National Taiwan University

The course gives an introduction of the biotech pharmaceutical industry and also focuses on the development of biotech medicine, small molecule drug, protein drug, and regulations and business aspects of the industry. Course topics: Biotech Pharmaceutical Industry Overview, Biotechnology entrepreneurship and investment, biotech medicine business success stories, business development strategy of biotech pharmaceutical industry, gene decoding's impact on development of biotech medicine, nanotechnology in biotechnology applications and challenges, intellectual property rights and management, small molecule drug development, protein drug development, clinical trials and regulations, pharmaceutical production and regulations, biotech business enterprises. The course consists of weekly lecture, a midterm, and a final. The course is conducted in Chinese, but uses an English textbook.

This course introduces biological sequence analysis methods. The course provides familiarity with the vast amounts of biomedical and genomic data and online tools. The first part of the course explores basic algorithmic strategies, sequence alignment, chaining algorithms, and genomics. If time allows, Hidden Markov models (the Viterbi algorithm) are discussed. The second part covers sequence assembly, max-sum/max-density segments, data analysis, and more techniques used in genomics analysis.

The brutal struggle between free will of humanity and historical force has long been a controversial and intriguing subject in the discussions of literature. The point lies not in which side wins eventually, but in exploring what happens in the process of struggle. Viewed from the perspective of literary development, it is quite clear that each different literary movement in postwar Taiwan provides its own unique understanding of the relationship between man and history, between social agency and historical transformation, and ultimately between history and fiction. This course is divided into four parts each dealing with specific historical issues or events. The first deals with how historical figures, such as Song Qingling and Chen Yi, are treaed in fiction. The second part looks at history and politics. The third part discusses how past experiences have been represented from different ideological points of view by different writers. Finally, the course takes a close look at how writers explain the failure (or success) of certain social movements after they have long perished. In short, all the four parts try to explore the complicated interactions among history, human experience, and literary mind.

Ever since the founding of ROC in 1911, war has been a repetitive motif of Chinese history, with millions of Chinese victimized and forced to lose their homes, and even their lives. Therefore, after the Nationalist government relocated itself to Taiwan in 1949, from the 1950s to 1980s, war fiction became an important sub-genre in Anti-communism, Modernism, Nativist-realism, and Post-modernism. There were so many novelists using war as a thematic element in their works that included all the wars from Hsin-hai Revolution to the Vietnamese War. This course is built on the basis of two different histories: the history of wars and that of literature. The first part of this course constructs a historical framework of Modern Chinese Wars, which includes all the wars from Hsin-hai Revolution to the Korean War. The course then demonstrates how novelists from different literary periods deal with the material of war differently: that is to say, we use the plot of war fiction to show how China and Taiwan were influenced socio-politically and economically. This part of course focuses on how Anti-communists reflect upon Chinese Civil Wars, how Modernists rewrote wars experimentally, how Nativist-realists examined the impacts of the Vietnamese War on Taiwan, and how Post-modernism questioned the problem of history with war fiction.

As a survey of American poetry, this course introduces poems written across the span of American history, from 17th-century colonial poets to 21st-century (post)modern poets. The course includes poems from writers of diverse ethnic, geographic, and socioeconomic backgrounds, writing in a wide variety of poetic forms and idioms. The course compares the literary features of a variety of types of American poetry coming from a number of distinct historical eras, ethnic groups, and socioeconomic communities.

This course places modern Chinese history within the evolution of world history as well as the evolution of world history within modern Chinese history. The course discusses: the world capitalist system and its problems; the establishment of modern states; the characteristics of nationalism; the structure of agricultural society; the mentality of intellectuals; the problems of modernization and modernity; the modernization of China and Japan from a broadened historical perspective, and international hegemony.  Topics of discussion and research also include the influence of the national bourgeoisie; the fragility of the national bourgeoisie; the Chinese communist revolution; the tragic struggle between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party, and the particularity of the labor movement.

This course is an introductory course in clinical neuropsychiatry designed for master students. The course focuses on (1) clinical manifestations; (2) pathogenesis, and (3) current research trends and challenges of various neurological and psychiatric disorders. In addition to classroom lectures, this course cites clinical cases to deepen learning.

This course focuses on the works of C.S. Lewis, a British novelist, poet, academic, medievalist, literary critic, essayist, lay theologian, broadcaster, lecturer, and Christian apologist. This course focuses more on his Christian works, specifically SURPRISED BY JOY, THROUGH THE SHADOWLANDS, THE MAGICIAN'S NEPHEW, THE LAST BATTLE, TILL WE HAVE FACES, AND THE GREAT DIVORCE. This class requires extensive reading.

The course provides a study of Japanese sentence patterns, Japanese conversation skills, and cultivates Japanese reading ability. Students learn Japanese listening, speaking, reading, and writing skills, which can be expressed through storytelling and song lyrics. This course covers chapters 20-26. Topics include: (Chapter 20) Consequential sentence such as the correspondence of other verbs, the state that continues after the action ends, etc. (Chapter 21) Reason sentence structures such as expressing regret, dissatisfaction, mentioning a topic, etc. (Chapter 22) "Ability" sentences: possible verbs such as an ability or possibility under a certain situation, etc. (Chapter 23) Conditional sentences and intentional form such as a will, determination, plan, etc. (Chapter 24) Speculative sentences such as Inference, goal and purpose of action, and resulting state of change, etc. (Chapter 25) Command sentences via command form which command, prohibit, or convey statement of meaning (Chapter 26) Describe the movement in terms of the speaker's "point of arrival" or "point of departure."

This course teaches aerobic exercise and physical/mental wellness, and uses a combination of exercise moves to encourage participation. The class is meant to engage every student to apply the principles into everyday life. The course encourages participation and enthusiasm for aerobic exercises, and greater knowledge of how to build a lifelong exercise habit. We will also split into groups to promote social skills and interpersonal interaction.