Chinese

The course covers the importance of film pre-production, scripting, and basic shooting. Through outdoor practice, different methods of shooting animals, plant, and landscape are learned. The course is designed into three parts: outdoor shooting, sounds recording, and film editing. At the end of the semester, the students turn in and present their film project to the class.

This course introduces Buddhism and its philosophies. In this course, students examine the basic tenets of Buddhism, its mythology and Buddhism’s impact in the world.

Taoism is an important school of ancient Chinese philosophy, and Laozi is the core text of Taoism. This course is conducted around the main philosophical concepts and topics in the text of Laozi. The seemingly loose text of Laozi is reorganized. On the basis of in-depth interpretation of the text, we are able to make the chapters as well as the internal specific expression of the text show their relationship in terms of meaning, and thus a “substantive system” can be organized in a text with a “formal system.” The course emphasizes text reading as the starting point for any discussion, and attempts to demonstrate how resources can first be sought from within the text, rather than from outside, to interpret the main ideas of Laozi and construct his main ideas. The class explains the connotation and significance of the core ideas and concepts of Laozi, on the basis of which, some misunderstandings about the philosophy and Taoism of Laozi are clarified. It guides students to experience the unique spirit of Laozi philosophy, and leads students to reflect on the possible relevance of classical thinking to the contemporary world. The course integrates the cultivation of philosophical speculative thinking into classroom oral expression and academic writing training. 

After taking this course, students grasp the explanation of the origin of Taoism, the status and development of Taoism in Chinese philosophy, and the discussion between Laozi and Laozi, to know the basic situation of different editions of Lao Zi, especially the relationship between the unearthed documents and the handed down literature, to understand the tradition of Chinese annotation, and to understand the relationship between Laozi and Laozi’s annotation.

This course examines documentary photography at home and abroad as a visual style, and the creative laws of documentary photography.

The purpose of this course is to illustrate and apply economic analysis methods with clear examples. Situational teaching and heuristic thinking enable students to understand various social phenomena from the perspective of "decision-makers" and turn economics into an action science integrating knowledge and action. The goal of this course is to take economics off the blackboard and back to reality, to make decision-making more rational.

This course introduces the economic development of Mainland China after 1949 through a series of research papers. The course is divided into three modules. The first module includes the important aspects of the economic development model, integration into the world economy, technological and structural changes, and reform policies since the implementation of the centrally planned economy period and the implementation of the reform and opening up in 1978. The second module covers the impact of globalization on China's overall economy, labor market, and capital market in 1978. The third module focuses on the dynamic evolution of China's urbanization process and economic geography since the reform and opening up, and discusses the economic impact of related reforms, trade, and space policy changes.

This course discusses subjects on iconic figures and events throughout Chinese history that students may have learned about previously, and uses a more in depth approach on these events to learn about connecting past history with modern world problems, and how we can solve them. Assessment: Participation 40%, Final Exam 60%.

This course provides a complete understanding of basic programming concepts and how to implement them in C Sharp (C#). The course emphasizes the major features of the programming languages to solve problems in engineering. This course includes lab sessions which followed by lectures.