Peking University, Beijing

The course will introduce Olympic movement and the related controversies and views from the perspective of culture In broad sense, analyze the relationship between Olympic culture and human and social development, politics, economy and world peace as well as the environmental protection. 

Course objectives It is intended that through the course students can learn and acquire the values and the positive character traits that are assumed to be developed in sport and Olympic Movement; to examine closely all aspects of the modern Olympic Games and Olympism in order to offer a comprehensive understanding of two key aspects of the Modern Olympic Culture: its historical developments and its present fundamental characteristics; the nature of the tensions created in the process of its evolution which have led to recent reforms.

This course teaches students the basic knowledge and methods of simultaneous interpreting through lectures, exercises and guidance, enables them to acquire basic skills, and equips them with necessary training methods.

This course will approach the interactive relationship between electronic games and society from multi-dimensional perspectives, including cultural history, technological history, art history, and intellectual history. Unlike conventional game-related or design courses that primarily focus on gameplay and mechanics, this course will not assume “game enthusiasts” as the students’ prior identity.

This course belongs to the small class which is required for the Corporate Finance. The orientation of small-class teaching is: deepen understanding, locate interest, improve ability.

This course is designed for the beginning learners who intend to acquire basic survival Chinese, especially in listening, speaking and reading. The primary emphasis is placed on listening comprehension and speaking fluency as well as reading comprehension. The goal is to improve students’ listening, speaking and reading skills, and to increase their knowledge of Chinese culture and customs.

Through the reading of a selection of classical Greek and Roman literature in translation, the course aims to introduce the students to some major authors and works of the classical period, and prepare them for the study of English literature.

The first part of this course introduces central topics in philosophical aesthetics and philosophy of art. It mainly examines contemporary English-speaking authors, but occasionally also considers historical figures. The second part of the course examines more in detail philosophical problems related to art criticism. At the end of the course, students will have a general understanding of some crucial issues in the field of the philosophy of art, and a detailed understanding of a recent work on the philosophy of art criticism.

This course will focus on basic mathematical models and methods in financial calculation analysis. Specifically, it includes basic problems in financial mathematics: basic concepts and methods of interest calculation, calculation of annuity cash flow model, basic method of calculating general investment return rate, principal and interest decomposition process of cash flow, fixed income securities, interest risk analysis, financial income in random situations.

This course will take you on a journey from the microscopic to the macroscopic, showing you how social and natural scientists answer basic questions about human nature. The course is an introduction to the sciences of mind, including foundational concepts from neuroscience, evolution, genetics, philosophy, and experimental methods, and specific topics such as perception, memory, reasoning and decisionmaking,consciousness, child development, psychopathology, personality, language,emotion, motivation,sexuality, survival in the world, and social relations.

This course provides a solid understanding of post-war American novels—their historical background, style of writing, and some recurrent themes. The American writers discussed in the course include Kurt Vonnegut, Jerzy Kosinski, John Barth, Ishmael Reed, E. L. Doctorow, Don Delillo, and Robert Coover. The course also surveys contemporary Chinese novels, with a focus on works since the 1980s, the core writers include Mo Yan, Yu Hua, Su Tong, Ye Zhaoyan, Wang Xiaobo, and Yang Xianhui, who have adopted a similar way of writing characterized by the use of metafictional skill and parody, the blending of historical fact and fiction, the fusion of generic boundaries, etc. The course also explores, from a comparative perspective, such themes as war, trauma, ideological interventions, the writing and rewriting of history, etc.