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 At the end of this course students are aware of and understand the ethical and strategic implications, complexity, and dilemmas of corporate responsibility and sustainability. The course covers motivations in markets, ethics of individual actions, and their effect in societies and the tensions between markets and distributive justice. The course is an attempt to reclaim economics as a moral science. It argues ethics is a relevant and inseparable aspect of all levels of economic activity. Taking ethical considerations into account is needed in explaining and predicting the behavior of economic agents as well as in evaluating and designing economic policies and mechanisms. Several cases and references to major recent phenomena complement the theoretical landscape. For UNIBO students, the course is generally graded on a P/NP basis. UCEAP students who would like a LG must make special arrangements directly with the instructor.

Ever since the founding of ROC in 1911, war has been a repetitive motif of Chinese history, with millions of Chinese victimized and forced to lose their homes, and even their lives. Therefore, after the Nationalist government relocated itself to Taiwan in 1949, from the 1950s to 1980s, war fiction became an important sub-genre in Anti-communism, Modernism, Nativist-realism, and Post-modernism. There were so many novelists using war as a thematic element in their works that included all the wars from Hsin-hai Revolution to the Vietnamese War. This course is built on the basis of two different histories: the history of wars and that of literature. The first part of this course constructs a historical framework of Modern Chinese Wars, which includes all the wars from Hsin-hai Revolution to the Korean War. The course then demonstrates how novelists from different literary periods deal with the material of war differently: that is to say, we use the plot of war fiction to show how China and Taiwan were influenced socio-politically and economically. This part of course focuses on how Anti-communists reflect upon Chinese Civil Wars, how Modernists rewrote wars experimentally, how Nativist-realists examined the impacts of the Vietnamese War on Taiwan, and how Post-modernism questioned the problem of history with war fiction.

The first half of the course takes an historical as well as analytical approach to international political economy. The second half of the class deals with current issues of international political economy in the post-cold war era--issues such as globalization, economic development, trade and protectionism, MNCs and global production, and international monetary relations. The course encompasses both political and economic aspects of international political economy. Major themes to be discussed in the class include theories of international political economy, state and market, economic development, economic crisis, globalization and regionalism, international finance and monetary order, and international trade.

This course provides a platform for multiple disciplines to learn about and collaborate on projects that address our societal challenges using the established framework of Design Thinking. These challenges may include climate change, food security, migration, and conflict. Design thinking has its roots in industrial design and engineering but borrows from a variety of disciplines, including ethnography, computer science, psychology, organizational learning, and business. Students who participate in this course look at problems from these alternative perspectives, how they might impact their own discipline, and how their discipline might inform the solution. To achieve this, students work within multidisciplinary teams on projects that are not necessarily aligned to their area of expertise. Students are encouraged to reflect on this experience to better understand their own preferred learning environment and behaviors.

This course investigates the paradigm shifts within psychology and provides students with the critical skills necessary to evaluate theories of psychology within their historical, disciplinary, social, and political context. Students explore psychology's development as a science in order to critically evaluate the assumptions, procedures, and issues concerning psychology as a science.

As a survey of American poetry, this course introduces poems written across the span of American history, from 17th-century colonial poets to 21st-century (post)modern poets. The course includes poems from writers of diverse ethnic, geographic, and socioeconomic backgrounds, writing in a wide variety of poetic forms and idioms. The course compares the literary features of a variety of types of American poetry coming from a number of distinct historical eras, ethnic groups, and socioeconomic communities.