Chinese

This course introduces the basic elements and concepts of the creation of advertising works, design basis (basic composition), design expression skills (graphics, colors, fonts), design styles, and work group proposals. Students master the basic creative divergent thinking methods, as well as the implementation of creative ideas and final production through graphic design methods, and finally use a variety of methods to complete advertising design works .

Through discussion in class, students learn Chinese vocabulary about a variety of aspects relating to sports. From sport events to sport management, students will obtain a deeper knowledge of sport phenomenons in Taiwan. By the end of the course, students will have the Chinese language ability to watch TV or listen to radio sport broadcasts. This course is conducted completely in Chinese to learn the relevant Chinese vocabularies about sports.

This is a course about the study of birds that covers the classification, evolution, physiology, behavior, ecology, research methods, conservation and management issues of birds. The course introduces the birds of Taiwan and issues surrounding their conservation. Classes include lectures, video viewings, and discussion of current events. The course also requires at least one bird watching trip. Text: F.B. Gill, ORNITHOLOGY. Assessment: midterm, final exam, field trip participation, in class participation.

The course introduces many aspects of piano music culture, including elementary guqin playing techniques. It simultaneously studies both theory and practice and uses piano music as the starting point for exploration into the ancient Chinese classical music culture and classical music culture represented by the guqin. The course introduces the specific rules and regulations of playing the piano, and the aesthetics of piano music and ancient piano theory as a means to understand the cultural life paradigm and musical aesthetic interest of ancient Chinese literati and doctors.

This course covers the history, basic concepts, theories, and research methods of communication. 

This course focuses on the development and management of theme parks. It enables students to participate in the design and management of theme parks through classroom reports, and to cultivate their innovation and problem analysis ability. This course covers the development history, trends, macro-strategy and specific operations of theme parks, and analyzes internationally renowned theme park groups and cases, as well as the development status and future trends of theme park management.

This course is an upper elementary reading and writing course in Putonghua.

This course teaches basic Chinese vocabulary used in a business environment. The class is limited to students who are capable of more than 1500 Chinese vocabulary or have taken Chinese classes for more than 800 hours (which equals to finishing the textbook Practical Audio-Visual Chinese II). The textbook used for this class is Far East Business Chinese (L.1~7). This class is taught only in Chinese.

This course introduces the major theoretical schools of thought in social change theory. Through the course, students learn how to analyze social change and improve their understanding of social change in China since 1949.