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Hong Kong Cinema has a global reach. Let’s explore how it reached you… Perhaps you know the films of martial arts icons Bruce Lee and Jackie Chan or the heroic bloodshed films of John Woo.

Perhaps you are a fan of stars such as Maggie Cheung or Chow Yun Fat. Maybe you admire works by directors such as Wong Kar Wai.

Whatever you know and wherever you are we invite you to join us on a journey to consider how the local and the global intersect to make Hong Kong cinema an integral part of popular culture around the world as well as a leading force in the development of world cinematic art.

In this course you’ll learn how flows of capital, people, technologies, ideas and creativity circulate and shape the cultural industry of filmmaking, resulting in transnational co-productions and cross-cultural co-operations. You’ll see how these dynamic processes are inflected in characterization, plot development, and space-time configurations on Hong Kong screens.

Our location in the cultural crossroads of Hong Kong allows us to introduce you to film professionals such as director Mabel Cheung and Andrew Lau, producer John Sham, film festival director Roger Garcia, and other guests, talking candidly about the industry.

During your weeks with us you’ll see demonstrations of martial arts choreography, participate in close analysis of film techniques, investigate Hong Kong global stardom, uncover the reasons for the worldwide appeal of genres such as the kung fu film, and nurture a comparative and critical understanding of issues of gender, race, migration. Best of all you’ll partner with leading researchers in the field to appreciate Hong Kong’s contribution to world cinema.

Please watch these films so that you can get the most out of the course content. Please note that you will need to acquire and watch the films on your own. We advise you see the films before each week’s material.

Here is the list of films for each week.

Week 1 – any Jackie Chan film (optional)
Week 2 – any Bruce Lee film (optional), but we suggest Fist of Fury / The Chinese Connection (dir. Lo Wei, 1972), or Enter the Dragon, (dir. Robert Clouse, 1973)
Week 3 – An Autumn’s Tale (dir. Mabel Cheung, 1987)
Week 4 – The Killer (dir. John Woo, 1989)
Week 5 – Infernal Affairs (dir. Andrew Lau and Alan Mak, 2002)
Week 6 – In the Mood for Love (dir. Wong Kar Wai, 2000)

香港電影享譽全球。您與它的初次接觸，是透過功夫巨星李小龍或成龍的作品，還是吳宇森式的英雄喋血電影？您最欣賞的香港電影人是張曼玉、周潤發等影星，還是王家衛等導演？
無論您身在何處，對香港電影了解多少，我們都誠意邀請您加入這個探索之旅，思考港式生活和全球文化交織而成的香港電影如何成為國際流行文化和世界電影藝術發展的主導力量。
在本課程中，我們將探討資本流動、人力、科技、 創意等元素如何在電影製作文化產業的形成過程中相得益彰，並促成跨國製作和跨文化營運。與此同時，我們亦會探索這些互動在香港電影中的人物塑造、情節發展和時空構造上所帶來的曲折變化。
香港大學是香港的文化交滙點，我們邀請了電影界專業人士，如導演張婉婷和劉偉強、製片人岑建勳、電影節總監高思雅等專家，分享電影業的內幕故事。
在數週的課程裡，您將會目睹功夫電影的動作編排， 電影技術的周密分析，研究香港演員晉身為國際巨星的過程，探索功夫電影令全球著迷的原因，及加深對性別、種族與移民等問題上比較性和批判性的思考方式。更重要的是，您將與各路專家一起認識香港對世界電影業所作出的貢獻。

每週的電影清單：
第 1 周 – 成龍的任何電影（可選）
第 2 周 – 李小龍的任何電影（可選）——建議影片 1.《精武門》(導演 羅維，1972年); 2.《猛龍過江》(導演 羅伯特· 克洛斯，1973 年)
第 3 周 – 《秋天的童話》 (導演 張婉婷，1987年)
第 4 周 – 《喋血雙雄》 (導演 吳宇森，1989年)
第 5 周 – 《無間道》 (導演 麥兆輝與劉偉強，2002年)
第 6 周 – 《花樣年華》 (導演 王家衛，2000年)
 
課程目標
•    通過分析香港電影業的本地市場與國際舞臺之間的關係，培養您的批判和歷史思維能力；
•    在香港電影中不同的場景中尋找熟識的細節，從而拓展您對身份問題的了解；
•    通過分析香港電影業，讓您更了解全球化對社會的影響。

