 3 Credits
              This course examines the intersection between culture and heritage, and the impact that
          they have on modern society. This course articulates heritage as a cultural fact and looks into
          how  it  organizes  meaning  in  everyday  life,  with  implications  for  the  production  of  cultural
          identities and capitalistic consumption. The course also surveys the different ways in which
          heritage issues have become increasingly important in the context of the nation-state. This
          course  equips  students  with  an  understanding  of  how  culture  and  heritage  are  relevant  to
          different aspects of society and serves as an introduction to the Concentration on “Culture,
          Heritage and Innovation”.

          SOC 309    Community Economy
                                                                            1 Term; 3 Credits
              This course aims to examine the theory and practice of community economy. Compared
          with market-oriented economy, community economy represents some new efforts to promote
          more  inclusive,  sustainable,  and  people-centred  economies.  This  course  explores  the  new
          ideas of community economy with examples of turning such ideas into reality. The focus is put
          on the key features of the conventional and new community-based economic forms. Major
          topics to be covered include defining community economy, co-operatives, community-supported

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