Designated Social Science General Education Courses (Effective in 2014-15)

General Education (GE) courses are designated by the University every year. Only GE courses taken in the academic year in which they are so designated can be used to fulfill the GE requirements.

The following are Science General Education Courses [GEE(SOSC)] designated for the 2014-15 academic year. Students should select courses from this list to satisfy the GEE (SCIE) requirement. Their status as Science GE courses in previous years are indicated by a "✓".

Social Science General Education Courses
Course Code		Course Title	Credits	Designated in previous years
4-digit	3-digit	Course Title	Credits	2013-14	2012-13	2011-12	2010-11
SHSS 3001 ^(#)	--	Large Datasets, New Facts, Huge Comparisons: A New History for a New China, 1700-2000	3	✓	✓	✓ (wef Summer)	X
SOSC 1100	SOSC 110	Elementary Statistics for Social Research	3	✓	✓	✓	✓
SOSC 1110	SOSC 111	Science, Technology and Society	3	✓	✓	✓	✓
SOSC 1120	--	Psychology and Education	3	X	X	X	X
SOSC 1130	SOSC 113	Science, Technology and Business	3	✓	✓	✓	✓
SOSC 1150	SOSC 199	Science, Technology and Work	3	✓	✓	✓	✓
SOSC 1160	SOSC 200Q	Mass Media in China	3	✓	✓	✓	✓
SOSC 1170	--	Environmental and Energy Governance in China	3	✓	✓	✓ (wef Summer)	X
SOSC 1190	SOSC 119	China and the World: China's Development in Historical and Comparative Perspectives	3	✓	✓	✓	✓
SOSC 1270	SOSC 127	International Law	3	✓	✓	✓	✓
SOSC 1300	SOSC 101A	The World of Politics	3	✓	✓	✓	✓
SOSC 1340	SOSC 134	China-United States Relations	3	✓	✓	✓	✓
SOSC 1350	SOSC 135	Contemporary China: Continuity and Change	3	✓	✓	✓	✓
SOSC 1420	SOSC 142	Poverty	3	✓	✓	✓	✓
SOSC 1440	SOSC 144	Introduction to Economics	3	✓	✓	✓	✓
SOSC 1460	SOSC 146	Japan: Change and Continuity	3	✓	✓	✓	✓
SOSC 1620	SOSC 162	Introduction to China's Political and Economic Development	3	✓	✓	✓	✓
SOSC 1661	SOSC 179	Contemporary Hong Kong: Government & Politics	3	✓	✓	✓	✓
SOSC 1662	SOSC 166	Contemporary Hong Kong: Society	3	✓	✓	✓	✓
SOSC 1663	--	Contemporary Hong Kong: Critical Issues	3	✓	✓	✓	X
SOSC 1780	SOSC 178	Population and Development in China	3	✓	✓	✓	✓
SOSC 1800	SOSC 180	Understanding Chinese Society	3	✓	✓	✓	✓
SOSC 1810	--	Sociology of the Family	3	✓	✓	✓ (wef Spring)	X
SOSC 1840	SOSC 184	Government, Law and Society in China	3	✓	✓	✓	✓
SOSC 1850	SOSC 185	Understanding Society	3	✓	✓	✓	✓
SOSC 1860	SOSC 186	Population and Society	3	✓	✓	✓	✓
SOSC 1960	SOSC 196	Discovering Mind and Behavior	3	✓	✓	✓	✓
SOSC 1980	SOSC 198	Psychology and Everyday Life	3	✓	✓	✓	✓
SOSC 2010	SOSC 301G	Environment and Society	3	✓	✓	✓	✓
SOSC 2120	--	The Party-state System in China: Origins and Developments	3	X	X	X	X
SOSC 2130	--	Education and Society	3	X	X	X	X
SOSC 2170	SOSC 217	Environment and Business	3	✓	✓	✓	✓
SOSC 2180	SOSC 218	Science and Technology Policy in China	3	✓	✓	✓	✓
SOSC 2220	SOSC 200C	Women in China	3	✓	✓	✓	✓
SOSC 2230	SOSC 323	The Chinese Economy	3	✓	✓	✓	✓
SOSC 2250	SOSC 225	Place and Space in the Global Context	3	✓	✓	✓	✓
SOSC 2280	SOSC 228	International Relations of East Asia	3	✓	✓	✓	✓
SOSC 2290	SOSC 229	Understanding Globalization	3	✓	✓	✓	✓
SOSC 2300	--	The Pear River Delta Mega-City: Agglomeration, Integration, Multi-Polarity	3	✓	X	X	X
SOSC 2640	SOSC 164	The Chinese Cultural Revolution: A Case Study in Politico-Social Movements	3	✓	✓	✓	✓
SOSC 2740	SOSC 274	Gender and Society	3	✓	✓	✓	✓
SOSC 2780	SOSC 278	Modernization and Social Change	3	✓	✓	✓	✓
SOSC 3110	SOSC 311	Science and Technology in Hong Kong	3	✓	✓	✓	✓
SOSC 3130	SOSC 313	Hong Kong Culture	3	✓	✓	✓	✓
SOSC 3150	SOSC 215	Science, Technology and Environment	3	✓	✓	✓	✓
SOSC 3160	SOSC 316	Gender, Development and Fertility	3	✓	✓	✓	✓
SOSC 3170	--	Ethnicity	3	✓	✓ (wef Spring)	X	X
SOSC 3190	SOSC 319	Population Aging, Mortality and Health	3	✓	✓	✓	✓
SOSC 3240	SOSC 324	Application of Geographical Information Systems	3	✓	✓	✓	✓
SOSC 3330	SOSC 330	Modern Dictatorship: West and East	3	✓	✓	✓	✓
SOSC 3410	SOSC 341	East Asian Economic Development	3	✓	✓	✓	✓
SOSC 3520	SOSC 152	Understanding Comparative Politics	3	✓	✓	✓	X
SOSC 3620	SOSC 301H	Critical Urban Studies	3	✓	✓	✓	✓
SOSC 3630	SOSC 363	Democracy and Democratization around the World	3	✓	✓	✓	✓
SOSC 3880	SOSC 288	Social Inequality and Social Mobility	3	✓	✓	✓	✓

