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Shue Yan University Prospectus 2023-24

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
creative works, which proceed to trans-disciplinary art practice.

GEB 213 Positive Life with Chinese Literature
1 Term; 3 Credits
This course introduces Chinese literary works that contain positive thinking towards life,
enhancing students’ abilities of understanding and analysing Chinese literary works. Students
will learn how writers solved problems with positive attitudes and methods when facing
pressure from different daily life aspects such as personal relationships, fate, health, career
path, and social life. This course will also foster students’ positive thinking, helping them realise
the meaning of life, cultivate resilience, enhance stress management, and achieve happiness
in life.

GEB 214 Cultural Insights for Business Success
1 Term; 3 Credits
This course aims to provide a platform for students to explore the connections between
culture and business. Through interdisciplinary investigations of the topics related to culture
and business, students would be able to analyse how business is intertwined with cultural
environment. This course aims to develop students’ interdisciplinary thinking skills in business
and sociology.

GEB 215 Science, Film and Fiction
1 Term; 3 Credits
How to define human when there is only a fine line between human and robot? What
does it mean when we can travel through time? What would happen if we can discard our body
and immerse ourselves into virtual reality? Would our Earth become a dumping zone as shown
in the dystopian films? These are some of the questions humanity poses in response to the
rapid scientific and technological advancement. Through studying cultural imaginations such
as fiction, animation, and film mainly from the US and Japan, the course will encourage
students to explore these philosophical questions and discuss the ways in which science and
technology may transform human and the world, or the ways in which human and machine
may co-evolve. Informed with news and article about the new scientific and technological
inventions, students will be engaged in the many imaginations of our future, especially as a
response to the contemporary problems. This is a course about the past, present, and future
of the human society and beyond.

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