National Taiwan University

This tutorial course is directed towards those who are enrolled in the Intermediate Chinese and Intermediate High Chinese levels of the NTU General Chinese Language Course. This course helps students polish their listening and speaking skills in making effective daily conversation. The course focuses on listening and speaking, training students to communicate with basic vocabulary and grammar in dealing with daily issues such as ordering meals, asking directions, making requests and leaving a message, etc.

Population aging is a global trend, especially in East Asia. In Taiwan, the population of those ages 65 and over will reach 20% of the total population in 2025. Though the total number of the aging population is relatively small compared to developed countries, the speed at which it is occurring is one of the fastest in the world, thus leaving Taiwan less time to prepare policies and reconstruct an aging society. 

Aging-related social policies are major challenges for many countries. This course introduces various policy areas among different countries: health and mental health, social care, economic security, lifelong learning, senior employment, voluntary services, age-friendly community development, social sustainability, and SDGs, etc. 
 

This course is directed towards those who have taken Advanced Mid Chinese III of the NTU Chinese Language Course for International Students or those who have learned Chinese for at least 700 hours (6hrs/week). This course will not use a specific textbook, but will discuss topics by the class to develop proficiency in listening, speaking, reading and writing. Through the course, students will be able to use appropriate Chinese to carry on discussions, and read newspapers and magazines to further understand Taiwanese language and culture.

This tutorial course is directed towards those who are enrolled in the Advanced High Chinese levels of NTU General Chinese Language Course. This course does not use a specific textbook, but will discuss topics of interest chosen by the class to develop proficiency in listening, speaking, reading and writing. The course will provide a space to use appropriate Chinese to carry on discussions and read newspapers and magazines to further understand Taiwanese language and culture. By the end of this course, students are expected to be capable of expressing oneself fluently on the discussion of specific articles and topics.  Student swill be capable of reading magazines and newspapers containing difficult vocabulary and special sentence structures.

This course focuses on core muscle training, combined with correct breathing and movement techniques, to help you improve your posture, sculpt your curves, and strengthen muscle control and stability to promote physical and mental health. 

This course is directed towards those who have taken Intermediate High Chinese of the Chinese Language Course for International Students or those who have learned Chinese for at least 350-400 hours (6 hours/week). 

This course uses the textbook Practical Audio-Visual Chinese III (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 vocabulary and grammar that are not often used in daily conversations. Students will be able to use appropriate Chinese language to carry on discussions to further understand Taiwanese culture and language as they progress through the course.

This course is directed towards those who have taken Elementary High Chinese of the NTU Chinese Language Course for International Students or those who have learned Chinese for 200-250 hours (6hrs/week). This course uses the textbook Practical Audio-Visual Chinese II (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 further understand Taiwanese language and culture and language through the course. 

This course introduces new trends in Chinese cultural studies. Through examining the evolving discourse of animal representations and their roles in Chinese history, it provides insight on how human-animal agencies evolved in time. Taking an interdisciplinary approach, this course covers different fields and endeavors to connect animal studies to broader political questions such as religions, knowledge production and state-building. With a special focus on the Song, Ming, Qing, and Republican periods, this course pays close attention to literary sources regarding animal welfare during these eras. 

This course is directed towards those who have taken Advanced Low Chinese II of the NTU Chinese Language Course for International Students or those who have learned Chinese for 600-700 hours (6hrs/week). This course uses the textbook Far East Daily Chinese III (chapter 3~ chapter 10) 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 new vocabulary and grammar 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 course outline is as follows:

Lecture 1 - Introduction
Lecture 2 - Formulation of Circuit Equations
Lecture 3 - Direct Methods for Linear Systems
Lecture 4 - Direct Methods for Sparse Linear Systems
Lecture 5 - Iterative Methods and QR Factorization
Lecture 6 - Krylov-Subspace Methods - I
Lecture 7 - Krylov-Subspace Methods - II
Lecture 8 - Solutions for Nonlinear Equations
Lecture 9 - Modified Newton Methods
Lecture 10 - Methods for Ordinary Differential Equations
Lecture 11 - Multistep Methods
Lecture 12 - Large Timestep Issues
Lecture 13 - Digital Systems Verification