National Taiwan University

Starting from the basic knowledge of nutrition and food, this course explores the application of nutrition in each life stage, as well as the principles of nutritional adjustment during disease; the content of therapeutic diet; and the supply of hospital food, thereby establishing the concept of disease prevention and health care. 

The course covers: 

1) An explanation of the importance of calories and precise nutrition in human health through a discussion of the three major nutrients: carbohydrates, lipids, and proteins; 

2) An exploration of the relationship between nutrition and other sciences such as biochemistry, physiology, food science, and clinical medicine; 

3) An exploration of the physiological characteristics, related diseases and nutritional needs of different life stages, providing dietary guidelines for all ages; 

4) An exploration of the nutritional needs and dietary formulas of common diseases; and, 

5) An introduction to the content and practice of hospital nutrition work. 

This course focuses on understanding the field of new product development and innovation from a marketing perspective. It is designed to gain an understanding of the important theories and conceptual frameworks for new product marketing as well as the tools and techniques to prepare a logical and reliable marketing plan for a new product.
 

This course takes an applied approach and focuses on applying conceptual learning to cases and projects. It will be taught through a combination of interactive lectures, class discussions, interactive activities and seminars, case studies, and team projects. 

This course introduces Taiwanese literature, film, and culture on a national and international level. It provides an overview of the basics of literary and film history in Taiwan, providing an opportunity to read literary works in English translation as well as watch movies by Taiwanese cultural producers.  Engagement with these selected literary works and films will provide insights into fundamental issues and keywords such as history, place, gender, and migration. 

The course aims to refine students' abilities to critically analyze and write about literature and film, as well as to develop a better understanding of Taiwanese literature and culture from the Japanese colonial period to the contemporary era. Class weekly meetings are divided into two parts: the first 50 minutes is devoted to lecture and the second 50 minutes is devoted to  discussion. 

Immunology is a subject that has developed extremely rapidly in recent years. It covers a wide range of fields and is involved in many disciplines: biology, chemistry, medicine, genetics, genetic science, cytology, and molecular biology. This course covers the following topics:

1) The basic principles and phenomena of the immune system.

2) The structure, interaction and functions of antigens and antibodies.

3) Analytical methods, cellular basis, and molecular basis. 

4) Histocompatibility, cellular immunity, T cell regulation, and

5) Intestinal immunity, immune tolerance, immunogenetics, allergy, and immunodeficiency. 

Through lectures, reports and videos, this course hopes to fully introduce the perfect "body defense system" of the human body. 

This course explores China's domestic political and economic reform after Deng Xiaoping (1978 to present).  The course outlines China's political system and its evolution, discussing the social consequences of China's economic liberalization. 

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.