National Taiwan University

This is an advanced course in corporate finance; prior coursework in financial accounting, statistics, and corporate finance is preferred.

The aim of the course is to bring students to the frontier of knowledge so that they can start doing their own research in this field.  This course focuses on the following topics in applied corporate finance: 

1) Topics related to the issues of climate and corporate governance; 

2) Topics related to climate change risk and opportunities exposures; 

3) Topics related to the issues of pollution on investor behavioral bias, and on corporate policies;

4) Topics related to climate change risk on government policies;

5) Topics related to corporate social responsibility (CSR) and environmental, social, and governance (ESG) policies;

6) Topics related to ESG equity; 

7) Topics related to ESG lending, and 

8) Other upcoming trending topics, including water quality. 

This course familiarizes students with factual knowledge of technological developments in China from the Mao era onwards, as well as various scholarly insights into such developments. By the end of the course, students will be able to critically analyze China’s technological developments and policies based on their increased understanding of different political contexts under different Chinese Communist Party (CCP) leadership, and how the technological developments have impacted social norms, social institutions, and social classes in China.

The course has one hour of lecture and one hour of class discussion. Different forms of class discussion will be held, including paired discussion, small group discussions, large group discussion, and short debates.

This course is a theoretical and practical introduction to Green Marketing, a concept that describes the marketing of products, production methods, or business practices that are environmentally benign or otherwise sustainable. 

The course covers the following subtopics and associated themes of Green Marketing: 
1) Background on sustainability and the 17 UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)
2) The three dimensions of sustainability and their connections to business
3) Specific marketing techniques
4) Best & worst practices
5) Greenwashing
6) Measurement & accountability
7) Other smaller, related concepts and topics

Aside from teaching concrete and specific techniques and communication tools, the course aims to serve as a holistic introduction to sustainable business practices and the communication thereof. 

This is an introductory course that lays the foundation for understanding the economic behavior of individual consumers, firms, and markets. This course delves into the fundamental theories and concepts of microeconomics and illuminates how these concepts apply to real-world situations. Students will explore supply and demand, elasticity, utility, production, cost, market structures (including perfect competition, monopoly, monopolistic competition, and oligopoly), factor markets, and market failure. This course requires no prior knowledge of economics and is suitable for students of all disciplines interested in understanding how microeconomic principles affect everyday life.

Students are expected to actively participate in various classroom experiments throughout the semester. 

 

This course teaches how to understand Python programming; how to solve problems with Python, and how to analyze data and predict results with Python.  The course covers how to install Anaconda, a local platform to write Python programs, and use Colab by Google, a cloud Python platform; basic commands and rules in Python, and Python-related packages and libraries, such as NumPy, Matplotlib, Pandas, and Scikit-Learn. The course also instructs on how to clean data, analyze data, and predict data with Python and its related libraries. Students will have the opportunity to practice and write their code with Python to check their learning. 

This course aims to teach common microorganisms in various foods; their taxonomic status and physiological characteristics; distribution and sources, safety and pathogenicity, and management regulations in various countries around the world. 

The course covers:  

1) Physiology and sources of common microorganisms in food; 

2) Factors that affect the growth of microorganisms in food and the ways in which they degrade food; 

3) How to control the growth of microorganisms in food; 

4) The role of microorganisms in different types of food; 

5) Edible microorganisms; 

6) Formulation of Hazard Analysis Critical Control Point (HACCP);

7) Enzymes in food processing and microbial production; 

8) Foodborne pathogens, and 

9) Indicator microorganisms and microbial standards.

This course weaves together social themes and historical processes for introductory acquaintance with the people of South Asia through the lens of musical performance and its allied arts. While the focus is on the Indian Subcontinent, which largely falls into the nation-state of India, the course also thematically explores case studies from Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, and Nepal. This course does not aim for coverage of all regions in South Asia, but rather introduces key concepts that can be applied to open up a window to understanding contemporary South Asian society and its diaspora.

Over the twentieth century, the most famous exports of South Asian music for global audiences have been the “classical” music and dance traditions of north and south India, Bollywood movie soundtracks, and ecstatic devotional singing such as qawwali and kirtan. This course engages students in appreciating these performances as sophisticated art forms; familiarizing them with a diverse range of folk and popular genres, but also delving into the historical and social processes that shape them into the way their exponents and audiences understand them today. 

The course examines how contemporary performers reenact theorization from ancient treatises; how colonialism, nationalism, and migration reconfigured people’s engagements with musical performing arts, and how social groupings such as caste, class, religion, gender, and sexuality shape the way people make and listen to music across different localities in South Asia.

 

This is research project conducted with the E3 Research Group. This project analyzes the cost and emissions benefits of using Gogoro scooter banks as vehicle-to-building resources.  The group will be formulating a linear program model and will be implementing it using Python. 
 

This course aims to equip students with the necessary knowledge and skills to navigate the digital landscape of business resilience. The course features case studies and collaboration with Amazon Web Services (AWS) Taiwan to provide students with a realistic overview.

The course begins by examining the primary drivers of digital innovation and discussing the key concepts and frameworks. The course features AWS, the leading provider of cloud solutions, to demonstrate how their cloud-based solutions are utilized by companies to meet strategic digital innovation objectives. In module two, the course explores the impact of digital innovation on organizational and strategic management landscapes, focusing on current digital trends. For the final module, the course will shift focus to the broader marketplace, and will discuss the core legal and ethical trends affecting the global marketplace. 

With the advancement in Integrated Circuit (IC) fabrication and integration technologies, design-for-test and system-level testing have become indispensable. This course discusses concepts and technologies in VLSI testing. It starts with fault modeling, fault simulation, and test pattern generation. Then, the course introduces design-for-test, built-in-self-test, and memory testing. Finally, the course will address challenges and solutions to system-level tests.