* Listed as both a Science General Education Course and an Engineering General Education Course. Students may use this course to satisfy either the Science GE requirement or Engineering GE requirement, but not both.

* This list shows Social Science GE courses designated from 2010-11 to 2013-14. All SOSC courses (including special topics courses) at or below 300-level for the academic year 2007-10 are designated as GEE courses.

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GEE (SoSC) Courses Not Designated in 2014-15

The following courses are NOT designated in 2014-15. They can still be used to satisfy the GEE (SOSC) requirement if they were taken in the year(s) when they were designated as GEE (SOSC) courses (as indicated by a "✓").

Previous Social Science General Education Courses not designated in the 2014-15 academic year
Course Code		Course Title	Credits	Designated in previous years
4-digit	3-digit	Course Title	Credits	2013-14	2012-13	2011-12	2010-11
SOSC 1030	SOSC 003	Contemporary China	3	X	X	X	✓
SOSC 1250	SOSC 125	International Relations	3	X	X	✓	✓
SOSC 1290	SOSC 129	Introduction to Chinese Politics	3	X	X	✓	✓
SOSC 1410	SOSC 141	Introduction to Game Theory	3	X	X	✓	✓
SOSC 1630	SOSC 163	Development in Rural China	3	X	X	✓	✓
SOSC 1650	SOSC 165	Introduction to Economic Development	3	X	X	✓	✓
SOSC 1870	SOSC 187	Contemporary Issues in East Asia	3	X	X	✓	✓
SOSC 2000B	SOSC 200B	International Political Economy	3	X	X	✓	✓
SOSC 2000D	SOSC 200D	International Trade	3	X	X	✓	✓
SOSC 2000E	SOSC 200E	International Financial System	3	X	X	✓	✓
SOSC 2000F	SOSC 200F	Environment and Health	3	X	X	✓	✓
SOSC 2000G	SOSC 200G	Transformation of China's Economy and Society	3	X	X	✓	✓
SOSC 2000H	SOSC 200H	Demography of Aging: Life Course Perspectives	3	X	X	✓	✓
SOSC 2000K	SOSC 200K	Comparative History of the Family	3	X	X	✓	✓
SOSC 2000L	SOSC 200L	Korean and Chinese Societies	3	X	X	✓	✓
SOSC 2000M	SOSC 200M	Marketizing China	3	X	X	✓	✓
SOSC 2000P	SOSC 200P	Health Psychology	3	X	X	✓	✓
SOSC 2000W	SOSC 200W	Introduction to Social Theory	3	X	X	✓	✓
SOSC 2000X	SOSC 200X	Globalized Islam	3	X	X	✓	✓
SOSC 2000Z	SOSC 200Z	International Political Economy	3	X	X	✓	✓
SOSC 2140	SOSC 211	Research Methods in the Social Sciences	3	X	X	✓	✓
SOSC 2210	SOSC 221	Fundamentals of Social Psychology	3	X	X	✓	✓
SOSC 2800	SOSC 280	Global Politics	3	X	X	✓	✓
SOSC 2980	SOSC 298	Personality Psychology	3	X	X	✓	✓
SOSC 2990	SOSC 200J	Psychology of Adolescence and Adulthood	3	X	X	✓	✓
SOSC 3000I	SOSC 300I	National Innovation Systems	3	X	X	✓	✓
SOSC 3010L	SOSC 301L	Political Economy of East Asia	3	X	X	✓	✓
SOSC 3010M	SOSC 301M	Psychology of Gender	3	X	X	✓	✓
SOSC 3120	SOSC 200N	Economic Development	3	X	X	✓	✓
SOSC 4290	SOSC 329	China’s Sustainable Development	3	X	X	✓	✓
SOSC 4600	SOSC 360	Understanding Chinese Politics	3	X	X	✓	✓
SOSC 4610	SOSC 361	Quantitative Methods in the Social Sciences	3	X	X	✓	✓
--	SOSC 100A	Economic Development of Hong Kong	3	X	X	✓	✓
--	SOSC 172	Social Inequality in Hong Kong	3	X	X	X	✓
--	SOSC 264	Economics of Human Resources	3	X	X	X	✓
--	SOSC 265	Economic Analysis of Law	3	X	X	X	✓

* This list shows Social Science GE courses designated in 2010-11 and 2013-14. All SOSC courses (including special topics courses) at or below 300-level for the academic year 2007-10 are designated as GEE courses.