XIONG, Wanru - HKUST Class Schedule & Quota

Class Schedule & Quota
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COURSE INFO

ATTRIBUTES	Common Core: Foundations (CTDL)
DESCRIPTION	This course is taught by a teaching team of a group of faculties from four Hubs to introduce the basics of critical thinking and data literacy. The course will be delivered using the problem-solving approach with interdisciplinary applications. The contents include barriers to critical thinking, characteristics of a critical thinker, argument, cognitive bias, logical fallacies, inductive reasoning, and simple probability and statistical models. Students will be equipped with critical thinking and data analyzing skills to analyze problems of reasoning, evaluate the truthfulness of evidence, examine the fallacies of thinking, construct valid arguments, and make better decisions in personal and professional life.

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Common Core: Foundations (CTDL)

DESCRIPTION

This course is taught by a teaching team of a group of faculties from four Hubs to introduce the basics of critical thinking and data literacy. The course will be delivered using the problem-solving approach with interdisciplinary applications. The contents include barriers to critical thinking, characteristics of a critical thinker, argument, cognitive bias, logical fallacies, inductive reasoning, and simple probability and statistical models. Students will be equipped with critical thinking and data analyzing skills to analyze problems of reasoning, evaluate the truthfulness of evidence, examine the fallacies of thinking, construct valid arguments, and make better decisions in personal and professional life.

UCUG 1000 - Cognitive Foundations of University Education: Critical Thinking and Data Literacy (3 units)

Section	Date & Time	Room	Instructor	Quota	Enrol	Avail	Wait	Remarks
L01 (6252)	TBA	TBA	FRANZ, RACHEL HOU, Yun KUO, YI LUNG LI, Ran WANG, Binzhe WU, Cai XIAO, Dianxun XIONG, Wanru YANG, De YU, Liuqian ZHANG, Xuning ZUO, Ruiting	250	0	250	0

COURSE INFO

ATTRIBUTES	Comon Core: Broadening (Social Analysis)
CROSS CAMPUS COURSE EQUIVALENCE	SOSC 1780
DESCRIPTION	This course aims to provide comprehensive understanding of population growth, distribution, major demographic processes, and their relationship with economic development. Special attention is given to the demographic trends and policies in China in the context of the nation’s socioeconomic development.

UCUG 1804 - Population and Development in China (3 units)

Section	Date & Time	Room	Instructor	Quota	Enrol	Avail	Wait	Remarks
L01 (6330)	Mo 06:00PM - 08:50PM	Rm 102, E1	LIU, Xiaofeng XIONG, Wanru YANG, Xiuqi	40	0	40	0

COURSE INFO

DESCRIPTION	The course aims to provide a comprehensive understanding of the city and the system of cities, the challenges faced by cities, especially the rapidly-developing large cities, and the key tools for interventions in response to critical pressures linked to economic development, urbanization, globalization, migration, social inclusion, climate change, resource efficiency, technology etc.

UGOD 5010 - Science of Cities (3 units)

Section	Date & Time	Room	Instructor	Quota	Enrol	Avail	Wait	Remarks
L01 (6453)	Mo 09:00AM - 11:50AM	Rm 222, W1	KAN, Ge Lin XIONG, Wanru YANG, Lin ZHANG, Haoxiang	30	0	30	0