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Quantitative Analysis of Management
The course will cover descriptive statistics, inferential statistics and math models with business applications to analyze management and organizational problems. Specific topics include: measures of central tendency and variation, probability distributions, estimation, hypothesis testing, regression and correlation, decision theory, linear programming, transportation and assignment models, and inventory management and queuing theory models.
An Introduction to Comparative Politics
Comparative Politics is the only sub-discipline carrying a methodological label in political science, and this course is aimed to introduce students to this special field. Students are expected to get an overview of the field, including main concepts, directions in research, methods (methodologies) and approaches. Students will also be exposed to important literatures of leading scholars in the field.
Government and Politics of China
Focusing on the origins and formulations of the contemporary China politics and government, CCP,NPC and the State Council.
History of Chinese Political Thoughts
In this lecture, I’d mainly like to give you a comprehensive understanding of how the various thinkers, statesmen and scholars of different schools ( from the Pre-Qin Dynasty to the Late Qing Dynasty) think about the right ways of governing a country and its people--- their thoughts and their views.
History of Western Political Thoughts
Political thoughts present the reflection of human beings in related to dilemmas in collective life. This course will outline the overall picture of the development of western philosophy and western civilization. The main purpose of this course is to examine the origins and development of political concepts and theories ranging from the ancient Greek to the 20th century. Particularly attention will be paid to the historical context of thinkers, concepts, theories, and classical works. Students who enrolled in this course are expected to better understand the path of western political development.
Introduction to Political Economy
This course provides an overview of the field of political economy to students who have no previous background knowledge. The main aim is to help students understand the interaction between domestic political and economic systems, forces and actors, including such interaction at and between international and domestic levels. The course asks two main questions: first, how do states, social forces and various kinds of institutions affect the flow of economic resources within national boundaries? Second, how do economic forces constrain the behavior of political actors at domestic level? More specifically, this course deals with the politics of economic development, adjustment and transition, and the politics of international economic cooperation.
Public Finance and Taxation
The "public finance and tax” is a basic theory course of public economics,which involves the "finance” , "tax study”, "national budget study” and so on different subjects, and it has strong comprehensive and professional.The main aim of this course is to make the students mastering the basic concepts of financial,tax and basic principle, and the public finance, financial expenditure, fiscal revenue and government budget basic theory and basic skills, grasping the commodity tax, income tax, property tax, resource and the behavior of the basic tax of theory and practice, having carried out the laws of the state tax system ability.
Social Policy
This course introduces students the basic concepts, theories, and methods of policy analysis. It also introduces students the background information of Chinese social policies. Students are required to actively participate in class discussions. The final essay requires students to conduct evidence based analysis.
Introduction to International Politics
The purpose of this course is to introduce students some basic concepts and some process of contemporary international plitics, particular its complex and progresses of global change and reforms.
Public Manangement
Assist students in understanding the larger significance of the practice of public management.Encourage participants to improve their abilities to analyze, and operate within,the institutional matrix of modern public management with respect for and sensitivity to democratic principles.
Public Policy
Public Policy is an introductory course that explores policy-making as both a problem-solving process and a political process. This course aims to educate a new generation of public policy-makers and policy analysts, familiarising them with the necessary concepts, theories, methods and principles involved in the formulation and analysis of public policy. The course provides an accessible assessment of a wide range of theories and models from policy cycles, policy transfer, rational choice and socio-economic explanations to multi-level governance, advocacy coalitions and punctuated equilibrium and of their value to policy analysis. The programme draws on the disciplines of political science, economics, law, public management. Students develop a working knowledge of particular aspects of political science theory relevant to understanding how public policies are formulated. They gain a basic understanding of economic approaches to public policy analysis and of the concepts of economic efficiency and equity as societal objectives.
Social Security
This course mainly introduce the development of social security in foreign and Chinese context. It will introduce students the foundamental theories and characteristics of social security instittuions in different societies.
Public Economics
This course is structured into three sections. Section One explores market failures and explains why public sector has reasons to exist. Section Two clarifies the main economic goals of public sector from the perspectives of efficiency, equity and liberty. Section Three tries to explain the characteristics and dilemmas of various public decision rules and then analyzes the desirability of public sector’s operation both from the demand sides and the supply sides. Finaly, government failures issue will be raised, corresponding with the market failures discussed at the beginning of the course, to clarify the appropriate principles or concept to comprehend the border of market and government.
Introduction to Politics
This one-semester course aims to let students acquire a general understanding of the essence and the fundamental issues of politics, thus which would lay a solid fondation of their future studies.
Introduction to Social Work
This is an introductory course mainly designed for the students in the field of sociology and social work, aiming to load the students with fundamental background, concepts, theories, methods and future trend of social work as a helping profession in a changing social context. The four-credit course will be mainly taught through lectures, group discussions, case analysis and student-oriented learning activities. In the process of classroom teaching, the lecturer will spend majority of time on introducing the history of social work profession, social welfare institution, values and ethics of social work, human behaviors and social environment, social work theories, social work methods and leading the students to deepen their understanding the ethics, skills and knowledge base of social work profession. More important, this course will also highlight the significance of developing social work profession in China.
Social Statistics
This course introduces you to the basics of social statistics—techniques that sociologists and other social scientists use to summarize numeric data obtained from censuses,surveys, and experiments.
Organizational Behavior
Organizational Behavior in Public and Nonprofit Organizations is the core course in the training of students in public administration and management. This course will teach the following topics: motivation; leadership; decision-making; organizational structure; organizational change and development.
Introduction to Sociology
This course is designed to introduce students to foundemental concepts, theories and methods in sociology. It will also focus on helping students to learn major topics and perspectives in sociological research in China and wordwide, strengthening their professional identity as well as building a sense of social responsibility
Methods of Social Survey and Social Research
This course--Methods of Social Survey and Social Research is designed for finding and solving kinds of social problems, providing the basic principles、programs、methods and applications of social research methods.
The main methods of social science research are statistical survey method、Field study method、Experimental method and Method of literature. This course is going to leading students to study and use those four methods, setting up the basement of their future study of special fields in social science.