National Taiwan University

This course promotes awareness and interest in volleyball through strengthening basic skills and practical applications in the sport, while promoting human interaction and the spirit of cooperation. Topics include: comfort interacting with the ball in motion, serving effectively using technical skills in control and placement, the process of hitting the ball, and the basics of game play.

The course addresses the following topics: AOI: Automatic Optical Inspection, Computer Vision, Digital Image Processing, and Digital Camera. 

This course explores Chinese folktales and their relation to Chinese and Taiwanese culture and history. Course activities are paired with images, songs, movie, theater, poetry and discussions to deepen understanding of Chinese culture. The course allows students to explore and explain folktales from their own countries. Assessment: Attendance & Participation (40%), Report (30%), Final (30%).

This course examines major concepts in the theory of computation. Topics covered include deterministic and nondeterministic finite state automata, regular expressions, context-free languages, pumping lemma and push-down automata, equivalence of context-free grammars and push-down automata, Turing machines, decidable languages, reducibility, computational complexity, and NP-completeness. Textbooks: INTRODUCTION TO THE THEORY OF COMPUTATION by M. Sipser, INTRODUCTION TO AUTOMATA THEORY, LANGUAGES, AND COMPUTATION by J. Hopcroft, J. Ullman. Assessment: homework, midterm exam, final exam.

Throughout the world of literature, there are various kinds of monsters that are created to incur every sense of panic and horror in the minds of the readers. In the literary narratives, the encountering of monsters is destined to map out a scene of anxiety, insecurity, and the loss of self-identity. The self-confidence of man is threatened as the imposing figure of a monster approaches. Monsters and monstrosities that designate the embodiment of the monstrous creatures in this light give rise to a wide range of description and delineation to the in-depth anxiety and horror hidden in the human minds that bear the fear towards the unknown. This class is a literature-based course focusing on horror novels in which the students discuss and analyze aspects and themes specific to the genre. The required coursework includes a comprehensive term essay and various assignments throughout the semester.

This course is an introduction to the theory and practice of econometrics. It provides students with knowledge of statistical and econometric theory to make them an effective consumer and producer of empirical research in economics. Emphasis is placed on intuitive understanding rather than on rigorous arguments. Throughout the course, concepts are illustrated with applications in economics.

This course focuses on integrating software and hardware and building working computer systems. The course covers building touchpads; wearable devices; motion tracking; haptic devices, and autonomous vehicles. 

Taiwan is an island country rich in biodiversity. It is located between the Eurasian Plate and Philippine Sea Plate, and its geological structure is quite young. The orogeny in Taiwan form many towering mountains, so even though Taiwan is in the tropical and subtropical zone, a temperate climate is still found at high altitudes. Taiwan is also known for a high percentage of endemic species, because in the Ice Age, Taiwan was connected to Eurasia. After the Ice Age, Taiwan was isolated by the ocean, and many lives gradually evolved into endemic species on the island. Now, the proportion of endemic species in Taiwan is about 71% mammals, 17% birds, 22% reptiles, 31% amphibians, 19% freshwater fish, 25% plants, and 60% insects. Although the land area of Taiwan is only 0.027% of the total of the world, the number of species is as high as 3.8%, which is 150 times the global average. Furthermore, the marine species around Taiwan are about 10% of the world, which is 361 times the average. Taiwan is not a country with large territory, but has rich biological resources. This course invites guest speakers in different fields to talk about the geography, wildlife, ecosystem, and culture of Taiwan. The course studies the natural environment of Taiwan through lectures and field trips.

This course analyzes the impact of money, the banking system, and financial markets on modern economic activity and their interaction, helping students understand the financial sector's linkage to overall economic volatility. Students conduct rigorous analysis with simplified models, so that they can understand the mechanism of the operation of economic models such as asset pricing, bank runs, and secured lending restrictions, and explain them in clear logical steps. This course analyzes the changing face of financial intermediation in recent years, the rise of the shadow banking system, and its relationship to the global financial tsunami. It also addresses important topics such as non-traditional monetary policy, quantitative easing, Basel III, leverage cycles, systemic risk, central banks and financial stability, and overall prudential supervision policies. In addition, this course also analyzes issues such as digital currency (virtual currency), fintech and blockchain, shadow banking (supervision arbitrage and systemic risk) and supervision, the exit of quantitative easing, the issue of nominal interest rate "zero lower bound" and the latest topics such as negative interest rate policy, as well as the latest developments in the regulation and prudential supervision of the global financial system and financial institutions.

This course provides a general introduction to entomology, including the main research areas of entomology. Topics include insect morphology, internal anatomy, physiology, classification, and ecology, as well as the methods of field collection and research.