National Taiwan University

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.

This course brings in instructors who are best in their fields of research, and includes topics related to atmospheric science, environment science, physical and social geography in Taiwan. It provides a background in this wide range of disciplines, instilling a greater understanding of Taiwan. Besides the lectures, students also participate in various filed trip to NTU Herbarium and Zoological Museums, Evergreen Maritime Museum, and Guandu Nature Park. 

How does America begin? With the fertile imagination of the first Europeans who arrived at its shores? With the creation myths of its indigenous communities? With John Winthrop’s utopian vision of a “City on a Hill?” With the Declaration of Independence that severed the ties with the British Empire? Questions of origin and identity sit at the center of this course. Every week the course analyzes fictional and non-fictional accounts of America as an idea, from its beginnings up to the early nineteenth century. We will pay attention to the so-called “founding fathers” and, especially, to those silenced by their master narrative of “fatherhood:” women, African slaves, and displaced American Indians. Whereas the course revolves around a specific historical context, the course explores relevant themes and problems to your own experience as a 21st century student and citizen: cross-cultural encounters, gender inequality, violence, war, colonialism, racism, democracy, capitalism, and labor rights.