China

This course examines topics covering urban settlements, imperial tombs and burials, agriculture, handicrafts, sacrificial rituals and religions, as well as cultural exchanges between China and foreign countries. Taking time as the fundamental axis, the course sorts out the development context of civilization during the Han and Tang dynasties through each thematic topic, comprehensively revealing the cultural features of the Han and Tang dynasties based on archaeological findings. 

The Dance Sport course integrates dance art and sports competition. Dance Sport includes five dance styles in both Standard and Latin. By learning these classic dance styles, it helps students master dance steps, improve body coordination and rhythm. In the course, students can feel the charm of dance art, shape a beautiful figure, enhance physical fitness through exercise, and cultivate elegant temperament and team spirit. It is a characteristic course combining beauty and vitality.

Literature is deeply embedded within socio-cultural context. This elect course focuese on the multi-dimensional intersection between literary studies, feminist literary critique, and western social hisotry, to emphasize the impact of literature on social development by way of examining women's relationship to reading and writing in a broad historical spectrum. Methodologies involved include literary and cultural analysis, feminist movments, and critical understanding and discussion on issues of women and family, marriage, motherhood, education, social engagement, intellectual history, and agency.  

In the age of digital intelligence, how can we coexist and collaborate with machines? What are the boundaries and limits of human–machine communication? This course focuses on five core issues in the field of intelligent communication: human–machine interaction, human–machine trust, human–machine emotion, human–machine value alignment and digital intelligence for good, and cultural and generational differences in human–machine communication. By adopting an interdisciplinary perspective and drawing on cutting-edge research cases, the course aims to help students better understand the nature of human–machine communication and human–machine relationships. It also equips students with the abilities to calibrate trust in machines, critically reflect on human–machine relationships, and engage in human–machine communication in a responsible manner.

This course builds upon an interpretation of the core text of the Zhouyi (the Book of Changes) and its commentaries (the I Ching (Yijing) and the Ten Wings (Yizhuan)). It progressively guides students to understand the foundational knowledge and key issues in Yixue. These include the historical context of the Zhouyi's emergence, the historical evolution of its doctrines, the various principles for interpreting the Book of Changes text, comprehending the philosophical spirit of the Ten Wings, examining the complex relationship between the Zhouyi and aesthetic culture, and reflecting on prominent issues within the cultural evolution of Zhouyi scholarship. With a focus on exploring the aesthetic and cultural dimensions of Zhouyi thought, the course aims to highlight its distinctive intellectual wisdom and conceptual allure, demonstrating the enduring and invaluable contributions this ancient classic has made to the course of human civilization.

This practical intermediate-level course in French conversation provides students with a wide variety of dialogue models in audio and text form, which they are invited to listen to, read and reproduce, before writing and performing, in groups, their own dialogue on a common theme.

Through the study of this course, students can grasp the basic views of Marxism as a whole. Furthermore, based on Marxist philosophy, they can understand the general development laws of the capitalist economy, recognize the historical necessity of socialism replacing capitalism, and strengthen their communist ideals and beliefs. They can form a scientific world view, outlook on life, and values, and consciously devote themselves to the great practice of socialism with Chinese characteristics. It conducts education on a scientific world view, outlook on life, and values for students, and cultivates their scientific ability and thinking methods for analyzing and solving problems.

This course integrates theory with practice, balancing technical skills and creative thinking, and is anchored in a problem-finding and problem-solving approach. Instructional methods include lectures, case-based research and reflection, hands-on production workshops, and interactive discussions. Core topics cover podcast recording and production, short-form video shooting and editing, the evolution of online content amid technological change, and the application of emerging technologies in the audiovisual field.

This course aims to provide students with a foundational understanding of common brain disorders-such as depression, brain tumors, and Alzheimer’s disease-covering their current status, epidemiology, and underlying pathogenesis. Students will also become familiar with mainstream diagnostic and treatment approaches, while enhancing their awareness of preventive strategies, thereby fostering a more resilient and proactive mindset in facing life.

This course investigates material properties from the perspective of condensed matter physics. We will cover the mechanical, thermal, electrical, magnetic and optical properties of materials, learn to apply qualitative and quantitative analysis and understand these properties based on the interaction between atoms and molecules, crystalline structure, electronic and magnetic structures and morphology. Through the course of study, we will know the most dominant factors affecting material properties and know how to estimate material properties in a certain range.