Chinese

This course explores the career paths of many excellent female scientists, including how they have persevered through a variety of challenges. It examines many classic and contemporary female role models in science, such as Mary Curie (Mrs. Curie), Academician Wu Jianxiong, Dr. Inez Fung, Dr. Susan Solomon, Dr. Joanne Simpson, Academician Wang Yu, Academician Peng Wang Jiakang, Academician Meng Huaiying, and more.

This course refines and enhances language skills for advanced communication. Students develop practical language skills, cultural insight, and the ability to independently explore Chinese material. Topics include Cultural Differences in Using Terms of Endearment, Women's Professional and Family roles in life, Seeking Employment or Entrepreneurship, Experiencing Local Traditions as a foreigner, and Appreciation of Classic: Kong Yiji.

The course provides an overview of finance, specifically the rules of operation and main problems facing the financial system. The course covers the important position of the financial system in modern society, and analyzes and discusses some major practical problems in the current financial field.
 

The course covers the system of mutual aid in China. Students acquire basic knowledge and skills of how deal with emergencies in real life, in order to stay safe and protect themselves.

This course provides a bridge between mathematics and physics, mechanics, etc., and serves as a foundation for solving practical problems using mathematical tools. Through this course, students master the basic theory of common differential equations, and the application of differential equations in practical problems, including mathematics itself and physics, mechanics, economics, biology, and other fields. Topics include the source of the problem of normal differential equations, the primary solution of simple normal differential equations, the basic theory of differential equations, the structure (and solution) of the linear equation solution of constant coefficients, the theory and solution of linear differential equations, and the qualitative theory of differential equations.

This course talks about the formation of the universe, and then discusses what is life and what is man. The course explores the origin of life, growth, continuity, evolution, progress and significance, and technological impact on humans and the environment, ideal society, human future and personal life and death, spiritual liberation and social responsibility.

This course is for students who have taken Intermediate II of the Chinese Language Course for International Students or those who have taken Chinese for at least 600 hours. The course develops proficiency in listening, speaking, reading and writing to deal with complex situations within daily lives, and discuss about complex issues, such as economy, transportation, societal culture. Students learn to read simple document forms and announcements and to write a short essay of at least 500 words to express oneself. This course uses the textbook “Far East Daily Chinese III” (chapters 1-7).