National Taiwan University

This course develops a critical framework for thinking about gender and sexuality, with special attention to issues of class, race, and ethnicity under different societies. The course is based on a participatory, active learning approach, with an emphasis on critical reflection and peer-to-peer learning. Participants do the required readings, weekly assignments, participate in group discussions and final group oral presentation.

Plagiarism, currency trading scam, doping in sports, money fraud, emission testing scandal, or sexual harassment are all related with “ethics” and ethical violations. This course presents methods and concepts of ethical decisions. This course focuses on the most important lessons in business ethics with every lesson beginning with a “guiding question” to be answered in the class and ending with a “practice question” to be discussed in groups for applying ethical lesson in practical issues. Corporate visit are arranged to familiarize students with business practices in real world. Text: Howard and Korver, ETHICS FOR THE REAL WORLD; various references and articles. Assessment: class participation, quizzes, individual study, group case study.

This is an undergraduate-level course, suitable for students without any background in marine geology and geophysics. The course covers geological processes across scales, spanning plate tectonics, marine sediment types, formation and process, as well as paleoceanography. Some of the topics covered are across disciplines, such as sediment type (chemistry) and benthic bioturbation (biology), with emphasis on the link between different branches of oceanography.  

This course covers the most prominent poems from the Tang dynasty looking at poem structure, syntax and rhyme. The significance of the poems is analyzed both in the context of past and modern eras. The course also covers new vocabulary words and sentence structures. Students will be given weekly homework assignments, a midterm exam and a final exam. The course is conducted in Chinese.

This course introduces the political and economic interaction between Mainland China and Taiwan since 1949. It covers a wide range of topics divided into three parts. The first part deals with the economic interaction between Mainland China and Taiwan, including topics such as trade, investment, production network, and people mobility. The second part deals with the political foundation of Cross-Strait economic relations, including topics such as comparing capitalism across the Strait; Taiwanese identity; Chinese nationalism, and political development in Hong Kong. The third part deals with the grand strategy adopted by either side of the Strait, including topics such as Mainland China’s Taiwan policy; Taiwan’s Mainland China policy; U.S. Cross-Strait policy; Taiwan’s international space, and the future of Cross-Strait relations. 

Recent advances in genomics have significantly revolutionized the ways which we do science in the 21st century. With the completion of the human genome, the new genome technologies have transformed our ability to understand the structure and function of genomes and to explore the genomes of multicellular organisms. This course is designed to introduce undergraduate students, who are interested in this exciting and rapidly evolving field, the basic knowledge of genome and the state-of-the-art genome technologies. The lectures will cover an introduction on genome projects, sequencing technologies, genetic variation, transcriptomics, proteomics, functional genomics, comparative genomics, metagenomics and epigenomics.  

This course discusses agricultural water resource planning issues and related subjects. The course covers agricultural water usage, irrigation water usage estimation, irrigation methods, irrigation regulation, irrigation management; agricultural water supply (source, pump, water rights, effective rainfall); water shortage risk analysis and planning assessment. Other topics include relationship between water, soil, and crops; effective rainfall, irrigation system configuration; and regional irrigation of crops. 

Since the industrial revolution, the global population has flowed extensively and rapidly into the cities, and more than half of the world's population has lived in cities today, and the population of more than 10 million megalopolises is growing. The various aspects of urban life have already constituted an important collective experience of contemporary human life. This course focuses on the contemporary 21th century Taiwan metropolis that brings together a large number of people, goods, money and information, representing the possibility of various development imagination. This course objective is to analyze the issues of urbanization as a large number of people and objects coexist at the same time. These issues include questions of infrastructure, transport network, land use, public safety, class differences, multicultural and even biodiversity planning and design issues. Issues of city governance and growth constitute a major challenge which this course attempts to provide practical solutions for. Simultaneously, this large number of people, the aggregation of things, also lead to the expansion of risk, how the contemporary city of extreme weather and man-made disaster is not only an unavoidable subject but also a threat. There is also a complication of a gradual increase in health care needs as the consequences of the large migration into cities. Throughout this semester students will analyze, research, discuss and draft up proposals to these urbanization issues found in Taipei, Taiwan. By the end of the course, students will have completed proposals to the Taiwanese government that address these socials issues and will post physical copies of their proposals in the main lobby of Taipei City Hall.

The purpose of this course is to equip students with the ability to: First, to establish a basic understanding of international organizations, including their history, operations and interrelationships. Second, understand the current situation, limitations and prospects of the country's participation in international organizations. Third, arouse the enthusiasm of young people to participate in the affairs of international organizations, and even to work in international organizations. Fourth, when planning their future career, young people can take into account the direction of international organizations and transnational orders.

This course is the first of a two-semester integrated course. This course aims to establish the basic knowledge of political science and give a preliminary and detailed introduction to important political concepts. This course will assign different English readers according to the progress of the course. Students are requested to read according to the progress of the course and participate in the discussion during the class.