香港电影享誉全球。您与它的初次接触，是透过功夫巨星李小龙或成龙的作品，还是吴宇森式的英雄喋血电影？您最欣赏的香港电影人是张曼玉、周润发等影星，还是王家卫等导演？
无论您身在何处，对香港电影了解多少，我们都诚意邀请您加入这个探索之旅，思考港式生活和全球文化交织而成的香港电影如何成为国际流行文化和世界电影艺术发展的主导力量。
在本课程中，我们将探讨资本流动、人力、科技、 创意等元素如何在电影制作文化产业的形成过程中相得益彰，并促成跨国制作和跨文化营运。与此同时，我们亦会探索这些互动在香港电影中的人物塑造、情节发展和时空构造上所带来的曲折变化。
香港大学是香港的文化交滙点，我们邀请了电影界专业人士，如导演张婉婷和刘伟强、制片人岑建勋、电影节总监高思雅等专家，分享电影业的内幕故事。
在数周的课程里，您将会目睹功夫电影的动作编排， 电影技术的周密分析，研究香港演员晋身为国际巨星的过程，探索功夫电影令全球着迷的原因，及加深对性别、种族与移民等问题上比较性和批判性的思考方式。更重要的是，您将与各路专家一起认识香港对世界电影业所作出的贡献。

每周的电影清单：
第 1 周 – 成龙的任何电影（可选）
第 2 周 – 李小龙的任何电影（可选）——建议影片 1.《精武门》(导演 罗维，1972年); 2.《猛龙过江》(导演 罗伯特• 克洛斯，1973 年)
第 3 周 – 《秋天的童话》 (导演 张婉婷，1987年)
第 4 周 – 《喋血双雄》 (导演 吴宇森，1989年)
第 5 周 – 《无间道》 (导演 麦兆辉与刘伟强，2002年)
第 6 周 – 《花样年华》 (导演 王家卫，2000年)
 
课程目标

通过分析香港电影业的本地市场与国际舞台之间的关系，培养您的批判和历史思维能力；
•    在香港电影中不同的场景中寻找熟识的细节，从而拓展您对身份问题的了解；
•    通过分析香港电影业，让您更了解全球化对社会的影响。

Database development is more than just creating a table with rows and columns. This computer science course introduces features and technologies for implementing a database. Topics include:

• Logical table design
• Ensuring Data Integrity
• Indexes
• Views

This courses focuses on the creation of database objects including views, stored procedures, columnstore indexes, and more.

Students considering this course should be familiar with fundamental database concepts.

This course is part of the Microsoft SQL Database Development XSeries.

The Microsoft SQL Server enables various techniques to improve the performance of a database. In this computer science course, you'll learn techniques for implementing In-Memory features including columnstore indexes, memory-optimized tables, and native stored procedures.

This course is part of the Microsoft SQL Database Development XSeries.

When a database is in use by an application, it needs to be built to withstand simultaneous use, or multiple actions that all need to be certain to happen together. In this computer science course, you'll learn about techniques to add this functionality to your database. You'll learn about transactions, isolation levels, and locking.

This course is part of the Microsoft SQL Database Development XSeries.

¿Sabe usted qué riesgo representan para su salud los problemas de sueño?

En este curso usted aprenderá cómo se manifiestan algunos de los problemas del sueño en niños y adultos, qué consecuencias pueden generar en su salud física y mental, cómo tener una adecuada higiene de sueño, por qué ocurren algunos de estos trastornos y cuáles son algunas de las formas para diagnosticarlos.

Teniendo en cuenta que el ser humano pasa casi 8500 días durmiendo, es fundamental y apasionante comprender algunos puntos claves de la evolución del conocimiento acerca del sueño, sus alteraciones, implicaciones e impacto en calidad de vida, economía mundial, algunas herramientas diagnósticas, nuevas investigaciones y muchas cosas más.

Es importante aclarar que simplemente se trata de un curso introductorio para generar inquietudes y preguntas en ustedes.

Este MOOC fue desarrollado en colaboración con las Doctoras Patricia Hidalgo M. y Patricia Panqueva C. de la Clínica de sueño del HUSI.

How can we fulfill our potential when we are ambitious and ready? How do we adjust ourselves and conquer difficulties when faced with adversities? How do we be more methodical and organize our lives well? How do we avoid unnecessary problems and apply effective efforts when we begin our career?

