Chinese

This course is specially designed for international students, and guides international students to understand the different aspects of Taiwanese society through various topics: 1. Taiwanese society and culture: Introduce the three main goals and five characteristics of Taiwan's universal health insurance, and guide students to reflect on the current medical system and development in their home country. Modules 3 and 4 introduce Taiwanese folk beliefs such as Mazu beliefs, Wangye beliefs and other religious ceremonies, as well as the communication methods between Taiwanese folk beliefs and gods (such as drawing lots), and introduce emerging religions in Taiwan. 2. Food and culture: introduce tea art, wine and food, night market snacks, Hakka cuisine, North-South cuisine, aboriginal cuisine, etc. Wedding and funeral festive customs: Introduce marriage, funeral and childbirth rituals and their historical inheritance and cultural significance. 3. Modern History: Beginning from the Japanese Occupation Period, through the Nationalist Government’s arrival in Taiwan, martial law, and lifting of martial law In this period, it introduces the changes in the political and economic structure, customs and folk conditions of modern times. 4. Looking at Taiwan through movies: Through Taiwanese movies, we can further understand Taiwanese culture, such as palace culture, funeral culture, wedding, food culture, etc. 5. Taiwan aboriginal legends and culture: From legends and celebrations, introduce the aboriginal culture. Saisha: Legend of the Dwarfs and the Dwarf Ritual, Atayal: The Legend of the Rainbow and the Ritual of the Ancestors. Dawu: The Legend of the Flying Fish and the Flying Fish Festival.

The aim of Intensive Chinese Reading is to improve the students' reading and writing skills by learning vocabulary and grammar.

Elementary Class: For those who have vocabulary skill of more than 200 Chinese words. The class mainly teaches basic grammar and daily expressions.
 

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.