Chinese

This course cultivates an understanding of food and the impact of eating habits on human health. 

This beginning Chinese language course is for students who have never taken Chinese courses or have taken less than 100 hours of Chinese language instruction. It teaches hanyu pinyin; the structure, stroke orders, and writing method of Chinese characters; basic Chinese sentence structure and word order; and topics such as self-introduction and carrying on basic conversation. The course develops proficient language skills in listening, speaking, reading, and writing to enable students to communicate effectively in their daily lives. Through the course, students further understand Taiwanese culture and language. Text: Practical Audio-Visual Chinese I” (chapters 1-6).

Oriental philosophy of life is mainly based on Confucianism, Taoism and Buddhism. Other than those well known classics in its tradition, there are still other less well known texts. They are very popular and influential in the Chinese society. Such as: Figures in the full translation: a book talking about personnel management; The Chinese Code of Success-Maxims by Zhu Zi: a paper Zhu Zi wrote for his family as life guiding; Records of Reflections on Things at Hand: a selected works or writings from four main philosophers at North Song Dynasty by Zhu Zi; The Roots of Wisdom: an aphorism writings expressing deep understandings of life; Liao-Fan's Four Lessons: four reminders for life and fate from the point of view of life circle theory. Standards for Being a Good Student and Child: rules for kids in terms of traditional Confucianism; The Family Instructions of Zeng Guofan: letters from Zeng Guofan for family about learning and behavior. This course aims to introduce the above papers and books.

This course introduces the main theories of career development and consulting and its research (e.g. job matching theory, career development and construction theory, social cognitive theory, theory of career decision-making, etc.), and cultivates professional skills (e.g. professional psychological evaluation, professional information resources, etc.).

The course develops proficiency in listening, speaking, reading and writing that builds off already existing advanced proficiency in Chinese and further hones that proficiency through weekly discussion of the class text. The textbook will cover natural dialogues that integrate pieces of Taiwan culture and society. The methods of assessment will be conducted through attendance and participation, quizzes, assignments and midterm and final exams. 

This class provides training in experimental skills and scientific presentation for doing research in the field of neuroscience. Students perform their assigned research project, join weekly lab meeting, present up-to-date research articles and are involved in scientific discussion with the instructor and lab colleagues. Students are required to perform experiments under instructor's supervision and they also need to present their research work and scientific paper over the semester.

The course begins by writing a Python environment build while teaching the structure and use of various syntaxes. The course introduces various basic knowledge in Python one by one, arranging exercises in various situations at the same time so that students can accumulate the syntax and skills of writing Python programs while solving imaginary problems. The course content is introduced in the following order: 1. Python and authoring tools/platforms; 2. Python basic variable types, grammatical structure and package usage, and 3. Some of the most popular packages in Python. At the end of the course, students will choose a topic for a final project report (individual or group); students will be expected to introduce the problems they encountered and want to solve; how to solve these problems through Python, and present the results in visual ways.

Contemporary International Relations refers to the span of time from about 70 years after the end of the Second World War to the present, that is, from 1945 to 2016. From the perspective of the history of international relations, this course introduces the evolution of international relations since World War II through the comprehensive use of a variety of materials, including declassified government archives. This course is divided into two parts, the Cold War and the post-Cold War, marked by the disintegration of the former Soviet Union in 1991. In terms of content, it involves three aspects: the evolution of great power relations characterized by the "Cold War" between the United States and the Soviet Union; the regional integration process with the EU as the main representative; the evolution of international mechanisms with global governance as the main expression.