China

This course focuses on data analysis and guides students to learn a series of data analysis methods. It covers the use of different data analysis tools for data analysis. It covers data acquisition, data cleaning, data selection, data manipulation, data calculation, data grouping and time series, etc. Based on the theoretical understanding, students will learn to use Excel and Python programming language to process data. 

This course is tailored for undergraduate international students with an intermediate level of Chinese proficiency, with the objective of enhancing their Chinese reading and writing abilities. Students will be able to read articles of moderate to higher difficulty, with a length of about 1000-1200 words in class. The materials include both popular science articles and scholarly essays, which are rich in content and possess considerable theoretical depth, capable of stimulating students' thought processes. These articles will also serve as exemplary texts for writing analysis, allowing students to master the essential skills of academic paper writing through reading, complemented by specific writing exercises in class. Additionally, the course will focus on the understanding and application of written vocabulary, with an emphasis on the differentiation of near-synonyms and grammatical error analysis, thereby enabling students to appreciate the beauty of the Chinese language in aspects such as rhetoric and syllabic rhythm.

The course provides basic understanding of the concept and approaches in marketing; teaches how to apply theories in analyzing real-world cases and offering solutions; and enhances the knowledge and skills of students without a marketing background. Topics: Introduction to Marketing; Marketing Strategy and Planning; Marketing Information and Marketing Research; Analyzing the Marketing Environment; Consumer Markets and Buyer Behavior; Business Markets and Buyer Behavior; Measuring and Predicting Needs; Classification, Selection, and Positioning of Market; Product and Branding Strategies; Pricing Strategies; Distribution Strategies; Retailing and Wholesaling; Advertising, Promotion, and Public Relations; Competitive Strategies; Social Responsibility and Ethics in Marketing.

Using multidisciplinary approach – including philosophy, sociology, political science, psychology, management, anthropology, communication, history, and law - to provide a better understanding of how the Internet works and how people on the Internet tend to behave. We not only look back at the past, but also need to grasp now, and at the same time look to the future. Ultimately, we will find that it is ideas that change the world, not just technology, capital or institutions.

This course examines basic algorithms and models of artificial intelligence. Starting from the basic concepts of artificial intelligence, it systematically introduces various learning tasks to help students understand and master mainstream AI models and algorithm tools, gradually establish artificial intelligence thinking patterns, and improve their ability to analyze and solve practical problems.

The course mainly concerns basic theories of theater art. Through the course, students will get an overall view of the history of western theater and think about the fusion of different forms of theater so that they are able to understand the essence of theater and have a prospect of the development of the world’s theater arts in the future. The course considers the theater art of the world as a whole as opposed to the usual idea which confronts the theater of the East to that of the West. It thoroughly introduces the main theory issues of the history, aesthetics, phenomena, and performances of theater art which appear in the process of its development including the emergence, characteristics, form, language, structure, narration, performance, directing, space, genre, school, function, aesthetics of theater etc. 

This is an integrative and interdisciplinary course, which takes a general management perspective. It views the firm as a whole, and examines how policies in each functional area (such as accounting, economics, finance, marketing, and organizational behavior) are integrated into an overall competitive strategy. The course develops a general management point of view. This point of view is the best vantage point for making decisions that lead to sustainable business performance. The key strategic business decisions of concern involve determining organizational purpose to evolving opportunities, creating competitive advantages, choosing competitive strategies, securing and defending sustainable market positions, and allocating critical resources over long periods. Decisions such as these can only be made effectively by viewing a firm holistically, and over the long term. 

Chemical biology is an emerging scientific discipline that spans the fields of chemistry and biology. Chemical biology involves the use of chemical methods, tools, and molecules that are designed and made through synthetic organic chemistry, to study, understand, and manipulate biological systems. It attempts to use chemical principles to perturb or control biological systems to either investigate the mechanisms or create new functions. In the class we will review the chemical biology of small molecules, biomacromolecules, and concepts and techniques.

This course is aimed to train the undergraduate students of SOE in terms of both technological and management knowledge. It is thus a cross-disciplinary course that encourages students to learn independently and collaboratively with the purpose to address complicated issues in energy, resource, environmental, economy and policy areas under the globalization circumstance.