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General Education

important asset that drives growth and change in the society.

GED 112 Network Fundamental and Cybersecurity
1 Term; 3 Credits
We increasingly need solutions to connect surrounding digital devices, store data and use
that data efficiently to build smart applications. These applications highly rely on high-speed
network communication. Besides, protecting internet-connected systems, such as hardware,
software and data from threats becomes increasingly important. In this course, students will
learn about the layer network model and important concepts such as IP addressing and
network services. Moreover, the course introduces the concept of cybersecurity and how to
protect from threats.

GED 113 Understanding Metaverse – Trends and Applications
1 Term; 3 Credits
This course is given to non-technical students with a holistic understanding of how
Metaverse and its applications can be adapted to socio-economic innovations and human daily
life. Students will study the fundamental concepts, principles and theories used in constructing
the Metaverse for today. By studying various innovative concepts and cutting-edge
applications, students can understand, analyse and apply existing technological approaches
to address new problems in the Metaverse. The design of technical workshops, assignments
and a group project in this course allows students to obtain an elementary level of operating
interactive 3D applications for building virtual environments.

GED 211 Writing Your First Apps Using Python Programmes
1 Term; 3 Credits
This course aims to build up students’ abilities to develop computer applications (apps)
with Python. Python is a popular general-purpose scripting language that is being used to
develop websites such as Google and Yahoo. This course is designed for beginners and will
cover Python from basic to special features including GUI and multi-media. Students will
acquire practical skills in using the computer language to develop their own apps and resolve
related application problems.

GED 213 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 HKSYU Cloud Pak for Data.

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