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General Education

ethnicity, students will understand how the media reinforce audience’s perception of people’s
identity in society and its effects on children and adult audience.

GEB 201 International Communication in Digital Age
1 Term; 3 Credits
This course provides students with the knowledge of communication and media
development in the international dimension in the age of digitization. It introduces key issues,
concepts, and theories in the study of international communication, and considers the
historical, social, political, cultural, and economic factors that influence international
communication as well as the various aspects of international communication from news,
cultural globalization, cultural flows, politics of international communication, information
technologies to national development.

GEB 202 Getting People to Say Yes: Negotiation and Mediation
1 Term; 3 Credits
This course aims to introduce to students some basic negotiation and mediation
principles, concepts and skills in the context of dispute settlement. Students will be given an
overview of legal, psychological and communication principles that impacts the negotiation
process in a dispute, and experience these through engaging in a series of applied activities.

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 the Korean Wave has pervaded Asia from the 1990s onwards, this course
provides students with ample opportunities to analyse how various issues pertaining to Korean
culture and society have been exported through Korean dramas. These issues cover gender,
class, education and the 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.

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