National Taiwan University

This course is specially designed for international students, and guides international students to understand the different aspects of Taiwanese society through various topics: 1. Taiwanese society and culture: Introduce the three main goals and five characteristics of Taiwan's universal health insurance, and guide students to reflect on the current medical system and development in their home country. Modules 3 and 4 introduce Taiwanese folk beliefs such as Mazu beliefs, Wangye beliefs and other religious ceremonies, as well as the communication methods between Taiwanese folk beliefs and gods (such as drawing lots), and introduce emerging religions in Taiwan. 2. Food and culture: introduce tea art, wine and food, night market snacks, Hakka cuisine, North-South cuisine, aboriginal cuisine, etc. Wedding and funeral festive customs: Introduce marriage, funeral and childbirth rituals and their historical inheritance and cultural significance. 3. Modern History: Beginning from the Japanese Occupation Period, through the Nationalist Government’s arrival in Taiwan, martial law, and lifting of martial law In this period, it introduces the changes in the political and economic structure, customs and folk conditions of modern times. 4. Looking at Taiwan through movies: Through Taiwanese movies, we can further understand Taiwanese culture, such as palace culture, funeral culture, wedding, food culture, etc. 5. Taiwan aboriginal legends and culture: From legends and celebrations, introduce the aboriginal culture. Saisha: Legend of the Dwarfs and the Dwarf Ritual, Atayal: The Legend of the Rainbow and the Ritual of the Ancestors. Dawu: The Legend of the Flying Fish and the Flying Fish Festival.

Business today is by all measures - global. No business or industry of any size is immune from the global environment. Understanding the global economy, therefore, is important for all people engaged in business regardless of the size or type of business. This course consists of the basic areas of global market management. The course explores the interrelation of government and business across borders and the economic dynamics between countries and regions, including a general overview of global business environment, foreign direct investment, and entry strategies. The class also discusses the management of global market and reviews several case studies that epitomize the issues involved in today's global world. This is an introductory course about global market management and, therefore, a significant portion of the class will be taught through lectures, but also includes guest speakers, video clips, class discussion and readings on current issues.

The course provides fundamental training in the following perspectives: Basic models of labor supply, labor demand, and labor market operation; research questions concerning labor economics; empirical strategies commonly applied in labor economics research; and features of the labor market in Taiwan. Text: Joshua D. Angrist and Jörn-Steffen Pischke, MASTERING METRICS: THE PATH FROM CAUSE TO EFFECT. Assessment: assignments/presentation (30%), midterm exam (30%), final exam (40%).

Recently, sensor networks, cyber physics systems, and internet of things have become popular because sensing, communication, and analytics technologies matured. In the future, digital sensing, communication, and processing capabilities will be ubiquitously embedded into everyday objects, turning them into an Internet of Things (IoT, also known as, machine-to-machine, M2M). Sensors everywhere can continuously collect a large quantity of data; processors everywhere can analyze and infer useful knowledge from the data; communication ratios can transmit and exchange useful knowledge with other everyday objects to serve humans better. This paradigm shift which can significantly improve our life brings up numerous challenges and opportunities to engineering. This course plans to encourage students from multiple disciplines to collaborate with each other and create innovative IoT applications/services to improve our daily life. Electrical engineering students from NTU and NTU Science and Technology collaborate with design students from NTU to design prototypes of Internet of Things products that improve our daily lives. Teams present a live demonstration of their project at the end of the quarter.

This course analyzes Chinese historical short stories with a focus on reading comprehension. The course exposes international students to Chinese culture and stories while developing and improving Chinese vocabulary through the introduction of new words and idioms. The course also explores the historical context for each of the stories through videos, images, and other sources (outside of the textbook). The course is intended for students who understand at least 2200 words in Chinese. Assessment: two quizzes, midterm, final, participation, and attendance.

This is a cross domain course which students are divided to two groups. One group focuses on Big Data processing needs, analytics, machine-learning and recommendation systems. The other emphasizes compilers and their contexts, be it Android compilation or Big Data languages. This is crucial especially today; Benefitting from Moore's Law, the main abstraction level in Computer Science has shifted higher rapidly. In comparison, Taiwan's industry has been buried in the hardware, drivers, and benchmarking game. Both groups are taught by an author of Big Explorer, Android Virtual Machine and RenderScript Engine (Google). The course also includes a mini-hackathon.

This class presents the basic Japanese letters, sentences, conversations, and literacy skills. The grading of the class is designed into three parts: class performance:40%, midterm: 30%, final: 30%. At the end of the semester, the students will have the ability to introduce themselves, ask for direction and prices in Japanese.

This course provides an introduction to accounting within a traditional business environment, including (1) the analysis and recording of financial information and (2) the preparation of formal financial accounting statements. The course introduces common accounting practices and procedures, based upon generally accepted accounting principles. Students also perform some basic financial analysis and learn how to interpret the accounting information they prepare. 

The purpose of this course is to introduce the basic knowledge of educational psychology that is common today. This course encourages students to reflect on the topics mentioned in the classroom through their own past learning and teaching experience, in order to better understand their own assumptions and concepts of teaching and learning, and to be able to use the classroom in the future teaching scene. 

This course provides systematic knowledge of management in a multi-cultural context. The course uses examples, cases, movies, and group activities from Taiwan and other cultures to discuss the related concepts. The course discusses the leadership styles of Yung-Ching Wang, Terry Guo, and Morris Chang and how they handle problems such as the Foxconn crisis during May 2010 and the TSMC's layoff incident during March-April, 2009. Focus is on the cultural aspects and implications of these incidents. Texts: Nancy Adler, INTERNATIONAL DIMENSIONS OF ORGANIZATIONAL BEHAVIOR; Geert Hofstede, CULTURE'S CONSEQUENCE: INTERNATIONAL DIFFERENCES IN WORK-RELATED VALUES.