Chinese

Recently, sensor networks, cyber physics systems, and internet of things have become popular because sensing, communication, and analytics technologies matured. In the future, digital sensing, communication, and processing capabilities will be ubiquitously embedded into everyday objects, turning them into an Internet of Things (IoT, also known as, machine-to-machine, M2M). Sensors everywhere can continuously collect a large quantity of data; processors everywhere can analyze and infer useful knowledge from the data; communication ratios can transmit and exchange useful knowledge with other everyday objects to serve humans better. This paradigm shift which can significantly improve our life brings up numerous challenges and opportunities to engineering. This course plans to encourage students from multiple disciplines to collaborate with each other and create innovative IoT applications/services to improve our daily life. Electrical engineering students from NTU and NTU Science and Technology collaborate with design students from NTU to design prototypes of Internet of Things products that improve our daily lives. Teams present a live demonstration of their project at the end of the quarter.

This course analyzes Chinese historical short stories with a focus on reading comprehension. The course exposes international students to Chinese culture and stories while developing and improving Chinese vocabulary through the introduction of new words and idioms. The course also explores the historical context for each of the stories through videos, images, and other sources (outside of the textbook). The course is intended for students who understand at least 2200 words in Chinese. Assessment: two quizzes, midterm, final, participation, and attendance.

This course examines international trade systems; international trade targets; international trade logistics; storage and transportation; shipping finance; international trade payment; international trade financing; bulk commodity trade; construction of free trade zone and internationalization of people's currency.

The course examines characteristics of critical thinking and expression in news commentary, topic selection of news  commentary, viewpoints in news commentary, argument and narrative effect of news commentary, argumentation of news commentary, structure of news commentary, title of news commentary, language of news commentary, and professional writing types of news commentary.

This beginning-language course in standard (Mandarin) Chinese is a continuation of Chinese I. It consists of three components: grammar, conversation and Chinese characters. The course introduces another 280 Chinese characters and 250 phrases. Emphasis is placed on listening, speaking, reading and the writing of Chinese characters. Students are required to give short speeches and to conduct projects in tutorials. Assessment: attendance, participation, assignments and exercises, oral presentation, quizzes, midterm, final exam.

This course introduces the basic concepts and disciplines of current developmental (child) psychology. Through the integration of situational materials, it places emphasis on cross-cultural research, and more practical applications.

Before taking this course, students should have a foundation in general psychology and experimental psychology.

This course covers the main functions and theories of government finance. It examines the basic theory of finance (introduction, public goods, and externalities) and analyzes fiscal expenditure. It explores taxation theory and systems, government budget and public choice, future public policies and public affairs, and government financial relationship and economic behavior.

The purpose of this course is to introduce the basic knowledge of educational psychology that is common today. This course encourages students to reflect on the topics mentioned in the classroom through their own past learning and teaching experience, in order to better understand their own assumptions and concepts of teaching and learning, and to be able to use the classroom in the future teaching scene.