China

This course helps students to master the basic principles and methods of Chinese second language grammar teaching and understand the basic framework of Chinese second language teaching grammar system and main content, and have Chinese grammar teaching skills.

This course aims to introduce the basic concepts and principles of developmental biology to undergraduates and lay a good foundation for them to engage in developmental biology related research or popularization in the future.

1. Introduction: Modern Chinese, Modern Literature and Translation 

2. Lin Shu and Literary Translation in the Late Qing Dynasty
3. Translation and the Introduction of New Types of Modern Fiction 

4. Yan Fu's Translation Theory and Translation Practice

5. Lu Xun as a Translator

6. Zhou Zuoren's Translation Activities and Achievements

This course will approach the interactive relationship between electronic games and society from multi-dimensional perspectives, including cultural history, technological history, art history, and intellectual history. Unlike conventional game-related or design courses that primarily focus on gameplay and mechanics, this course will not assume “game enthusiasts” as the students’ prior identity.

This course aims to introduce the fundamentals of environmental hydrology as well as some basic hydrological analysis and simulation methods. As an important tool for hydrologists, Geographic Information System (GIS) and its applications in hydrology are also introduced. Specifically, this course contains

three modules:

(1) introduction to the fundamental theories on hydrologic processes;

(2) introduction to some commonly used hydrological analysis methods

(3) introduction to using SWAT (Soil and Water Assessment Tool) for hydrological process simulations.

This course belongs to the small class which is required for the Corporate Finance. The orientation of small-class teaching is: deepen understanding, locate interest, improve ability.

This course is designed for the beginning learners who intend to acquire basic survival Chinese, especially in listening, speaking and reading. The primary emphasis is placed on listening comprehension and speaking fluency as well as reading comprehension. The goal is to improve students’ listening, speaking and reading skills, and to increase their knowledge of Chinese culture and customs.

Through the reading of a selection of classical Greek and Roman literature in translation, the course aims to introduce the students to some major authors and works of the classical period, and prepare them for the study of English literature.

The first part of this course introduces central topics in philosophical aesthetics and philosophy of art. It mainly examines contemporary English-speaking authors, but occasionally also considers historical figures. The second part of the course examines more in detail philosophical problems related to art criticism. At the end of the course, students will have a general understanding of some crucial issues in the field of the philosophy of art, and a detailed understanding of a recent work on the philosophy of art criticism.

This course will focus on basic mathematical models and methods in financial calculation analysis. Specifically, it includes basic problems in financial mathematics: basic concepts and methods of interest calculation, calculation of annuity cash flow model, basic method of calculating general investment return rate, principal and interest decomposition process of cash flow, fixed income securities, interest risk analysis, financial income in random situations.