rer re hi site: MGTO 221
ELEC 51 1 Electromagnetic Wave Propagation, Radiation and Scattering [3-M:3]
IPrevious Course Code: ELEC 5451 Advanced treatment of electromagnetic wave
bropagation, applications of electromagnetic theory such as the uniform theory of I diffraction, time-domain finite difference techniques, indoor and outdoor propagation I
prediction, radiation, Fresnel and Fraunhofer diffraction and inverse scattering.
ELEC 514 Power Integrated Devices and Technology [3-0-0:3]
Desrgn of monol~thic powe; Integrated devlces and technology for consumer and control a~~lications: , r r ~- Intearable Dower bbolar, MOSFET, and mixed bipolarIMOS devices; power control interfacing circuits; fabrication technology; limitations and protection; packaging;
reliability; consumer and industrial applications. Background Undergraduate electronic circuit and device courses
ELEC 515 Solid State Electronics [34-0:3]
A brief review of solid state theory and simple statistical mechanics leading to the derivation of the semi-classical model of semiconductor devices. Application to typical devices such as pn junctions, MOS capacitors and transistors.
ELEC 518 Microwave and RF Engineering [2-0-3:3]
lntroduction to techniques for analysis, design, fabrication and measurement of passive and active circuits at frequencies above one GHz. Includes laboratory for design, fabrication and test of microwave circuits discussed in lectures.
ELEC 520 Optical Communication Systems [3-M:3]
Overview of optical fibre communications. Optical fibres: propagation, single and multimode, dispersion, attenuation, absorption and scattering, cables and connectors.
Optical sources and transmitters. Optical detectors and receivers. System design and performance. Coherent lightwave systems. Multiplexing. Optical applications such as video distribution systems and local area networks.
ELEC 526 Circuits for Communication [3-M:3]
Analysis and design of electronics circuits for communication systems. Analysis of distoltion in amplifiers. Design of large-signal and power amplifiers. Oscillators and voltage-controlled oscillators, mixer, phase-locked loops, and their applications.
ELEC 530 Introduction to Probability, Random Variables and [3-0-0:3]
Stochastic Process
[Previous Course Code: ELEC 5101 Axioms of probability, Bayes theorem, random variables, distribution and density functions, conditional distributions, moments, functions of random variables, stochastic processes, stationary processes, ergodicity, mean square estimation, filtering and prediction, Kalman filters.
Postgraduate Course Descriptions
ELEC 531 Topics In Digital Signal Processing [3-0-0:3]
Selected topics in the fundamentals of digital signal such as: multidimensional digital signal processing, parametric estimation of signals, multirate digital signal orocess- ing, wavelet based digitalsignal processing, adaptive digital signal pr6cessing, linear and nonlinear filter theory.
ELEC 532 Digital Image Processing [3-0-0:3]
[Previous Course Code: ELEC 51 11 Two-dimensional signals and systems, image perception, image sampling and transforms, image enhancement and restoration, linear and nonlinear image filtering, image representation and recognition, image compression, computer vision. Background knowledge of linear algebra a6d such'as ELEC 21 1 Exclusion: COMP 529
ELEC 533 Video Signal Processing [3-0-0:3]
Characteristics of video signals, compression techniques, differential pulse code modu- lation, predictive coding, transform coding, motion estimation techniques, vector quantisation, subband coding, pyramid coding, entropy coding, coding standards, real- time video signal processing: system examples and applications. ~ r i r e ~ u i s i t e s : ELEC 317 and ELEC 530
ELEC 534 Speech and Audio Processing [3-0-0:3]
Time-frequency speech representation, vocal tractlear model, language phonetics, speech quality measurements, digital speech coding (ADPCM, CELP, MPLPC, SBC, LD- VXC), Mozer technique, speech synthesis, speech recognition, room acoustics. Prereq- uisite: background in digital signal processing.
