National Taiwan University

Taiwan during the Japanese occupation era marked a great change in music, the music of the postwar Taiwan left a profound impact. The course uses music social history perspective to explore the music life during the Japanese occupation of Taiwan. Because the research in Taiwanese music history is still in its nascent stage, the course focuses on topics that have accumulated substantial research results, combining secondary source literature and primary source history as well as various video and network resource. The course is divided into three parts: influence of Western civilization and technology; Taiwanese music life; and composers and performers.

The course presents the field of sustainable health and environment from an East Asian perspective in a globalized world. It covers facts and developments in issues related to sustainable health and environment through cross-country lectures, multimedia viewing, panel discussion, and group projects and presentations. The sciences of sustainable health and environment cover broad and intersected disciplines from health sciences, physical sciences to social sciences locally, regionally, and globally. Views of sustainable health and environment are cultivated from current and historical perspectives as well as local and regional living experience. Global perspectives are further cultivated through in-class discussion among students, group projects by cross-country teams, and essay writing. Guest lectures by distinguished experts in the fields of sustainable health and environmental sciences provide global perspectives on sustainable issues.

This course provides students with a broad background in the principles of ecology. It covers ecology at different levels of organization including behavioral, physiological, evolutionary, population & community, and ecosystem ecology. Some other specialized topics are also discussed.

 

The course enables students to develop knowledge in the management of people, processes, and product design in a global context through collaboration with Chung-Hwa Telecomm International (CHTI).

This course enables students to understand CHTI from the following perspectives:
People – Enhancing and developing competencies to manage people across national and cultural boundaries.
Processes – Integrating knowledge development, product procurement, manufacturing, and distribution for a global supply chain.
Product design – Managing internal and external environments such as globally-dispersed stakeholders, corporate vision, and cross-border regulations in targeted international market.

The goal of this course is to help improve students' various physical ability indicators and special sports ability through special physical training and repeated practice of taekwondo, and through the inheritance of knowledge and experience, players can flexibly use it in competitions to improve better sports performance.

This course is for students who have taken Intermediate II of the Chinese Language Course for International Students or those who have taken Chinese for at least 600 hours. The course develops proficiency in listening, speaking, reading and writing to deal with complex situations within daily lives, and discuss about complex issues, such as economy, transportation, societal culture. Students learn to read simple document forms and announcements and to write a short essay of at least 500 words to express oneself. This course uses the textbook “Far East Daily Chinese III” (chapters 1-7). Assessment: attendance and participation (20%), quizzes (20%), assignments (20%), midterm exam (20%), final exam (20%).

This course examines the organization, structure, and performance of the economy of mainland China. It focuses on the institutional structure of the economy on the micro level, on the changing economic system including the roles of planning and markets, on government economic strategy and policies, and on outcomes with respect to industrialization, the distribution of activity among sectors, economic growth, income distribution, and welfare. The pre-reform period receives attention in its own right, but especially as it influences developments in the market-oriented reform period since 1978. Topics covered include rural and urban development, industrial strategy and planning, economic reform, agriculture, industry, and international trade and investment.

Digital platforms, especially social media, help consumers garner information, network, socialize, and share opinions on their consumption decisions with friends and other like-minded consumers. Hence, to achieve their profitability objectives, business managers need a clear understanding of engaging with the new socially connected consumer through an effective marketing strategy.

This course teaches fundamental principles of how to manage networked customers. In addition, it provides a basic understanding of social media platforms and how to choose amongst the various platforms. Finally, students learn the foundations of developing a successful network marketing strategy  from industry stalwarts, sharing their experience and insights as guest speakers. 

Prior basic knowledge of marketing is preferred though not necessary.

This course provides a comprehensive overview of the archaeological evidence for Southeast Asian history. It is generally possible to see Southeast Asian culture as a diverse historical complex of local pre-historical cultures, Indian-influenced cultures, Chinese-influenced cultures, Islamic-influenced cultures, and European-influenced cultures. Geological separation between insular and mainland Southeast Asia further complicates the situation. This course traces the development of each culture in Southeast Asian through an archaeological examination of its material culture. Course topics include: the age of European influence; the age of Islamic influenc; the age of Chinese influence; the pre-modern ceramic trade and Taiwan; sunken ships and underwater archaeology; Southeast Asian castles and towns.

This course examines in-depth wireless communication systems and their protocols. It focuses on the design rationales of communication protocols, the overall network architectures and performance evaluation of complicated wireless systems so that students are capable of designing next-generation communications systems through rigorous simulation and mathematical analysis. In addition, the course introduces the IEEE 802.15.4 experiment test bed for hands-on experiments. Students learn from hands-on experimentation the design of wireless protocols and thus how to develop new applications in wireless networking. Course topics include: modular communication systems and protocol design; experiment and algorithm development in IEEE 802.15.4 platform; network and MAC protocol designs for personal and local area networks; mathematical modeling for communication systems and protocols; physical and MAC protocol designs for mobile and wide area networks; cross layer design and optimization for emerging wireless communication systems.