Chinese

This course will take you on a journey from the microscopic to the macroscopic, showing you how social and natural scientists answer basic questions about human nature. The course is an introduction to the sciences of mind, including foundational concepts from neuroscience, evolution, genetics, philosophy, and experimental methods, and specific topics such as perception, memory, reasoning and decisionmaking,consciousness, child development, psychopathology, personality, language,emotion, motivation,sexuality, survival in the world, and social relations.

This course will introduce the basic theory of exhibition form design; help students to understand the development process, focus and elements of exhibition; think about the principles and development concepts of exhibition design. Students will learn to use drawing software and get familiar with the methods and skills of exhibition form design.

Ecology is a highly practical discipline that is closely related to daily life and social and economic development. Learn this course, realize the relationship between man and nature, the impact of human activities on the living environment and the root causes of many environmental problems, and constantly improve ecological literacy, cultivate

environmental awareness, and form a sustainable development concept.

The course is divided into five progressive parts: 

(1) Understanding ecology

(2) the best ecological concepts to understand

(3) Thinking like an ecologist 

(4) Advancing Ecology 

(5) Thinking and politics in ecology1

Ecological design is a design form that integrates the life process and reduces the impact of environmental damage; it is an effective way to adjust and integrate natural processes. Integration means designing that respects species diversity, reduces resource consumption, preserves nutrient and water cycles, maintains habitat quality, and pays attention to all other prerequisites for human and ecosystem health. In response to the impact of climate change on the ecological environment and human life, this course starts from ecologically- oriented thinking and discusses three unit themes from macro to micro: ecological environment planning, activity introduction planning, and ecological space design/ecological product design. In addition, through the topic discussion and practical exercises of each unit, students are cultivated to have the professional ability of ecologically oriented planning and design. 

This course is suitable for learners who placed in the NTU Advanced level 1-1 course or above, meaning they have at least completed Lesson 13 of "Practical Audio-Visual Chinese Book 2," have a vocabulary of over 1,000 Chinese words, or have studied Chinese for a total of 300 hours in Taiwan (or 900 hours in other countries). It is also suitable for students who have passed the B1 level of the TOCFL Chinese Proficiency Test in Taiwan or the HSK Level 4 Chinese Proficiency Test. 
 

The primary language of instruction for this course is Chinese, with English used as a supplementary language.   

The practice teaching of this course mainly teaches the basic practice of yoga, including yoga breathing, postures, pranayama and yoga rest. The theory teaching section of this course mainly teaches the definition, origin, development stage, meridian and chakra of yoga, and how yoga promotes the physical and mental health of modern people.

This course introduces influencing factors of audio and video news production, principles of news, news operations, short news video theory and practice, planning and practice of news production.

This course studies the physical and mental characteristics of gifted students and their learning needs. It discusses the methods to identify gifted students and analyzes the timing of using assessment tools, as well as the development trends of gifted education. It also explores the ways to cultivate giftedness among people.  

This course summarizes the multi-level contents of dragon culture, basic dragon dance techniques, relevant video appreciation and choreography theory, allowing students to understand dragon dance in an all-round and in-depth manner, and be able to combine culture with practice to continuously promote new aspects of dragon dance development.

In this course, we will study the political thought of a variety of non-Western political, cultural and religious traditions, particularly the Confucianism and Political Islamism, we will try to explore both the ontological and epistemological dimension of these different theories, also always along with a “history of political thought” approach in mind . One of the essential purposes of this course will be for students to get familiar with the real diversity long existed in this sophisticated political world.