Chinese

This course provides students the experience the joy of planting dill flowers and understanding the various physiological processes from seed germination to harvest through hands-on practice, so as to learn the basic techniques of flower planting. The main items of study include: grass and flower sowing and seedling raising, transplanting seedlings, fertilizing, cutting propagation, high pressure propagation, hedge plant pruning and landscaping, etc. Students are exposed to the following flower species: African impatiens, sunflowers, marigolds, coleus, milkweed, peppermint, lemon balm, rosemary, lavender, sage, peony, pine peony, peonies , Jinluhua, echidna, hibiscus, dragon cypress, weeping banyan and so on. Upon completion of the course, students are expected to understand the growth habits, environmental requirements, medium and fertilizer selection, sowing, propagation, watering and fertilization, and various cultivation techniques. 

The course covers architectural appreciation, architectural criticism, and creative thinking in architectural design. By interpreting the development history of ancient and modern Chinese and foreign architectural and environmental landscape aesthetic creation, and important achievements and creative thinking of designers in architectural creation, the course cultivates students' independent thinking ability and creative thinking, and opens up creative imagination and enlightenment.

This course focuses on governance in Hong Kong, political change since being returned to China, political party system and operation, electoral system and operation, legislative council system and operation, government governance and public policy, honest and upright government system, district council system and operation. It also covers the political development process, political party system, and electoral system in Taiwan. It compares Hong Kong and Taiwan, with special attention to the political structure and government administration, the political party and electoral system, the political development process, and the mission of “One Country, Two Systems” in the reunification of the motherland.

This course introduces the basic concepts, business models, management theory, and application practice of e-commerce. The course is divided into the following four parts: e-commerce foundation and development trends; e-commerce model and technical analysis; e-commerce planning and management; e-commerce creativity and practical training.

This course enhances knowledge and understanding of new undergraduate students majoring in social work through the teaching of individual and professional growth, participatory discussions, and self-growth group module design, thereby promoting better university adaptation and self-identification. This course will cover the three aspects of "Looking outward, how are you shaped?", "Looking inward, knowing the complete self" and "Using the self in professional practice", and strive to be led by peer groups. The self-recognition growth group supervised and taught by professional teachers travels along the way to accompany the students on the journey of self-understanding, rediscovery, and growth.

Through the teaching of commercial photography related knowledge, as well as a large number of practical photography practice, students can master the basic commercial photography shooting skills, and the ability to carry out and produce creative ideas by means of photography, and finally have the ability and methods to complete the complete commercial visual image production.

This course is guided by commercial photography practice. Based on the study of basic shooting techniques and photographic equipment, three parts of photography training are carried out:

1. Street photography, which mainly trains students' observation ability and capture skills in specific environment, and completes photography works with aesthetic feeling and interest;

2. Advertising photography, mainly carried out in the studio, including shooting scheme planning, visual creativity and placement skills, has the ability to execute a complete set of advertising photography works;

3. Public relations photography, combined with the technique of snapshot and shooting, can fully shoot and present the images of specific commercial activities, marketing events, and characters.The three parts are organically combined to form a relatively integrated commercial photography system.

This is an introduction course to feedback control system analysis, control principles, control systems design, and system stability. The course content includes the modeling of physical systems in engineering and other fields; transform methods; controller design using Nyquist, Bode, and root locus methods; compensation; computer-aided analysis and design with MATLAB. 

This course strengthens Chinese listening, writing, and speaking skills and focuses on strengthening oral and expressive skills The course is designed for exchange students and visiting students only. The Chinese course is offered for those students who are taking Chinese course Intermediate I, II & III from NTU Center for International Education. The course aims to enable students to learn Chinese with joy through games and group activities. Except for improving students' listening, speaking, reading and writing skills, the course could help students further understand Taiwanese culture and language.

The course examines the formation process and the basic theory of population economics. It covers the object and characteristics of the discipline's research; the interrelationship between population and economy and research methods; the economic theory of fertility and mortality; the economic influencing factors; the impact of population quantity, quality, migration and investment on economic development from the perspective of population economics; the economic factors of population change and the interrelationship between demographic and economic phenomena; population and investment consumption, China's population economy and world population economy.

This course is broadly equivalent to A1 Basic user/ Breakthrough level of the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages..