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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.

This course explores core issues in philosophy. More specifically, it addresses the following questions:
(1) Can we have any knowledge of the external world?
(2) Can we have knowledge of other minds?
(3) What is knowledge? What are the sources of knowledge?
(4) Is mind/soul irreducible to brain events?
(5) Can there be a personal identity relationship between the current and the past “me(s)”?
(6) Do we have free will?
(7) Does God exist?
(8) Is a benevolent God incompatible with a world where evil happens?
(9) Does human life have any meaning?
(10) Is it rational to fear death?
(11) Why should I be moral?
(12) Is morality objective? Can our moral judgments be justified?
(13) What is the nature of causality?
(14) What is law of nature?
(15) How do scientists explain the observed phenomena? Does science aim to reveal the reality hidden behind the appearances? 

This course in world literature introduces basic knowledge of literature, basic research methods, appreciation perspectives, and cutting-edge phenomena. Students read literature while considering genre, country, literature type and theme, select some classic works of contemporary world literature to analyze them in different research methods. The course selects representative works for analysis and research including selections from Europe, America, Latin America, and East Asia. Literary types include drama, novel, poem, film text, and genres include romanticism, realism, modernism, and postmodernism; topics include fate, love, war, and gender; other regions, types. Genres and motives of literature are briefly introduced.

The course aims to build students' organic chemistry experimental skills and knowledge. The course outlines is as follows: Experiment 1: Melting point determination Experiment 2: Recrystallization Experiment 3: Distillation Experiment 6: Extraction Experiment 8: Chromatography (1) Experiment ten: alkenes and alkanes Experiment 12: Preparation and properties of chloroalkane Experiment Thirteen: Properties and Reactions of Alcohols Experiment Fourteen: Preparation of Ethers Experiment 16: Preparation of cyclohexanone Experiment Eighteen: Diels-Adel Reaction Experiment 20: Preparation of Aspirin and Its Properties

This course introduces the background, theory and method of historical anthropology, and its application in historical research. Course topics include culture and tradition, structure and interpretation, meaning and metaphor, state and power, time, space, memory and imagination, and modernity and world system.

This course introduces common visual knowledge to provide a minimum of visual media literacy. Topics: the basic situation of visual communication development; basic theory and knowledge of visual communication; and entry-level visual communication practice skills.

This course examines the basic theoretical knowledge of the legal norms and ethical norms of news dissemination, carries out research on important legal and ethical issues that have emerged in the current practice of news communication in China through a combination of theories and case studies, helps students to learn, use, and obey news laws and ethics, so that they can not only conform to the characteristics of the Internet era, but also use relevant theoretical knowledge to analyze practical problems. Through the course, students will be trained and improve their legal literacy; maintain the right of news dissemination; fulfill the obligation of news dissemination; and observe the professional ethics of journalism.

This course includes the following topics: legal basis and legal thinking; overview of Chinese and foreign news communication laws and regulations; news communication activities and national security; news communication activities and social order; administrative management of news communication; news infringement; news communication activities and reputation protection; news communication activities and privacy protection; advertising message release and management; overview of news ethics; internet rumors and internet governance in China; internet governance and freedom of expression; internet and copyright infringement; Internet and personal information rights protection; Internet industry innovation and compliance research; financial information disclosure misrepresentation and insider trading, etc. ; maintain the authenticity of news; "hidden interviews"; prohibit news sensation, hype, and vulgarity; supervision of public opinion and "news trials"; prohibit "paid news", "paid negligence" and news blackmail.

This course covers the basic theories of material science. Topics include atomic structure and interatomic bonding, structures of metals and ceramics, imperfections in solids, mechanical properties, deformation and strengthening mechanisms, failure, structures and properties of metals and alloys, applications and processing of metal and alloys, structures and properties of ceramics, and applications and processing of ceramics.