National Taiwan University

Russian III is a year-long course for the students who finished Russian II. During the second semester of the course, the class will practice conversational Russian, which is used in daily settings for discussion of news, lifestyle, etc.

Methods of instruction focus on developing functional competence in Russian listening, speaking, reading, and writing. Every topic is built around forming communicative skills and includes new vocabulary, grammar, listening, speaking, and writing exercises.

Also, students will learn more about Russian daily culture and some useful idiomatic expressions and modern slang. 

This course is directed towards those who have taken Pre-Advanced Chinese I of the NTU Chinese Language Course for International Students or those who have learned Chinese for 400-450 hours (6hrs/week). This course uses the textbook Practical Audio-Visual Chinese III (chapter 8~ chapter 14) to help students develop proficient language skills in listening, speaking, reading and writing that would enable them to communicate effectively in their daily lives. Students will learn commonly-used new vocabularies and grammar that are not often used in daily conversations. Students will be able to use appropriate Chinese language to carry on discussions and further understand Taiwanese language and culture as they progress through the course.

Located at the intersection between economics and political science, political economy as a field explores a great variety of issues arising from interactions between economic and political arenas. This course is designed to introduce to students the conceptual tools developed by political economists for assessing the role politics plays in economic activities and vice versa. Specifically, the course investigates the following topics:

• Social Networks 
• Historical Political Economy 
• Institutional Complementarity 
• Cognitive Political Economy 
• Public Debt 
• Regime Transitions 
• Institutional Choices 
• Natural Resource Curse 
• Political Polarization 

While the list is by no means exhaustive, the topics included are nonetheless well established in the literature and are very useful for students to learn the necessary analytic skills from both theoretical and empirical perspectives. The ultimate goal of the course is to enable students to think independently and formulate their own views as a political economist.

This tutorial course is directed towards those who are enrolled in the Pre-Advanced Chinese, Advanced Low Chinese and Advanced Mid Chinese course levels of the General Chinese Language Course. It aims to help students learn commonly-used new vocabulary and grammar that are not often used in daily conversations. Students will be able to use appropriate Chinese language to carry on discussions and understand commonly-used writings and articles. By the end of this course, students are expected to be capable of giving an oral presentation and writing a short essay on common societal topics, such as climate, history, culture, politics and economics, sports and entertainments, tourism, etc. Students are expected to be capable of understanding and writing articles, advertisements and leaflets.

In the past two decades, social media has drastically shaped our understanding and practice of health. This course provides an overview of theories and methods intersecting with social media and health. Following the historical development of social media, the course covers health citizen engagement (information behaviors), contents (user-generated messages), platform governance (digital surveillance and resistance), and other aspects of social media related to health and healthcare. The course materials draw on interdisciplinary perspectives from public health, communication studies, and science and technology studies. Students will learn how the use and design of social media might reinforce health inequality while critically evaluating different stakeholders’ standpoints. Students will also have a chance to analyze health campaigns and select communication strategies for different audiences and sectors. Overall, the course aims to provide students with theoretical lenses and practical tools to engage in meaningful health intervention. The course design also seeks to enhance students’ digital health literacy.   

This course introduces Spanish as a foreign language at a basic user level and provides the foundations for effective communicative competence as social agents, intercultural speakers, and autonomous learners. By the end of the course, students will be able to understand, produce and interact at Level A1 in a simple way for personal and public domains in accordance with the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (CEFR). 

This course aims to improve students’ knowledge of East Asian societies and cultivate their ability to analyze social issues and phenomena in these societies through a comparative lens. By comparing the social phenomena in Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan, and analyzing the causes of and patterns in these phenomena, students are encouraged to explore the distinctions between East Asian societies and cultures and theorize back to Western-centric social theories and concepts.

This course is directed towards those who have taken Pre-Advanced Chinese II of the NTU Chinese Language Course for International Students or those who have learned Chinese for 450-500 hours (6hrs/week). This course uses the textbook Practical Audio-Visual Chinese IV (chapter 1~ chapter 7) to help students develop proficient language skills in listening, speaking, reading and writing that would enable them to communicate effectively in their daily lives. Students will learn commonly-used new vocabularies and grammar that are not often used in daily conversations. Students will be able to use appropriate Chinese language to carry on discussions and further understand Taiwanese language and culture as they progress through the course.

The purpose of the course is to improve students' professional and creative writing abilities through the monthly publication of an online journal. Our website is: taidajournal.weebly.com. Students work together as a team to publish each issue, not only writing stories but editing the stories of other students in the class. The course accepts news stories and creative writing. 

Chinese literature has a long history, from literature created by literati to folk literature created and passed down orally by common people. After folk literature is collected, recorded, and then disseminated, it may also be re-created. This course utilizes myths, legends, stories, songs and other texts in folk literature as well as related folk customs to foster appreciation for folk literature; understand its origins and changes and explore its emotions and thoughts as well as its relationship with social culture.