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This course focuses on introducing organizational behavior and leadership in the workplace. Students learn theoretical and conceptual foundations for understanding people, groups, and organizations, and practical tools for accomplishing personal, group, and organizational objectives. Topics include personality and individual differences, work values and attitudes, work motivation, organizational trust and justice, emotions and stress management, organizational culture, decision making, and power and conflict management among others.

This course is designed to familiarize students with important concepts and theories of international security studies as well as prominent security issues in the contemporary world. The first part of the course introduces the basic analytical concepts and theoretical frameworks as regards direct and indirect use of force in international politics; the second part explores strategic policy during the Cold War and the lessons that scholars have drawn from that historical period; the third part examines several security challenges at the dawn of the 21st century such as nuclear proliferation, terrorism and insurgency, and the security implications of technological change; the last part focuses on the rise of China and international security, with particular attention paid to the relationship between China and the United States, the Taiwan issue, and maritime disputes in East Asia. It is worth noting that the course will not touch upon most non-traditional security issues such as energy security, climate change, food safety, etc.

The Entrepreneurship Camp will provide the opportunity to observe actual entrepreneurial practices and to discuss the pros and cons of these ventures, so that the students will be able to perceive the difficulties, processes and key issues of entrepreneurship. On this basis, students will be given the opportunity to work on their own, forming teams to prepare and plan an actual entrepreneurial project. The focus of the course is to organize students to discuss the key issues of entrepreneurship with video cases, and to organize various entrepreneurial teams to carry out practical work to complete the preparation and planning of an entrepreneurial project. Through the training in this course, students are expected to: gain practical experience; gain a deep understanding of the key issues of entrepreneurship, such as business models, team building, market entry strategies, etc.

This course is designed to provide a comprehensive introduction to the modern study of computer algorithms. It presents many algorithms and covers them in considerable depth. Each chapter presents an algorithm, a design technique, an application area or a related topic. Since we emphasize efficiency as a design criterion, we include careful analyses of the running time of all our algorithms. In addition to the introduction of “design of algorithms”, we also play the emphasis on the “complexity analysis of algorithms” to help students understand the detailed differences between various algorithms for a certain problem mainly in terms of time. The carefully chosen English material is intended to provide the students an enjoyable taste for the international class on algorithms. The textbook we chose is also used by many other universities for undergraduate algorithm course. The course targets the enhancement of the following skills: 1)understanding and mastering the fundamental algorithm design by a series representative algorithms such as: graph algorithms, sorting algorithms etc.; 2) training the capability of algorithms analysis as well the proof of the correctness of algorithms in terms of time complexity and asymptotic efficiency, improving the logic reasoning and understanding the development of algorithm theory; 3) encouraging students to have a depth understanding of studied algorithm by applying them to practical applications as well as problems, training them to relate what they have learned in the class to the real-world problems.4) improving the capability of solving real-world problems.

This course is the first part of “History of Classical Chinese Literature”, one of the basic courses in Chinese Department. The course introduces the core themes, the basic characteristics and the learning goals of the Chinese literary history, as well as main literature progressing in Pre-Qin and Han dynasty. Topics to be discussed: Myths and Ancient Folk Songs, The Book of Songs”, essays in Chunqiu and Zhanguo, historical essays, Chu Ci, rhymes and essays in Han Dynasty, Han Yuefu, the scholars’ poems in the late Han dynasty. The course introduces core themes in Pre-Qin and Han dynasty, with historical and anthropological focus.

What is the Chinese poetry? Why is it called “shige (literally, song-word)”? How does it imagine a lyrical way to express the individual feelings or the collective narrations about the body, life, nature and the universe of the Chinese people? Through a cross-cultural perspective, this course is intended to help foreign students understand, appreciate and experience the beauty of classical Chinese poetry, especially its unique tradition of musicality. This is a taught course over 16 weeks through the spring term. Class time will consist of lectures, poetry readings, seminars, discussions, with a workshop and a poetry recital where appropriate. Students are asked to join all the activities.

The course will lead you to explore Shijing (The Book of Songs) & The Lyrics of Chuci (The Lyrics of Chu) in pre-Qin peroid, Yuefu (Music Bureau Poems) in the Han Dynasty, “Nineteen Old Poems”, Shi Poetry in the Tang Dynasty, Ci Poetry in the Song Dynasty, and Qu Poetry in the Yuan Dynasty.

The course creatively combines poetic criticism with poetry performance by integrating the theoretical methods of Chinese poetics, musicology and vocal performance. The course aims to help students enjoyably and engagingly overcome language and cultural barriers, to experience the charm and the profundity of the Chinese language and culture by reciting and chanting the classical Chinese poems.

This course covers the fundamental scope, theory, and methodologies of management; improves the abilities of defining, analyzing, and solving problems. The content includes management need in globalization; managers, management activities, and management goal; mission, directions, and functions of institutions; design of organizational structure and staffing; problems, routine, and non-routine decisions; goal and planning; team behavior, negotiation, and motivation in operations; standardization, process control, and information system; cost/benefit of management and performance evaluation; environmental challenges and organizational change; the science and art sides of managerial mechanism; managerial thoughts of leaders and their development. 

The swordsman novel of Jin Yong is a representative of Chinese popular literature in the 20th Century. The course will start with the “strange” reading phenomenon discussed by Yan Jiayan, and then introduce Jin Yong’s special life experience and the content of his fifteen novels. Based on the junction of Chinese traditional culture and contemporary culture, it aims to explore the potential great aesthetic values and cultural integrating functions of Jin Yong’s novels.

The course designs the composition and content of lectures based on the actual situation of top experts in relevant fields. Leaders, experts and scholars from Chinese government departments, international organizations, institutions and embassies in China, non-governmental organizations and well-known schools home and abroad will be eligible to be invited to give lectures this course. Students have the opportunity to engage with lecturers in an in-depth discussion of practices and challenges in the field of sustainable development. This course is mainly based on classroom lectures. The Office of International Exchange and Cooperation and the Teaching Office of Tsinghua University School of Public Policy and Management will jointly organize and identify relevant lectures. Students are required to attend no less than 16 hours of lectures after selecting the course, and submit course papers to complete the course study.