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In our daily life, people often tell friends, peers, family of their distress before they tell professional counselors. Peer counseling is such a special kind of psychological counseling, conducted by trained or supervised unprofessional people, providing helps having some counseling effects. In this process, through the use of active listening and problem solving skills combining knowledge about human development and mental health, peer counselors instruct their companions and provide them with psychological and emotional support In this course, the basic concept, skills and ethic of peer counseling will be introduced, as well as some practical problems such as culture, race, sexual orientation and romantic relationship. As a general course, these goals are to reach: Students can have basic knowledge of peer counseling; Some basic peer counseling skills can be mastered and used in practical situations; This course also helps student in viewing their own mental health and improving it with related knowledge.

This course is directed towards those who have taken Advanced Low Chinese I of the NTU Chinese Language Course for International Students or those who have learned Chinese for 500-600 hours (6hrs/week).  This course uses the textbook Practical Audio-Visual Chinese IV (chapter 8~ chapter 14) to help students develop proficient language skills in listening, speaking, reading and writing that would enable them to communicate effectively in their daily lives. Students will learn new vocabulary and grammar that are not often used in daily conversations. Students will be able to use appropriate Chinese language to carry on discussions and further understand Taiwanese language and culture as they progress though the course. 

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INTERMEDIATE INTENSIVE CHINESE III

This course is directed towards those who have taken Intermediate Chinese of the NTU Chinese Language Course for International Students or those who have learned Chinese for 250-350 hours (6hrs/week).  This course uses the textbook Practical Audio-Visual Chinese II (chapter 7~ chapter 13) to help students develop proficient language skills in listening, speaking, reading and writing that would enable them to communicate effectively in their daily lives. Students will further understand Taiwanese language and culture through the course. 

This course is directed towards those who have taken Elementary Low Chinese of the NTU Chinese Language Course for International Students or those who have taken Chinese for 100-200 hours. This course uses the textbook Practical Audio-Visual Chinese I (chapter 7~chapter 12) to help students develop proficient language skills in listening, speaking, reading and writing that would enable them to communicate effectively in their daily lives. Students will further understand Taiwanese language and culture as they progress through the course. 

The modern and contemporary history of China course is a compulsory course of ideological and political theory for undergraduates, provided by The Central Propaganda Department and the Ministry of Education .This course focus on the history of Chinese people against foreign aggression, fighting for national independence, overthrowing the reactionary rule and achieving national liberation in modern China. It will help students understand the national history, the historical process and internal rules of the modern Chinese society and the revolution. By this way, they will deeply understand why people choose the Marxism, the Communist Party of China and the road of socialism. This course was set up by Peking University since September 2006 and it was named to the quality courses of Beijing and China in 2008. Credit score: 2. schedule type: 2 hours a week, optional during two semesters. level: freshmen required. This course use the form of seminars as teachers will be separated into four teams, include presenters, a competent teacher, lectures and teaching assistants. The teachers will give you some lectures, and the traits of the course is the practical parts, such as broadcasting documentaries or films, writing exercises about the films, class discussion, visiting the exhibitions and so on. The assessment of students is flexible. Final exams accounts for 60%, which is open-book examination, the rest 40% include individual performance and essays. 

This tutorial course is directed towards those who are enrolled in the Elementary Low Chinese and Elementary High Chinese levels of NTU General Chinese Language Course. This course helps students polish their listening and speaking skills through effective daily conversation. The course focuses on listening and speaking, training students to communicate with basic vocabulary and grammar and making self-introductions. 

This course is directed towards those who have never taken Chinese courses or those who have learned Chinese up to 100 hours (six hours/week). This course uses the textbook Practical Audio-Visual Chinese I (~chapter 6) to help students develop proficient language skills in listening, speaking, reading and writing that would enable them to communicate effectively in their daily lives. Students will further understand Taiwanese language and culture as they progress through the course. 

This is the first part of basic courses "Ancient History of China" for undergraduate students of department of history, covering the history from Xia Dynasty to the Southern and Northern Dynasty. The content is divided into four parts: the pre-Qin periad, the Qin and Han periad, Wei, Jin and the Southern and Northern Dynasty periad, the Institutional history part. The aim of the lessons is to enable students to understand the basic facts of this periad, its the main problems and developing issues, to establish an Overview of political, economic, institutional, cultural, ethnic changes, learn the basic methods of historical research, understand related academic works, important researchers and the latest academic trends, cultivate professional spirit, thus lay the foundation for the further study.