National Taiwan University

This course presents the children's evolution concept to lend understandings of children's rights, welfare policy and development. Also, the course raises the awareness of concerns about children welfare from the existing children welfare service status and policy. Topics in the course include: content on child welfare services, from concept policy; current welfare service system; child care services; child protection services; services to high-risk families; single-parent family and child services; child foster care and adoption services; establishment of children's institutions; services to children with special care and early intervention services. The course uses lectures and related instructional videos, current affairs cases and group discussions. Social workers are invited to share their own experiences during lectures to present actual facts of children cognitive issues. Students are placed into groups and involved in community implementation to gain real participation experiences.

This course provides a study of the basic techniques for building intelligent computer systems and how Artificial Intelligence is applied to problems. It covers theory, algorithms, and their applications. The course is divided into four parts. The first part of the course includes an introduction to AI, history of AI, problem solving and search. The second part covers machine learning, linear models, decision trees, and neural networks. The third part studies decision marking and includes topics such as, logical agents, quantifying uncertainty, Bayesian networks, Markov decision process, and reinforcement learning. The final part of the course examines natural language processing, computer vision, and robotics.

This course leads students to understand the theater sound system and practical application methods, including: Acoustic concepts; basic sound system understanding and application; theater sound design concept, and understanding and application of digital arrangement software. The contents of this course are mainly for students from the Department of Art and Design. In order to ensure the quality of the class, the number of additional applicants is limited. International students are encouraged to conduct an interview in the first week of the course. 

The purpose of this course is to enable students to have a deeper understanding of Taekwondo through explanations and practical operations, and to be familiar with the rules and have professional knowledge to watch Taekwondo competitions. And through the practice of class content, improve self-body coordination ability, muscle strength, muscle endurance and simple self-defense skills.

The second semester of first-year elementary French, covers basic grammar, sentence structures, listening comprehension and conversational skills. With "Amical 1" as the textbook, this course starts from Lesson 13 and ends at Lesson 24. Homework includes translation assignments, grammar exercises, compositions and others. There are three major unit exams and quizzes in class.

This course teaches effective communication skills in science and engineering fields, such as effective reports and summaries, how to communicate with employers, and how to write academically as well as in the workplace. The course covers how to write a CV, including things to highlight and things to avoid; writing a statement of purpose; and interviewing. Students undertake their own research topics and write a scientific publication, prepare a scientific poster, and present their findings to the class.

This Chinese language course is for students who have taken General Chinese Language Course - Beginning Chinese I or those who have taken Chinese for at least 100 hours. The course improves effective communication skills in daily life activities; teaches appropriate Chinese to make arrangements with friends, order food at restaurants, etc. Students practice reading, writing, listening, and speaking ability. Students also further their understanding of Taiwanese culture and language. This course uses the textbook "Practical Audio-Visual Chinese I" (Chapter 7 - Chapter 12). 

This course examines poetry and literature from the Tang dynasty to Song dynasty in classical Chinese. Students analyze line by line of the poetry written by famous Chinese scholars. These literati express their feelings, emotions, attachment, relationship with the garden they own in these poetry. The poetries are specifically on garden poetry---which is poetry written about gardens and the emotion of literati. The course is taught all in Chinese with readings in classical Chinese.

This class is mainly taught in Chinese and is for students who have mastered more than 450 Chinese words or have more than 320 hours of Chinese language instruction. The course includes Taiwanese pronunciation (initials, finals, intonation, transposition, soft tone, legato); spelling of Roman characters and review of commonly used Chinese characters in Taiwanese; sentence building exercises; question answering and dialogue exercises for advanced sentence patterns; Taiwanese songs; Taiwanese tongue twisters, popular proverbs, jokes, essays, and stories; and Taiwanese culture.

The course presents geographic information systems (GIS)-related technologies and applications. The course introduces the theory and application of the geographic information system as well as provides practice using the software. Topics: GIS profile; GIS applications; GIS data formats and integrated systems; spatial data capture and integration; database management concepts; and spatial data analysis. The course includes a term project using GIS to investigate a topic of choice. Assessment: homework (60%), term project write up (30%), and term project presentation (10%).