This course focuses on eight career competencies – creativity, self-efficacy, emotion management, time management, effective communication, confident speech, job application etiquette and resume composition – that are essential for career development.

Through systematic studies, students are encouraged to transfer from a “campus person” to a “career person” and will learn how to accommodate to career life in advance, so as to confront challenges skillfully.

职业素养决定着我们的职业发展前景，也影响着我们的校园生活乃至人生道路。踌躇满志，如何发挥自身潜能？遭遇逆境，如何自我调节、走出低谷？规划生活，怎样做到井井有条？初入职场，怎样才能少走弯路、事半功倍？大学生职业素养提升课程精选对学生在校学习、毕业求职和职业发展有重要影响的八项职业素养：创新能力、自我效能、情绪管理、时间管理、有效沟通、自信演讲、求职礼仪和简历撰写。通过系统的学习，促进学生从“校园人”向“职业人”的转变，先人一步适应职场生活，从容应对职场挑战。

This computer science course is designed to help IT professionals understand why and when to perform Windows 10 deployment tasks. You will learn about new features and security measures that were implemented in the Windows 10 Anniversary Update, the second major update to Windows 10. You will also learn how to configure shared resources and secure corporate data through encryption. This course will also focus on BitLocker and how it helps protect computers that are lost or stolen from data theft or exposure.

This course is part of the Windows 10 Features for a Mobile Workforce XSeries, which has been created to help you prepare for Microsoft certification Exam 70-697: Configuring Windows Devices.

As the US general election approaches, there is a firestorm of rhetoric around access and fraud. Major legislation changes, court rulings and political views continue to flood the media leading up to this election. But what is true in all of this? And what should you believe going into the election?

In this 2-week course, you’ll better understand the history of voting rights in the US, what is meant by the terms “access” and “fraud” – and why these have become so politicized.

Hear from political scientists who study these matters, journalists who have reported on it for decades and election officials who describe what its like to be in charge of carrying out free and fair elections in their jurisdiction.

Join a vibrant community of fellow voters who are interested in exploring these questions together. Share your experience and see how it compares to others around the country.

Courses offered via edX.org are not eligible for academic credit from Davidson College. A passing score in a DavidsonX course(s) will only be eligible for a verified certificate generated by edX.org.

There is a vast variety of contemporary surface analysis methods that you can use for your research. If you are not sure which one is right for you, or if you want to obtain the right information about different surface analysis techniques, then this course is for you!

This course describes the most widely used analysis methods in contemporary surface science. It presents the strengths and weaknesses of each method so that you can choose the one that provides you with the information you need. It also reviews what each method cannot give to you, as well as how to interpret the results obtained from each method.

This course is filled with examples to help you become familiar with the graphs and figures obtained from common surface analysis methods.

Each method is described in a similar way: basic principle, apparatus scheme, example results, special features, and actual device examples.

In this computer science course, you will learn how to deploy an ASP.NET MVC application, which is a web application framework developed by Microsoft, which implements the model–view–controller (MVC) pattern, to the Microsoft Azure platform. We will expand on the application by learning about Microsoft Azure’s capabilities and then adding functionality to make your application a more robust and highly available cloud-based solution.

Brought to you by the IEEE team that publishes the National Electrical Safety Code, this MOOC presents an introduction to the 2017 edition of the NESC and explains its purpose, scope, methodology, some basic rules and their application, as well as an overview of code adoption procedures, effective dates and more.

The course is intended for the general public and utility workers (employees and contractors) designing or implementing practical safeguards during the installation, operation, and maintenance of electric supply and communication facilities.

There are no pre-requisites for participants. Students and professionals, even those not in the electrical engineering field, will be able to access the course. Also, the participation of code enforcers, researchers, standards development representatives, and other interested parties is expected. Everyone is invited.

Verified students are eligible to earn Continuing Education Units (CEUs) and Professional Development Hours (PDHs), valid toward continuing education requirements for many professional certifications.

Disease has no respect for country borders and increased global travel has fueled the spread of infectious disease, as evidenced by the Ebola virus epidemic. Chronic diseases such as diabetes and heart disease, initially confined to the developed world, now exist side by side with malnutrition in low- and middle-income countries (LMIC). Global warming is widening the endemicity of vector-borne diseases.

In this course, we will explore ways to leverage information technology to combat disease and promote health, especially in resource-constrained settings. Technology is a driving force that sweeps across nations even faster than disease and with the spread of mobile phones, which bring computational power and data to our fingertips, new paradigms in tracking and battling disease have been discovered.

