China

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. 

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).