ELEC 536 Digital Communications [3-0-0:3]
[Previous Course Code: ELEC 514 in 92/93] Overview of signals and systems. Review of probability and stochastic processes. Binary data detection. Optimum receiver principles. Performance analysis of basic digital modulation techniques. M-an/ commu- nications systems. signalling-through band-hited channels. optimum transmitting and receiving filters. comparison of digital communications svstems. S~read sDectrum system< Application of spread speckurn to telecommunicatibns. ~ackbround: ihtroduc- tory probability.
ELEC 537 Communication Networks [3-0-0:3]
Overview of telecommunication networks: network services, topologies, switching and multiplexing. Layered architectures in data networks: OSI standards architecture and protocols, X.25 and other architectural models. Review of probability and stochastic processes. lntroduction to queueing theory: Poisson processes, MIMI1 queue, state- dependent queues, MIGl1 queues and mean value analysis. Routing and flow control in packet-switched networks. Random access techniques. lntroduction to circuit switching.
elements of telephone and traffic engineering, digital switching networks. lntegratG voice and data. lntroduction to broadband ISDN. Background introductory probability theory
ELEC 538 Digital Circuit-Switched Networks [3-0-0:3]
Current topics in digital circuit switching: introduction to circuit switching, elements of telephone traffic engineering, space and time switching, call processing in digital circuit- switched systems, overload control mechanisms, non-hierarchical routing, common channel signaling. Emphasis on modelling and quantitative petformance analysis.
Prerequisite: ELEC 537
Postgraduate Course Descriptions
ELEC 539 Broadband Communication Networks [3-0-0:3]
lntroduction to the architectures and protocols of integrated broadband communication networks. Tooics include: network services and reauirement. networkina and switchina architectures for high-speed communication, traffic characterisation, performance e v a l i ation techniques, congestion controls, protocol issues, and case studies. Prerequisite:
ELEC 537
ELEC 540 Artificial Neural Networks [3-0-0:3]
[Previous Course Code: ELEC5161 Theory and applications of neurocomputing. Artificial neural networks as biologically inspired computational models for supervised learning, unsupervised learning, reinforcement learning, associative memory, optimisation, etc.
ELEC 541 Adadive F u u v Loaic Control 13-0-0.31 crispand fuzzy set iheory, fuzzy logic, fuzzy graph, calculi of fuzzy graphs, fuzzymeasu6 theory, fuzzy integral, fuzzy c-mean, fuzzy logic control, applications, adaptivefuzzy logic, learning rules, neuronal implementations, current research issues.
ELEC 543 Information Theory and Error-Correcting Codes [3-0-031 lnformation theory: self and mutual information measures, Shannon's theory on source coding and channel coding, discrete memoryless channel models, channel capacity, Huffman code. Algebraic block codes: Hamming, BCH, Reed-Solomon, et al. Burst error- correcting codes and convolutional codes.
ELEC 544 Signal Detection and Estimation [3-0-0:3]
lntroduction to detection and estimation theory, with applications to communication, control and radar systems; decision-theory concepts and optimum-receiver principles;
detection of random signals in noise; coherent and noncoherent detection; parameter estimation; linear and nonlinear estimation.
ELEC 546 Digital Wireless Personal Communications [3-0-0:3]
Introduction/background/overview/issues: radio propagation environment, the wireless link (single link issues), wireless systems (interaction and control of many links), networks for wireless access communications (interconnection and control), wireless transceivers, speech and security issues.
ELEC 560 Linear System Theory [3-0-0:3]
Introduces modern system theory, with applications to control, signal processing and related topics. ~ a s i c system concepts, state-space and I10 representation, properties of linear svstems. controllabilitv, observabilitv, minimalitv, transfer function matrices, state and ouiput feedback, stabiliiy, observers,optimal regulators. Background: MATH 151, MATH 152 and ELEC 21 1
ELEC 561 Multivariable Feedback Systems [3-0-0:3]
Analysis and synthesis techniques for multi-input and multi-output (MIMO) control systems, singular value decomposition and applications, matrix fraction description, stabilisation, tracking and distuhance rejection. Two degrees of freedom design, robustness, linear quadratic optimal control.
