National Taiwan University

This course equips students with fundamental skills and conceptual knowledge essential for investment professionals, including money managers, security analysts, and investment advisors. Students gain a strong foundation in the theoretical principles and practical applications of portfolio investment techniques, with an emphasis on using Python for financial analysis. Additionally, the course incorporates discussions on recent financial news relevant to lecture topics, enhancing students' understanding of real-world investment scenarios.    

The course covers the following topics: The Investment Environment; Portfolio Theory and Practice; Equilibrium in Capital Market; Fixed-Income Securities; Security Analysis, and Options, Futures, and Other Derivatives. 

Recommended prerequisites: Basic knowledge of statistics and understanding of introduction to microeconomics. 

Semiconductors are vital to nearly every aspect of modern life. Semiconductor integrated circuits (ICs, chips) and materials play a crucial role in industries such as communication, information technology, transportation, healthcare, defense, aerospace, and consumer electronics. The COVID-19 global pandemic in the last few years triggered an unprecedented surge in demand for semiconductor products. However, factory shutdowns and city lock-downs disrupted the global semiconductor supply chain, and as a result, a severe shortage in semiconductor chips occurred. It halted automobile production and caused a significant delivery delay of electronic products necessary for our daily life during the pandemic. This chip shortage crisis exposed the vulnerability of the global supply chain. 

This intensive course provides an introduction to the semiconductor industry in Taiwan and Asia. The course provides an overview of the industry; develops a fundamental understanding of its supply chain and key players, and explores the impacts of the Creating Helpful Incentives to Prodcue Semiconductors (CHIPS) Acts of the U.S. and geopolitical factors.
 

This course introduces students to theories of foreign policy that explain U.S. behavior, ranging from military conflict to secret diplomacy. The course is organized into three sections. The first part gives an overview of American grand strategy and values. The second section follows an actor-specific approach, focusing on how crucial actors such as the President and Congress shape American foreign policy. Last, the issue-oriented section will be concluded with a wargaming exercise. Following the lectures on these topics, the instructor will design group exercises and offer materials for course discussion, including detailed case studies of important episodes in U.S. diplomatic and military history.

This course provides an overview of the venture capital market and exposes one to the agreements used to document venture capital transactions. It also covers the legal and financial implications of the terms within a venture capital transaction document.  

This course covers the fundamental concepts of how computers perform at machine and assembly language level. It looks at the design of an instruction set architecture and figures out what makes a Reduced Instruction Set Computer (RISC) differ from a Complex Instruction Set Computer (CISC). The course discusses basic design principles by understanding the components in a computer and the performance of a computer system.  

This course provides the required background for students who are interested in designing computer systems, doing serious development of operating system kernels and device drivers, and making better applications of computer systems.   

Course prerequisites: A background in Digital Logic, C Language and Assembly Language is required.  

This course covers fundamental and advanced domains in human-computer interaction: interactive technologies, such as multi-touch, augmented/virtual reality, haptics, wearables, and fabrication.   

Course Prerequisites: It is recommended to take CSIE3311 Computer System Laboratory and CSIE5646 Interactive System Design and Implementation prior to this course. 

This course provides a comprehensive introduction to the history and thought of major Indian Buddhist philosophical schools. It surveys four key traditions of Buddhist philosophy in India, including Abhidharma, Madhyamika, Yogacara, and Buddhist epistemology and logic. No background in Buddhist thought is presumed on the part of the participants. 

Reading assignments will balance primary sources from key moments of Buddhist thought with recent introductory texts. Primary texts covered or sampled in the course include: Treasury of Metaphysics with its auto commentary; Treatise on the Middle Way, Introduction to the Middle Way and its auto commentary; Twenty Verses and its auto commentary; Thirty Verses, Demonstration of the Three Natures, A Compendium of Means of Knowledge, and its auto commentary. Lectures will be combined with in-class discussions, with particular attention paid to the close reading of primary texts.  

This dynamic, general undergraduate course leverages the captivating power of cinema to explore world religious civilizations, life philosophies, and a spectrum of ethical and moral issues. "Film, Faith, and Moral" is designed to enhance students' understanding and appreciation of diverse cultures, offering insights into the similarities and differences among various world religions and fostering a deep respect for religious cultures. 
 
The course delves into major world religions and addresses cross-religious moral and ethical themes, such as the rewards and punishments in the afterlife, the Golden Rule, concepts of rebirth, worldviews, the interplay between digital technology and religion, and the nature of temptation and sin. It also covers repentance, loyalty, forgiveness, altruism, self-salvation, and transcendence. 
 
Utilizing a rich array of films, including documentaries, animations, and feature films, the course broadens students' perspectives on religious and philosophical thinking and their understanding of the interconnections between cinema, literature, and art. An introduction to semiotic theory is also included to enhance students' media literacy and critical thinking skills.

This course introduces the basic human structure and life phenomena to students coming from non-medical backgrounds. The content of each lecture covers basic concepts from anatomy and the associated physiology to clinical diseases and their treatments. 

This course studies the issues in international trade, or any trade in general. It begins with the two concepts that underlie trades between any individuals or groups of individuals, not just international trade: Division of labor and comparative advantage from Adam Smith and David Ricardo. Trade enables the division of labor, which leads to productivity increase and prosperity. The course then proceeds with the empirics and theories that are more specific to trade between countries. Empirically, the course introduces gravity equations and teaches where to obtain important international trade data. The class will be expected to perform simple exercises of using these data either in class or as homework.  Finally, the course also reviews empirical international trade literature. Theoretically, the course introduces simple versions of key models in the modern trade literature. For each theoretical model, empirical motivations are provided.