National Taiwan University

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.  

This badminton course is designed for beginners. The course teaches the basic skills, which include footwork, forehand grip, backhand grip, forehand long serve, backhand short serve, overhead clear, underhand clear, drop shots net shot, drive and smash. 

This course draws on global marketing/business situations and contexts to introduce students to the theory and practical application of negotiations with an emphasis on practical skill development. Negotiation can be taught and—with practice—improved with experience. This course covers research on negotiation-related issues but also provides a platform to develop actual negotiation skills and practice them in-class (and optionally online) using group negotiation simulations in a role-playing-game format
(RPG).

The course acquaints students with a wide range of microorganisms, including virus, archaea, bacteria, fungi and protists. In addition, students will acquire background knowledge of microbiology, which can then be applied to different microbe-associated tasks. 

This course aims to deepen and broaden the knowledge of high school biology courses, and is mainly to prepare for future courses in various professional fields of biology. 

This course explores the use of ChatGPT, a large language model, as a tool for engaging with philosophical questions and problems. The course instructs how to interact with ChatGPT to generate responses to philosophical questions and covers a range of topics on the philosophy of time. The course seeks to answer the questions: Do the past or future exist in the way the present exists? Are pastness, presentness, and futurity consistent notions? Do I have temporal parts as well as spatial parts if time is in many ways analogous to space? How can we mention the past if it’s already gone? How can we know this is the present moment? On the reunion of twins after a space journey, which one is older? Is time travel possible? Is it possible to kill one’s grandfather? Is presentness compatible with special relativity given that the latter allows no absolute simultaneity? Does space exist like a substance in its own right, or is it nothing but spatial relationships between objects? 

Overall, this course develops students' critical thinking and analytical skills by providing them with a unique opportunity to engage with philosophical questions using cutting-edge technology.