Chinese

Ancient Greek historiography has a profound influence on the development of Western historiography. This course focuses on understanding Herodotus, the “Father of Western Historiography”, and his works. Through the analysis of the text and the details, it examines Herodotus’ writing style, historical background, the logic behind his works, the culture at that time, and his philosophy.

This course is designed to help upper level Chinese as a Second Language students to improve their literacy through Chinese newspaper articles. The goal of this class is reach at least a 70% understanding of articles. Every class focuses on one section within a news site. Each week a student chooses an article and prepares to teach the rest of the class the key words needed to grasp a basic understanding of the content.

The course covers the basic concepts and practice of personal injury and forensic identification, including a focus on legal knowledge. It covers the concepts, procedures, and principles of forensic appraisal; the concept of forensic appraisal of personal injury and its relationship with other related disciplines such as forensic clinical science; the manifestations and characteristics of mechanical injuries; common machinery that intentionally harms various systems of the human body, and identification of the degree of injury.

The course examines the political, economic, and social history of China from the Boxer Rebellion to the contemporary era. Main topics covered include overthrow of the Qing Dynasty, the May Fourth Movement, the rise of Communism, and Reforms since the 1978-era.

The course is aimed to introduce the basic concept of logic and teachs how to reason things in the world correctly. Two important parts of this course are to talk about deductive reasoning and to teach student to separate the concepts of cognitive language and emotional language.

This course examines macroeconomics with a focus on the four basic models: Keynes Is-LM model, Classical full employment AD-AS model, Inflation SP-LP model, and Modern growth model. The course uses the four models to analyze the actual state of the economy with a focus on the United States, Taiwan, and Mainland China. Other topics include macroeconomic statistics; monetary policy, fiscal policy, and government budgets; stabilization policy objectives; money and financial markets; consumer theory; investment theory; and reflection on the rapid economic development of Taiwan over the past half century. Text: Robert J. Gordon, MARCOECONOMICS; and class handouts.

Taiwan has formed a multilingual society rich in languages, an asset accumulated over a long history. This phenomenon was also due to Taiwan’s encounters with different cultures at different historical stages: that between Austronesians and Dutch; Austronesians and Han Chinese; Austronesians and Han Chinese and Japanese, to Taiwan natives and Chinese immigrants in 1949. This course enables students to gain a full understanding between Taiwanese language and historical development and social phenomena, as well as develop an enthusiasm for Taiwanese language. 

This course introduces financial report auditing and internal control auditing, including basic concepts and theories, and auditing procedures and cycles, specifically how to make auditing plans, complete auditing tests, conduct analysis based on auditing evidence, and make the final auditing report. It also covers the characteristics, ethics, and legal responsibilities of auditing, as well as concepts such as auditing goals, responsibilities, evidence, risks, and plans.

This course examines theories of museum informatization, including introduction; digital management of museum collections; digital museums (including digital tour/on-site multimedia display content and online exhibition digital methods); theories and technologies of the museum collection information management system including the function setting principle and operation method; text and multimedia information collection.