Chinese

This course is a general overview of the interactions of language and other higher mental functions, such as pattern recognition and problem solving. In particular, it goes through solving various types of linguistic puzzles, and facilitate understanding of how knowledge of language and general reasoning interact in the process of problem-solving. Through this course, students are expected to achieve the basic understanding of the logical structure as encoded in natural languages, and to gain practical experience through hands-on practice with the real data. Prerequisite: Introduction to Linguistics.

This course provides a foundation of the principles of international finance and trade. It examines contemporary development and basic theory, the characteristics and internal structure of financial and trade operations under the open economy, and the evolution of international finance and trade in the era of globalization, including opportunities and challenges. The course covers the international monetary system: evolution and trends; balance of payments: pattern, theory and policy; foreign exchange market: structure, efficiency and derivatives; exchange rate theory: main basic theory; international capital flows: evolution, motivation, effects and management; international financial markets: composition, innovation and effects; international financial crisis: types, evolution and risk management; regional monetary integration and international policy coordination: choices under globalization; contemporary China's trade and finance: development, openness and international influence.

This course addresses the effective use of cloud technology in digital cultural and creative projects including: versatile digital publishing, website design, web community development, digital imaging, animation, video and media production management. As a specific objective, we emphasize to cap off a team project more than an individual task. This course takes account of the inter-discipline of humanities and information technology through media application. The learning method focuses on problem solving oriented approach. The learning activity designates a hands-on assignment and requires a complete output in the form of publishable presentation.

This course focuses on emprise in Chinese literature. Specifically, this course studies a genre of fiction that is uniquely Chinese as the genre usually involves elements including: Kung Fu, Chinese traditional medicine, and other exclusively Chinese cultural elements. The course examines common themes of this popular literature genre by studying key works of important authors such as Jin Yong, Gu Long, and others. Assessment: written reports and class participation (40%), a creative fictional piece (30,000 to 100,000 Chinese characters) OR a final written report (60%).

This course examines the method and process of problem analysis and mathematical model establishment; the algorithm design strategy and its key points--recursion, brute force, divide and conquer, greed, dynamic programming, backtracking and branch and bound, random, approximation, etc.; and the expression of algorithm complexity and the basic method of complexity analysis.

The purpose of this course is applying social and behavioral principles and theories on the phenomenon regarding health, disease, and environment. In academia, health behavior sciences and medical social sciences are often seen as a whole. However, in the recent decades, personal health is drew more attention in the aspects of diseases contract and population health, which makes the term “behavior” favorable and brings enthusiastic discussions and debates. As far as the depth and breadth within health domain, every issue is associated with behavior. Due to the complexity, we need to explore and examine health outcomes through different angles and approaches in order to comprehend the essential and determinants of health issues to further achieve effective solutions. This course contains two sections. First, we review the elements of human behavior through social sciences or even biological sciences (e.g., sociobiology). Second, with the understanding of behavioral basis, we move on to episodes which are related to behavioral, structural, and policy fields as well as the causes and consequences in the contemporary public health to develop proper interventions. Within the structure and thread of the theoretical concepts, the course is expected to acquaint students with the history and progress of human behavior and the fundamental framework utilized to describe human behavior.

This advanced Chinese language course combines language and culture, and covers various Chinese and Taiwanese holidays to introduce historical backgrounds of celebrations and customs that are practiced. This course strengthens language skills and vocabulary through discussion, deepening students' understanding of Chinese culture and national holidays. This course is taught fully in Chinese.

The subjects are designed to help students understand cognitive development in infancy and early childhood, and to understand main cognitive development theories and research methods. Through lectures, class discussions, field collection of cognitive development materials, and reading of designated textbooks and journal papers, students can not only understand the process of cognitive development in infants and young children, but also cultivate students to apply what they have learned in class and observe in-depth research on the cognitive process of infants and young children. The course focuses on: Discussing the main theories of cognitive development, such as Piaget's school, information processing theory, and Vygotsky's and other scholars' interpretations of early childhood cognitive development, and commenting on the above theoretical orientations; exploring the main cognitive areas of infancy, such as perception; the development of concepts, language, reasoning, and memory, including social cognition, and a discussion of the physiological basis of cognitive development.