China

Target Student: Intermediate level learners 
Objective: to improve students’ listening and speaking skills; to expose students to Chinese culture and society; to acquaint students with phonetic system and grammar for oral expression.
Content: Vocabulary Building; Themes-related speech; Chinese Vocabulary (around 1200 words)
 

The primary objective of this course is to enable each student to improve in their demonstration of effective public speaking skills in English.

To study the normal activity process of various systems, organs and cells of the human body, especially the internal mechanism of the functional performance of each organ and cell, and to clarify how the functional activities of the human body as a whole are coordinated and mutually restricted, and the influence of changes in the internal and external environment of the body of these activities.

This course aims to equip students with an understanding of the methodology of the philosophy of science, encouraging them to strike a reflective balance between the theoretical perspectives of the philosophy of mind and the empirical evidence of cognitive science. By engaging with original texts in both philosophy and cognitive science, students will enhance their ability to articulate and defend their views clearly while developing strong, disciplined philosophical writing skills.

This seminar course explores the impacts of globalization, with a focus on China. The course will include in-class readings, discussions, and mini-projects. We will together read through the recent economics literature on a set of topics related to the open-up of China in the mid-19th century, impacts of free trade agreements, imports and exports, foreign investment, migration, human capital accumulation, income inequality, etc. 

Through the teaching of this course, students are introduced to the basic ideas and methods of object-oriented programming. Through learning and combining computer practice, students can understand the general methods of computer problem solving, master interface production, program writing and debugging, and enable students to have the ability to write simple application programs. This will lay a solid foundation for further self-study of other programming languages and improve programming skills in the future, while also improving students' logical thinking ability and meticulous thinking ability.

The basic contents include: VB development environment and basic programming steps, basic controls and language basics, basic control structures, arrays, procedures, commonly used controls, menus, multiple forms and files, etc.

The course will introduce Olympic movement and the related controversies and views from the perspective of culture In broad sense, analyze the relationship between Olympic culture and human and social development, politics, economy and world peace as well as the environmental protection. 

Course objectives It is intended that through the course students can learn and acquire the values and the positive character traits that are assumed to be developed in sport and Olympic Movement; to examine closely all aspects of the modern Olympic Games and Olympism in order to offer a comprehensive understanding of two key aspects of the Modern Olympic Culture: its historical developments and its present fundamental characteristics; the nature of the tensions created in the process of its evolution which have led to recent reforms.