National Taiwan University

This course seeks to answer several fundamental questions: Which factors control life in the ocean? How do we know what we know about the ocean? What's at the bottom of the ocean? How does the water in the ocean move? How are human activities and climate change altering the ocean?  

How do governments support families in reconciling work and life choices? What choices do women take in terms of working life, reproduction, and political preferences? What are the consequences in terms of welfare institutions and gender inequality? This course aims to combine the three strands of literature on political economy, welfare state studies, and gender issues to instruct students about the importance of a gender-based perspective in learning how different institutions, interest groups, and ideas contribute to gender equality. The course provides students with a series of topics discussed in PE, welfare, and gender literature. Students will become familiar with concepts such as bargaining power, discrimination practices in hiring, and motherhood penalty. The second part of the course focuses on specific examples from East Asia and Europe based on the three “I”s of PE studies: interest groups, institutions, and ideas, and how they improve chances for gender equality in different political economies. The third part of the course facilitates students’ direct involvement in specific cases by having them exercise their critical skills through discussions and presentations aimed at identifying policy solutions to problems of gender inequality 

This course introduces the basics of Perl scripting as well as handling of bioinformatic data. Upon completion of the course, students should be familiar with basic usage of LINUX systems and experienced with Perl scripting. Students should be able to code basic scripts, handle external files, design data structure, execute regular expression tests, hash and array usage, use modules, create Perl subroutines and much more. The course features lectures and hands-on exercises every week.  

The complex daily living and high stress caused by the progress of human civilization and the development of science and technology have greatly increased the interest and demand for music therapy. Because music can transcend external limitations to soothe fatigue and sadness of body, mind and soul, it can also rebuild and renew people's lives. This course crosses disciplines through the effectiveness of music, combined with psychological and medical theories. The course content combines the cultivation of musical literacy and practical application of music perception, injecting beauty and vitality into life through music, thereby gaining spiritual balance and satisfaction and improving moral cultivation. 

This course explores social themes in Taiwan’s recent history through the concept of “musicking.” It seeks to discover the communal meanings and effects created through a variety of sonic activities by people living on this island in recent history and contemporary times. Through careful listening and participation, the course aims to gain different perspectives and a more reflexive, embodied, and affective understanding of the social organizations and changes over the last 150 years that shape Taiwanese society today. 

This course does not to fully cover or define “Taiwanese music," but rather endeavors to understand how various themes--including community building, migrations and rights, settler-colonialism, colonial-modernity, politics and economy, ethnic identity, multi-culturalism and indigenous sovereignty, gender and sexualities, space and environments, and social activism--are voiced and enacted through diverse genres of music and dance, by the indigenous, Han, newly immigrated and visiting communities of people living in Taiwan. 

This course is an introduction to market design, a field of economics focusing on designing markets and mechanisms to allocate resources efficiently. The course covers various topics, including auction theory, matching markets, school choice, and kidney exchange. The course also explores the theoretical foundations of market design and examines how market design principles can be applied to real-world problems.    

Course requirements: basic game theory (keywords: (Bayes) Nash equilibrium, dominant strategy) and microeconomics.

Behavioral Ecology takes an evolutionary perspective to address the mechanisms and processes that have shaped the current form and utility of various aspects of animal behavior. The course includes lectures that cover major topics in Behavioral Ecology and introduce relevant research approaches; literature reading that provides a glimpse of cutting-edge research in the field, as well as a group project that allows students to experience the entire process of conducting a behavior study, practicing the theories and approaches learned from the lectures.    

Required Prerequisite: General Biology.  

Suggested Prerequisites: Ecology and Basic Statistics.  

This course covers major topics in deep-sea ecology, including the physical environments and history, sampling techniques, adaptations of deep-sea organisms, community composition and functions, major habitats, and anthropogenic effects. The course also explores Taiwan’s deep-sea environments and living resources.    

An introduction to stage design, this course instructs how to collect picture materials; hand-drawn space sketches; basic drawings; make 1:100 rough and color models and visualize text space and design concepts. 

The course is a practical programming class focused on artificial intelligence (AI) examples. The course discusses introductory Python language at the beginning; engages in hands-on programming in class and implements AI examples in the final month of the course. The course covers basic to advanced concepts of the Python programming language. The examples and exercises provided in the course primarily emphasize AI applications. Finally, students will utilize Python to implement the final project, which involves programming tasks and a final presentation.