Taiwan

This course introduces the basics of Perl scripting as well as handling of bioinformatic data. Upon completion of the course, students should be familiar with basic usage of LINUX systems and experienced with Perl scripting. Students should be able to code basic scripts, handle external files, design data structure, execute regular expression tests, hash and array usage, use modules, create Perl subroutines and much more. The course features lectures and hands-on exercises every week.  

The complex daily living and high stress caused by the progress of human civilization and the development of science and technology have greatly increased the interest and demand for music therapy. Because music can transcend external limitations to soothe fatigue and sadness of body, mind and soul, it can also rebuild and renew people's lives. This course crosses disciplines through the effectiveness of music, combined with psychological and medical theories. The course content combines the cultivation of musical literacy and practical application of music perception, injecting beauty and vitality into life through music, thereby gaining spiritual balance and satisfaction and improving moral cultivation. 

This course explores social themes in Taiwan’s recent history through the concept of “musicking.” It seeks to discover the communal meanings and effects created through a variety of sonic activities by people living on this island in recent history and contemporary times. Through careful listening and participation, the course aims to gain different perspectives and a more reflexive, embodied, and affective understanding of the social organizations and changes over the last 150 years that shape Taiwanese society today. 

This course does not to fully cover or define “Taiwanese music," but rather endeavors to understand how various themes--including community building, migrations and rights, settler-colonialism, colonial-modernity, politics and economy, ethnic identity, multi-culturalism and indigenous sovereignty, gender and sexualities, space and environments, and social activism--are voiced and enacted through diverse genres of music and dance, by the indigenous, Han, newly immigrated and visiting communities of people living in Taiwan. 

This course is an introduction to market design, a field of economics focusing on designing markets and mechanisms to allocate resources efficiently. The course covers various topics, including auction theory, matching markets, school choice, and kidney exchange. The course also explores the theoretical foundations of market design and examines how market design principles can be applied to real-world problems.    

Course requirements: basic game theory (keywords: (Bayes) Nash equilibrium, dominant strategy) and microeconomics.

Behavioral Ecology takes an evolutionary perspective to address the mechanisms and processes that have shaped the current form and utility of various aspects of animal behavior. The course includes lectures that cover major topics in Behavioral Ecology and introduce relevant research approaches; literature reading that provides a glimpse of cutting-edge research in the field, as well as a group project that allows students to experience the entire process of conducting a behavior study, practicing the theories and approaches learned from the lectures.    

Required Prerequisite: General Biology.  

Suggested Prerequisites: Ecology and Basic Statistics.  

This course covers major topics in deep-sea ecology, including the physical environments and history, sampling techniques, adaptations of deep-sea organisms, community composition and functions, major habitats, and anthropogenic effects. The course also explores Taiwan’s deep-sea environments and living resources.    

An introduction to stage design, this course instructs how to collect picture materials; hand-drawn space sketches; basic drawings; make 1:100 rough and color models and visualize text space and design concepts. 

The course is a practical programming class focused on artificial intelligence (AI) examples. The course discusses introductory Python language at the beginning; engages in hands-on programming in class and implements AI examples in the final month of the course. The course covers basic to advanced concepts of the Python programming language. The examples and exercises provided in the course primarily emphasize AI applications. Finally, students will utilize Python to implement the final project, which involves programming tasks and a final presentation.  

This course begins after the Republic of China government retreated to Taiwan in 1949. It discusses the cross-strait confrontation and the political and social development of the Republic of China in Taiwan, as well as the relations between Taiwan, the United States, and China during the outbreak of the Korean War. It then delves into the interaction between the People's Republic of China and the Soviet Union relations.  

This course primarily focuses on the ocean's role in the global biogeochemical cycling of elements, with special attention given to the impact of human activities on the transport of these elements within these cycles. The course begins by covering basic ocean chemistry, followed by an exploration of the concept of global geochemical cycles based on water/rock interactions. The discussion then delves into nutrient and trace metal cycling, emphasizing redox reactions and the biologically mediated oxidation of organic matter. Steady-state models will be employed to explain the global distribution of these components in the oceans. 
 
In addition, the course examines the role of sediment in shaping ocean chemical composition, considering both equilibrium and kinetic perspectives and touches upon marine chemistry related to radioactive and stable isotopes. 
 

This course aims to provide young marine scientists with a foundation in the fundamental concepts of ocean chemistry, while offering a global perspective on the subject. There are no prerequisites for enrollment, but a background in basic chemistry (e.g., Chemistry 101) is preferred.