National Taiwan University

International trade is the economic backbone of most countries in the world. The development of information technologies has accelerated trade facilitation and digitalization of cross border exchange. The digital transformation of international trade has reduced operation time and costs; facilitated the global value chain, and connected trade and logistics among communities globally.
 

Cross border digital trade has attracted more attention than ever in the post COVID-19 era: while normal international trade procedures and operations heavily dependent on paper documents have been interrupted, the use of technologies has lowered the barriers of physical documentation and resulted in the resiliency of international trade.
 

This course introduces international initiatives as well as government actions in the implementation of cross border digital trade to increase the scale, scope, and speed of trade.  The course also addresses challenges, such as the adoption of new technologies; policy and regulation issues, and change of user behavior during the implementation of cross border digital trade.

The course examines the historical importance of maritime trade and how understanding the water, winds, and currents has helped societies flourish. This course explores Asian trade history through the East China Sea, South China Sea, Bay of Bengal, and Arabian Sea and includes a survey of maritime tools as well as the importance of port cities. The course is broken up into three parts: humanism-geographical condition of each sea area in Asia (space), total chronological change (time), and long distance travelers/peoples story (humankind).

This course provides an introduction to elementary movement analysis theory and concepts. Through basic movement training (floor exercises) developed from the six foundations of human behavior, students build their ability to control or improve their body movements while learning from their peers.  Through video appreciation, students enhance their creative ability and practical experience of modern dance.

This course is designed to discuss modern science research that is related to people's minds and thoughts and how this research influence the arguments of various philosophical views including idealism and materialism. This course also discusses about the mechanism to study our mind and brain and how meditation affects our minds, even cure some diseases.

This course improves leadership in teams while some of the principles can be applied to organizations. To achieve this objective, the professor provides various principles and strategies drawn on solid empirical research to help future managers increase the probability of success. The course presents both the conceptual understanding and the behavioral skills required to lead teams and organizations successfully. Students will draw from their own experiences in discussing team and organization management skills and learn from classmates' experience sharing. Topics will include leadership styles, individual decision making, team selection, team creativity, team diagnosis, team conflict, etc. In addition, students learn how to manage and work in cross-cultural teams through the final team project in which students will be paired up with students from different countries.

This course gives a broad understanding of European politics. The course is organized thematically, covering issues such as federalism and devolution, the executive and legislature, political parties, elections and voting systems, the media, civil society, and race and ethnicity. Particular attention is paid to the comparative study of different European countries across these issue areas. The final four weeks of the course are devoted to group presentations on some of the major contemporary issues in European politics, with topics to be agreed between the instructor and students (possible topics may include immigration, the Greece crisis, Brexit, the rise of the far right, other topics may be suggested by the instructor or students).

The course covers the ethics of engineers under different situations and fields. Topics include an introduction to engineering and ethics, business ethics, information ethics, journalistic ethics, architectural ethics, ethics in engineering and construction, environmental ethics, energy sustainability, and planned obsolescence.

The earth’s atmosphere is a wonderfully vibrant environment full of fun scientific stories. The atmosphere shapes the quality of the air we breathe; interacts with other parts of the environment; and is a reservoir of key components of critical earth processes, including photosynthesis and climate change. This course focus on topics of atmospheric composition and structure; energy balance; weather systems; air pollution; greenhouses gases, and climate change. 

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This upper-level course introduces the basics of power electronics through a flipped-learning approach that involves pre-class, in-class, and post-class activities. To solidify the concepts covered in the course, a number of problem sets, online simulation problems, and exams will be assigned to assess students' understanding.  The primary goal of the course is for students to finish the semester with a clear understanding of how various power converters operate and how they relate to real applications.