This course will explore innovations in information systems in developing countries, and focus not only on the importance of technology, but also on broader issues necessary for its success, such as quality improvement, project management, and leadership skills. Ultimately, health care delivery systems require fundamental and sound operations, such as physical infrastructure and supply-chain management, to deliver high-quality care. Technology is simply a tool to help facilitate this process.

The quality of care theme is critical to this course. The first step stakeholders in health systems should focus on prior to introducing an innovation is to establish a culture of quality improvement and patient safety. An information system can then play a facilitative role by enabling care coordination, tracking processes and outcomes, informing decision making, and fostering learning through data analysis.

An information system without an accompanying organizational transformation risks reinforcing the same failed processes. Using technology to improve access to care without any other quality improvement elements will yield the same and not necessarily better results, but more of them. Innovations need to address gaps in quality and demonstrate improvement in health outcomes, otherwise they won’t sustain or scale.

Lastly, we will discuss our attempts to leverage troves of data to define best practice and how we must keep the patient perspective and health at the center of everything we do.

This course is targeted toward individuals interested in designing or implementing a health information and communication technology (ICT) solution in the developing world. Implementing a health information technology project requires multidisciplinary teams. Thus, with this course, we hope to bring together individuals from a variety of disciplines—computer science, medicine, engineering, public health, policy, and business.

Are you an IT Professional looking to streamline your work environment to the cloud and still provide a grounded collaboration experience?

SharePoint online is one of the hottest features in Office 365. It allows organizations to collaborate in a variety of different ways. This course is designed to provide you with the necessary skills to implement SharePoint Online, provide rich site architecture and articulate search, as well as improve the productivity experience for your virtual teams.

What would happen if workers ran their own businesses? Would worker-managed firms make the same decisions as their capitalist counterparts? Could such an economy be efficient? What policies could be deployed to promote a cooperative sector?

This course will focus on these central questions as we discuss the internal impact of employee ownership; productivity, governance and management, as well as the external impact of employee ownership; spillovers for health, democracy, and the local economy.

We will also discuss the simple economic theory of the labour-managed firm. Cooperatives have many attractive features, including high productivity. But they account for a relatively small proportion of GDP in most economies. We analyse possible reasons for this apparent paradox. There is widespread interest around the world in cooperatives as an alternative to the capitalist corporation, particularly since the financial crash of 2008. Economics and other social sciences sharpen the debate on cooperatives. After taking this course, you will be better prepared to participate in public discussion on cooperatives, join a cooperative, or even start a new one.

This course was created in collaboration with the following institutions:

               

¿Alguna vez ha vivido un conflicto intercultural?, ¿Le gustaría aportar a la transformación social de los conflictos en su territorio? ¡El diálogo intercultural es la respuesta!

Este MOOC abordará diferentes conceptos teórico-prácticos, herramientas metodológicas y experiencias sobre la diversidad cultural, multiculturalidad, interculturalidad, conflictos territoriales y gestión de conflictos.

Se dará a conocer una historia animada, se propondrán reflexiones sobre su propio territorio a través de herramientas prácticas, gracias a las cuales estará en la capacidad de aportar a la gestión de conflictos en tu territorio.

Para tomar este curso sólo necesita estar dispuesto a escuchar e interactuar, a tejer con nosotros conocimientos pertinentes para la transformación social y construcción de paz.

Este curso cuenta con el apoyo de la Oficina Regional UNESCO en Montevideo en el marco de la celebración del Decenio Internacional de acercamiento de Culturas (2013-2022), aportando al fortalecimiento de las competencias interculturales, y promoviendo el diálogo, la diversidad, el pluralismo, y el entendimiento mutuo.

In this course, you will explore several key issues that educators need to understand about teaching and learning in the digital age. We will look at how online learning is different from traditional methods of learning, examine how the digital practices of young people are continually changing, and explore some key considerations that need to be addressed while designing learning environments that are engaging and student-centered.

We will investigate the ways in which education is evolving and, in turn, how the roles of teachers are changing in the digital world. We will review the history of online learning, and some key characteristics of successful online learning spaces.

We will learn about digital literacies and how online reading and writing is different from paper-based reading and writing, and what implications this has for schooling.

