National Taiwan University

This course is an integrated experiment to design and create a course to apply macro-meso-micro perspective for IB major students. International Competitiveness and Taiwanese Enterprises (ICTE) is born with the original challenge to bridge international /global survey of nation’s competitiveness and the corporate behavior, or to connect micro-issues at the firm level and the macro-international issues at the national level. 

The course is designed to guide students in reading and understanding English-language news, and help them learn the basic skills in translating news into Chinese and writing news reports in English. The students read news articles on different topics to explore the basic elements of news and learn vocabularies and expressions often used in news writing. The students practice translating, editing, rewriting English news into Chinese and practice presenting news events in English, both verbally and in written form. Comparisons between the styles and angles of foreign press and local media are discussed. Other than text, news photos, graphics, videos and animation are introduced. Current events are also discussed. Lectures convey the message that the aim of real news business is to inform, to educate and to serve and that good journalists are honest, balanced, responsible and well-informed and they honor professional ethics.

This course introduces the law and practice of international commercial arbitration. It focuses on arbitration of business-to-business disputes, although much of the course material also applies to disputes governed by public international law, such as investor-state arbitrations. The course covers the intersection of international law, national law, and private contract that comprises the governing regime for the resolution of international commercial disputes. Specific topics include the drafting and enforcement of arbitration agreements, the laws applicable to different aspects of the arbitration, the jurisdiction, composition and powers of the tribunal, confidentiality, interim measures, the conduct of the hearing, and the recognition and enforcement of arbitral awards. Lectures are supplemented with class discussion and a variety of in-class activities meant to simulate real problems confronted by arbitration lawyers. Text: Gary B. Born, INTERNATIONAL ARBITRATION: LAW AND PRACTICE. Assessment: Participation in in-class exercises (33%), Take-home final exam (67%).

This course provides understanding of game theory. The course not only introduces the basic concepts of game theory, such as Nash equilibrium, subgame perfect Nash equilibrium, perfect Bayesian equilibrium, but also focuses on the "information" of these issues. Some emphases include moral hazard, adverse selection, mechanism design, and models of communication. Additionally, a number of information-related applications, such as negotiation and bidding are introduced.

This course covers the first half of Islamic history from 600 to 1300 C.E. At the beginning of this period, Arab Muslims established a new religion and a new empire. These developments took place at the intersections of religions (Jewish, Christian, and Zoroastrian faiths) and at the crossroads of empires (Roman and Sasanian states) in the Middle East. Within this context, we will study the construction of Muslim empires and the dynamics of life in Islamic societies during the classical and medieval periods. The course concludes in the 1300s, a pivotal moment when Islamic societies had to respond to invasions by Turks, Crusaders, and Mongols that contributed to the fragmentation of Islamic civilization. By studying the early years of Islamic history, we can witness the construction of a major civilization from its very beginnings.

This course covers the principles and applications of electrical engineering. Topics include resistive circuits; inductance and capacitance; rransients; steady-state sinusoidal analysis; frequency response, bode plots, and resonance; amplifiers; operational amplifiers; diodes; and logic circuits.

The purpose of this practical, discussion-oriented (PBL) course is to investigate the important role that culture plays in international business scenarios and hone students' overall English proficiency levels. After learning some basic cross-cultural communication theories, principles and concepts, the course discusses different ways of increasing intercultural-communicative competence and global English-language proficiency skills.

Working in groups, students present on various topics related to their home culture; the "multimodal" role they play in their own communities, and how to use the course contents to improve their understanding of engagement in international business situations. In doing so, we will discuss issues of cultural business etiquette; stereotypes; inclusion, and SDG-sustainability in today's global marketplace.

Marketing begins and ends with the consumer, from identifying consumers' wants and needs to delivering customer satisfaction. Accordingly, this course examines a number of topics and areas that are essential for those seeking to understand and influence consumer behavior. Although theoretical concepts play an important role, the course focuses on the pragmatic implications for marketing practice, and, in particular, the formulation and implementation of marketing strategy.

This course introduces the fundamentals and methodology on research of molecular evolution. Topics: evolutionary changes and patterns of sequences, methods for phylogenetic analyses, and inferring sites under positive selection. The course also examines recent advances of molecular evolution studies on phylogenomics, horizontal gene transfer, and genome evolution. Recommended prerequisites include evolution, genetics or equivalent subjects. Laboratory practices are offered to provide familiarity with data retrieving and analyses. Homework assignments are distributed weekly, which require substantial extra work time.

This course teaches basic mathematical tools (linear algebra, multivariate differential calculus, function maximization) to build economic models and do economic analysis. The following mathematical tools are covered: Static Economic Models and The Concept of Equilibrium; Matrix Algebra; Vector Space and Linear Transformation; Determinant, Inverse Matrix, and Cramer's rule; Differential Calculus and Comparative Statics; Comparative Statics--Applications; Optimization; Optimization--Multivariate Case; Optimization--Equality Constraints and Nonlinear Programming; General Equilibrium and Game Theory.