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This course examines the pricing and output decisions of firms and the performance of the market under various market structures. Topics include theories of oligopoly; product differentiation; the effects of imperfect and asymmetric information; the examination of pricing practices such as price discrimination, tie- in selling, and resale price maintenance; collusion and anti-competitive behaviors, and public policies related to the promotion or restriction of competition. 

This course covers the fundamental concepts of how computers perform at machine and assembly language level. It looks at the design of an instruction set architecture and figures out what makes a Reduced Instruction Set Computer (RISC) differ from a Complex Instruction Set Computer (CISC). The course discusses basic design principles by understanding the components in a computer and the performance of a computer system.  

This course provides the required background for students who are interested in designing computer systems, doing serious development of operating system kernels and device drivers, and making better applications of computer systems.   

Course prerequisites: A background in Digital Logic, C Language and Assembly Language is required.  

This course examines tombs from the Neolithic period to the Yuan dynasty with a focus on the period between the 2nd and the 14th century to examine their artistic, religious, and social significance.

Chemical biology is an emerging scientific discipline that spans the fields of chemistry and biology. Chemical biology involves the use of chemical methods, tools, and molecules that are designed and made through synthetic organic chemistry, to study, understand, and manipulate biological systems. It attempts to use chemical principles to perturb or control biological systems to either investigate the mechanisms or create new functions. In the class we will review the chemical biology of small molecules, biomacromolecules, and concepts and techniques.

The course is an introduction to politics in a globalized world, with a focus on how political science tries to understand and explain cross-country and cross-time differences. The course begins by introducing students to some of the main empirical variations in political behavior, political institutions, and outcomes across the world, focusing mainly on democratic and partially democratic countries (in both the developed and developing world), and introduces students to some of the basic theoretical ideas and research methods in political science. Each subsequent week is devoted to a substantive topic, where a more detailed analysis of political behavior, political institutions, or political outcomes are presented and various theoretical explanations are assessed.

This course introduces students to the fundamental concepts, principles, and techniques of financial accounting and reporting for students who are not specialists in accounting. It takes a conceptual and practical approach which emphasizes general principles and methods in order to allow these concepts to be applied to specific problems and issues in accounting and the wider business/social environment. The course assumes no background knowledge in accounting.

This is a unique culture cluster course which focuses on advancing students’ framework for investigating fundamental questions in culture, language, and law. The course is divided into three sections. The first two sections are devoted to learning various cultural theories in relation to private and public law. The remaining weeks focus on issue analysis. 

This course examines how cultural, social, political and economic dynamics shape landscapes, these being rural, urban, in transitions or ‘natural. You will garner a theoretical expertise for interpreting and making sense of different places, and how there are shaped by multiple dynamics across scales (from the local to the global). 

This course facilitates students as “young people” to be more aware of the interconnectedness of the world and to critically assess how globalization influences different aspects of young people’s daily lives. It also analyzes the proactive and positive role youth can play in the changing world, and provides students with an opportunity to propose how young people as global citizens can and should respond to transformations brought about by globalization. Various social issues or specific areas of youth global trends such as consumerism, transnationalism, cosmopolitanism and digitalism that confront young people in their everyday life will be examined in a systematic manner. 

This course covers fundamental and advanced domains in human-computer interaction: interactive technologies, such as multi-touch, augmented/virtual reality, haptics, wearables, and fabrication.   

Course Prerequisites: It is recommended to take CSIE3311 Computer System Laboratory and CSIE5646 Interactive System Design and Implementation prior to this course.