National Taiwan University

This course provides a comprehensive understanding of financial derivatives. A derivative instrument is a contract between two parties whose payoff depends on the values of the underlying variables on a future specified date. The prices of any commodity assets (such as gold or oil) or financial assets (such as equity shares or bonds) can be the underlying variables, and these assets are called underlying assets. Four categories of derivatives are covered in this course, including forwards, futures, swaps, and options. The course discusses how and where to trade these derivatives, the methods to calculate the theoretical values of these derivatives, and the trading and hedging strategies associated with these financial derivatives.

This course explores and fosters an understanding of the American criminal justice system, with an emphasis on federal criminal law and procedure. Though the course is taught with the basics in mind (using a combination of lecture and Socratic method), students are encouraged to explore well beyond the basics. Topics include overview of constitutional governance in America; classification of offenses; crime specific elements and intent requirements; criminal responsibility (accessories, aiding and abetting, conspiring); constitutionally protected rights; anatomy of a federal criminal case; selected federal offenses intersecting foreign interest in trade, commerce, and travel; and an overview of the death penalty in America.

This course explores the origin and evolution of life and the universe, and man's place in it. 

This course examines key contemporary issues in international agricultural development – including food security, food safety, poverty reduction, climate change, greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, the effects of the financial crisis on agricultural development, food crises and food aid etc. The agriculture for development highlights two major regional challenges, which are sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia. Agricultural productivity growth is vital for stimulating growth in other parts of the economy, but accelerated growth requires a sharp productivity increase in small holder farming combined with more effective support to the millions coping as subsistence farmers, many of them in remote areas. The success will also depend on concerted action by the international development community to confront the challenges ahead. We must level the playing field in goods, such as technologies for tropical food staples; help developing countries address climate change; and overcome looming health pandemics for plants, animals, and humans.

This course is intended for students with knowledge of basic ecology. The focus is on oceanography, with investigation on interactive biological, chemical, and physical processes in the ocean. The discussions range from physical effects on the biology to biological effects on biogeochemical cycling; the spatial scale ranges from individual organisms (e.g. viscosity and turbulences on plankton feeding and nutrient uptake) to ecosystem (e.g. remote sensing and circulation modeling); the organism ranges from virus to whales. The objectives are to cover environmental effects such as ocean physics and chemistry affect organisms, across temporal and spacial scales. Further, the course explores how biological activities feedback to Earth environments, such as biogeochemical cycling and carbon flux and global climate changes.

The course reflects upon theorizing of international relations from a variety of cosmological perspectives. 

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This course mainly focuses on the China's development in terms of economy, politics and society after 1987's revolution. Lecture topics include the structure of Chinese Communists Party; organization of Chinese government; rural reforms in China; primary-level democracy in China; SOE reform; relationship between Mainland China and Taiwan; development of private economy; industrial upgrading and factory of the world; land finance and investment by the local government; and establishment of social security system. Assessment: participation in class (10%), midterm report (20%), midterm exam(30%) and final exam (40%).

Intelligent vehicles can communicate with other vehicles or roadside units and behave autonomously. They are believed to significantly change the way that people move from one place to another. This class introduces fundamental knowledge in intelligent vehicles and then focuses on some specific advanced topics (e.g., security). The knowledge and topics bring state-of-the-art technology to students and develop their skills in system modeling, design, and analysis.

There are mainly four parts in this class:
(1) Background: This part introduces traditional (i.e., without connectivity and autonomy) system architecture, vehicular networks, and basic design and analysis approaches.
(2) Applications: This part introduces applications of intelligent vehicles, including advanced driver-assistance systems, cooperative adaptive cruise control, and intersection management.
(3) Technology: This part introduces the technology which is needed to realize the applications of intelligent vehicles.
(4) Advanced Topics: This part introduces advanced topics such as over-the-air update, security, and certification.

Depending on students' interests, final projects can be survey, implementation, or research. 

This course provides a basic study of Old English grammar, including phonetics, morphology, and syntax (pronunciation, noun/adj. declension, verb conjugation, basic rules of syntax). Readings include Bede's History of the English Church, Asser's Life of Alfred, and Old English poetry in translation.