China

This course will discuss temporal logic, deontic logic and epistemic logic. For temporal logic, apart from philosophical issues about time we will focus on the treatment of temporal aspects of natural language in formal linguistics. For deontic logic, we will especially focus on strategies for the solution of paradoxes related to the system of standard deontic logic. 
 

The aim of this course is to examine the driving forces affecting the nature and pace of technological changes and discuss managerial challenges presented by technological innovations. It is designed to provide students with a framework for analyzing industry dynamics of technological innovation, and help students understand how to formulate technological innovation strategy at firm level. 

This course examines the history and practice of electronic music from the early twentieth century to the present. It will explore a wide range of genres—from experimental forms like musique concrète and drone composition to popular traditions like rock and various forms of electronic dance music (EDM)—as well as the evolution of instruments, techniques, and lines of influence. Through the course students will develop a broad perspective of the history of the field and an understanding of musical techniques that will meaningfully inform their own listening and creative practices. The primary goal of the course is to establish an understanding of the development of electronic music, including prominent composers, musicians, technologies, instruments, aesthetic ideas, and genres. A secondary goal is linked to the methods and organization of the course as they set out these points of orientation. The course will introduce a wide and representative sampling of different sources for the study of electronic music: in addition to recordings of musical works and performances, these sources include artists’ statements, historical surveys, documentary film, science fiction, specialized musicological study, music criticism, writings on aesthetics and the philosophy of art, and virtual software for modeling analogue synthesis.

The content of this course includes the basic principles, main theories and common methods of human resource management, covering all functions of selecting, using, educating and retaining human resource management. Specifically, it includes the basic concepts and concepts of human resource management, the framework of strategic human resource management, the basic work of human resource management (quality model, job analysis), human resource planning, personnel recruitment, human resource development, performance management, compensation management, labor relations, human resource management model with Chinese characteristics, corporate culture and human resource management. 

This course helps students to understand the historical processes of the Renaissance and the Reformation, and based on lectures, readings, and classroom discussions, clarify the impacts of the Renaissance and Reformation on the formation of modern European civilization, especially the relationship between the Renaissance and the secularization of Europe, Protestantism and capitalism, and the Reformation and the rise of modern nation-states.

The objectives of this course include: (1) Learn concepts of engineering design including integrated product/process development, Quality Function Deployment (QFD) and DFX (Design for manufacturability, quality, affordability, etc.); (2) Learn to contribute effectively to multidisciplinary design teams in the real world. (3) Fundamental training for entrepreneurship.

Learn the basic concepts of various different computer languages (e.g., C, Python)

Learn how to write programs using different computer languages

Learn how to solve computational problems using programming

History of Russian literature from 20th c. to present.

This course mainly explains Plato's dialogue (Fido and Socrates' Defense) and Descartes' First Collection of Philosophy and other classic Western philosophical texts, so that students can understand the way philosophers explore the world order and the inherent tension of philosophical life. 

This course covers two parts for international economics, international trade and international finance. In the first part, we will examine the causes and effects of international trade. We will analyze the content of trade, the distribution of gains to trade, and measure of the Global Value Chain. The effects of trade on economic growth, wage, employment, economic inequality, and environment will be studied. Lastly, we will explore why countries may want to limit and regulate international trade, and discuss the causes of trade conflicts and possible solutions. The second part of the course covers topics in open-economy macroeconomics and in international finance. We will first introduce national income accounting and the balance of payments, and discuss the relation between international trade and financial transactions. We will then study exchange rate, an important international price, exchange rate determination, and exchange rate regime. Finally, we will discuss the theory and policy of open-economy macroeconomics, and the internationalization of the Chinese yuan.