National Taiwan University

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.

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.