Chinese

This course is designed to discuss modern science research that is related to people's minds and thoughts and how this research influence the arguments of various philosophical views including idealism and materialism. This course also discusses about the mechanism to study our mind and brain and how meditation affects our minds, even cure some diseases.

Whether animals of different species have consciousness, concepts, representation, communication, and cultural abilities is not only an open question, but also closely related to people's daily curiosity and animal ethical practices. Through the study of this course, students are expected to master the methodology of philosophy of science and achieve a reflective balance between the transcendental thinking of philosophy of mind and the empirical evidence of cognitive science.

The course provides an overview of human resources and human resource management. Topics include development, organization, orientation, recruitment, performance management, training, salary management, communication, incentives, and conflicts.

This course introduces the role of western media in foreign policymaking, and the relationship between media and foreign policymaking under the Chinese political system. The first part of the course covers basic theory and concepts of media, politics, and foreign policy. The second part of the course includes case studies on media and foreign policy formulation.

The course covers the ethics of engineers under different situations and fields. Topics include an introduction to engineering and ethics, business ethics, information ethics, journalistic ethics, architectural ethics, ethics in engineering and construction, environmental ethics, energy sustainability, and planned obsolescence.

This course covers the basic principles and methods of intellectual property law. Topics include China's legal system of intellectual property; systems of patent, trademark, copyright, and the context of Internet plus the intellectual property rights of new territory; creation, management, application, and protection; and building a platform under the support of intellectual property framework system.

This course provides a study of the development of science and technology and how it has affected the progress of human civilization and cultural heritage. The course covers a variety of complex humanities and technology issues that are facing society today, including information and communication, ecological and environmental protection, biomedical technology, music, art, astrophysics, and more.

This course utilizes expertise in chemistry, experimental and instrumental operation, scientific logic analysis, data retrieving, analysis, expression and application. Experiments in thermodynamics, kinetics, molecular structure, and general physical chemistry.

This course is for the first-year students of the International Baccalaureate Class of the Chinese Department, hoping to guide the foreign students in the class to understand Chinese in a systematic way. The phonetics, phonology, characters, vocabulary, grammar, and pragmatics of Chinese will be discussed in class. There are specific topics every week (see the weekly schedule for details), and in principle, they are taught one by one according to the textbook chapters. In class, besides the teacher's explanation of various language phenomena, students will also practice and analyze language phenomena, and arrange classroom quizzes or homework as appropriate. It is hoped that through this method, students can actually understand what they have learned, apply it to daily language analysis, and develop a certain level of language observation and vigilance.