ELEC 562 Nonlinear Systems: Analysis, Stability and Control [34Kk3]
lntroduction to nonlinear dynamicat systems, differential equations, second-order sys- tems, index theory, ~oincare-~endixson theorem, stability by direct and indirect methods of Lyapunov, input-output stability, geometric theory of control for nonlinear systems, exact linearisation by nonlinear feedback.
P o s t ~ r a d u a t e Course DescriDtions
ELEC 563 Advanced Digital Control System Design [3-0-031 Intensive introduction to digital control systems design. Studentsattend ELEC 377 course lectures and also work onadvanced problem setsand laboratory experiments. Back- ground: ELEC 102, ELEC 112, or MECH 102 and MECH 261.
ELEC 564 Robot Manipulation [3-0-1:3]
Extensive introduction to robot manipulation theory from a geometric viewpoint. Rigid body kinematics, spatial and body representation of rigid body velocities, coordinate transformations, forward kinematics of open-chain manipulators, solution of inverse kinematics, robot workspaces, nonlinear decoupling control and force control.
ELEC 565 Robot Motion Planning [3-0-0:3]
Kinematics of multifingered robotic hands: grasp statics, planning and constraints, geometry of surfaces, kinematics of contact. Robot hand dynamics. Control of multifingered robotic hands. Robot motion planning: holonomic constraints versus nonholonomic constraints, holonomic and nonholonomic motion planning.
ELEC 566 Stochastic Control [3-0-0:3]
Probability and random variables, LQG problems, least square estimation, Separation theorem, Kalman filters, stochastic differential equations, Poisson counters, discrete event systems. Prerequisite: ELEC 530
ELEC 690 Independent Study [I-3 credits]
[Previous Course Code: ELEC5901 Selected topics in electrical and electronic engineer- ing studied under the supervision of a faculty member.
ELEC 691 Special Topics [I -3 credits]
Selected topics of current interest. May be repeated for credit, if different topics are covered.
ELEC 695 Departmental Seminar [I -0-0: 11
[Previous Course Code: ELEC 5921 Series of seminar topics presented by students, faculty and guest speakers; may be repeated for credit.
ELEC 698 MSc Project [3 credits]
[Previous Course Code: ELEC 690 in 91/92] lndependent project carried out under the supervision of a faculty member.
ELEC 699 MPhil Thesis Research
Master's thesis research supervised by a faculty member. A successful defence of the thesis leads to the grade Pass or Pass with Distinction. No course credit is assigned.
ELEC 799 Doctoral Thesis Research
Original and independent doctoral thesis research. A successful defence of the thesis leads to the grade Pass or Pass with Distinction. No course credit is assigned.
DEPARTMENT OF FINANCE
FINA 512 Corporate Finance [3-0-0:3]
lntroduction to financial management. Valuation of cash flows, capital budgeting, riskand return of assets, capital structure and dividend policy, and mergers and acqusitions. (MBA core course) Background: Introductory courses in financial accounting, microeconomics and business statistics.
Postgraduate Course Descriptions
FlNA 520 Cases i n Corporate Finance [4-0-0:4]
[Previous Course Code: FINA 6121 Application-oriented course building on FlNA 512.