Finally, we will look at some key design considerations that educators need to be mindful of while working toward deeper engagement and meaningful learning experiences.

This course is part of the Virtual Online Teaching (VOLT) program at the University of Pennsylvania’s Graduate School of Education. The VOLT program seeks to equip educators with the skills and knowledge necessary to meet the needs of the 21st century learner.

This MOOC focuses on Spanish history between the Renaissance and Baroque periods—a time when the Spanish culture set the tone in the Western world.

The monarchy of this Spain created the first global empire of History. The greatest literary works of this period, including La Celestina, Lazarillo de Tormes, were immediately translated in the first European and American printing houses. Spanish fashion was the trendiest at the Courts of Early Modern Europe. Spanish military and political treaties set the standard for political machinations of the era.

In this period—between the 16th and 17th centuries—, Spain’s society achieved excellence in Arts and Literature. Exceptional and talented people such as Cervantes, Lope de Vega, Velázquez, were drawn to Madrid. Literary academies, theatre productions and celebrations flourished in other big cities of the Empire as Seville, Lisbon, Barcelona, Naples, Mexico, and Lima. A synthesis of nations united for the loyalty to the Crown and the Catholic faith. In our tour through the Spain of Don Quixote, we will discuss the relationship between fantastic to real geography. Society was polarized between the privileged—nobility and clergy—and the poor and rogues. Humanism was cultivated in universities. Family, food, housing, games, and celebrations played a part in everyday life.

In times of Don Quixote, the lights of Literature and Art geniuses shined upon the shadows of the Inquisition. Let’s travel to this sublime culture of Spanish Golden Age.

Este es un curso de nivel intermedio que te permitirá trabajar con datos para su tratamiento y extraer conclusiones mediante el agrupamiento de datos, el uso de tablas y gráficos dinámicos, la realización de análisis de hipótesis y la vinculación de datos de otras hojas de cálculo. El curso que se propone es ideal para aquellos que tratan con gran cantidad de datos, ya sea su ámbito laboral el de la empresa, las administraciones públicas o el de la investigación, ya que les permitirá extraer información de manera sencilla y ágil, todo ello orientado a la toma de decisiones en sus actividades diarias.

Unidades:

• Trabajar con plantillas y hojas vinculadas
• Trabajar con grupos de datos
• Tablas y gráficos dinámicos
• Ampliación del uso de funciones de cálculo
• Análisis de hipótesis
• Otras utilidades
• Examen Final

Food access: Learn about food supply and food security

Have you ever considered that you’re not the only one who decides what food ends up on your plate? In this environmental studies course, you’ll explore how key actors at household, local, national and international levels negotiate and make choices on access to food. You will understand why the choices you make have been predestined. And you will learn what it takes to provide access to a safe and nutritious food supply every day.

In this course you will learn that food access:

• And food manufacturing has changed during the past century
• Depends on social and economic dynamics at the household level for everyone
• Is shaped at a local level by the interactions between traders, retailers, producers and buyers in the markets
• Is influenced on a national scale by politics and policies by negotiating and aligning goals, instruments, and modes of governance ¥ is impacted by debates and negotiations creating conditions in food trade by international organizations

Wageningen University is specialized

The University of Wageningen offers an excellent combination of conducting research worldwide and educating in the area of ‘healthy food and living environment’. The institute ranks among the top Dutch universities and has scored the third place in the Times Higher Education (THE) World Ranking 2017 for research performance. Learn from professors who have gained decades of experience from both teaching at a specialized university and real life projects about access to food worldwide.

This is why you should sign up

If you want to understand the basics of access to food and food decision-making from a multilevel perspective, you can sign up as a:

• student
• food and nutrition policy maker
• development practitioner and trainer at international, national, household and individual level

A verified edX certificate provides proof for an employer, school, or other institution that you have successfully completed this online course.

In order to sustain themselves, organizations need to compete for scarce resources both in input and output markets. Because of this organizations need to create some kind of competitive advantage.

In this business and management course, suitable for managers and leaders in midsize to large organizations, you will learn the principles of organizational design and how design elements can be leveraged to gain competitive advantage. We will discuss various organizational structures and how an effective organizational design can help achieve a company’s goals and objectives in a sustainable manner. Since organizations involve collaborative activities, you’ll also learn how to create suitable control systems, decision-making processes and culture and reporting relationships to ensure that the efforts of a diverse set of employees are suitably coordinated to achieve the organizational purpose.