Chinese

This is an introductory course for discussing the integration among neural, mental, and social processes. The class intends to cover, but may not exhaust, following topics on the mind and brain: research history; research methods and basic issues; function of the basic operation of the unit and integration; evolution and development; message input - feeling, perception, and attention; the symbol of mind and brain processing - language and thought; plasticity - learning and memory; the likes and dislikes with the brain - emotional; motivation and will; output - activities; consciousness; character; heart and brain in groups - social cognition and behavior; the heart and brain of the sick - mental illness; heart and brain simulation - neural networks and artificial intelligence.

This course examines the policy, theory, and practice of financial management. Topics include the financial decision-making process in fund raising; using funds, consuming funds, recovering funds and other capital movements; financial relations; methods and principles of financial investment and decisions; and theories of financial management.

This course examines the political evolution of human politics from ancient times to the present; basic concepts, theories and methods for analyzing the relationship between politics and society; the reality of Chinese society.

This course covers the connection between tourism and Chinese landscape culture, Chinese garden art, Chinese food culture, religious culture, folk culture, etc. 

The course examines the foundation of infinite sets, the pigeon cage principle, repeatable permutations and combinations, graph theory concepts, Euler and Hamiltonian graphs, plane graphs , character coloring, tree, group, ring, domain, etc., and related literature for these knowledge points.

This course introduces Chinese dietetic culture, traditional Chinese medicine and medicated diet in its background, and guides students to understand the concept and practice of traditional Chinese medicine. Students examine this practice for health preservation, so as to establish a correct and healthy diet and life concept, to explore and identify different health theories and viewpoints, to lay a professional foundation for students’ healthy diet lifestyle, and to pass on and carry forward the splendid Chinese diet and medicinal diet culture. The course looks at the similar origins of medicine and food. It introduces the Chinese traditional culture embodied in daily diet activities. This course introduces the ups and downs of Yin and Yang in the natural world, and through understanding the big universe in the natural world to understand the small universe of the human body, to appreciate the charm of the idea of harmony between heaven and man, and to guide students to inherit and carry forward Chinese traditional culture.

Taiwan during the Japanese occupation era marked a great change in music, the music of the postwar Taiwan left a profound impact. The course uses music social history perspective to explore the music life during the Japanese occupation of Taiwan. Because the research in Taiwanese music history is still in its nascent stage, the course focuses on topics that have accumulated substantial research results, combining secondary source literature and primary source history as well as various video and network resource. The course is divided into three parts: influence of Western civilization and technology; Taiwanese music life; and composers and performers.

The course examines the basic theory of matrix and linear equations, including: concept, property and computation of determinants; operation of matrices; special matrices; inverse matrix; rank and elementary transformation; judgment and structure of solutions; linear relations of vectors; concept and property of eigenvalues and eigenvectors; conditions of a matrix similar to a diagonal matrix; methods to decide the sign of quadratic form; and an application on optimization.

This course introduces economic perspectives and methods in order to analyze problems in environmental protection and resource utilization, policy, measures, and institutional arrangements. This course starts from the concept of economics, introducing corresponding analysis models, and conducting in-depth discussions in conjunction with latest cutting-edge research results.