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Chinese Language (Foreign Language) is an undergraduate major offered by Fudan University for international students from all over the world. "Chinese Modern and Contemporary Literature" is a compulsory course of this major, which is divided into two parts: "Chinese Modern and Contemporary Literature (first)" and "Chinese Modern and Contemporary Literature (second)". It is a major backbone course for international students to study for one academic year after entering the third grade.

As a professional literature course for international undergraduates, the design and implementation concept of this course not only strives to show the overall style of modern and contemporary Chinese literature with time as the history and works of writers of different styles as the background, but also hopes to take emotion, humanity and values as the main line. To present Chinese society and the Chinese people in the literary world in a broader interdisciplinary perspective of literature, culturology and sociology, and to interpret China through literature.

This course is a Chinese course specially offered for international postgraduate students in the school. The difficulty of the course is intermediate. In this class, students will focus on learning various language skills such as listening, speaking, reading, and writing. In particular, they can learn some key function words and complex sentence patterns, understand written words in Chinese, and learn about written words in Chinese. There are writing exercises, and the teacher will mark them carefully. After taking this Chinese course, you can discuss some non-professional social topics with your classmates, read general Chinese articles, and write your thoughts into short articles in Chinese.

This course is designed to introduce the fundamental concepts and implementations of modern database management systems. This is not a course that teaches you how to use a database to build applications (e.g., schema design, SQL programming). It is designed as a systems course with an emphasis on database internals. Prior experience with databases is NOT expected. Upon successful completion of this course, the student should feel confident taking a job as a database developer or conducting database-related research in graduate school.

This course has a total of 32 class hours and is a beginner Chinese language course for international graduate students throughout the school. This course divided into two categories: (1) One is related to the content of the beginner Chinese (A) course, which requires students to have studied Chinese for at least 48 hours and master 200 Chinese vocabulary. Through the course, students will further expand their vocabulary, master more complex grammar, and fluently communicate with others on topics such as weather, gift giving, and being guests. (2) The other type is a single course for majors such as EMBA and GMBA. The course content is aimed at students with zero foundation in Chinese through course learning, students can master the basic knowledge of Pinyin, understand the basic structure of Chinese characters, master basic vocabulary and grammar structure, and be able to use the learned vocabulary to communicate on topics such as self introduction, time, and schedule.

With the development of Internet, multimedia data have become increasingly accessible, such as images, audios, videos, texts, etc.; the advances of artificial neural networks (e.g. large multi-modal model GPT4) have also made multimodal fusion a general trend in Al. This course covers applications including image/video processing generation, audio/ speech processing and generation, natural language processing and generation. It introduces popular signal processing and machine learning techniques in the artificial intelligence field, such as data representation, data compression, sequence models, data synthesis, multimodal fusion, etc. Through lectures and course projects, students learn about the features of different signals, and their common ground. 

In this course, we shall read five to six European novels from the late 19th century to the late 20th century, by such writers as Dostoevsky, Proust, Woolf, Kafka, and Camus. We shall consider the following questions, among others: What have these authors discovered about the self, for example, about the richness and opacity of the inner life, about self-knowledge and self-deception, about possibilities of redemption through love, art or memory? In what ways do the novels we read reflect upon—or even intimate beforehand—the unfolding of European socio-political life over the course of a crisis-laden century? How do these authors ponder questions of individual responsibility, guilt and conscience, and do they, in their largely post-Christian era, propound any alternative possibilities of transcendence? How does each writer’s art of narrative extend or transform our consciousness of time and space and help us reinterpret personal experience and collective history?

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.

This course aims to help students acquire the basic knowledge of the development and functioning of the EU. Additionally, students are expected to analyze the EU’s role in various sectoral policies and its relationships with selected partners.

This course consists of three parts. The first part covers the basics of the EU, including major theories of European integration, its core institutions, decision-making procedures, and legal order. In the second part, this course explores the major bilateral relations between the EU and third parties in the second part. The last part focuses on selected policy areas critical to the EU’s internal stability and external posture. 

"Modern Chinese Literature" and "Contemporary Chinese Literature" are one of the most popular courses among students from the Chinese Department of Chinese Language and Literature. However, because these two courses are both 4-hour professional compulsory courses, their training objectives, teaching content and The amount of works read far exceeds the needs of students from other departments. This course "Modern and Contemporary Chinese Literature" is a public elective course tailored for students from other departments to learn and understand modern and contemporary Chinese literature. This course condenses the essence of "Chinese Modern Literature" and "Chinese Contemporary Literature". By telling the interaction between the important works of Chinese writers from 1917 to the present and Chinese society, it reproduces the "emotional structure" and "collective unconsciousness" of Chinese literature on modern China. "The expression can comprehensively enhance students' artistic realm and humanistic feelings.

This course studies frequent vocabulary, grammar and general cultural knowledge of classical Chinese; basic competency in reading classical Chinese literatures; and to further improve their ability in the application of written modern Chinese. Teaching content includes mainly classical Chinese analects with the special learning of frequent vocabulary, sentence patterns, and general cultural knowledge on classical Chinese as supplements.