National Taiwan University

This course is a general overview of the interactions of language and other higher mental functions, such as pattern recognition and problem solving. In particular, it goes through solving various types of linguistic puzzles, and facilitate understanding of how knowledge of language and general reasoning interact in the process of problem-solving. Through this course, students are expected to achieve the basic understanding of the logical structure as encoded in natural languages, and to gain practical experience through hands-on practice with the real data. Prerequisite: Introduction to Linguistics.

This course addresses the effective use of cloud technology in digital cultural and creative projects including: versatile digital publishing, website design, web community development, digital imaging, animation, video and media production management. As a specific objective, we emphasize to cap off a team project more than an individual task. This course takes account of the inter-discipline of humanities and information technology through media application. The learning method focuses on problem solving oriented approach. The learning activity designates a hands-on assignment and requires a complete output in the form of publishable presentation.

This course focuses on emprise in Chinese literature. Specifically, this course studies a genre of fiction that is uniquely Chinese as the genre usually involves elements including: Kung Fu, Chinese traditional medicine, and other exclusively Chinese cultural elements. The course examines common themes of this popular literature genre by studying key works of important authors such as Jin Yong, Gu Long, and others. Assessment: written reports and class participation (40%), a creative fictional piece (30,000 to 100,000 Chinese characters) OR a final written report (60%).

Since the emergence of the feminist movement in Taiwan of the 1970s, Taiwanese society has seen more than a few women's issues proposed and discussed in an increasingly broad and extensive manner. Reflecting the changes in social, political, and cultural conditions, the general perspectives in which the same issue is discussed also changes. This course explores Taiwanese women's conditions of the twentieth century, with an emphasis on the more modern period, that is, the mid-to-late twentieth century. With a brief introduction of what Taiwanese women's traditions may involve and how Taiwanese women modernize, the course explores how the feminist movements unfolded, how they reflect or change Taiwanese women's social status, the rise of women's studies and/or feminist scholarship, sexual violence, sex work, and lesbian issues. The course also reflects on issues of migration and global human flow, and discuss how the introduction of immigrant spouses as well as migrant workers may compel us to rethink women's issues in contemporary Taiwan.

The purpose of this course is applying social and behavioral principles and theories on the phenomenon regarding health, disease, and environment. In academia, health behavior sciences and medical social sciences are often seen as a whole. However, in the recent decades, personal health is drew more attention in the aspects of diseases contract and population health, which makes the term “behavior” favorable and brings enthusiastic discussions and debates. As far as the depth and breadth within health domain, every issue is associated with behavior. Due to the complexity, we need to explore and examine health outcomes through different angles and approaches in order to comprehend the essential and determinants of health issues to further achieve effective solutions. This course contains two sections. First, we review the elements of human behavior through social sciences or even biological sciences (e.g., sociobiology). Second, with the understanding of behavioral basis, we move on to episodes which are related to behavioral, structural, and policy fields as well as the causes and consequences in the contemporary public health to develop proper interventions. Within the structure and thread of the theoretical concepts, the course is expected to acquaint students with the history and progress of human behavior and the fundamental framework utilized to describe human behavior.

This advanced Chinese language course combines language and culture, and covers various Chinese and Taiwanese holidays to introduce historical backgrounds of celebrations and customs that are practiced. This course strengthens language skills and vocabulary through discussion, deepening students' understanding of Chinese culture and national holidays. This course is taught fully in Chinese.

This class provides training in experimental skills for doing research. Students are required to perform experiments under the instructor's supervision, conduct research, and write a scientific paper.

The subjects are designed to help students understand cognitive development in infancy and early childhood, and to understand main cognitive development theories and research methods. Through lectures, class discussions, field collection of cognitive development materials, and reading of designated textbooks and journal papers, students can not only understand the process of cognitive development in infants and young children, but also cultivate students to apply what they have learned in class and observe in-depth research on the cognitive process of infants and young children. The course focuses on: Discussing the main theories of cognitive development, such as Piaget's school, information processing theory, and Vygotsky's and other scholars' interpretations of early childhood cognitive development, and commenting on the above theoretical orientations; exploring the main cognitive areas of infancy, such as perception; the development of concepts, language, reasoning, and memory, including social cognition, and a discussion of the physiological basis of cognitive development.

The curriculum of the course is designed for Chinese learners who are studying a beginning course in Chinese. The teaching language of this course is mainly in Chinese, supplemented by English. The goal of the course is to help learners acquire basic language ability for common use in daily conversations. The course covers various topics such as introducing self and others; exchanging information with others; buying food or drinks; bargaining; buying tickets; describing and assessing food and their tastes in a simple way; explaining one’s own location and position, and planning travel.. 

This course is an introduction to the principal concepts and methods of heat transfer. The objectives of this integrated subject are to develop the fundamental principles and laws of heat transfer and to explore the implications of these principles for system behavior; to formulate the models necessary to study, analyze and design heat transfer systems through the application of these principles, and to develop the problem-solving skills essential to good engineering practice of heat transfer in real-world applications.