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"Economic Geography" is a major component of geography, which is the most developed sub-discipline in most National Geographic Science Systems. The development and characteristics of economic geography, on one hand, are closely related to the development of economic activities. On the other hand, they are greatly influenced by geography, economics and other related disciplines. As an independent discipline, economic geography has only a history of over a hundred years. However, its origin and development can be traced further.

This is an introductory course with flat, broad and cutting-edge knowledge, which can meet the needs of cultivating talents in liberal arts to understand information technology from the level of principles and concepts, and establish necessary digital literacy from the perspective of computer culture.

The course is designed to introduce students to human issues involved in engineering management. Topics include the nature of organization, organizational theory, participatory management, strategic planning of human resource, personnel selection, performance appraisal, working motives and incentives, power, credibility, research on leader traits, styles, and situations, and current models of leadership.

This course targets at helping students not only understand and master a specific research method, but also enhance the level of maturity of students towards academic research, more specifically the concepts, skills, and confidence required to learn new methods, or the “Data Quotient”. The lectures may cover basic Machine Learning, frontier methods in causal inference, and some Bayesian statistics. The course also aims at helping enrolled students develop research professionalism – the ability to be a good reader, listener, and speaker for the academia.

This course covers the signal representation/analysis, especially how to represent the complex signals in simple format either in time or frequency domain. Based on that, it also covers how signals behave after passing through various linear, time-invariant systems. It consists of following individual yet highly related sessions including Introduction, time-domain analysis on the linear, time-invariant systems, signal representation in frequency domain (Fourier analysis & Fourier transform), Laplace Transform, Discrete time-domain signals, Z-Transform, Discrete & Fast Fourier transform, the state space analysis of the linear systems, and etc. This course focuses on the basic theory and analytical method from time-domain to transform domain, from continuous to discrete, from the description of single-input-single-output to the state variables. It will lay down a solid foundation for the further study for courses including Digital Signal Processing, Stochastic Process, Communication Circuit, Principle of Communication. The requisite courses include calculus, linear algebra, complex variable functions, principles of electric circuits.

Language is often considered a “tool” of communication, but what kind of “tool” is it? What are some other ways of perceiving language? Do people with different mother tongues and cultures tend to think and behave differently? How do misunderstandings in intercultural communication happen? How can we develop a competence that will enable us to reach better understanding of ourselves as well as people from various cultures? These are some of the questions examined in this course. The course introduces some major topics concerning language, culture, and intercultural communication.

Based on the theory of gender research, this course introduces the physiological basis and causes of differences between the sexes, analyzes the social pressures faced by men and women in real society and the disharmony caused by differences in life, and helps us understand the history of the development of gender status, the differences between the sexes in physiology, psychology, behavior, etc., and the theories and skills of getting along between the sexes.

This course will lead students to practice the content production and operation of all categories, all processes and all media. Students participate in the actual work of the project, master the ability of graphic writing, video production and podcast production in a real all-media environment, participate in large-scale live broadcasting and large-scale activities, carry out actual operation under the guidance of teachers, and ride the waves in the ocean of digital media. The content involved includes but is not limited to interviewing and photographing senior professors, new scholars, outstanding students and alumni, reporting campus scenery, interesting courses and lectures, campus sports activities, cultural activities, community activities, exhibition performances and so on.

Among the many fields of modern logic research, modal logic has been deeply applied in many fields from humanities to software design because of its good balance between expressiveness and complexity. In this course, the concepts and methods of modal logic will be introduced with its application in modeling time, knowledge, necessity, and social behavior. In this way, students will be brought into an environment similar to actual research and experience the interaction between different concepts and needs in theory and practice. This course will guide students to become familiar with classic textbooks, manuals, and important articles, and enable students to explore and learn deeper content on their own when they have further interest. 

This course aims to help students understand the significance, theories, and research methods of pharmaceutical economics and its applications in pharmaceutical policies. It also introduces pharmaceutical market promotion strategies and key approaches. The course fosters logical reasoning, critical thinking, and analytical skills.