Chinese

This course studies the physical and mental characteristics of gifted students and their learning needs. It discusses the methods to identify gifted students and analyzes the timing of using assessment tools, as well as the development trends of gifted education. It also explores the ways to cultivate giftedness among people.  

This course summarizes the multi-level contents of dragon culture, basic dragon dance techniques, relevant video appreciation and choreography theory, allowing students to understand dragon dance in an all-round and in-depth manner, and be able to combine culture with practice to continuously promote new aspects of dragon dance development.

In this course, we will study the political thought of a variety of non-Western political, cultural and religious traditions, particularly the Confucianism and Political Islamism, we will try to explore both the ontological and epistemological dimension of these different theories, also always along with a “history of political thought” approach in mind . One of the essential purposes of this course will be for students to get familiar with the real diversity long existed in this sophisticated political world.

This course consists of two parts: American politics and American diplomacy. 

American politics: America's political tradition, political system, electoral system, political parties, congress, president, and judiciary system, military system, interest groups and mass media and their roles are explained.

American diplomacy: the US diplomatic decision-making mechanism and tradition, before and during the Cold War.

This is a beginners' course in the Sanskrit language. It introduces the most important Sanskrit grammar in one year by using M. Deshpande's Samskrta-Subodhini's A Sanskrit Primer as the textbook. The course also begins by reading Sanskrit verses from the story of Nala and Damayant in Charles Lanman's A Sanskrit Reader. The course then reviews major Indian religions and philosophical texts in Chinese translations to know the basics about Indian culture. 

Through watching Chinese films, the students would learn Chinese culture, understand Chinese society and enhance their Chinese language (advanced Chinese level).

Drawing is the most important part of the design process. The purpose of drawing is threefold:  

1. The process of drawing itself establishes the creative process of the design. The thoughts are constantly transformed along with the drawing and thinking. 
2. After the drawing is completed, it becomes a tool for communication with other people. Through the explanation of pictures, people can better understand one’s design concept. 
3. The goal of drawing is nothing more than to get all the details of the design that the designer wants. The drawing communicates to engineers how to perform production work. 

This courses examines a widespread phenomenon in the history of narrative that deals with the fantastic. Taking a transcultural and transmedia approach to the study of the fantastic, this course investigates its expressions in literary and cinematic narratives from a variety of historical periods and cultural traditions, in association with genres as diverse as fairy tales, science fiction, gothic romances, psychological thrillers, legends, love stories, and so on. This expansive view not only allows us to appreciate the adaptability of the fantastic as a discursive narrative mode, but also creates opportunities for us to understand its varying connections with its native cultures, as it migrates across cultural boundaries.

This course introduces the basic theories of developmental psychology and existing empirical research results, then focuses on the integration of various development themes in adolescence and the correlation between them.