Epistemic logic is a discipline of philosophical logic which uses the tools of modal logic to characterize notions of knowledge, belief, etc. We introduce the ideas going from classical mathematical logic to non-classical logics, the basics of modal logic, and then the applications in epistemic logic, temporal logic, deontic logic and so on. Among these application fields our main focus is the characterizations of knowledge and belief. We introduce the Kripke models for interpreting these notions and its dynamics.

This course will serve as an introduction to financial management. Students will be exposed to both fundamental theories and real-world applications in financial management. Particular focus will be paid to the investment, financing, and payout decision of the firm. The investment decision involves the evaluation and selection of projects that will add value to the firm. The financing decision involves the selection of the appropriate mix of contracts to finance the projects chosen through the investment decision.

Game theory provides a framework based on the construction of rigorous models that describe situations of conflict and cooperation between rational decision makers. Game theory has been successfully applied to many relevant situations, such as business competition, the functioning of markets, auctions and procurement contracts, to name just a few. Game theory has also shed light on other disciplines, such as evolutionary biology and psychology. This course provides an introduction to game theory.

What is the central concern of every Confucian in history? How to become the person that every Confucian looks forward to? What is the Confucian political ideal? How to understand Confucian political encounter in history and its modern self-transformation? What is the relevance of Confucianism to a modern world? As an introduction to Confucianism, this course tries to provide pertinent answers to these questions by focusing on the essentials of Confucian thought, which consist of five fundamental and correlative aspects including: 1. Junzi君子(a virtuous person): the ideal personality.

The notion of “religion,” as it is used in contemporary contexts, first received its modern definition in the tradition of 19th-century Continental philosophy.

This course is aimed at depicting the basic contours of Western philosophy as it developed through history. The student is expected to learn to appreciate the interplay between the historical development of philosophy and its cultural milieu, and to philosophically reflect on various aspects of life and society. Taking a basically historical-analytical approach, this course is divided into three parts. Part one comprises an investigation into the history of classical philosophy.

This course is a basic undergraduate course on Industrial Organization (IO). IO is an Applied Microeconomics field that studies the structure and behavior of firms. Firms interact strategically with each other in the market, and these strategic interactions bring important implications on the market structure and welfare. We will focus our coverage on the market structure analysis, i.e. perfect competition, monopoly, and oligopolistic competition, and on the strategic behaviors of competing firms, i.e.

This course gives a broad overview of several Institutional Economics theories and applies the insights thereof to real-life business cases. Both the comparative static approach and the dynamic approach will be discussed. The first one is about the question how actors optimally coordinate their business transactions under the influence of given institutions. The latter approach focuses much more on development processes and feedback mechanisms between institutions and actors. It also shows that actors sometimes try to influence institutions to achieve their goal.

International finance, the core curriculum of finance, is a course that deals with international monetary relations and financial activities. It is not only the major course for majors of finance, commerce and management, but also an elective course for non-economic majors. This course mainly introduces international monetary and financial theories and policies. The whole course is organized into two parts. The first part focuses on the basic concepts and theories on current account, exchange rate and open-economy macroeconomics.

This course is aimed to offer a brief introduction to the aesthetic theory and its history of development in the West and in China. There are three parts included in this course. Part one examines the fundamental categories in aesthetics, including aesthetic object and experience, aesthetic emotion, creation, interpretation and taste. Part two is a survey of the history of western aesthetic theory and examines the principal writers and their main positions, among those are Plato, Aristotle, the rationalists and empiricists in the time of European Enlightenment, and the romanticists.