Peking University, Beijing

This course introduces basic concepts and fundamental methods of corporate financial accounting and reporting, as well as their applications in practice.  It focuses on three main types of financial statements, including the balance sheet, the income statement, and the cash flow statement. The course discusses the preparation of the financial statements, information conveyed, and implications of items presented in these financial statements. Students perform economics-based analysis and application of accounting information from the viewpoint of the users of accounting information (especially senior managers) rather than the preparer (the accountant).

The Guqin is one of the most representative traditional arts in China, with a history of more than 3,000 years, and has had an important and profound impact on Chinese culture. This course combines the theory and history of the Guqin with performance practice, allowing students to understand and learn the art of the Guqin in a holistic manner and to gain a deeper understanding of traditional Chinese culture through the Guqin.

This course will focus on the intersection of big data and storytelling, aiming to enable students to produce informative, effective, and compiling narrative frameworks using big data. Students will learn essential skills, techniques, and experiences to produce successful data-driven content products, journalistic reports, science communication articles, and social sciences research. The course welcomes students who are new to data science, but we strongly encourage students who do not yet have experience with data analytics to start exploring different software and coding languages for data storytelling during the course. Meanwhile, students familiar with data analytics and visualisations will also learn how to improve their techniques and strategies for completing data storytelling.

This course systematically introduces the learning and memory, helping students understand research methods in neuroscience, the process of learning, the memory formation, the role of different brain regions involved in learning and memory, changes in brain structure and functional connections during learning and memory, the cellular and molecular basis of learning and memory, and brain diseases that affect learning and memory. We will discuss the recent scientific progress of neurobiology related with learning and memory, study the literature to explain the background, purpose, process, results, discussion, reference, in order to help students to understand the neuroscience research, help students improve their ability to perform independently experimental designing, literature exploring and logical thinking, and motivate students' interest in neuroscience.

This course aims to let the students get familiar with the history of documentary and its major movements, recognize the differences between feature and documentary, learn the ideas and methods behind documentaries from a producer’s perspective. The course will invite first-class documentary producers in China to have screenings and face-to-face discussions, teaching students about the creative process of documentary making as well as technical aspects such as shooting and editing. Meanwhile, this course encourages students to experiment and practise, the students must work in groups (at least three people) to produce a minimum half-hour-long documentary at the end of the semester. This will train the students to grasp basic documentary-making skills.

This course aims to connect advertising creative design with global business practices, helping students build a knowledge system that integrates an international perspective, business thinking, and professional depth. Through systematic theoretical teaching and in-depth analysis of practical cases, the course deciphers the core logic of global brand building and advertising communication, laying a solid foundation for students to engage in the international communication industry or support the internationalization of local brands in the future.

This course demonstrates the dynamic earth, and how ideas from marine magnetics were utilized to revolutionize our understanding of the structure and dynamics of the Earth’s outer surface. Later, it explains fundamentals of marine magnetic anomalies, including measurements and modelling, and how it is used to explore fine-scale structures of oceanic crust. The second part of this course deals with marine sediments and marine environmental change. Firstly, the physical and chemical properties of marine sediments are presented, followed by illustrations of complex physical, chemical and biogeochemical processes in marine sedimentary environments. Later, it presents the establishment of geomagnetic polarity timescales, and principles and applications of magnetic stratigraphy and environmental magnetism for quantitatively reconstructing environmental and climatic changes. Development of various stages of the exciting international ocean drilling programs will be briefly presented. 

In this course, we will give a brief overview of series of imaginations of so called "ancient Japan" on mass media, how the imaginations were made, and the difference between the imaginations and reality. The examples mainly come from movies, including animation, video games.etc.

The course covers three sections: "Self", "Relationship" and "Achievement". In "Self" section, students explore the mysteries of psychology, assist with self-relationship improvement, sleep and stress management, happiness and motivation enhancement, as well as life respectable and enjoyment. The "Relationship" section will have students analyze the essence of love and intimacy, and look at the influence and response of original families, as well as the communication of interpersonal relationships. The "Achievement" section will help students clarify your their career development and future choices, own behavior plan and management, and inner motivations, achieving a healthy life.

This course teaches force analysis of aircraft, methods for establishing flight motion equations, scheme flight and aircraft performance, guided flight and guidance law, linearization approximation method of flight motion, analysis of flight dynamic characteristics, aircraft stability and maneuverability, basic structure and basic principles of flight control system, and flight control methods.