China

This course consists of two parts: American politics and American diplomacy. 

American politics: America's political tradition, political system, electoral system, political parties, congress, president, and judiciary system, military system, interest groups and mass media and their roles are explained.

American diplomacy: the US diplomatic decision-making mechanism and tradition, before and during the Cold War.

This course will focus on the short detective fiction of Agatha Christie (1890-1976), the most successful twentieth-century author of detective novels. While Christie developed two well-known sleuths, Hercules Poirot and Miss Jane Marple, who featured in novels and whose cases have frequently been translated into the medium of film as well into more than 100 languages, this course will concentrate on the early short stories that were published in the 1920s and that predate the Miss Marple novels. Students will be introduced to the study of character and narrative, as well as the genre conventions of detective fiction, at the same time that they will be furnished with tools to understand the various techniques used in crime fiction. Particular attention will be devoted to reading Miss Marple as a moral standard against which aberrant behavior is tested by Christie. 

Through watching Chinese films, the students would learn Chinese culture, understand Chinese society and enhance their Chinese language (advanced Chinese level).

This courses examines a widespread phenomenon in the history of narrative that deals with the fantastic. Taking a transcultural and transmedia approach to the study of the fantastic, this course investigates its expressions in literary and cinematic narratives from a variety of historical periods and cultural traditions, in association with genres as diverse as fairy tales, science fiction, gothic romances, psychological thrillers, legends, love stories, and so on. This expansive view not only allows us to appreciate the adaptability of the fantastic as a discursive narrative mode, but also creates opportunities for us to understand its varying connections with its native cultures, as it migrates across cultural boundaries.

Labor economists study labor supply, labor demand, minimum wages, taxes and transfers, immigration, human capital, education production, inequality, discrimination, unions and strikes, and unemployment. We will focus on applying applied microeconomics theory to the empirical data analysis.

Through the course, students should accomplish the following learning objectives:

 (1) Understand the various sources of financing start-ups can get at different stages of development.
(2) Be able to interpret and analyze three financial statements of start-ups.
(3) Prepare financial plans using appropriate methods;
(4) Use various valuation methods to value assessment of start-ups;
(5) Able to write a business plan.
 

This course teaches students the fundamental principles and methods of modern macroeconomic theory, and to illustrate the usefulness of these principles and methods for studying economic problems in practice. The objective is to help the students develop their own ways of thinking about real life economic issues. For that, both economic intuitions and scientific treatments will be emphasized.

This course teaches Chinese myths and legends. Students will gain insight into the prototypes of myths of various ethnic groups, as well as the historicization and legendization of myths, and thus form an understanding of the national spirit of the Chinese nation.

The course will introduce you to concepts and techniques related to the design, planning, control, and improvement of supply chains and supply chain operations. More specifically, the course attempts to:

• Make you conversant in the language of supply chain management and expand your confidence in these areas.
• Allow you to see the role of supply chain management in the overall strategy and performance of the firm by providing a conceptual, strategic view of supply chain design and operations.
• Analyze the underlying issues and trade-offs between the sourcing of raw materials, manufacturing, storage, transportation of products, and the services required to fulfill customer expectations and the metrics of the firm.
• Provide you with quantitative and qualitative tools to identify, analyze, and manage supply chain operations and issues.

The course aims at instructing Japanese daily expression and fundamental grammar. Meanwhile, teachers in this class will instruct students in the basic knowledge of Japanese from a perspective of the pragmatic linguistics and the cognitive linguistics as well as the application of Japanese. The teaching approach to this course would combine instructions with related practice. At the same time, the language lab facilities would be utilized to continuously train students in Japanese pronunciation and tone further. Students are provided in this class with basic grammar and sentences as well as daily vocabularies ranging from 2000 to 2500 words. They also may be equipped with abilities to listen, speak, read, write and translate which will prepare them for Japanese language, culture and literature further. After that, students can reach at an intermediate level of Japanese.