National Taiwan University

This course provides a study of the development of science and technology and how it has affected the progress of human civilization and cultural heritage. The course covers a variety of complex humanities and technology issues that are facing society today, including information and communication, ecological and environmental protection, biomedical technology, music, art, astrophysics, and more.

This course utilizes expertise in chemistry, experimental and instrumental operation, scientific logic analysis, data retrieving, analysis, expression and application. Experiments in thermodynamics, kinetics, molecular structure, and general physical chemistry.

This course provides an introduction and historical analysis of East Asia since 1600 to the present day. It provides a foundational grounding in the histories of China, Korea, and Japan in the modern era since 1600. The course examines the distinctive features of national histories in East Asia, as well as the cross-regional qualities of traditions and contestations within the region. The course discusses how the Ming-Qing transition in 17th-century China affected political discourse in Korea and Japan; how Western imperialism was encountered and responded to in China, Korea, and Japan in the 19th century; and how the experiences and memories of the 20th century have defined the nature of political and cultural interactions in East Asia. This course develops a fundamental knowledge of major historical themes in modern East Asia, as well as an understanding of the nature of cultural transmission, interactions, and tensions within the region. It also examines the traditions and transformations of East Asian societies.

This course is for the first-year students of the International Baccalaureate Class of the Chinese Department, hoping to guide the foreign students in the class to understand Chinese in a systematic way. The phonetics, phonology, characters, vocabulary, grammar, and pragmatics of Chinese will be discussed in class. There are specific topics every week (see the weekly schedule for details), and in principle, they are taught one by one according to the textbook chapters. In class, besides the teacher's explanation of various language phenomena, students will also practice and analyze language phenomena, and arrange classroom quizzes or homework as appropriate. It is hoped that through this method, students can actually understand what they have learned, apply it to daily language analysis, and develop a certain level of language observation and vigilance.

This is an introductory course for discussing the integration among neural, mental, and social processes. The class intends to cover, but may not exhaust, following topics on the mind and brain: research history; research methods and basic issues; function of the basic operation of the unit and integration; evolution and development; message input - feeling, perception, and attention; the symbol of mind and brain processing - language and thought; plasticity - learning and memory; the likes and dislikes with the brain - emotional; motivation and will; output - activities; consciousness; character; heart and brain in groups - social cognition and behavior; the heart and brain of the sick - mental illness; heart and brain simulation - neural networks and artificial intelligence.

As a democratized, globalized and multi-ethnic society, contemporary Taiwan is rich in cultural diversity. Not only is Taiwan often influenced by international trends, but its domestic environment provides a fertile ground for social innovations; as a result, Taiwan’s cultural landscape is undergoing a process of permanent revolution. Multiculturalism is not a proclaimed future goal ahead of us, but is taking place in our daily life. This course follows Raymond Williams in viewing culture “not only as a body of intellectual and imaginative work; it is also and essentially a whole way of life.” In other words, culture should not be taken narrowly as a prized property monopolized by an elite group of people, but various ways of acting and thinking embraced by different groups. A survey on contemporary Taiwan’s cultures necessarily sensitizes us to the complicated nature of social groupings. Differences in ethnicity, class, gender, region, age, sexual orientation, religious belief, and life-style give rise to highly diversified cultural expressions, among which contention and cooperation co-exist.

This is a lab course intended to complement the lecture course (ENT3003). It is designed such that students who are concurrently enrolled in ENT3003 can have a better understanding of selected topics covered in the lecture course. Students cannot take the lab course without concurrently taking the lecture course. Students who had completed an equivalent ecology lecture course in a previous semester may be allowed to take this course, but it is not recommended to do so because the lecture (ENT3003) and the lab (ENT3020) are not designed independently.
 

This course examines the basic principles of engineering mathematics, calculation, and their practical applications in engineering. The course covers linear algebra (matrix, vector, determinant, linear equation system, matrix eigenvalue problem), vector calculus, vector divergence and curl, gradient and direction derivative function of scalar field, Fourier series analysis and integration, Conversion and other units.

This course examines the fundamentals of financial management and provides a framework for understanding the theories and techniques used for business decisions in working capital management, capital budgeting, financial control, and long-term financing.

The course sets out to achieve four main goals. 1) Give a historical overview of feminist film theory and queer film theory. 2) Engage with some of the key concepts crucial to the understanding of queer cinematic practices. 3) Survey some of the landmark titles in the history of queer cinema. 4) Introduce contemporary Chinese language cinemas with queer subject matters. Assessment: quizzes, group or individual presentation and its write up, final presentation, final paper.