China

This course provides a solid understanding of post-war American novels—their historical background, style of writing, and some recurrent themes. The American writers discussed in the course include Kurt Vonnegut, Jerzy Kosinski, John Barth, Ishmael Reed, E. L. Doctorow, Don Delillo, and Robert Coover. The course also surveys contemporary Chinese novels, with a focus on works since the 1980s, the core writers include Mo Yan, Yu Hua, Su Tong, Ye Zhaoyan, Wang Xiaobo, and Yang Xianhui, who have adopted a similar way of writing characterized by the use of metafictional skill and parody, the blending of historical fact and fiction, the fusion of generic boundaries, etc. The course also explores, from a comparative perspective, such themes as war, trauma, ideological interventions, the writing and rewriting of history, etc. 

Ecology is a highly practical discipline that is closely related to daily life and social and economic development. Learn this course, realize the relationship between man and nature, the impact of human activities on the living environment and the root causes of many environmental problems, and constantly improve ecological literacy, cultivate

environmental awareness, and form a sustainable development concept.

The course is divided into five progressive parts: 

(1) Understanding ecology

(2) the best ecological concepts to understand

(3) Thinking like an ecologist 

(4) Advancing Ecology 

(5) Thinking and politics in ecology1

This course presents how to understand and manage the human side of doing business in China. Some basic concepts, theories, research results, and successful management stories related to this domain are taught. 

The practice teaching of this course mainly teaches the basic practice of yoga, including yoga breathing, postures, pranayama and yoga rest. The theory teaching section of this course mainly teaches the definition, origin, development stage, meridian and chakra of yoga, and how yoga promotes the physical and mental health of modern people.

This course will guide international students to broaden their cultural horizons of the Chinese language, understand the cultural functions of the Chinese language, and the Chinese cultural spirit contained in Chinese characters, Chinese words and even Chinese grammar, and observe and understand the cultural characteristics and cultural environment of Chinese society from the perspective of Chinese language phenomena.

This course introduces influencing factors of audio and video news production, principles of news, news operations, short news video theory and practice, planning and practice of news production.

This course summarizes the multi-level contents of dragon culture, basic dragon dance techniques, relevant video appreciation and choreography theory, allowing students to understand dragon dance in an all-round and in-depth manner, and be able to combine culture with practice to continuously promote new aspects of dragon dance development.

In this course, we will study the political thought of a variety of non-Western political, cultural and religious traditions, particularly the Confucianism and Political Islamism, we will try to explore both the ontological and epistemological dimension of these different theories, also always along with a “history of political thought” approach in mind . One of the essential purposes of this course will be for students to get familiar with the real diversity long existed in this sophisticated political world.

This course will provide students with an overview of astronomical research covering a wide range of topics, including the history of astronomy, the planets in our solar system, the birth, life and death of stars, black holes, galaxies, the Big Bang theory, cosmology, the search for extraterrestrial life, and space exploration.