National Taiwan University

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. 

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.