Cases in working capital, capital budgeting analysis and planning, corporate valuations, mergers and financial strategies. Prerequisite: FlNA 51 2
FlNA 521 Investment Analysis and Portfolio Management [4-0-0.4]
[Previous Course Code: FlNA 6211 Analysis of management of common stocks and fixed income securities, modem portfolio theory and asset pricing models, and an introduction to derivative securities. Prerequisite: FlNA 512
FlNA 531 Financial System and Markets [4-0-0:4]
[Previous Course Code: FlNA 6311 Organisation and functions of money and capital markets. Interest rates, financial innovation, market microstructure and effects of government regulation on financial markets. Prerequisites ECON 51 1 and FlNA 512
FlNA 532 Financial Institutions [4-0-0:4]
[Previous Course Code: FINA 6321 Management issues for financial institutions, with emphasis on commercial banks. Capital adequacy, liquidity and interest rate risk management; market structure; regulatory issues of financial intermediaries. Prerequi- site: FlNA 512
FlNA 541 International Finance [4-M:4]
[Previous Course Code: FlNA 6411 International money and capital markets. Currency options, futures and swaps as means for currency risk management. Financing and investment decisions of multinational corporations. Prerequisites: ECON 51 1 and ECON 512
FlNA 551 Options and Futures Markets [4-0-0:4]
[Previous Course Code: FlNA 6511 Organisation and functions of options and futures markets. Pricing and analvsis of futures and options contracts, spot and futures price relationships, s&ulation, arbitrage and hedging strategies, financial engineering.. Pre- requisite: FlNA 512 Background FlNA 521
FlNA 561 Real Estate Investments [4-M:4]
Real estate economics and investment strategies; elements of real estate appraisal, development, finance, and law; pricing of mortgage-backed securities. Prerequisite: FlNA 51 2
FlNA 571 Financial Management of Insurance Companies [e0-0:4]
Functions and operations of insurance industry. Design and pricing of insurance con- tracts. Optional management of insurance company portfolios. Prerequisite: FlNA 51 2
FlNA 588 Field Study I [2-M:2]
Supervised study of an organisation, including identification of ~trate~icquestions, design of studies, collection and analysis of data, development and reporting recommendation.
(MBA core course)
FlNA 589 Field Study II
Continuation of FlNA 588. (MBA core course)
FlNA 690 Special Topics [2-4 credits]
[Previous Course Code: FlNA 6991 Current developments in finance. Topics selected by the instructor.
Po~tgraduate Course Descriptions
FlNA 697 Independent Study [2-4 credits]
Study of selected financial issues under the supervision of a faculty member. (Special permission from the Associate Dean is required for MBA students to take this course.)
FlNA 698 MBA Rese: c h Project [3 credits]
An independent research project on a business topiccarried out under the supervision of a faculty member.
FlNA 790 Doctoral Seminars [2-4 credits]
[Previous Course Code: FlNA 799 in 91/92] Current research topics in corporate finance, investments, financial markets and institutions, derivative securities, and empirical research in financial economics.
FlNA 799 Doctoral Thesis Research
Original and independent doctoral thesis research. A successful defence of the thesis leads to the grade Pass or Pass with Distinction. No course credit is assigned.
DIVISION OF HUMANITIES
HUMA 502 Contemporary Chinese Poetry [3-0-0:3]
Critical investigation of modern Chinese poetry in China, Taiwan, and Hong Kong from the late 1970s to the present, with emphasis on literary and historical contexts and compara- tive studies of poetics and artistic expressions.
HUMA 506 Theories of Discourse [3-0-0:3]
Modern and contemporary theories of language, culture and textuality as embodied in such disicplines as hermeneutics, archaeologylgenealogy of knowledge and deconstructionism.
HUMA 510 Relativism and Dialogue in Cross-cultural Interpretation [3-0-0:3]
Focuses on the problem of understanding between groups with divergent world-views.
Theories discussed range from arguments for the total incommensurability of different cultures, to programmes for genuine intercultural dialogue.
HUMA 511 Comparative Philosophy of Religion [3-0-0:3]
Examines Eastern and Western works of philosophy of religion, and discusses conflicting claims about religious experience, myth, ritual and ethics.
HUMA 512 Hindu and Buddhist Philosophical Debates [3-0-0:3]
Studies classic works on epistemology and ,metaphysics created in debates between South Asian Buddhists and Hindus, and interprets the relevance they still have on contemporary thought.
HUMA 513 Religious Theories of Language [3-0-0:3]
Discusses theories of language of Eastern and Western religious thinkers, including such topics as the natures and relations of ordinary, scriptural and philosophical language.
HUMA 514 Studies in Chinese-American Literature [3-0-0:3]
Seminar focusing on a close study of one or more major Chinese-American writers, with consideration of critical, cultural and historical contexts.
