Chinese

This course is designed to improve students' scientific literacy and recognition ability as well as enhance their ability to discriminate from a professional perspective by analyzing and critiquing many specious ideas. The course will be offered in collaboration with many experts in various disciplines, including mathematics, physics, chemistry, biology, management, computer science, medicine, literature, history, philosophy, political science, history, journalism, etc.

This course provides hands-on experience with mice to study their behavior through a set of experiments. Experiments include injection of medicines and blood sampling, locomotor activity, hot plate, tail suspension, Morris water maze, elevated plus maze, S1 stereotaxic surgery demo plus dye-injection plus buffer preparation, S2 perfusion, S3 PCR plus Gel electrophoresis , H1 brain sectioning plus section mounting, H3 cell counting plus image analysis. During the semester, each student is assigned to two mice, and is responsible for its living, including environment and food. Assessment: two presentations plus a final report.

This course uses lectures, discussions, demonstrations, and visual materials to explain gender theories, discuss gender equality issues, and practice feminist methodology. It enables students to grasp the perspective of gender and conduct academic discussions on gender as a category of analysis.

This course discusses modern technology of mechanical engineering and the connection with human civilization. The course teaches basic theories and knowledge about the applications of mechanical engineering. Topics include: material characteristics of modern technology; plants and people; agricultural science, technology, and human civilization; and the development of modern technology.

To help students understanding the importance of physical exercise for health. To train students personal motor skills for fundamental and event-specific exercise, as well as appreciation for sports. To help students actively participating physical exercise regularly.

This course is for students majoring in advertising to understand the history and practice of how to carry out commercial promotion, political and military propaganda through the study of modern art, graphic design, and film and television artistic expression, and to master theoretical analysis and criticism ability.

This course examines the nature of communication theories and theory development, theories of meaning, information processing and influence with applications to selected communication contexts. The course looks into each theory and analyzes them to see how they related. The course also touches upon the subjects of Marxism, communication research, mass culture, new media and the information society. Assessment: 6 assignments, literature review, term paper.

This course offers the opportunity for students to implement cloud computing related ideas and complete the projects as groups. In this course, students also complete market and feasibility analyses. The goal of this course is to encourage students to create a product that can be successfully marketed.

This is a beginning Chinese language course consisting of two main components, conversation and Chinese characters. Vocabulary items, sentence patterns and short texts are taught. Students acquire basic communicative skills to deal with simple daily situations. 

The course is to teach students advanced volleyball skills, learn teamwork, and communicate in the classroom.