National Taiwan University

This course introduces the basic concepts of public finance, including the scope of public expenditure and public revenue, financial regulation (public debt management), and local finance. The first part of course covers the expenditure side of public issues, including market failure correction, public goods, externalities, income distribution and social transfer payments, public choice, cost-benefit analysis, public utility pricing, and social insurance. The second part covers public revenue (tax system, etc.) and other issues, based on "Expenditure and Revenues" principle, including the tax structure, tax efficiency, effectiveness, tax incentive effects, tax equity, financial regulation (public debt management) and local finance and other issues. Other topics include public goods provision and cost sharing, the social security system and income tax, sales tax, property tax.

This project instructs on the basics of image processing a professor's lab, including use of Python, OpenCV, and numpy. Students are expected to write a code for license plate identification by the end of the semester. 

This is a first part of a year-long intermediate-level macroeconomics course. Specifically, in this semester the main topic is economic growth. Throughout this semester, the course answers the following questions: What are key factors for economic growth? Why do some countries grow faster than other countries? The course strengthens understanding of macroeconomics by exaimining economic theory and economic models. Mathematical models are applied in this course. Prerequisite: Principles of Economics.

This lab conducts research into high speed DC/RF 2D materials, specifically graphene and MoS2. Skills taught include DC, RF, and optical measurements, layer structure design, TCAD simulation, photomask design, ADS circuit modeling, and band diagram simulation. Reading materials assigned every week along with discussion section and lab work.

This course deals with the concept of soundscape and the practices of sound art. Soundscape is a mental tool to listen to and to understand environment; it is also an engaging dialogue with our “umwelt.” Sound art is an array of actions and interventions to enhance and distort perception of sounds. This course includes presentations of research and artwork dealing with these topics; video documentation, attentive listening, explanation of the background of the artists and discussion about the aesthetic questions that they raise; practical processes; assemblage, a collective creation; production of a flow of small-scale creations that are progressively gathered into a publication; some outdoor sessions, some of the class happen in various urban or semi-urban environment to be able to discuss about field practices and in-site artworks where it happens. Assessment: participation, assignements, final project.

This course provides students with knowledge and tools to analyze and understand marketing practices across national borders. Major topics include an overview of international marketing; cultural and political implications of target market selection; marketing mix planning, and execution issues in a global environment.  

Tuberculosis remains a major cause of morbidity and mortality in Taiwan as well as in many middle and low income countries. The course focuses on the epidemiology and current control strategies of tuberculosis from a global perspective. It discusses the natural history of tuberculosis, key elements in tuberculosis diagnosis and treatment, transmission dynamics, evolving concepts in tuberculosis control at World Health Organization and International Union Against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease, drug-resistance tuberculosis, and HIV-TB co-epidemic. The course consists of a series of lectures and in-class discussions, field trips (Taiwan CDC mycobacteria laboratory and Taiwan Anti-Tuberculosis Association), paper presentation, and final group-project report.

This course integrates economic principles and planning tools to develop management skills applied in agricultural and relevant sectors. Major topics including: fundamental of management, strategic management, marketing strategy and financial management (capital budgeting). Students are requested to prepare and present a business plan, providing a great opportunity to practice concepts learned in the classroom. 

This course introduces the poetic and literary features of English modernism through close study and discussion of a series of modern poets, beginning with G. M. Hopkins and ending with Seamus Heaney. Through analysis of perspectives and background, students learn about the relationship of modern poetry with its evolving cultural and political surroundings.

The purpose of this course is to introduce Micro-Electro-Mechanical Systems to students with mechanical and electrical engineering background. Key topics include Basic IC board manufacturing process, basic MEMS development process, microsensors, microactuators, system energy supply, assembly and testing, current technology applications, and the industry’s future.