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The department of Chinese Culture and Society offers courses for BA and MA students

Bachelor Course, Autumn 2025

Bachelor Course, Autumn 2025

Modern China in History and Film

MA Asia Compact Field Course in Singapore in Intercultural Competence @SGI-HSG, Autumn 2025

MA Asia Compact Field Course in Singapore in Intercultural Competence @SGI-HSG, Autumn 2025

This course explores practical and theoretical approaches to intercultural communication competence. Multi‑cultural Singapore servers as an example for approaches to intercultural competence. Using Singapore as a platform for fieldwork and total immersion in the East Asian cultural context, we shall investigate, explore and practise intercultural communication competence with a focus on Singapore, the Chinese world and global issues.

List of courses taught in the following University of St. Gallen prgorammes:

  • BA: Bachelor of Arts;
  • MA: Master of Arts;
  • DOK: Doctorate in Organisation and Culture;
  • PL: Public Lecture Programme;
  • IEMBA: International Executive MBA, Executive School;
  • MA, SGI-HSG: Asia Compact Master of Arts Programme, at the St.Gallen Institute of Management in Asia, Singpore.
  • DOK, SGI-HSG: Doctoral Programme, at the St.Gallen Institute of Management in Asia, Singpore.

 

  • Asia Compact Field Course in Intercultural Competence @SGI-HSG, Singapore (MA)

Oeffentliche Vorlesung: Mut zur Wahrheit: Stimmen aus China im Spannungsfeld von Kultur, Zensur + Macht (in German)

  • China's Transformation - A view from Media and Culture (BA)

  • China's New Place in the Geopolitical Order since the Ukraine War (MA; with Guido Cozzi)

  • Integrative Media Portfolio (BA, MA)

  • Popculture in China

  • “Asia Compact Field Course in Intercultural Competence @SGI-HSG” in Singapore (MA)

 

Öffentliche Vorlesung: "Der "Chinesische Traum" und sein Albtraum: Utopie, Kultur und Herrschaft in China"

  • "China’s New Super Cities: A Cultural Journey (BA)"

  • "The China Dream and its Nightmares 2012-present (MA)

  • “Asia Compact Course in Intercultural Competence @SGI-HSG” in Singapore (MA)
  • Public Lecture "China’s Avantgarde" (PL)
  • “The Impact of Covid-19 on China's Media and Society” (with Guido Cozzi; MA)
  • “Integrative Portfolio Media” (BA, MA)
  • "Asia Compact Course in Intercultural Competence @SGI-HSG (MA)"
  • "Experiencing Intercultural Competence Using Singapore as a Case Study@SGI-HSG (DOK)"
  • "Drachenkaiser und konfuzianische Kommunisten: Chinas grösste Machthaber (PL)"
  • “China under Xi Jinping: What does it Mean for China’s Economy and Society?” (with Guido Cozzi; MA)
  • “Integrative Portfolio Media” (BA, MA)
  • “Modern China in History and Film” (BA)
  • “Integrative Portfolio Media” (with Veronica Barassi; BA, MA)
  • “Chinas Erster Kaiser” (PL)
  • “Transformation: A View from Media and Culture” (BA)
  • “China under Xi Jinping: What does it Mean for China’s Economy and Society?” (with Guido Cozzi; MA)
  • “Integrative Portfolio Media” (BA, MA)
  • “Pop Culture in China” (BA)
  • “Asia Compact: Competence in Intercultural Communication at SGI-HSG, Singapore” (MA)
  • “Singapore Field School in Intercultural Competence at SGI-HSG, Singapore” (DOK)
  • “China’s New Super Cities: A Cultural Journey” (BA)
  • “Women, Gender and Responsibility in China” (MA)
  • “Wealth Creation in China” (with Tomas Casas; MA)
  • “Modern China in History and Film” (BA)
  • “Superpower China’: Economic Imbalances & Cultural Shifts” (with Guido Cozzi; MA)
  • “Asia Compact: Competence in Intercultural Communication at SGI-HSG, Singapore” (MA)
  • “China’s Transformation: A View from Media and Culture” (BA)
  • “China’s Avantgarde: Authors, Artists and Activists” (MA)
  • “‘Superpower China’: Economic Imbalances & Cultural Shift” (with Guido Cozzi; MA)
  • “The Organisation of Media, Globalising Markets and Transcultural Communication” (DOK)
  • “Pop Culture in China“ (BA)
  • “Youth Culture in China” (MA)
  • “China Invents the Future” (with Tomas Casas, MA)
  • “Cultural Studies: Text and New Media in the Digital Age” (with Ulrich Schmid, DOK)
  • “China’s New Super Cities: A Cultural Journey” (BA)
  • “Women, Gender and Responsibility in China” (MA)
  • “‘Superpower China’: Economic Imbalances & Cultural Shifts” (with Guido Cozzi; MA)
  • “Chinas Neue Popkultur” (PL)
  • “Modern China in History and Film” (BA)
  • “China’s Generation X and the City: Transcultural Communication in China’s Emerging World Cities” (MA)
  • “China Invents the Future: The Culture of Entrepreneurship, Technology and Social Networks” (with Tomas Casas, MA)
  • “The Organisation of Media, Globalising Markets and Transcultural Communication” (DOK)
  • “China’s Transformation: A View from Media and Culture” (BA)
  • “China’s Avantgarde: Authors, Artists and Activists” (MA)
  • “‘Superpower China’: Economic Imbalances & Cultural Shifts” (with Guido Cozzi, MA)
  • “World Culture and Globalisation: China, New Media, Gender” (DOK Kolloquium)
  • “China vom Kaiser bis Mao: Geschichte und Film im 20. Jahrhundert, 1900-1976” (PL)
  • “Pop Culture in China” (BA)
  • “Youth Culture in China” (MA)
  • “The Chinese Dream: Twenty-First Century Superpower” (MA)
  • “China’s New World Cities: A Cultural Journey” (BA)
  • “Women, Gender and Responsibility in China” (MA)
  • “‘Superpower China’: Economic Imbalances & Cultural Shifts “(with Guido Cozzi; MA)
  • “China Neue Superstädte: Eine kulturelle Reise” (PL)
  • “Film and Culture in China” (BA)
  • “Cultural Entrepreneurs and Creative Industries in China” (MA)
  • “Generation X and the Chinese City: Transcultural Communication in China’s Emerging World Cities” (MA)
  • “China’s Transformation: A View from Media and Culture” (BA)
  • “China’s Avantgarde: Authors, Artists and Activists” (MA)
  • “Transforming China: New Media and Culture between Consumerism and Censorship” (DOK)
  • “BRICs Transcultural Perspective: Business in China” (IEMBA, Executive School)
  • “Kurtisanen, Künstlerinnen und Cybervamps: Chinesische Frauen in Geschichte und Gegenwart” (PL)
  • “Pop Culture in China” (BA)
  • “Youth Culture in China” (MA)
  • “China’s Culture of Consumption” (BA)
  • “Gender and Responsibility in China” (MA)
  • “Künstler, Schriftsteller und Intellektuelle in China – Ai Weiwei und die chinesische Avantgarde” (PL
  • “Cinema in China” (BA)
  • “Entrepreneurialism in Chinese Culture” (MA)
  • “Media and Culture in a Globalising China” (BA)
  • “Digital Dissent: Internet Authors, Artists and Activists in Twenty-first Century China” (MA)
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