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OSPFLOR 89: The Dark Side of the Renaissance: Contagion, Emotions, Beliefs in times of Epidemics

Last offered: Winter 2022 | UG Reqs: WAY-SI

OSPFLOR 92: No Planet B: Class, Climate Change, and Environmental Justice

How do old and new environmentalist movements relate to social justice struggles and other collective actors? Why do they emerge in some countries and not in others? How do environmentalist groups shape political decisions at the local, national, and transnational level? What differences and commonalities exist in environmentalist movements and their forms of contention across Italy and Europe? To address these questions, this course will look at environmental contentious politics in Europe and Italy, drawing on debates developed in political economy, social movement studies, environmental sociology, political ecology, and labour environmentalism.
Terms: Aut | Units: 3 | UG Reqs: WAY-EDP, WAY-SI
Instructors: Bagnardi, F. (PI)

OSPFLOR 94: "Brothers of Italy": The Gendered and Racial Making of the Italian Nation

This course introduces an interdisciplinary understanding of the concepts of gender and race and their intersectionality as a theoretical tool to trace a gendered and racial genealogy of the Italian nation. The course aims to work through a variety of disciplinary approaches from history, to sociology, to political philosophy. Through these approaches we will learn to critically employ the concepts of gender, race, and nation by understanding their relationality, reciprocity, and their specific application in the field of Italian contemporary history.
Terms: Aut | Units: 3 | UG Reqs: WAY-EDP, WAY-SI
Instructors: Moise, M. (PI)

OSPFLOR 106V: Policing, Punishment and Democracy: Beccaria and the Modern Politics of Crime

This course will ask how police, prosecutors, and prisons should operate in an open, democratic society, and what opportunities and challenges democracy creates for making those institutions fair, effective, and humane. Our entry point will be Cesare Beccaria's 1764 treatise, Of Crimes and Punishments, which linked criminal justice reform with the struggle against despotism. Beccaria was a key figure in the Italian Enlightenment, and his treatise laid the foundation for virtually all subsequent efforts at criminal justice reform, in the United States as well as in Europe. Beccaria's ideas heavily influenced the American Revolutionaries, found expression in the Bill of Rights, and continue to shape discussions of policing and punishment today. We will read Beccaria's treatise, as well as secondary materials placing him in historical context and tracing his influence on the reform of criminal justice institutions in Europe, the United Kingdom, and the United States. We will also examine a series of contemporary debates about policing, prosecution, and punishment, including calls for prison abolition and for defunding the police, and we will ask what light Beccaria's ideas can throw on those debates. We will consider, too, the criminal-justice dimensions of the recent rise of populism and nativism, both in the United States and in Europe, and the increasing overlap between debates about crime and debates about immigration. Studying Beccaria will provide a window into the Italian Enlightenment, and tracing his influence will help us place modern debates about mass incarceration, police violence, and prosecutorial discretion in historical perspective. We may take field trips to the sites of former prisons in Florence and to Milan, where Beccaria lived and worked.
Last offered: Winter 2023 | UG Reqs: WAY-ER, WAY-SI

OSPHONGK 24: Urban China

Socioeconomic, political, and cultural facets of urbanization with a regional focus on China. Critical observation and analysis of the process of urbanization and its lived experiences in the Chinese context. Comparative lessons from other regions for comparative understanding of the complex processes of urbanization across the globe. Critical investigation of urban issues ranging from land politics, urban planning, urban governance, to citizen rights, urban space, and urban culture. Overview of China's quest for modernity and its urban transformation since the late imperial era, followed by an interdisciplinary approach to examine China's unprecedented urban development in the post-reform era. Hands-on field trip in Hong Kong to take full advantage of Hong Kong as a global city.
Last offered: Autumn 2020 | UG Reqs: WAY-SI

OSPHONGK 27: China and Regional Order

This course looks at China's changing political, economic and security relationships in Asia through frameworks in the International Relations literature. It contextualizes China's external relationships across Asia-Pacific in the ongoing evolution and negotiation of Asian regional order and institutions in the aftermath of the Cold War, and argues that this context helps account for the objectives of and some apparent ambiguities and contradictions in Chinese foreign and security policy. Three parts: context and background; empirical view of developments involving China's international relationships in Asia; theoretical frameworks to evaluate China's relations with regional order.
Last offered: Autumn 2020 | UG Reqs: WAY-SI

OSPHONGK 29: The Rise of China in the Global Context I: Diplomacy, Trade, and Soft Power

The "Rise of China" from the perspective of Global Governance, shedding light on its diplomatic, trade and cultural relations with others in the Global Community. Critical analysis of the transformation of Chinese foreign policies since the establishment of the People's Republic of China and the momentum behind this change of practices. Topics include: history and evolution of Chinese foreign policies; analytical framework of policy-making process in China, particularly in handling foreign and security affairs; foreign relations with both the developed and developing nations; booming economy and integration with the global economy; assessment of the rhetoric of "Peaceful Rise" and "Charm Offensive" with reference to the Confucius Institute.
Last offered: Autumn 2022 | UG Reqs: WAY-SI

OSPHONGK 32: Fintech and Entrepreneurship in China

Introduction to the concepts essential to the entrepreneurial process and a look at the role of the individual and teams within high-impact ventures, intended for sophomores, juniors, and seniors of all majors. Case studies, lectures, workshops and mentor-guided team projects cover high-growth ventures involving technology, with special emphasis on the significance of entrepreneurship, blockchain/AI/ML related to financial innovation and opportunities in Hong Kong and China more broadly. Explore both financial innovation for high net worth as well as "bottom of the pyramid" individuals and ethical issues in startups. No prerequisites. Also enroll in CUHK course # EPIN4010. Enrollment limited.
Terms: Aut | Units: 4 | UG Reqs: WAY-SI
Instructors: Eesley, C. (PI)

OSPHONGK 42: Gender and Sexuality in Contemporary Society

Examination of gender and sexuality from a contemporary and regional perspective. Based on a cross-cultural perspective, read and analyze different meanings of gender and sexuality, and how these meanings are constructed. How gender relations and sexual politics are related with historical backgrounds, cultural heritage, market expansion, ideological shifts, and capitalist dynamics in a context of modernization campaigns and globalization processes. The topics of gender and sexuality interwoven with that of migration, work, family, popular culture, mass media, and consumerism.
Last offered: Autumn 2022 | UG Reqs: WAY-EDP, WAY-SI

OSPHONGK 44: Medical Sociology

From a sociological perspective, dissect issues such as conflicts between patients and doctors; safety of medical treatments and reliability of medical knowledge; inequality in health and longevity; and ever-increasing health care spending. Questions such as: What counts as illness? How do people understand illness? How does illness affect people's life? Who gets ill and why? What is the role of medical technology in fostering health? Why do doctors and patients have trouble communicating? How should health care systems be organized? Also examine some of these issues in the contexts of Chinese societies, such as China and Hong Kong with comparative perspectives.
Last offered: Autumn 2022 | UG Reqs: WAY-SI
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