Course list: Semester 2, Year 1

[FOSS1002] Appreciating social research

One compulsory course for social science students, and lectured by several teachers from various department. With what I learnt from [PSYC1004] ‘Introduction to Quantitative Methods in Psychology’, I have no problem in understanding the technical terms, i.e. I have more energy for studying how the researches are conducted, and what are the defects of different kinds of research methods. That’s what bothered me ever since I started the research on Modernity!

[SOCI1002] Discovering society

A kind of introductory course of Sociology, but not the same as [SOCI1001], this course is more interesting and easy-understood. Luckily I have got some basic understanding of Sociology with what I learnt…or recited, to be honest... in Nanjing University. So I have no difficulty understanding some Sociological terms, but can put more efforts on deeper constructing of the theories, as well as the comparison.

However, I still cannot come up with a satisfactory answer when somebody asks me what the hell Sociology is. Orz.

[SOCI1003] Introduction to anthropology

Finally I crashed into a lecturer from mainland, and Dr. Yan studies the migrant workers as well. She is from UIUC… supposingly S.C. has heard of her? But it seems that she did not get a good name when she taught in the U.S. Anyway, I find her lecture acceptable, not very interesting, and not boring. The key is that she explains the terms well, maybe much better than some professors in Faculty of Art…according to some B.A. students.

Actually I studied Anthropology before, in NJU, but not very seriously…I dropped most of the lectures, anyway. I take the course under the aim of helping my Social Psychology studies in the future. Fortunately, I can tell when someone else asks me what the hell Anthropology is.

[PSYC1001] Introduction to psychology

My beloved psychology again~! And luckily this time, it’s a very very interesting professor from UCLA, who gets great praises from RateYourProfessors.com. And since he is on the more scientific road, I find this SECOND introductory course to me is very much different the previous one I had in NJU, which emphasized more from a social approach. Anyway, at the start of the semester, I have to study the structure of the human brain…scary, complicated, and exciting! It is just so mysterious and waiting there for people like Raine to solve the problem!

By the way, the assignments and exams of the course are sooooooooooo many that the tutor even designed a Table for DEADLINES for us…OMG.

[EUST1010] Introduction to European Studies

I take the course just because I don’t know what to take. And since I got quite lot information about European as well as the European Union, which is the main part of the course, from dear Mr.Zhu in high school, I have much faith in myself that I deal with the course without much effort. (God bless!) Anyway, it can also serve as another aspect of understanding cultural issues in my future studies.

[YPSY0004] Christianity and society (C&V)

One of the broadening course, quite interesting. Different lecturers, various discussions, and not much burdens. Get to learn more about my belief, as well as how non-Christians look at us.

[CUND0001] Practical Chinese language course (in Putonghua) (Chinese)

I don’t know why it is compulsory, anyway.

[FINE1001] Introduction to western art

I just sit in to enjoy the lecture. The lecturer has a strong education background, and a nice voice, and great experience in teaching the course. It is a great pleasure to sit at the back of the classroom, watch the pictures on the wall, and listen to her explanations. I love art, since childhood. How great it is to have art course even in the university!

[GE2006-25] 爱情自作业II

Well, it is not the content but the lecturer attracts me…She is a graduate from Stanford, which I fan!

[GE2006-31] 香港四讲

Chen Guanzhong（陈冠中）will be the lecture, and he is the one who gets some real understanding of HK, I suppose. But I wonder whether this course will be as good as Reading China last semester.

[GE2006-41] 民间记者工作室

Some other aspects of looking at the city.

[GE2006-27] Sketching HK

Some lectures, combined with some outings. Hope I can learn more about the city after finishing the course.

[GE2006-33] 天堂与地狱：香港艺术的城市观察

The local art is not as bad as I imagined…anyway.

At last but not least…I still have certificate French… with which I struggled a lot, and haven’t attend lecture for quite a long time…If I can get a French roommate maybe I will be more motivated!! Or…maybe I should learn Japanese instead so as to have more communication with my roomy? Anyway, who knows~