Taiwan

As a survey of American poetry, this course introduces poems written across the span of American history, from 17th-century colonial poets to 21st-century (post)modern poets. The course includes poems from writers of diverse ethnic, geographic, and socioeconomic backgrounds, writing in a wide variety of poetic forms and idioms. The course compares the literary features of a variety of types of American poetry coming from a number of distinct historical eras, ethnic groups, and socioeconomic communities.

This course places modern Chinese history within the evolution of world history as well as the evolution of world history within modern Chinese history. The course discusses: the world capitalist system and its problems; the establishment of modern states; the characteristics of nationalism; the structure of agricultural society; the mentality of intellectuals; the problems of modernization and modernity; the modernization of China and Japan from a broadened historical perspective, and international hegemony.  Topics of discussion and research also include the influence of the national bourgeoisie; the fragility of the national bourgeoisie; the Chinese communist revolution; the tragic struggle between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party, and the particularity of the labor movement.

This course is an introductory course in clinical neuropsychiatry designed for master students. The course focuses on (1) clinical manifestations; (2) pathogenesis, and (3) current research trends and challenges of various neurological and psychiatric disorders. In addition to classroom lectures, this course cites clinical cases to deepen learning.

This course focuses on the works of C.S. Lewis, a British novelist, poet, academic, medievalist, literary critic, essayist, lay theologian, broadcaster, lecturer, and Christian apologist. This course focuses more on his Christian works, specifically SURPRISED BY JOY, THROUGH THE SHADOWLANDS, THE MAGICIAN'S NEPHEW, THE LAST BATTLE, TILL WE HAVE FACES, AND THE GREAT DIVORCE. This class requires extensive reading.

The course provides a study of Japanese sentence patterns, Japanese conversation skills, and cultivates Japanese reading ability. Students learn Japanese listening, speaking, reading, and writing skills, which can be expressed through storytelling and song lyrics. This course covers chapters 20-26. Topics include: (Chapter 20) Consequential sentence such as the correspondence of other verbs, the state that continues after the action ends, etc. (Chapter 21) Reason sentence structures such as expressing regret, dissatisfaction, mentioning a topic, etc. (Chapter 22) "Ability" sentences: possible verbs such as an ability or possibility under a certain situation, etc. (Chapter 23) Conditional sentences and intentional form such as a will, determination, plan, etc. (Chapter 24) Speculative sentences such as Inference, goal and purpose of action, and resulting state of change, etc. (Chapter 25) Command sentences via command form which command, prohibit, or convey statement of meaning (Chapter 26) Describe the movement in terms of the speaker's "point of arrival" or "point of departure."

This course teaches aerobic exercise and physical/mental wellness, and uses a combination of exercise moves to encourage participation. The class is meant to engage every student to apply the principles into everyday life. The course encourages participation and enthusiasm for aerobic exercises, and greater knowledge of how to build a lifelong exercise habit. We will also split into groups to promote social skills and interpersonal interaction.

This course examines the philosophy and basic concepts of operations management. The course defines the major activities associated with defining, organizing, planning, monitoring, and controlling projects; discusses the four major process decisions; presents systematic ways to analyze processes; explains and constructs control charts; identifies systematic approaches to capacity planning; presents the theory of constraints; presents key factors that determine the appropriate choice of an inventory system; and explores how to design an effective supply chain, and how to measure its performance.

The lectures are organized as introductions to the history and culture of ancient and modern Chinese dialects: geographical distribution, common ancestors of distinct linguistic systems and their relationships, ancient breakdown of major dialect groups, modern Chinese dialects and their characters (grammar, vocabulary, pronunciation), and finally touching on current cultural issues. Assessment: final exam and a final group presentation.

This is an advanced Chinese language class focusing on developing strong literary skills (both reading and writing). The class is based on a variety of topics selected from articles in various Chinese magazines. Those articles are analyzed and discussed during class, with particular attention given to style, effective use of language, and argumentation. Homework and assignments always involved writing responsive essays to the main article and frequently included individual research on news stories related to the weekly topic in order to develop more compelling arguments.

This course is an integrated experiment to design and create a course to apply macro-meso-micro perspective for IB major students. International Competitiveness and Taiwanese Enterprises (ICTE) is born with the original challenge to bridge international /global survey of nation’s competitiveness and the corporate behavior, or to connect micro-issues at the firm level and the macro-international issues at the national level.