National Taiwan University

This course is a continuation and extension both in materials and depth of Fluid Mechanics I, which is a fundamental and required course of the Department of Mechanical Engineering. This course provides students with a clear picture and explanation of flow phenomena but also enhance their capability of analysis of engineering problems. This course covers the following topics: Kinematics of Fluids; Governing Equations; Elements of Ideal-Fluid Flow; Viscous Flow Theory; Elements of Turbulent Flow; Steady One-Dimensional Compressible Flow, and Oblique shock and Expansion Waves.

Digitization and the internet lower the cost to collect, disseminate and analyze data. This course explores how digitization affects interactions between people, firms and governments.  It examines how institutions and regulations can and do respond. Topics include privacy, social networks, network effects, online platforms, recommendation algorithms, reputation mechanisms, search, matching and digital payment systems. Advanced economic theory, especially tools from information economics, are used to explain features of the digital economy and suggest policy recommendations. 

Phonology is the ability of the human brain to organize speech sounds. This course explores different aspects of phonology within generative linguistics, using rule-based frameworks in the tradition of Chomsky and Halle’s (1968) Sound Pattern of English.  The course discusses phonological representations, phonological features, phonology-morphology interaction, syllabification, and stress assignment.   

Brands are at the core of the business success and financial power of the world’s most successful international companies. The critical importance of building and effectively managing strong global brands has never been as pressing as today, as the other sources of lasting competitive advantage in the market erode rapidly or collapse (incl. access to technological, manufacturing or financial resources). While almost any new product or technology can be replicated rapidly and cheaply by competition, a well-established brand and its relationships with the consumers cannot, which makes it a source of lasting and highly resilient competitive advantage for the long-term financial success of the business. As such, this course features course lectures and in-class discussions covering case studies and simulation tools. Presentations, readings, projects, and a computer-based international marketing simulation game, Country Manager, are utilized in this course. The simulation entails selecting a new Asia market for entry, establishing a brand presence in that market, and expanding into additional foreign markets.  

The course introduces the rapid growing field of health psychology, which could be defined as an interdisciplinary field concerned with the application of psychological knowledge and techniques to health, illness and health care. The primary purpose of health psychology is to understand and improve the well-being of individuals and communities. A better understanding of psychosocial factors and behaviors associated with health outcomes would inform strategies or policies aimed to promote health, prevent illness, and enhance the quality of health care by facilitating changes in beliefs and behaviors about health.  

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.