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This course offers an introduction to the history of cultural anthropology, tracing the formation of anthropological theory from its roots in the Enlightenment and European colonial expansion up to the present. Partly an intellectual history of the discipline, students explore key texts that mark critical shifts in anthropological thinking about what it means to be human. In doing so, students explore theories and critiques that have shaped, complicated, and haunted anthropological conceptions of humanity, including ideas about nature and culture, notions of race, progress, and civilization, and theories of personhood and social life.

The course will introduce you to concepts and techniques related to the design, planning, control, and improvement of supply chains and supply chain operations. More specifically, the course attempts to:

• Make you conversant in the language of supply chain management and expand your confidence in these areas.
• Allow you to see the role of supply chain management in the overall strategy and performance of the firm by providing a conceptual, strategic view of supply chain design and operations.
• Analyze the underlying issues and trade-offs between the sourcing of raw materials, manufacturing, storage, transportation of products, and the services required to fulfill customer expectations and the metrics of the firm.
• Provide you with quantitative and qualitative tools to identify, analyze, and manage supply chain operations and issues.

Entrepreneurial finance lies at the intersection of finance and entrepreneurship - two vastly different yet interconnected worlds. This course focuses on the study of financing young, innovative, growth-oriented companies, while providing an understanding of the fundraising cycle, from the inception of an entrepreneurial idea to investors' exit. The course also explores the variety of investors that can finance entrepreneurial companies and what motivates them, how they invest, and what support they can provide.  The course is designed specifically for students from diverse backgrounds, focusing on providing essential background and foundational knowledge about entrepreneurial finance. 

This course introduces common methods on climate/weather data processing via Python. It aims to guide students on how to get the information from climate/weather datasets by data visualization and instructs on how to use this information to finalize their own narrative. 
 
The course consists of three stages: 
First stage: Introduction and Basic Syntax of Python 
Second stage: Reproduce/Rewrite some exiting codes 
Third stage: Course Review & Final report (individual)

As a part of advanced use of biological resources, this course explains the conversion and utilization technology of biomass to energy and materials. This course also refers to the latest technologies and diffusion trends on renewable energy and considers constructing a resource recycling society where renewable energy is utilized.  

This course aims to explore the components of dissertations and academic papers in economics, guiding students in transitioning from coursework to independent paper writing. Through lectures and discussions, we will cover the basic requirements and examine specific examples of research papers to understand the general rules and best practices for writing. Active participation in on-site discussions is strongly encouraged. Students are encouraged to identify topics of interest and draft several chapters or paragraphs for their potential dissertations.

This course examines American politics. It covers key aspects of American political system, the formal (executive, judiciary, and legislative) and informal (bureaucracy, media, interest groups, etc.) branches of government, its creation and development into its present form, the way officials at various branches and levels are selected, the contours of American federalism, how domestic policy is done and some of the main issues that animate its domestic political debates.

This course offers practical training in data science, focusing on high-dimensional data computing and dimension reduction algorithms. The characteristics of this course are the hands-on experience with high-performance computers and the observation of real data from a statistical perspective. Practical exercises will be conducted on high performance GPU servers on the cloud, possibly utilizing resources such as the NVIDIA V100 from our NTU or Google Colab. In addition to the hands-on exercises, statistical theories related to dimension reduction algorithms, data visualization, and data interpretation are introduced. The Python programming skills are taught during the first month as part of a combined and quick recap course. The course is taught in English, but bilingual Q&A sessions are acceptable. 

This course examines the general principles and techniques related to electromechanical product design and development. Topics include: product design and manufacturing process; methods and tools used for designing and developing electromechanical products; tooling design; design for manufacture and assembly; product costing; and value engineering. 

Negotiation is a cornerstone skill in both personal and professional realms, influencing outcomes from business deals to interpersonal relationships. By adopting the Harvard Negotiation Project framework, this course aims to empower students with the knowledge, strategies, and practical techniques necessary to excel in various negotiation scenarios, fostering mutually beneficial agreements and sustainable relationships. Topics include the basic principles of negotiation, development of effective communication skills, application of analytic frameworks, and navigation of power dynamics, which will allow students to foster the needed skill sets for successful negotiation.