Chinese

The teaching objective of this course is to identify and clarify the basic concepts, principles, interrelationships and applicable conditions of insurance; Summarize the basic knowledge system of insurance, and understand the representative research results in related fields; Understand the main ideas in the establishment and development of the basic theory of insurance. Integrate the insurance knowledge system and establish an organic link between the knowledge modules; And establish contact with different disciplines (such as economics and psychology). Recognize and optimize their own risk thinking, as well as the ability and thinking mode related to observation, thinking and creation; Understand the tools used by others to deal with risks, exchange experiences, compare and accept the differences and diversity of each person's understanding and thinking, and learn from each other.

This course describes the most general laws, basic theories, principles and methods of insurance. This course mainly includes four knowledge modules: basic concepts and principles of insurance, property and liability risk and insurance, life and health risk and insurance, and insurance supervision. Through the study of this course, students will have a comprehensive understanding of the basic principles of insurance and China's insurance market, fully grasp the emergence, development and market laws of insurance, improve college students' risk awareness and insurance awareness, and lay a professional foundation for other courses of insurance.

This course examines poetry and literature from the Tang dynasty to Song dynasty in classical Chinese. Students analyze line by line of the poetry written by famous Chinese scholars. These literati express their feelings, emotions, attachment, relationship with the garden they own in these poetry. The poetries are specifically on garden poetry---which is poetry written about gardens and the emotion of literati. The course is taught all in Chinese with readings in classical Chinese.

This class is mainly taught in Chinese and is for students who have mastered more than 450 Chinese words or have more than 320 hours of Chinese language instruction. The course includes Taiwanese pronunciation (initials, finals, intonation, transposition, soft tone, legato); spelling of Roman characters and review of commonly used Chinese characters in Taiwanese; sentence building exercises; question answering and dialogue exercises for advanced sentence patterns; Taiwanese songs; Taiwanese tongue twisters, popular proverbs, jokes, essays, and stories; and Taiwanese culture.

This course examines human behavior and social environment from the following perspectives: biological; psychological; social/political perspectives; Angles and spiritual; genetics; sociobiology; evolutionary psychology; psychoanalysis; behaviorism; humanism; lifespan development; systems theory; symbolic interaction theory;  feminism; empowerment theory; transpersonal psychology.

The course presents geographic information systems (GIS)-related technologies and applications. The course introduces the theory and application of the geographic information system as well as provides practice using the software. Topics: GIS profile; GIS applications; GIS data formats and integrated systems; spatial data capture and integration; database management concepts; and spatial data analysis. The course includes a term project using GIS to investigate a topic of choice. Assessment: homework (60%), term project write up (30%), and term project presentation (10%).

Through the study of this course

(1) Knowing the structural interpretation of the previous sociological mainstream, the students will be able to master the origin, the relationship between cultural concept, culture and structure (society) in development, transformation and debate.

(2) Through extensive reading of existing research model articles, the students can grasp the cultural perspective to interpret several social phenomena (Cultural Society: understanding the cultural influence on social processes) or the basic skills to analyze cultural phenomena (Sociology of Culture: understanding the social influences on cultural formations).

(3) Help the students to be familiar with classical and contemporary empirical research and theoretical literature on culture, and help graduate students to choose, standardize and complete their own research topics (including cultural and structural content topics).

Economic development affects the living standards and options of people. The question of why some countries grow much faster than others is perhaps the central question in the study of development. This course approaches this question by reviewing and explaining the logic behind the most important arguments that have been advanced to account for differences across countries in rates and levels of economic development. The emphasis is on the studies of growth (both theoretical models and empirical work), population structure, inequality, poverty, fiscal policies, financial development and trade.

This course studies and interprets political issues in the Middle East. Topics include its geographical position, historical evolution, civilization, development, relationship between church and state, religion, revolution and reform, war and peace, and oil economy. The course combines a realistic perspective of theory with practice.

This course is an introduction to the basic content of strategic communication of various organizations (local, global, business, social) in China. Based on the theoretical viewpoints and constituent elements in the fields of strategic management, public relations, organizational communication and marketing communication, this course introduces the core ideas, viewpoints, components, subject nature of the new research direction of strategic communication, and emphasizes its development in China.