National Taiwan University

This course introduces students to fiction and other critical and cultural perspectives from the postcolonial world.  This course discusses selected texts from postcolonial Africa, beginning with examining what Ngugi wa Thiong’o has called the “struggles to move the centre”—that is, the political and cultural struggles to “correct the imbalances of the last four hundred years” of colonization. The course then turns to fictional writings and other cultural texts that come out of various decolonization struggles in Nigeria, Algeria, Kenya, and South Africa.  The course seeks to answer the question: Why should these texts and ideas matter to us today?
 

This course examines the characteristics of construction management. Topics include productivity management, cost control and reporting, contract type and administration, cost estimating, planning and scheduling, engineering economy and finance, construction accounting, legal aspects, bonding, insurance, risk management, quality control and TQM, and labor relation and construction safety.

This course offers a study on the development of bioengineering principles applied to the cardiovascular system. This course covers: the anatomy of the human cardiovascular system; cardiovascular and neurovascular diseases; diagnostic tools and treatment strategies; cardiovascular medical devices; biofluid mechanics, and biomaterial behavior.

This course covers scientific laboratory techniques and the underlying physical principles of natural phenomena. Each class focuses on a particular experiment described in the lab manual, Laboratory Experiments in Physics. This is a one-credit hour class that meets almost once a week for about three hours.

This course introduces fictional and other critical and cultural perspectives from the postcolonial world. It focuses on selected texts from postcolonial Asia. The course begins by critically investigating the concept of the nation—what Benedict Anderson has famously called an “imagined community.” It explores this concept through reading and discussing texts representing the complexities of imagined communities in Taiwan, India, Sri Lanka, and the Philippines, texts that also represent uneven power relations with China, Japan, the UK, the US, and elsewhere. The course explores the question: why should these texts and ideas matter to us now? 

This course introduces students to the fundamental theories and concepts of race and ethnicity. These theories and concepts enrich classic sociological canons and provide sociologists racial/ethnic lens for insightful analyses of the racialized institutions behind social phenomena. The first six weeks of this course focuses on these fundamental race/ethnicity theories and concepts. The course also investigates the role of history in the construction of race/ethnicity theories and explores how we can connect the contemporary globalized, multiracial world with these theories generated in the Western context (mostly with the White/Black divide). We then examine how race and ethnicity shape the individual’s personal, cultural, and national identity; interact with capitalist society; serve as a form of social classification, and how they are challenged or reinforced by educational systems in various cultural contexts.  

This course introduces the integrated circuit process, basic theory and technology, equipment principle and application of each stage of the process, and emphasizes the cooperation of process integration and development of forward-looking component processes. The content is based on the CMOS process, and contains a discussion of various components. Content includes: Modern Electronic Device Technology; Crystal Growth, Wafer Fabrication and Basic Properties of Silicon Wafers; Semiconductor Manufacturing; Lithography; Thermal Oxidation; Diffusion; Ion Implantation; Thin Film Deposition; Etching; Back-end technology; Metallization and Chemical Mechanical Polishing; Process Integration and IC Processing Technology.

This course examines historical and current health policy issues and their impacts. It covers health policies mainly in the U.S. and Taiwan, but also looks at global health topics. The first part of the course discusses health care systems, such as the public insurance structures in the U.S. and Taiwan, health care reforms, and the long term care systems. The second part introduces health behavior related topics from the economic perspective, including the prescription drug market, the effects of smoking and drinking age regulations on health, the factors and consequences (education, employment, crime, etc.) of risky health behaviors, and the impact of environment on health.

This course covers how JavaScript works and how to use JavaScript to improve the richness of web interactions with simple, life-like examples. With hands-on examples, students will be able to understand from the ground up. The course has a series of sections and recorded segments, so learning is more flexible and efficient.

This course is divided into two parts. The first half of the course offers a comparative modern history of East Asian countries, with a special focus on Hokkaido, Ryukyu-Okinawa, Taiwan, Korea and China, in the framework of Japanese “Nation-Empire” building. The course also explores categories of people, including trafficked children, peddlers, “abducted” women, the Ainu, Taiwan's indigenous people, Micronesians, and Okinawans. The second half of the course focuses on cultural studies (pop culture, movies, music manga, etc.), political economy (regional integration, ASEAN+3, TPP, RCEP, One Belt One Load), comparative politics (political regime, identity, nationalism, democracy), regional security (U.S.-Japan Alliance, U.S. military presence, military cooperation, South China and East China sea, bandwagoning or hedge). The course uses active learning in groups, making maximum use of the mixture of students from different regions and countries, and bringing out different perspectives, points of view, and opinions on various issues and topics.