China

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.

Mathematical logic is a fundation of mathematics and computer science, and foundation course for the students of mathematics and computer science. The content of this course includes propositional logic, first-order (predicate) logic and basic mathematical systems.

This course aims to explore the components of dissertations and academic papers in economics, guiding students in transitioning from coursework to independent paper writing. Through lectures and discussions, we will cover the basic requirements and examine specific examples of research papers to understand the general rules and best practices for writing. Active participation in on-site discussions is strongly encouraged. Students are encouraged to identify topics of interest and draft several chapters or paragraphs for their potential dissertations.

This course further enables students to understand the relationship between the media and social change, so as to use of knowledge of communication and journalism in a better way. 

This course is a common language course for all students of Peking University, with the aim of satisfying students' demand for learning Korean language and culture. The course mainly covers the pronunciation, basic vocabulary and grammar of Korean as well as knowledge of Korean society, culture and political economy.

This course focuses on the application of principles of actuarial science in survival models and life insurance products for undergraduate students. The purpose of this course is to introduce some typical life insurance products and the calculation of the premium and reserve of some life insurance products. This course alse teaches operational models in the life insurance company. The non-life insurance section of this course focuses on principles and presentation, which will provide students a preliminary understanding of non-life insurance companies.

This course is for international students who already have a certain level of Chinese proficiency but whose grasp of grammar knowledge is relatively vague and confusing. It will systematically sort out the main grammatical key points and difficulties in Chinese, so that students can better master Chinese grammar and use Chinese more accurately; at the same time, it will also serve as a guide for future students. This is a professional courses to lay a certain theoretical foundation of grammar.