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As technologies change the way we live and generate vast amounts of personal data, privacy regulation has become a pillar of modern society. Among the patchwork of legal frameworks adopted worldwide, the EU has asserted its regulatory leadership by taking a singular stance. Through the GDPR, the EU has attempted to protect individuals' data rights, with the belief that this will increase trust in these technologies and in turn foster digital growth. This course explores the foundations of EU data protection law, from a critical legal perspective, sheds light on the ongoing challenges that shape this field and, most importantly, empowers students to become informed digital citizens.

This course examines the evolution of British imperial power from the early 19th century to World War I, focusing on its maritime foundations, global ideology, and inherent contradictions between humanitarian discourse and military conquest. It then shifts to a contemporary perspective, analyzing Australia and New Zealand as middle powers in the Indo‑Pacific region, with attention to strategy, security alliances, diplomacy, economic interests, and environmental challenges.

This course discusses Taiwan's popular culture, reviews relevant literatures of Taiwan's popular culture, explores how identity is produced and consumed through ensuing cultural commodities develop its own critical understanding of (Taiwan's) popular culture (in particular the production and consumption of popular culture as cultural, political, economic, social, and historical practices and processes), and teaches approaches, concepts, and issues in the study of production and consumption of popular culture. The course goes through Taiwan's rapid development of both consumer society and democracy hybrid cultural characteristics based on 400 years of hybrid colonial history some representative examples in popular culture, for example, Popular Literature, Popular Music and Cinema, Betel-Nuts Beauties and Electronic-Fancy-Float Girls, Shopping and Queuing, Wedding and Portrait Photography, Adult Films, ACG and Trendy Dramas, Being Kawaii, Baseball, A-Bian Doll, Call-in Show and Red-Shirt Army, and finally Night Market and Food Culture. It discusses the following questions: What is "Taiwaneseness"? How are "Japaneseness" and "Taiwaneseness" (re-)presented in Taiwan's cinema? How is "Taiwaneseness" (re-)produced, circulated, and consumed in Taiwan's popular culture?

This class introduces students to the core principles of marketing and explores how artificial intelligence is transforming modern marketing practices. Topics include consumer behavior, segmentation, branding, and marketing strategy, alongside AI applications such as predictive analytics, personalization, and digital advertising. Through interactive workshops, case studies, and an AI Skills Bootcamp, students will develop practical knowledge and critical understanding of how data-driven technologies are transforming marketing practice.

This course offers a comprehensive introduction to Indigenous Studies in the United States, with a focus on key concepts, historical contexts, and contemporary themes relevant to Native American peoples. Through an interdisciplinary approach grounded in Indigenous epistemologies, it examines the plurality of worldviews, histories, and experiences of Indigenous peoples in the United States – and beyond – to understand the historical and contemporary relationships between Indigenous communities, settler-colonial systems, and current governance structures. Through the study of the relationship between Native American peoples and the U.S. government, the course critically examines topics such as sovereignty, self-determination, governance, land and the use of natural resources, Indigenous justice systems, gender-based violence, Indigenous education, linguistic and cultural transmission, among others. Additional discussions address the history of treaty rights in the United States, the U.S. federal and state recognition processes, the recognition of specific rights for Indigenous peoples at the international level, and evolving concepts of identity and indigeneity. While the primary focus is on American Indian and Alaska Native (AI/AN) Nations within the United States, comparative perspectives on Indigenous Peoples worldwide are also provided. Interactive discussions, group exercises, and presentations by guest scholars and practitioners also provide interdisciplinary insights that bridge theory, practice, and community-based experience.

This course introduces the major concepts underpinning pharmacology. It describes the main molecular mechanisms of action of some important classes of drugs acting on the cardiorespiratory system and relates these mechanisms to their cellular, tissue, organ and whole animal effects.

This course provides an overview of some of the major changes, challenges, and evolutions of global media starting in the late 19th century and until the current moment. Drawing on historical and more recent examples of the best work of print and broadcast journalists, it explores the development of the institution of journalism and address topics such as: the changing economic pressures on journalism; the evolution of the role and work of the reporter; the shifting values, practices, ethical standards, and social roles that have been linked to the practice of journalism; and the changes of what core ideals of journalism mean, including truth and objectivity.

This course introduces students to some of the key doctrines and methods in the study of the private law. Students study key aspects of contract law and of property law within the context of the common law of England and Wales. Contract law centers on exchange, from simple consumer purchases to complex international financial arrangements. Property law governs varying forms of ownership, including in land and in personal property, which give rise to legally protected claims. This course examines both their substance and uses them to illustrate the broader nature of the common law. English private law is extremely important globally: it is commonly selected by parties to international commercial contracts as the governing law, and influential on worldwide legal developments. 

This course introduces major atmospheric phenomena and their related basic concepts of atmospheric dynamics, optics, chemistry, thermodynamics, and meteorology. 

Students examine atmospheric thermodynamics to describe changes in the state of water, atmospheric dynamics to describe the movement of air, photochemistry to determine the composition of the atmosphere, and the formation and radiation processes of aerosols and clouds. In addition, students acquire theoretical and experimental methods necessary to understand these complex processes and cultivate the ability to solve practical problems related to extreme weather. 

Prerequisites:  (Essential) Earth Environmental Science (1,2), Calculus (1,2). (Recommend) General Physics (1,2), General Chemistry (1,2) 

This course introduces students to a cross-period tradition of English literary satire, both as a bold genre with precise conventions (verse satire, Menippean) and as a scurrilous mode that infects a wide range of writings, traditions, and media. We will learn the form's main conventions, techniques, and models, and analyse how it reflects on the power of language to dissent, transgress, playfully evade censure, and ultimately provoke change.