Chinese

This course teaches basic mathematical tools (linear algebra, multivariate differential calculus, function maximization) to build economic models and do economic analysis. The following mathematical tools are covered: Static Economic Models and The Concept of Equilibrium; Matrix Algebra; Vector Space and Linear Transformation; Determinant, Inverse Matrix, and Cramer's rule; Differential Calculus and Comparative Statics; Comparative Statics--Applications; Optimization; Optimization--Multivariate Case; Optimization--Equality Constraints and Nonlinear Programming; General Equilibrium and Game Theory.

This course covers roughly the time 500-1500, including Islamic civilization, Byzantine civilization and Western civilization, and an introduction to political and socio-cultural dimensions. Lecture topics include differences of the Roman Empire; establishment of Germanic kingdoms; the early Christian church; Mei Luowen dynasty; and medieval culture. Assessment: written reports, oral reports, participation and attendance, midterm and final exams.

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.