National Taiwan University

The course provides students with a broad picture on the English law of contract. This course particularly focuses on leading cases of this area. However, main structure of law and major concepts are also discussed. Lecture topics include the negotiations for a contract; formation of the contract; form, consideration and intention; vitiating factors; fidning the terms of the contract; controlling the content; the doctrine of privity and the reform; change of circumstances; and remedies for breach of contract. Each student is expected to read some cases before each class begins and be ready to join the discussions.

Gender, as an institution and a social structure, influences the way we define ourselves, behave and speak and further determines our place within the family, at school, in workplaces, and in the broader society. We will use this course to explore how gender shapes our identities, opportunities, and everyday life. The course includes seven themes: (1) conceptual tool kits; (2) gender, space, and place; (3) gendering work; (4) gender and family; (5) transgender; (6) intersectionality; (7) gender in the global context. Theme One ‘Conceptual Tool Kits’ introduces main theories and key literature on gender. Theme Two discusses the relationship between gender and space by reading literature on feminist geography. Theme Three focuses on gender in labor markets, organizations, and everyday workplaces. Theme Four ‘Gender and Family,’ looks at gender relations between couples and family members. The course then briefly explores the multi-faceted connections between gender, sex, sexuality, and other social characteristics, such as class and race, in Themes Five and Six. Theme Seven looks at the differences and similarities in gender relations in various cultural and social contexts in the globalized world.  

In September 2016, Taiwan's government launched the “New Southbound Policy” initiative to enhance cooperation with eighteen countries in Southeast Asia, South Asia, and Australasia with the aim of reducing its dependence on mainland China. In the context of the “New Southbound Policy,” it is important for Taiwan to enhance its understanding of the region, particularly beyond mainland China and East Asian neighbors such as Japan and Korea. The first part of the course focuses on the international politics of the region, exploring how the Asia-Pacific has evolved in the context of the struggle against colonialism, the Cold War, the post-Cold War period, and the rise of China. The second part of the course is based on student presentations on the domestic politics of the countries in the region. Topics are agreed between the instructor and the students.

This beginning Chinese language course is for students who have never taken Chinese courses or have taken less than 100 hours of Chinese language instruction. It teaches hanyu pinyin; the structure, stroke orders, and writing method of Chinese characters; basic Chinese sentence structure and word order; and topics such as self-introduction and carrying on basic conversation. The course develops proficient language skills in listening, speaking, reading, and writing to enable students to communicate effectively in their daily lives. Through the course, students further understand Taiwanese culture and language. Text: Practical Audio-Visual Chinese I” (chapters 1-6).

Oriental philosophy of life is mainly based on Confucianism, Taoism and Buddhism. Other than those well known classics in its tradition, there are still other less well known texts. They are very popular and influential in the Chinese society. Such as: Figures in the full translation: a book talking about personnel management; The Chinese Code of Success-Maxims by Zhu Zi: a paper Zhu Zi wrote for his family as life guiding; Records of Reflections on Things at Hand: a selected works or writings from four main philosophers at North Song Dynasty by Zhu Zi; The Roots of Wisdom: an aphorism writings expressing deep understandings of life; Liao-Fan's Four Lessons: four reminders for life and fate from the point of view of life circle theory. Standards for Being a Good Student and Child: rules for kids in terms of traditional Confucianism; The Family Instructions of Zeng Guofan: letters from Zeng Guofan for family about learning and behavior. This course aims to introduce the above papers and books.

The course develops proficiency in listening, speaking, reading and writing that builds off already existing advanced proficiency in Chinese and further hones that proficiency through weekly discussion of the class text. The textbook will cover natural dialogues that integrate pieces of Taiwan culture and society. The methods of assessment will be conducted through attendance and participation, quizzes, assignments and midterm and final exams. 

This course examines institutional dimensions of the important economic and regional international organizations and their roles in world and regional politics. lecture topics include international organizations as actors in world politics; the united nations system; the World Trade organization; rise of regionalism; Asian regionalism; European Union as a model for regionalism; NAFTA and Pan American regionalism; African regionalism; and Eurasian regionalism. Assessment: midterm exam, final report, participation and attendance.

This course focuses on understanding and communicating philosophical ideas and arguments in English. The course is designed around two series of recorded video conversations with edited published texts. The first part of the class is devoted to earlier philosophers, while the second part focuses on philosophers and philosophies in the twentieth century. Course lectures include the works of: Plato, Aristotle, Descartes, Kant, Hegel and Marx, Husserl, Heidegger, and Wittgenstein. It also looks at logical positivism, linguistic philosophy, the philosophies of language and science, and free will. Texts: Magee, Bryan. MEN OF IDEAS: SOME CREATORS OF CONTEMPORARY PHILOSOPHY; Magee, Bryan, ed., THE GREAT PHILOSOPHERS: AN INTRODUCTION TO WESTERN PHILOSOPHY. Assessment: Class Participation (20%); bibliographic assignments (10%), reviews (40%) and essay (30%).

This class provides training in experimental skills and scientific presentation for doing research in the field of neuroscience. Students perform their assigned research project, join weekly lab meeting, present up-to-date research articles and are involved in scientific discussion with the instructor and lab colleagues. Students are required to perform experiments under instructor's supervision and they also need to present their research work and scientific paper over the semester.

The course begins by writing a Python environment build while teaching the structure and use of various syntaxes. The course introduces various basic knowledge in Python one by one, arranging exercises in various situations at the same time so that students can accumulate the syntax and skills of writing Python programs while solving imaginary problems. The course content is introduced in the following order: 1. Python and authoring tools/platforms; 2. Python basic variable types, grammatical structure and package usage, and 3. Some of the most popular packages in Python. At the end of the course, students will choose a topic for a final project report (individual or group); students will be expected to introduce the problems they encountered and want to solve; how to solve these problems through Python, and present the results in visual ways.