National Taiwan University

The course covers professional communication skills, including email etiquette, ordinary differential equations, informal English conversation, and oral presentations. It also provides a study of the general form and nature, effective graphic design, and ethics for a technical publication.

This course is suitable for those who have completed a beginning swimming course or those who have the ability to swim 100 meters without interruption in freestyle and breaststroke. This course is suitable for correcting swimming posture and training long-distance swimming ability. The first half of the course focuses on freestyle, backstroke, breaststroke posture analysis, posture practice and long stroke, while the second half teaches the butterfly stroke, turning around, diving, and other skills. 

The purpose of this course is to learn how to express oneself in Japanese correctly. Taking "role-playing that simulates life in Japan" as the main axis, and supplemented by watching Japanese DVDs and playing games, it enhances Japanese conversation skills and deepens understanding of Japanese culture. The course particularly encourages a learning attitude of active participation and active speaking.

This course on leadership and followership addresses the challenge of having and following a sense of direction that is anchored in why an organization exists in the first place and for whom and what its products serve. It draws on the three perspectives of authentic, pioneering and legacy leadership to explore opportunities for leadership to have a constructive impact both on oneself and one’s own, and those beyond the boundaries of one’s own sphere. The course encourages a deeper understanding of leadership and leading/following dynamics by stimulating students' own reflections. The teaching format is interactive, and students are expected to actively participate in all elements of the course, including interactive lectures, classroom or small-group discussions, case work and workshops. Students are expected to be familiar with the material in standard leadership textbooks, such as: DuBrin, Andrew J. PRINCIPLES OF LEADERSHIP; Northouse, Peter G. LEADERSHIP – THEORY AND PRACTICE; Yukl, Gary LEADERSHIP IN ORGANIZATIONS; Bass, Bernard M. & Ruth Bass, THE BASS HANDBOOK OF LEADERSHIP; THEORY, RESEARCH & MANAGERIAL APPLICATIONS.

This course discusses modern democratic countries through introducing the Taiwan constitution. Students should have concepts of the law, familiar with basic rights, and maintaining political system and social order. This course invite presenters from different professional field to discuss different social topics.

This course examines works by various philosophers who present dramatically different conclusions concerning the following questions. Is knowledge merely justified true belief? Could it be that we are living in the Matrix? Are we really justified in believing in the way the world is? Do I have a soul that can be separated from my body? Is my mind just my brain? Is my mind merely something like a computer program? Can there be perfect zombies, which are not distinguishable from normal human beings by their appearance and behavior but somehow have no minds? Does a perfect robot (which is indistinguishable from normal human beings by its appearance and behavior) have a mind? Are we free to make choices? Does the total past and present determine the future? If so, are we free to make choices or to bring about different futures? If not, what’s the point of scientific prediction about the matters like whether it will rain tomorrow? Is it possible to travel back into the past and kill your grandfather before he gave birth to your father? Is it morally wrong to tell a lie to make other people happy when there is no negative consequence in any way? 

This course teaches basic etiquette and rules of softball. The course teaches the basic movements of throwing, catching, and hitting and provides practice of each defensive position. The course also provides time for team game practice.

This course aims to help students understand the importance of physical exercise for health. The goal is to train students personal motor skills for fundamental and event-specific exercise, as well as appreciation for sports. This course also helps students actively participate in physical exercise regularly. Students' final grades depends on completion and execution of the freestyle and breaststroke for 50m.

This is an advanced course on cellular structure and function at the molecular level. This course integrates the disciplines of biochemistry, molecular biology, structural biology, and molecular genetics. Research approaches, practical techniques, and problem-based learning are emphasized in this course. Prerequisites in biochemistry, molecular biology or cell biology are highly recommended. 

This course explores the urban experience as reflected in the Taiwan fiction from 1949 to the end of the 20th century. The focus is Taipei, but also includes the Peking experience of Lin Hai-yin, the New York and Chicago experience of Pai Hsien-yung, the Kyoto experience of Chu Tien-hsin and the Kaohsiung experience of Yang Ch'ing-ch'u. This first part readings include works of writers from different periods: Lin Hai-yin of the 50s (Memories of Peking), Pai Hsien-yung (Crystal Boys) and Wang Wen-hsin (Family Catastrophe) of the Modernist 60s, Chen Ying-chen (the “Washington Building” series) and Huang Chun-ming (“Two Sign Painters” and “The Young Widow”) of the Nativist-realist 70s, and Haung Fan (“Everybody Needs Chin Te-fu,” “Tung-pu Street,” and “Rainy Night”) and Chang Ta-chun (“A Guided Tour of the Apartment Complex,” “Alley 116, Liaoning Street,” and Wild Kids) of the urban-fiction 80s. The second group of readings focuses on five different themes, which are the city and marriage, the city and labor, the city and politics, the city and compounds of military families, and the city and consumption.