Gateway Education (GE) Courses Offered by COM in 2021/22 Semester A

01 Sep 2021 (Wed)

GE1223 Public Health Communication:
 
Covid-19 has profoundly transformed the world in ways that we had never imagined. In Hong Kong and Greater China, population density and close proximity for interpersonal contact lead to the rapid spread of diseases. Low health literacy, environmental risks, limited resources, and poor governance and intervention also pose serious health threats to public health practices. Do you care about personal health and public health? Would you like to know how health and illness are affected by communication? Would you like to learn how to communicate accurate health information to an audience through effective and timely communication? If you do, this course may be helpful!
 
For details: https://www.cityu.edu.hk/ge_info/Course/GE1223
 
 
GE2234 Social Networks for Media, Business and Technological Applications:
 
This course aims to introduce basic theoretical perspectives and research methods of social networks and their applications for a wide range of networking contexts such as media and communication networks (e.g., flows of news, entertainment, advertising, and public relations, P2P interactions, online communities, etc.), business networks (e.g., viral marketing, business operations, supplies chains, the Internet of Things, etc.), and engineering networks (networking usage traffic, contagious human disease and computer virus, transportation systems, etc.). Students will be exposed to an interdisciplinary body of knowledge involving sciences, engineering, social sciences, and business studies. The knowledge and skills will equip students with skills that can enhance human experience and life quality in the contemporary networked society.
 
For details:  https://www.cityu.edu.hk/ge_info/Course/GE2234