National Taiwan University

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.  

This course begins after the Republic of China government retreated to Taiwan in 1949. It discusses the cross-strait confrontation and the political and social development of the Republic of China in Taiwan, as well as the relations between Taiwan, the United States, and China during the outbreak of the Korean War. It then delves into the interaction between the People's Republic of China and the Soviet Union relations.  

This course primarily focuses on the ocean's role in the global biogeochemical cycling of elements, with special attention given to the impact of human activities on the transport of these elements within these cycles. The course begins by covering basic ocean chemistry, followed by an exploration of the concept of global geochemical cycles based on water/rock interactions. The discussion then delves into nutrient and trace metal cycling, emphasizing redox reactions and the biologically mediated oxidation of organic matter. Steady-state models will be employed to explain the global distribution of these components in the oceans. 
 
In addition, the course examines the role of sediment in shaping ocean chemical composition, considering both equilibrium and kinetic perspectives and touches upon marine chemistry related to radioactive and stable isotopes. 
 

This course aims to provide young marine scientists with a foundation in the fundamental concepts of ocean chemistry, while offering a global perspective on the subject. There are no prerequisites for enrollment, but a background in basic chemistry (e.g., Chemistry 101) is preferred.   

The Internet and mobile devices have changed the production, transmission, presentation and storage of communication content, and provided a wider range of marketing communication vehicles and categories. This course explains the characteristics, strategies, development trends, available tools and main types of digital marketing, and is supplemented by case illustrations. This course enables students to master the principles of digital marketing; understand how companies can use different digital marketing tools and methods to produce effective marketing strategy planning and benefits and discuss the characteristics and limitations of each digital marketing type. The course provides opportunities for students to work in groups, using agricultural products as examples, and apply the digital marketing strategies taught in the classroom to write digital marketing plans suitable for the exhibition and sale of agricultural products. 

This course is an extension of the Engineering Statistics and Computer Programming courses. The course works extensively with real-world data (relevant to engineering, physics and the environment). The knowledge learned from the aforementioned two courses will be briefly reviewed and further strengthened through a series of hands-on projects. This course enables students to develop solid data analytical skills and problem-solving mindsets, both useful skills for future employment in industry and academia. 

Course Prerequisites: Engineering Statistics and Computer Programming. 

As a core course in the department’s program on East Asian studies, this graduate-level course, conducted fully in English, explores various dimensions of the political, economic, and social developments of the People’s Republic of China since 1979. In addition to familiarizing the students with the empirical evidence and relevant methodology of such developments, this course also introduces the theoretical evolution/debates both in China studies and authoritarianism in comparative politics. An extended goal of this course is to prepare the students for delving into new research topics and conducting independent field research in China in the future. Students have to finish all the required readings and be prepared for heavy class participation before each class meeting. Lectures by the instructors where necessary play a supplementary role only.