Postgraduate Course Descriptions Post~raduate Course DescriDtions
HUMA 515 Tradiiional Chinese Literary Theory and Criticism [3-0-0:3]
Aims to familiarise students with the traditional Chinese theories and criticism of literature:
advantages and limitations of the various modes of discourses such as prefaces to books, poetry-talks, poems on poetry, literary anthologies, stray remarks and commentaries.
HUMA 516 Women and Religion [ M 3 ]
Explores the various roles and activities of women in religious traditions around the world, including Hindu, Buddhist (in India, Tibet, Southeast Asia, China, Japan, and North America), Judaic, and Christian.
HUMA 517 Modern Chinese Literary Criticism [3-0-0:3]
Examines the transformation of Westem literaw theories in the Chinese context. Focuses on practices of individual Chinese literary thedrists and the relationship between literary criticism and socio-cultural criticism from historical and comparative perspectives.
HUMA 518 Women and Literature [3-0-0:3]
Examination of the roles, identty, and social construction of women in literature and feminist theories.
HUMA 519 Buddhist Scriptures and Chinese Classics [3-0-0:3]
Critical reading of a selected number of canonised texts in Buddhism, ~onfucianism and Taoism. Soecial em~hasis Dlaced on the trans~lantation of Indian Buddhism to China as an alternaive mode'of tholight and its encoun'ters with Confucianism and Taoism as a hermeneutical experience in intercultural interpellation.
HUMA 521 Chinese Popular Religion [3-0-0:3]
Chinese popular religion considered from a cultural anthropology perspective. Interplay between popular religion and the social, economic, political, and folk-medical systems.
HUMA 522 Field Research: Theory and Practice [3-0-0:3]
Theories, methods, and techniques in ethnographic field research are explored. Students conduct individual and group research projects.
HUMA 523 Hermeneutics [3-0-0.3]
Study of the later works of Martin Heidegger and the writings of Hans Georg Gadamer as well as the interpretation and application of hermeneutics in a variety of disciplines.
HUMA 524 Philosophy of Technology [3-0-0:3]
Looks at the various philosophies of technology ranging from the early works of Ellul, Mumford and the Frankfurt School to contemporary thinkers such as Durbin, Jonas and Borgman.
HUMA 525 Modern Literary Theory I [ M 3 ]
[Previous Course Code: HUMA 5031 Historical and critical survey of major literary theories of the twentieth century: American formalism, archetypal criticism, Freudian and Lacanian psychoanalysis, Russian formalism, structuralism, semiotics, phenomenology, hermeneutics, reader-response, feminism, the Frankfurt School, deconstruction, and new historicism.
HUMA 526 Modern Lierary Theory II Continuation of HUMA 525.
HUMA 527 Modernity and Postmodernity I [3-0-0:3]
[Previous Course Code: HUMA 5091 Beginning with the Enlightenment and the development of positivism and working through various critics such as the Frankfurt School, Heidegger, Gadamer and the post-structuralists, examines the range of mean- ings and uses of "modernity" and "postmodernity" within a number of disciplines, including: philosophy, literary theory, political theory, religious studies, aesthetics, and sociology.
HUMA 528 Modernity and Postmodernity II Continuation of HUMA 527.
HUMA 529 State and Society in Republican China [3-0-0:3]
[Previous Course Code: HUMA ~ O O J ] ~opical analysis of the Republican era (1 91 1-1 949) in Chinese history, examining the crises and choices the nation faced following the fall of the imperial system and events leading to the Communist victory.
HUMA 530 History and Theory of Comparative Literature [3-0-0:3]
[Previous Course Code: HUMA 600M] Critical assessment of the development and methodology of the comparative study of literature as an academic discipline with particular emphasis on Chinese-Western comparative studies.
HUMA 531 Poetics [3-0-0:3]
[Previous Course Code: HUMA 600N] Historical and critical survey of major theorists of traditional Western poeticsfrom Aristotle to Croce. Emphasis on the relationship between humanist tradition and deconstructionist criticism.
