Chinese

This course introduces the fundamental principles of international finance and its applications. Course topics include the structure, function and operation of Foreign Exchange Market; the concept and theory of balance of payments; models of interest rate parity, purchasing power parity and exchange rate determination to analyze exchange rate changes and forecast exchange rate; the evolution of International Monetary System; Output, exchange rate and macroeconomic policy, and international financial topics.

The course focuses on the event of social management. It discusses how to govern the society, country and the world. In Chinese Philosophy, Confucianism and Taoism define the basic value of management principle, while the Book of Change and Book of Talented Person suggest more details. The former points on issues of bureaucrat problems while the later concerns how to look for talented persons. The above schools and Books start their thinking from the meaning of human beings in order to find out the ultimate ideal of people's life. As for the idea to service society, some teaches how to be a good leader, how to do the personnel training, how could be quick-witted, how to recognize one's characteristic, and some even suggests individualism thus could well be used on the management of leisure event and retire life. The course will have enough discussion and the teacher will answer students' questions. Through the Q & A could bring up students' ability to deal with modern social life by renewing those old doctrines. The course will have middle and final examination where the text taught in the classes is the point. Beside with the middle and final examination students should hand over documents telling what they had learned from the course and how they use those ideas to solve their daily problems.

This course presents language development obstacles for infants and preschool children. The class introduces main phonetics, semantics, grammar, and usage as developmental processes for children and some common disorders for language processing. The course also covers language assessment of young children and introduces ways of reclamation, and the importance of early intervention for language disorders. Texts: Reed, V. A. (2012) An Introduction to Children with Language Disorders; Bernstein, D. K. , Tiegerman-Farber, E. (2009) Language and Communication Disorders in Children. Assessment: oral report (5%), assignments (8%), participation (13%), midterm exam (28%), final exam (28%), report (18%).

This survey course introduces the field of environmental communication, its core concepts, perspectives, components, contextual theories, and nature of its scholarship. It first covers the major areas that construct an environmental public sphere—the public, environmental groups, media, government, and corporations. Then, relevant Chinese environmental cases in each area are presented to apply the theories.

This course examines the disciplinary history of archaeology, research objects, research methods, interpretive theories, and the ways and techniques of archaeological work.

This course introduces the basic concepts of information system security and the design principles of classic information system security mechanisms, systematically discussing security threats and corresponding system security protection strategies from two aspects: security analysis technology and security protection mechanism. Information system vulnerabilities and malicious behavior analysis techniques, authentication, information protection and isolation mechanisms, access control and other security protection mechanisms are discussed. Using the latest data processing application software as an example, the course analyzes the use of information system security technology, combining case analysis and course experiments, and analyzes the security mechanism design of mainstream information systems and common security detection and security defense technologies.

Research on developing countries has mainly focused on how to achieve economic prosperity and equal distribution of wealth, but politics also has a significant impact on the well-being of people in developing countries. This course will introduce students to the most important theoretical frameworks and empirical findings for the study of politics in developing countries. Firstly, it introduces the main paradigms of studying political development, such as modernization theory and dependency theory. Next, the course will discuss some important topics in political development, such as the influence of colonialism, ethnic conflict, military intervention, individual dictatorship, religion and politics, and political and economic development. 

This course provides an introduction to the theory of the state. After introducing the concept of the state and the state-centered perspective, this course expands on the current theory of the state from both horizontal and vertical perspectives. Vertically, the course answers the following questions: Why did the modern state rise? What are the factors that influence nation-building? What experience does each country offer? Horizontally, the course introduces the relationship between the state and other political and social phenomena, such as the state and political system, the state and economy, the state and identity, and so on. Finally, the focus of this lesson will fall to China.