Chinese

This course examines the latest developments in robotics and their applications in intelligent automation. In addition to academic theory, emphasis is placed on integrated technologies such as electronics, mechanics, and computing. This course also provides hands-on experience in robot development. By writing programs in LEGO MINDSTORMS NXT and NXC, students learn the software development of robots; and by using modules to build robots, students learn hardware development. Project production in class will enable students to acquire all the development procedures and knowledge for various robotics and automation applications. Topics include: Color Sorting Robot (using caterpillar treads), Remote Control for Robotic Arm, Tank, Forklift Truck, Soccer Robot, Obstacle Avoidance Robot, Line Follower.

This course provides basic understanding of piano and the playing skills of piano, including: staccato, legato, skipping, scales and voices, chords.

This course examines the creation and management of innovative product flow systems spanning procurement, operations and distribution, as well as inventory theory and control with emphasis on integrated logistics operations and supply chain management. It focuses on quantitative analysis techniques in logistics and also on strategic logistics management issues.

The course covers the basic concepts, principles, purpose, and characteristics of marriage and family and inheritance law. It discusses problems in practice using empirical analysis. Topics include the kinship, institution of marriage, adoption, and inheritance.

As a required course for economics majors, this course introduces international macroeconomic issues in an open economy, including exchange rate, balance of payments, regulatory policy and international coordination. It is hoped that through a semester of lectures, exercises and discussions, students can grasp the core concepts and analytical frameworks of international finance and use basic analytical tools and methods to think about important practical issues.

Note: This course has a different unit value than a similar course with the same name (International Finance), also offered by the School of Economics at Fudan University.

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.

The course provides an introduction to the culture of Chinese painting. Through Chinese painting, it also examines the balance between Yin and Yang, the virtual and the real in Chinese culture, and the similarities in the origins of books and paintings.

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.

This course examines what entrepreneurship is, how to understand entrepreneurship, how to prepare for the process of entrepreneurship, what difficulties one will encounter in the process of entrepreneurship, and who can help one in entrepreneurship.