HUMA 532 Study of Archival and Folk Documents [3-0-0:3]
[Previous Course Code: HUMA 600L] Various writing styles of different public and private archives. Emphasis on the use of these archives to the understanding of Chinese society and its political economy.
HUMA 533 Words and Images [3-0-0:3]
Seminar on the interrelationship between the worlds of literature (especially poetry) and painting, focusing on paintings of the Southern Song but with broader consideration of the relevant issues.
HUMA 534 Religion and Literature in Modern South Asia [3-0-0:3]
[Previous Course Code: HUMA 600K] Analysis of problematic patterns of religious culture (such as the tensions between malelfemale, sacredlsecular, colonial-elites1 subalterns, traditionlmodernity, HindulBuddhist, HindulChristian) as these have been explored in 20th century literature (fiction and autobiography) by South Asian (Narayan Rao, Murthy, Naipaul, etc.) and Western (Hesse, Woolf, Updike, etc.) writers.
HUMA 600 Special Topics [3-0-0:3]
Coherent collection of topics selected from the humanities. The course may be repeated for credit if the topics studied are different.
HUMA 610 Inde~endent Study [3 credit]
[Previous Course codes: HUMA-010, HUMA 5101 Independent study on a particular subject underthe supervision of afaculty member; requires readings, tutorial discussions, and submission of one or more research papers.
Postnraduate Course DescriDtions Postgraduate Course Descriptions
HUMA 631 Seminar on Comparative Literature [3-0-0:3]
[Previous Course Codes: HUMA -bO1, HUMA 5011 Directed research in literary topics that relate texts from at least two cultural traditions: to establish certain methods throuah which literature is read affirmatively with critical sophistication.
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HUMA 632 Seminar: History of the Pearl River Delta [3-0-0:3]
[Previous Course Codes: HUMA 004, HUMA 5041 Dscussions of those institutions and civilisational achievements which fostered political, cultural, and economic unity in the area.
HUMA 633 Topics i n Ming-Qing Social and Economic History [3-0-0:3]
[Previous Course Code: HUMA 5051 Examine contemporary scholarship on topics such as 'the sprout of Chinese capitalism', 'technology and agricultural development', 'land tenancy', 'commerce and urbanisation', and especially the factors which contributed to
Ming-Qing socio-economic developments.
HUMA 634 Seminar on Early Modern Chinese Thought I [3-0-0:3]
[Previous Course Code: HUMA 5071 With HUMA 635, a two-semester course on Neo-
~onfucianism as a revivalist movement, both intrasystemically as a dynamic mode of thouaht and intersvstemicallv in terms of its interactions with Buddhism, Taoism and
HUMA 635 Seminar on Early Modern Chinese Thought II [3-0-0:3]
[Previous Course Code: HUMA 5081 Continuation of HUMA 634.
HUMA 636 Seminar on Family and Lineage in South China [3-0-0:3]
[Previous Course Code: HUMA 6 0 0 q Studies the basic social structure of South China in its cultural context, focusing on the creation of descent groups and their interaction with local societies and the state. Field research is required.
HUMA 637 Seminar on Lineage and Business in Modern China [3-0-0:3]
Studies modem Chinese merchant houses by employing both archival and field re- sources. Emphasis is on the interaction between business and descent institutions through the course of time.
HUMA 638 Seminar on Justice [3-0-0:3]
Examines the concept of justice as it has developed in diierent cultures, from the Greeks to analogues in Chinese, etc. Ties justice to a cluster of concepts such as community, reason, and the sew.
HUMA 639 Seminar o n Chinese Urban History [3-0-0:3]
[Previous Course Code: HUMA 5201 Developmental trends and characteristics of Chinese cities, urban planning and its ideas, fire fighting and law enforcement, merchant organisations and the market system, tutelary deities and the temple of the city god, and
[Previous Course Code: HUMA 5201 Developmental trends and characteristics of Chinese cities, urban planning and its ideas, fire fighting and law enforcement, merchant organisations and the market system, tutelary deities and the temple of the city god, and