English

This course is a general introduction to contemporary theory and research in perception, including an analysis of philosophical and biological issues. Students explore the representational nature of knowledge and establish links between principles of perception and developments within the visual arts, music, and literature. 

This course provides a historical survey of British cinema as well as an introduction to critical and theoretical debates associated with national cinema. Examine the relationship between British cinema and British culture, history, and national identity. Consider how British cinema has represented other dimensions of identity such as class, gender, ethnicity, and sexuality. Analyze a range of films in order to explore how British cinema. Lastly, the course considers how specific genres such as the crime film and the period drama have functioned in the national and international marketplace.

This course explores the common ground between the discipline of history and art history by considering images as historical evidence, exploring both Western and Asian art from 5th century BC to the 20th century. Students acquire the conceptual tools to understand the meaning of images and read visual narratives as historical texts. Topics include art and democracy; art and empire; art and world religions; art and the modern world; art and absolutism; art and Imperialism; art and industrialization; art and dictatorship; and art and consumer society. 

This course is designed for students with no prior experience of thinking in a computational manner. Students examine computational thinking as a problem-solving process with the aid of a computer, i.e. formulating a problem and expressing its solution in such a way that a computer can effectively carry it out. Topics include basic program structure: control constructs and data types, CT concept, limit of computing, computing trends, social-ethical issues and ramifications of computing. By the end of the course, students will be able to derive simple algorithms and code the programs to solve some basic problems. This course is cross listed among several departments at NTU.

This is a capstone course in which students establish and complete a substantial research project in the department of biomedical engineering while working with a faculty mentor.

This course introduces the foundational concepts, histories, and contemporary realities of Māori, Pacific, and other Indigenous peoples. It explores Indigenous philosophies and worldviews, with a focus on relationships to land, language, culture, resources, development, and political systems across settler-colonial contexts, Pacific nations, and beyond. It also examines how Indigenous communities respond to climate change by drawing on ancestral knowledge and practices to advocate for environmental justice and resilience.

This course offers a study of basic demographic concepts, collection and use of demographic data, and tools for demographic analysis. It discusses population dynamics from a historical and global comparative perspective including current trends and future forecasts. This course examines determinants of demographic change, socioeconomic and environmental consequences of demographic change, and population policies.

This course teaches basic knowledge of the structure and functions of computers. Starting with the history of computers, the course explains the mechanisms of how they work and their future.  The course covers the representation of numbers; Boolean algerbra; combinatorial circuits; sequential circuits; computer architecutre; arithmetic, control, and memory systems; high performance computing; compilers; I/O and operating systems, and computer networks. 

The course covers cities, towns, villages, and farming communities in a world of globalization. It will emphasize the mobility of people, money, products, and information which has transformed the logic, delimitation, and relations between urban and rural communities in different countries. Major theories on the interplay between culture and structure are covered as well as the societal and technological changes which have reconstructed urban-rural distinctions and interconnections. Special attention is given to patterns of migration within and between countries and their effects on the development of different settlements.

This course examines the celebrated Chinese novel Journey to the West - the story about the dispossessed, marginalized, and demonized, Journey to the West exemplifies a sort of plurilingual, multicultural cosmopolitanism that is deeply resonate with the world today. Drawing on recent movements in literary studies—ecocriticism, gender and sexuality, food studies, animal-human interspecies interaction, the bureaucratic turn—students explore in the text English translation and study its global reception and why the novel continues to be popular.