National Taiwan University

This course is open to first-year students of the International Baccalaureate Program in the Department of Chinese, hoping to guide foreign students in the class to understand Chinese systematically. The class discusses Chinese phonetics, phonology, characters, vocabulary, grammar, pragmatics, speech, rhetoric and other aspects. In addition to the teacher's description of various language phenomena, students also practice analyzing language phenomena. 

The course provides an introduction to traditional wooden architecture in Taiwan. Topics include basic structure terms; source, type, development, forms, and construction process; roof, body, and walls; and bucket and beam-lift structures. The course includes visits to five types of traditional wooden buildings in Taiwan.

This course introduces the basic concepts of robots, kinematics, inverse kinematics, dynamics, robot design, robot control, mobile robots, bionic robots, and more. The course also includes experiments and example operations, so that students have a complete understanding of robots and can fully grasp between theory and practice.

This course introduces the spread of Buddhist art and culture throughout South, Central, and Southeast Asia, including Tibet, by examining related architectures, sculptures and paintings. Each art history period from each region is closely examined throughout the duration of the course. Lecture topics include South Asia: the Early Period, Gandhara, Gupta period, Amaravati, Pala Period, Anuradhapura; and Polonnaruwa; Central Asia topics include areas include Afghanistan and West Turkistan; Southeast Asia topics include the Early Period, Sumatera and Java, Bagan, Angkor and Champa, and Thailand. The course concludes with discussion on Nepal and Tibet.

This course is an introduction to Taiwan's Hakka (KeJia) language and phonetic system by use of Pinyin. Students will use Hakka to introduce themselves and engage in simple conversations. Assessment: Oral participation (50%), final speech presentation (40%), attendance (10%).

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.