National Taiwan University

This general education course introduces the basic concepts of nutrition as well as the application of nutritional sciences in daily life. The course starts with nutrition fundamentals, such as introduction to the science of nutrition and tools of a healthy diet. It also covers information on all the essential nutrients, emphasizing the structure of nutrients, contents in food, recommended intakes, functions of individual nutrient, and health concerns related to intake, etc. Also introduced are three energy-yielding nutrients—carbohydrates, lipids, and proteins. The course examines energy metabolism and energy balance to demonstrate the importance of nutrition, exercise, and sports. Lectures of vitamins and minerals are categorized by their functions on human diseases and health: Fat-soluble vitamin, energy metabolism related vitamins include most of B vitamins, blood conditions-related nutrients, antioxidants nutrients, water and electrolytes, trace minerals. It also summarizes nutrition applications in the life cycles, such as nutrition during pregnancy, breastfeeding, the growing years, the adult years.

This course introduces the basic theory of education, basic concept of pedagogy, the status of education in Taiwan, and today's major issues related to education. Lecture topics include an introduction to curriculum, the significance of education and connotation, foundation of education, educational reform, access to education, and non-traditional schools. This class includes lectures by professor, class discussions, guest speakers, field data collection, group work, and student reports.

This course focuses on the role that the "modern city” played to the social life and literature in Taiwan. The “modern city lifestyle” in Taiwan appeared in the period of Japanese colonial rule, but has its roots in Western culture. As a site of intensive interactions and conflicts, the "modern city" has fostered many sensitive artists and writers who created great works and critiques. Therefore, it’s necessary to adapt the theoretical perspectives of sociology and history to understand how the literature writers response to their ages. Three kinds of readings are included: sociological analysis: theoretical essays about metal life, inner structures, communities, subcultures, new urban sociology, and growth machine, etc.; historical knowledge: important social and cultural historical writings about the cities in Taiwan; urban literature: about 20 of the most important novels and films from 1930s to today in Taiwan.

This course provides students with a broad background in the principles of ecology. It covers ecology at different levels of organization including behavioral, physiological, evolutionary, population & community, and ecosystem ecology. Some other specialized topics are also discussed.

This course provides a general introduction to Human Resource Management (HRM), which is divided into four areas: recruitment (talent selection); learning and development (talent incubation); performance management, compensation and benefit (talent motivation), and human resource reservation (talent retention). Instructional methods include lectures, case study, group discussions, and guest speaker events.

In the past, teaching and learning after middle school was primarily focused on preparation for basic scholastic ability tests. After the 12-year state education promotion, this focus on examinations must be completely reformed, and teaching and learning must be greatly adjusted. School teaching should not only teach students to copy knowledge, but to teach them how to create knowledge and actively learn. This course focuses on teaching and learning and the possibilities under the 12-year state education.

This course examines the European-wide ferment in the arts of both the “Avant-Garde” and “High Modernism” in the first third of the twentieth century. Throughout the course, students read five novels and four plays in their entirety, plus selections from a number of other texts – primary and secondary – from the modernist period. Students are required to pursue an individual research project (for a semester-final paper) according to their own interests using primary or secondary material from the class or integrating outside Modernist material, and are especially encouraged to work in their chosen second foreign language (French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish) in addition to working in the collectivity of the seminar on the main material, in English or in English translation. 

This course examines various pollution problems, including the pollution sources, pollution identification, the dispersion, deposition, and their effects. The impacts on agriculture, forest, fishery, animal and human health are especially expressed with color pictures. The laws and regulatory methods in controlling the pollution are also discussed. Environmental consciousness in individual and the whole society is emphasized. Students are encouraged to do environmental protection through the homework that includes some personal practices and activities, to promote the environmental protection in the country. Text: E.J. Sun, ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION AND IDENTIFICATION OF ITS ADVERSE AFFECTS. Assessment: midterm report (40%), final exam (50%), participation and attendance (10%).

The course focuses on Big Data Aggregation for Bitcoin transaction analytics, including: Confirmed transactions on Blockchain; confirmed and unconfirmed transactions and associated data not included in Blockchain; data from digital currency exchanges, wallets, payment processors and miners; user data (payments, demographics etc.); illegal activities and payments; transaction analytics. The section on comprehensive database for credit metrics and fraud detection covers machine learning analytics for real-time transaction tracking and credit scoring; early warning system against fraudulent activities and hacking; identity verification and classification of persons or companies involved in a transaction.

This laboratory course in general chemistry is taken in conjunction with the General Chemistry lecture course (CHEM 10). Students perform 16 laboratory experiments. Text: Experiments in General Chemistry. Published by NTU. Assessment: final exam.