National Taiwan University

Understanding the systems that control the circulation of water between the atmosphere, soil, and plant is clearly important for a general understanding of the hydrological cycle and the way that the ecosystem operates and survives. This course consists of two sections. The first section deals with the basics of plant-water relations and water fluxes in forests. The second section explores the soil moisture dynamics and its effect on plant ecophysiology and hydrological processes. This course explores the fundamentals of ecohydrology in forest ecosystems, with a special emphasis on plant-water relations and soil moisture dynamics. This course also covers the issues of climate change, based on the forest-atmosphere interaction through soil moisture.

The course focuses on the event of social management. It discusses how to govern the society, country and the world. In Chinese Philosophy, Confucianism and Taoism define the basic value of management principle, while the Book of Change and Book of Talented Person suggest more details. The former points on issues of bureaucrat problems while the later concerns how to look for talented persons. The above schools and Books start their thinking from the meaning of human beings in order to find out the ultimate ideal of people's life. As for the idea to service society, some teaches how to be a good leader, how to do the personnel training, how could be quick-witted, how to recognize one's characteristic, and some even suggests individualism thus could well be used on the management of leisure event and retire life. The course will have enough discussion and the teacher will answer students' questions. Through the Q & A could bring up students' ability to deal with modern social life by renewing those old doctrines. The course will have middle and final examination where the text taught in the classes is the point. Beside with the middle and final examination students should hand over documents telling what they had learned from the course and how they use those ideas to solve their daily problems.

The independent study consists of a personal project each week, mainly focused on developing visual communication processes and products. The instructor provides a critique, feedback, and offers suggestions for new steps on how to improve projects. The independent study focuses on developing clear visual communication in print and web material, involving typography, layout, branding, illustration, and web design.

This course presents language development obstacles for infants and preschool children. The class introduces main phonetics, semantics, grammar, and usage as developmental processes for children and some common disorders for language processing. The course also covers language assessment of young children and introduces ways of reclamation, and the importance of early intervention for language disorders. Texts: Reed, V. A. (2012) An Introduction to Children with Language Disorders; Bernstein, D. K. , Tiegerman-Farber, E. (2009) Language and Communication Disorders in Children. Assessment: oral report (5%), assignments (8%), participation (13%), midterm exam (28%), final exam (28%), report (18%).

This course addresses exploratory data analysis and graphs such as histograms, stem plots, measures of center and spread of a distribution, normal distribution, scatter plots, least squares regression (correlation), producing data (design of experiments, sampling design), probability (probability rules, random variables, probability distributions), and statistical inference (confidence intervals, tests of significance, nonparametric methods, categorical or count data). 

This course offers an introduction of corpus linguistics for graduate students, including the necessary tools, techniques, and analysis methodologies for doing corpus-based studies and corpus annotation projects. Existing major corpora are scrutinized for a better understanding of their linguistic uses. The course enables students to make, annotate and search corpora, as well as to perform a quantitative analysis of some linguistic phenomenon. Students will also gain hands-on experience in these areas by working on a specific topic of their own interest. 

The six-week summer lab research program at National Taiwan University places students in various science, engineering and social science research labs and/or projects under the supervision of faculty. Students spend approximately 30 hours per week in lab activities.

This course provides a general introduction about Chinese family business. It breaks into four main fields: Understanding today's family business, inherited pros and cons of the family business, succession plans and difficulties, and effective governance of business and family. Instructional methods include lectures, case study (Specific in the greater China), group discussion and inviting experience guest speaker to share their perspectives on the specific related topics.

This course explores archaeological cultural heritage in East and Southeast Asia and how material remains of past human behavior in this broad region play an active role in shaping human perceptions of self and others in the present day. Archaeological cultural heritage as an academic field and as a profession is rapidly evolving in East and Southeast Asia, with governmental policy making, political motivations such as nation-building and nationalistic agendas, globalization, economic expansion and development, and many other factors shaping choices for how and why archaeological sites, objects, architecture, and landscapes are preserved, protected, and presented. This course focuses on these political roles of archaeological cultural heritage and examines them in conceptual and theoretical terms using a necessarily anthropological, interdisciplinary approach with models and methods from archaeology, critical museology, material cultural theory, postcolonial theory, and memory studies, among others. Case studies from around East and Southeast Asia, including Taiwan, mainland China, Korea, Japan, the Philippines, Thailand, Cambodia, Laos, Indonesia, and Malaysia serve to provide insight into the relationship between archaeological heritage and nationalism to explore such related issues as the domination of Eurocentrism in heritage practice and theory (and see new alternatives arising); heritage's role in identity and ideology; contested ownership; commodification and value; memorialization and "dark heritage" (e.g., post-conflict or post-trauma sites); indigenous and minority rights and stakeholding; the impact of looting and the illicit antiquities trade; and heritage tourism.

This course outlines the East Asian regional development in terms of the political economy, cultural, demographic, and social aspects. Each week focuses on one of the aforementioned aspects. Relevant readings are assigned for class discussion and students are required to actively participate in the discussion.