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Digital Literacy

Course Information

Centre for Applied English Studies
Course Code Course Title Learning Outcomes
CAES2002 Online Digital Storytelling in English Promote students’ ability to understand and appreciate the power of first-person narratives through the production of a video-based digital story.
CAES2004 Communication and Community Engagement through Podcasting To gain hands-on skills and practical experience to produce a compelling podcast from planning to publishing content.
Common Core Course
Course Code Course Title Learning Outcomes
CCCH9051 Digitizing Cultural Heritage in Greater China Apply digital technologies to promoting local and Chinese cultural heritage to a global audience.
CCGL9061 Digital Humanitarianism: Can You Save the World with Your Computer? Describe the main trends, actors and recent technological developments in the field of humanitarianism and analyze the complexity of real situations and of possible digital responses.
CCHU9039 Sexuality and Culture Communicate effectively in oral, written, and digital literacy on sexuality issues to the public.
CCHU9056 Virtual Worlds, Real Bodies Understand the basic concepts of virtual reality and various VR applications. Examine the limitations and opportunities offered by computer technology in society.
CCHU9074 Beyond Fake News Understand how the misinformation ecosystem works and forms a network of influence.
CCHU9080 Dead People’s Things: Excavating the Past with Archaeology Evaluate emerging digital methods for interacting with ancient objects while gaining simple experience with the technologies.
CCST9002 Quantitative Literacy in Science, Technology and Society Evaluate uses of statistics and scientific evidence in advertisement and media.
CCST9003 Everyday Computing and the Internet Explain and understand various components of the internet and techenology, and be better informed about computing and internet issues currently facing society.
CCST9010 The Science of Crime Investigation Analyze and integrate various sources of data and understand their validity and limitations when used to support or negate a hypothesis.
CCST9013 Our Living Environment Present, in the form of internet searching for relevant information and group digital presentation of research results, their IT and communication skills.
CCST9035 Making Sense of Science-related Social Issues Explain the intricate relationship between facts and opinions, and evaluate arguments as presented in different sources of the media on the same issue.
CCST9074 Water: Resources, Policy and Technology Apply qualitative and quantitative methods to conduct interdisciplinary research in water-related issues.
CCST9066 Big Data Solutions to Social Problems: the Good, the Bad and the Ugly Understand the concept of big data and demonstrate an understanding of the logic behind widely adopted big data analytical techniques.
CCST9068 Artificial Intelligence: Utopia or Dystopia? Evaluate how AI has already affected our lives in different aspects, analysing how it will affect us in the future and criticising the pros/cons of their impacts.
CCST9047 The Age of Big Data Apply the understanding of security issues of Big Data to the protection of personal data, or new kinds of data appearing in the future.
CCST9076 Attention Magnet: The Psychological and Technological Aspects of Social Media Addiction Evaluate the impacts of social media in our lives and demonstrate the the ability to apply interdisciplinary thinking to solve problems in social media context.
CCST9078 Health Literacy: Things to Know Before Consulting Dr. Google Criticize sources of misinformation conveyed by the media and describe the influence of intuition, common sense, cultural and social norms on producing bias and assess population and community needs that affect health literacy.
MOOC
Course Title Introduction
Making Sense of News   

This six-week course will help learners develop their critical thinking skills to enable them to better identify reliable information in news reports and to become better informed about the world in which we live. The course will discuss the key elements of journalism from the viewpoint of the news audience.
Digital Biomaterials

Learn and discover the special, exciting and new materials and technologies in dentistry to make a difference in tomorrow’s oral health care development. It is Digital Biomaterials by HKU Dental Materials Science.
Materials in Oral Health

Oral biomaterials research today is an exciting and intensive multidisciplinary area that encompasses contributions from a wide range of fields from professional dentistry to biology, chemistry, physics, material science, and engineering. It is a FREE 4-week course open to all interested learners.
Introduction to FinTech Through a series of video lectures, case studies, and assessments you will explore the major areas of FinTech including, beginning with What is FinTech before turning to Money, Payment and Emerging Technologies, Digital Finance and Alternative Finance, FinTech Regulation and RegTech, Data and Security, and the Future of Data Driven Finance, as well as, the core technologies driving FinTech including Blockchain, AI and Big Data.