HKUST Annual Report 2016-17

48 HKUST 2016-2017 Annual Report GLOBAL CHINA STUDIES ON-LINE CURRICULUM Around the world, universities today are committed to providing an education that combines research-embedded teaching with capacity building instruction emphasizing connectivity, creativity, and English-language communication. The Global China Studies On-Line Curriculum (GCSOL) reflects the best efforts of the HKUST School of Humanities and Social Science to do this through online education, blended classroom teaching, and active learning. This interdisciplinary curriculum showcases the School’s world‑class research strength in creative arts, humanities, language education, and social science, as well as our development of a new pedagogy using online resources to develop students’ communication skills, teamwork, and creativity. The current GCS On-Line Curriculum consists of thirteen on-line courses sequences offered as 20 or more separate classes, all taught in English in the fields of Economics, Language, Literature, Music, Political Science, Quantitative Methods, Science- Technology-Sustainability, Social‑Economic History and Sociology. These classes are currently offered for free as Massive Open Online Courses through Coursera and edX. The School is now discussing with the university on how to license the revised production of these classes to other universities as blended and flipped classes which could fill in as part of their Common Core or minor/major degree programs. FOCUSED ON A GLOBAL OUTLOOK Prof Rehav Rubin, a geographer from the Department of Geography, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, was appointed the second Elman Family Visiting Professor of Jewish and Israeli Studies. Prof Rubin will be affiliated with the Division of Social Science in 2017 Fall term and teach an undergraduate course on Jerusalem through the Ages: Historical Geography of the Holy City. Three faculty members, Prof Shengqing Wu and Prof Jianxiong Ma, both Division of Humanities, and Prof Wenkai He, Division of Social Science, received invitations to become Harvard-Yenching Visiting Scholars for 10 months from September 2016. Prof Daisy Du, Division of Humanities, will take up a similar role in 2017-18. SCHOOL OF HUMANITIES AND SOCIAL SCIENCE The School moved ahead with its e-learning initiatives and saw faculty members’ expertise on China widely recognized