Chinese

This course uses sketching and oil painting as the basic teaching methods in order to understand the depth of form and the style of color.

This is a course in an all-round way to review Chinese history from ancient times to the Qing Dynasty. The students will know the outline of ancient Chinese history and be interested in it. 

Target Student: Intermediate level learners 
Objective: to improve students’ listening and speaking skills; to expose students to Chinese culture and society; to acquaint students with phonetic system and grammar for oral expression.
Content: Vocabulary Building; Themes-related speech; Chinese Vocabulary (around 1200 words)
 

This course aims to equip students with an understanding of the methodology of the philosophy of science, encouraging them to strike a reflective balance between the theoretical perspectives of the philosophy of mind and the empirical evidence of cognitive science. By engaging with original texts in both philosophy and cognitive science, students will enhance their ability to articulate and defend their views clearly while developing strong, disciplined philosophical writing skills.

Through the teaching of this course, students are introduced to the basic ideas and methods of object-oriented programming. Through learning and combining computer practice, students can understand the general methods of computer problem solving, master interface production, program writing and debugging, and enable students to have the ability to write simple application programs. This will lay a solid foundation for further self-study of other programming languages and improve programming skills in the future, while also improving students' logical thinking ability and meticulous thinking ability.

The basic contents include: VB development environment and basic programming steps, basic controls and language basics, basic control structures, arrays, procedures, commonly used controls, menus, multiple forms and files, etc.

The course will introduce Olympic movement and the related controversies and views from the perspective of culture In broad sense, analyze the relationship between Olympic culture and human and social development, politics, economy and world peace as well as the environmental protection. 

Course objectives It is intended that through the course students can learn and acquire the values and the positive character traits that are assumed to be developed in sport and Olympic Movement; to examine closely all aspects of the modern Olympic Games and Olympism in order to offer a comprehensive understanding of two key aspects of the Modern Olympic Culture: its historical developments and its present fundamental characteristics; the nature of the tensions created in the process of its evolution which have led to recent reforms.

This course discusses the concepts, technology and aesthetics of digital interactive devices, focusing on sound and image interaction as the theme, teaching the production of real-time sound images and digital interactive content and various tools, including MaxMSP, surround photography, animation, motion capture and sensory detector, etc. 

The course outline is as follows: 

1.Introduction to Digital Art 
2. Basic elements of digital art 
3. Self-made and created digital art 
4. Basic tools and functions for creation 
5. Interaction between music and digital art 
6.Interaction between images and digital art 
7. Sensors interact with digital art 
8. Digital art display and space design 
9. Discussion on production and finishing of works 
10. Work presentation and discussion 

This course introduces creative thinking methods and tools to foster design thinking in engineering and developing new products.