Chinese

This course is aimed at students who are studying molecular biology for the first time. Molecular biology is an indispensable common language for explaining life phenomena in various fields of biology. The teaching content is divided into three parts: DNA, RNA, and protein, which are taught by Zhang Li, Shen Tanglong, and Lv Yiru from the Zhiwei Department.

Taiwanese is one of the most important language in Taiwan, it's also the ethnic language for most Taiwanese. This course is based on Elementary Taiwanese I, yet it's a non-intensive course for beginners. At the end of the course, students are expected to use Roman alphabets to spell Taiwanese, and students can read, write, speak and listen for daily use.

This course focuses on the design and analysis of algorithms and their applications, as well as the development of problem-solving techniques. The course covers: Algorithmic fundamentals: mathematical foundations, growth of functions, recurrences; Sorting and order statistics; Data structures: heap, binary search trees, RB trees, disjoint sets; Advanced design and analysis techniques: dynamic programming, greedy algorithms, amortized analysis; Graph algorithms: graph representations, searching, minimum spanning trees, shortest paths, network flow, matching (14 hrs); Computational complexity, NP-completeness, and approximation algorithms, and as time permits, general-purpose algorithms: simulated annealing and machine learning. 

This course provides a study of the development of urban architecture and environmental landscape, as well as the evaluation of world-famous architectural landscape. It covers the development process and notable achievements of the aesthetic creation of architecture and environmental landscape, both in ancient and modern China and around the world. The course provides an analysis of the architectural ideas, theories, and techniques of each historical period, including the types, features, styles, forms, structural features, artistic features, and their evolution. Other topics include architectural communication culture, integration of architectural culture and art, and architectural features as well as the religious, cultural, social and technological factors that have shaped these architectural features.

The aim of Intensive Chinese Reading is to improve the students' reading and writing skills by learning vocabulary and grammar.

Basic Class: Mainly for students with zero Chinese ability, or at the stage of learning Pinyin, common Chinese characters and simple Chinese words and sentences.
 

This course explores the generation strategy and development laws of different types of radio and television programs. It covers the characteristics, planning, production process, and operation mode of different program types, as well as the relationship with market mechanism, audience needs, and the social and cultural environment.

This is a beginning course on Korean language for students with no background. It provides basic language knowledge and basic language skills; the ability to accurately and fluently pronounce and master basic accent; familiarity with letters to spell sentences quickly and accurately; 500 commonly used words, most commonly used suffixes and sentence patterns in Korean; andeveryday language and classroom language, and have basic Korean communication skills.

Based on the changes of computer technology and the role of humans on products in the market. The course focuses on studying the experience of using a product. This course targets a chosen topic, and through three steps of procedural design practices, students understand multiple design methods while developing creative thinking. The course will based around the topic provided by the CHI Student Design Competition: https://chi2016.acm.org/wp/student-design-competition/

This course focuses on how to: construct daily issues that the political system faces, design all kinds of possible solutions, evaluate and choose from the most feasible, efficient, and effective solution; to establish the environment with multiple unions and pave the way for rationalizing policies; to interpret, organize, and apply the abstract policies into concrete actions; to evaluate the ultimate production of the policies, and the potential impacts on the relevant facets of the political system,; and to make necessary policy changes to make space for the lasting survival of policy layout. Texts: Yongbo Lin, Shixian Zhang. THE EVALUATION OF THE TB POLICY CHANGE IN TAIWAN; Considine, M. MAKING PUBLIC POLICY; Dunn, W. N. 2004 PUBLIC POLICY ANALYSIS. Assessment: Participation (10%), midterm (40%), report (35%), journals (15%).

Through this course, students will learn the most basic Chinese culture through Calligraphy. Topics include the changes of Yin and Yang balance, more and less, deficiency and reality, and calligraphy and painting homology.