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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.

This course studies the principles of computer systems supporting the operation of application software. Students master the basic overview of a computer system and use these concepts to solve practical problems. The course covers representation of information in computer, machine representation and organization of executable programs, principle of processor, characteristics of hierarchical storage and cache principle, virtual memory, performance optimization.

This course sets specific topics for students. Through the specific shooting practice, as well as a large number of specific case analysis and creative guidance for documentary photography, it is hoped that the students who sign up for this course can understand documentary photography and use documentary photography to carry out news reporting practice.

This course covers the basic principles and research methods of constitutional law. It provides a study of the Constitution of China and the basic theory of the Constitution of Marxism. It covers the history, development, and practical application of The Constitution of China.

This course introduces the basic theory of education, basic concept of pedagogy, the status of education in Taiwan, and today's major issues related to education. Lecture topics include an introduction to curriculum, the significance of education and connotation, foundation of education, educational reform, access to education, and non-traditional schools. This class includes lectures by professor, class discussions, guest speakers, field data collection, group work, and student reports.

The course provides a study of banking and bank management. The course is divided into three parts. The first part of the course introduces the history and current state of the banking industry (structural characteristics). The second part of the course includes banking performance evaluation and analysis, focusing on banking financial statements and value analysis. The third part of the course covers banking business and risk management. Topics include asset-liability management and interest rate risk management, liquidity risk and reserve management, debt management, investment management, capital management, commercial bank credit management, innovative business and off-balance sheet business management, etc. Experts from the banking industry are invited to provide guest lectures.

This course focuses on the role that the "modern city” played to the social life and literature in Taiwan. The “modern city lifestyle” in Taiwan appeared in the period of Japanese colonial rule, but has its roots in Western culture. As a site of intensive interactions and conflicts, the "modern city" has fostered many sensitive artists and writers who created great works and critiques. Therefore, it’s necessary to adapt the theoretical perspectives of sociology and history to understand how the literature writers response to their ages. Three kinds of readings are included: sociological analysis: theoretical essays about metal life, inner structures, communities, subcultures, new urban sociology, and growth machine, etc.; historical knowledge: important social and cultural historical writings about the cities in Taiwan; urban literature: about 20 of the most important novels and films from 1930s to today in Taiwan.