National Taiwan University

This course provides hands-on experience with mice to study their behavior through a set of experiments. Experiments include injection of medicines and blood sampling, locomotor activity, hot plate, tail suspension, Morris water maze, elevated plus maze, S1 stereotaxic surgery demo plus dye-injection plus buffer preparation, S2 perfusion, S3 PCR plus Gel electrophoresis , H1 brain sectioning plus section mounting, H3 cell counting plus image analysis. During the semester, each student is assigned to two mice, and is responsible for its living, including environment and food. Assessment: two presentations plus a final report.

This course covers the economic history of the 20th century focusing primarily on Asia. It thus continues where the first semester left off, but this semester can be taken as an independent course. The first half of the semester gives an overview of the history of individual economies. Then the second half of the semester looks at different topics in 20th-century economic history. Topics include the West, the Soviet Union, japan, China, Korea, India, Thailand, Indonesia, agriculture, demography, manufacturing, international trade, war and imperialism, economic crises, and economic policy. Assessment: participation, group projects, final exam, midterm quiz.

This course discusses modern technology of mechanical engineering and the connection with human civilization. The course teaches basic theories and knowledge about the applications of mechanical engineering. Topics include: material characteristics of modern technology; plants and people; agricultural science, technology, and human civilization; and the development of modern technology.

To help students understanding the importance of physical exercise for health. To train students personal motor skills for fundamental and event-specific exercise, as well as appreciation for sports. To help students actively participating physical exercise regularly.

The course aims to provide an understanding of the key news events in East Asia. 

This course examines the nature of communication theories and theory development, theories of meaning, information processing and influence with applications to selected communication contexts. The course looks into each theory and analyzes them to see how they related. The course also touches upon the subjects of Marxism, communication research, mass culture, new media and the information society. Assessment: 6 assignments, literature review, term paper.

This course offers the opportunity for students to implement cloud computing related ideas and complete the projects as groups. In this course, students also complete market and feasibility analyses. The goal of this course is to encourage students to create a product that can be successfully marketed.

The course is to teach students advanced volleyball skills, learn teamwork, and communicate in the classroom.

This course is intended for students who have completed the instructor's Public Finance course. The courses addresses the following aspects of theory: introduction to taxation theory and practice; positive analysis (equity): tax incidence; positive analysis (efficiency): excess burden, and normative analysis: Optimal Taxation. Next, the course addresses the following topics of practice: budget deficit and government debt; fiscal federalism: local government and finance; personal income tax, and consumption/property tax.

The course exposes students to the closely coupled worlds of decision making and technology in the modern world of public service and public policy. Students learn how to analyze decisions and consequences from different units of public policy analysis such as the individual, organization, and culture. The course covers the role technology and machines are playing in shaping this modern context. It course begins with rational human theory, builds toward administrative and organization behavior, and looks at what this means for the institutions that maintain society. The course then looks at how the tasks that decision-making focuses upon can be completed either by humans or by machines. The fields of public administration, law, and machine behavior are used to analyze these concepts. This approach will seek to establish a broad and interdisciplinary approach to human decision making within public service and the corresponding capacity to utilize machines to augment, automate, and generate new tasks to be completed through a decision-making process.