Taiwan

This course introduces fictional and other critical and cultural perspectives from the postcolonial world. It focuses on selected texts from postcolonial Asia. The course begins by critically investigating the concept of the nation—what Benedict Anderson has famously called an “imagined community.” It explores this concept through reading and discussing texts representing the complexities of imagined communities in Taiwan, India, Sri Lanka, and the Philippines, texts that also represent uneven power relations with China, Japan, the UK, the US, and elsewhere. The course explores the question: why should these texts and ideas matter to us now? 

This course introduces students to the fundamental theories and concepts of race and ethnicity. These theories and concepts enrich classic sociological canons and provide sociologists racial/ethnic lens for insightful analyses of the racialized institutions behind social phenomena. The first six weeks of this course focuses on these fundamental race/ethnicity theories and concepts. The course also investigates the role of history in the construction of race/ethnicity theories and explores how we can connect the contemporary globalized, multiracial world with these theories generated in the Western context (mostly with the White/Black divide). We then examine how race and ethnicity shape the individual’s personal, cultural, and national identity; interact with capitalist society; serve as a form of social classification, and how they are challenged or reinforced by educational systems in various cultural contexts.  

This course introduces the integrated circuit process, basic theory and technology, equipment principle and application of each stage of the process, and emphasizes the cooperation of process integration and development of forward-looking component processes. The content is based on the CMOS process, and contains a discussion of various components. Content includes: Modern Electronic Device Technology; Crystal Growth, Wafer Fabrication and Basic Properties of Silicon Wafers; Semiconductor Manufacturing; Lithography; Thermal Oxidation; Diffusion; Ion Implantation; Thin Film Deposition; Etching; Back-end technology; Metallization and Chemical Mechanical Polishing; Process Integration and IC Processing Technology.

This course examines historical and current health policy issues and their impacts. It covers health policies mainly in the U.S. and Taiwan, but also looks at global health topics. The first part of the course discusses health care systems, such as the public insurance structures in the U.S. and Taiwan, health care reforms, and the long term care systems. The second part introduces health behavior related topics from the economic perspective, including the prescription drug market, the effects of smoking and drinking age regulations on health, the factors and consequences (education, employment, crime, etc.) of risky health behaviors, and the impact of environment on health.

This course covers how JavaScript works and how to use JavaScript to improve the richness of web interactions with simple, life-like examples. With hands-on examples, students will be able to understand from the ground up. The course has a series of sections and recorded segments, so learning is more flexible and efficient.

This course is divided into two parts. The first half of the course offers a comparative modern history of East Asian countries, with a special focus on Hokkaido, Ryukyu-Okinawa, Taiwan, Korea and China, in the framework of Japanese “Nation-Empire” building. The course also explores categories of people, including trafficked children, peddlers, “abducted” women, the Ainu, Taiwan's indigenous people, Micronesians, and Okinawans. The second half of the course focuses on cultural studies (pop culture, movies, music manga, etc.), political economy (regional integration, ASEAN+3, TPP, RCEP, One Belt One Load), comparative politics (political regime, identity, nationalism, democracy), regional security (U.S.-Japan Alliance, U.S. military presence, military cooperation, South China and East China sea, bandwagoning or hedge). The course uses active learning in groups, making maximum use of the mixture of students from different regions and countries, and bringing out different perspectives, points of view, and opinions on various issues and topics.

This course introduces the following topics: operating-system structure, processes, threads, CPU scheduling, process synchronization, deadlocks, main memory, virtual memory, and file-system interface. Students attend two UNIX tutorials. Prerequisite: a course in computer organization and structure.

This course introduces main themes in the history of modern China through an examination of political, social, economic, and cultural development of China since 1900 with emphasis on the development of Chinese nationalism and on the rise, theory, and practice of Chinese communism. In addition to the above macro history perspective, this course providess a more microperspective to modern Chinese history. Topics include Taiyuan and Ruian, 1905; Beijing, 1919; urban life in 1930s China; Guangzhou 1927; Nanjing regime, 1927-1937; new China, 1950-1958; Cold War in 1950s China; the Great Leapforward; the Cultural Revolution; Deng Era; and Beijing, 1989.

This seminar aims to equip students with knowledge of institutional and politico-economic development of Asian regionalism and its role in world and regional politics. 
 

For students to understand the job market and industry development, as well as establish career planning in advance, this course invites industry leaders to share their career experience. Students are expected to connect campus and industry resources and gain skills at various levels simultaneously. At the individual level, they must learn to train themselves to enter the workplace and strengthen various abilities to become leaders in the workplace. At the group level, they must learn how to cooperate with peers of different backgrounds and abilities in a team to become an important partner. Last, at the leadership level, they must learn how to pay attention to corporate culture and establish a friendly working environment.