National Taiwan University

This Chinese language course is for students who have taken General Chinese Language course - Beginning Chinese III or those who have taken Chinese for at least 250 hours. The course enables students to express one's opinion effectively; to write a short essay of at least 300 words to express oneself; and to communicate about daily life activities all in Chinese. The course helps students develop proficient language skills in listening, speaking, reading, and writing that would enable them to communicate effectively in their daily lives. Through the course, students further understand Taiwanese culture and language. Text: “Practical Audio-Visual Chinese II” (chapter 8~) and “Practical Audio-Visual Chinese III” (~chapter 3) Assessment: attendance and participation (20%), quizzes (20%) (usually once a week at the end of the week), assignments (20%), midterm exam (20%), final exam (20%).

This course offers in-depth analysis of the works of James Joyce including a wide range of short stories and excerpts from longer works, but with particular emphasis on The Dubliners and A Portrait of a Young Man. The course develops a strong grasp of the techniques and style of Joyce in constructing his unique narrative and understanding the socio-historic and modernist contexts in which he wrote. Homework and class assignments included weekly readings, numerous in-class presentations (up to 10 minutes long) on a variety of topics, class participation in group discussions, a midterm exam, and a term paper.

This course begins with an analysis of banking regulation. Due to the potentially enormous impact of bank runs, panics, and financial crises on the economy, the financial industry is heavily regulated. The course discusses the influence of regulations on the development of financial markets. In turn, the course addresses how the financial regulations had evolved in face of fast-growing financial innovations. Finally, we discuss how the central bank controls the supply of money and uses available tools to achieve the desired goals, the monetary transmission mechanisms, and how the public reacts to changes of monetary policies. The course also provides insight into the role of real estate markets and stock markets in the transmission of monetary policies and whether the central bank should react to the fluctuations of these asset prices. 

This course strengthens Chinese listening, writing, and speaking skills and focuses on strengthening oral and expressive skills The course is designed for exchange students and visiting students only. The Chinese course is offered for those students who are taking Chinese course Intermediate I, II & III from NTU Center for International Education. The course aims to enable students to learn Chinese with joy through games and group activities. Except for improving students' listening, speaking, reading and writing skills, the course could help students further understand Taiwanese culture and language.

This course introduces and covers the fundamental yet significant topics on the basic workings of Earth System Science, the interactions between its sub-systems, the past, current, and future conditions of Earth's environments, as well as modern human activities and it's interactions with Earth's environment. Topics include: Global Change, Daisyworld: An Introduction to Systems, Global Energy Balance: Greenhouse Effect, Atmospheric Circulation System, Circulation of the Oceans, Circulation of the Solid Earth: Plate Tectonics, Recycling of the Elements, Focus on the Biota, Origin of Earth and of Life, Effects of Life on the Atmosphere: The Rise of Oxygen and Ozone, Long-term Climate Regulation, Pleistocence Glaciations, and Global Warming: Recent and Future Climate, Impacts, Adaptation, and Mitigation

This course takes a formal approach to analyzing the way firms make production and sales decisions and interact strategically with each other in the marketplace. It begins with a study of optimal pricing policies, including versioning, bundling, and related market segmentation strategies. In the second part of the course, we analyze strategies for firm dominance, especially through the deterrence of potential competition. The list of such strategies includes capacity expansion, product proliferation, and exclusive dealing contracts. In the third part of the course we apply game theory to the study of oligopoly interaction, focusing on pricing and output strategies in a dynamic setting. In the final part or the course we introduce some of the most useful cutting-edge analytical frameworks in the age of fast technological changes, including those of multi-sided platforms, standard wars and business ecosystems. This course has a strong entrepreneurial component; we study all the essential issues in the literature of Industrial Organization from the viewpoint of business decision-makers. 

This course strengthens Chinese listening, writing, and speaking skills and focuses on strengthening oral and expressive skills The course is designed for exchange students and visiting students only. The Chinese course is offered for those students who are taking Chinese course Intermediate I, II & III from NTU Center for International Education. The course aims to enable students to learn Chinese with joy through games and group activities. Except for improving students' listening, speaking, reading and writing skills, the course could help students further understand Taiwanese culture and language.

This course provides an overview of the history and characteristics of Taiwanese civil life and culture.  It covers regional developments and architecture; cultural power network and judicial life; religious organizations and folk beliefs; types and characteristics of civil and military formations as well as public ceremonies;  rituals, taboos, leisure, and pop culture in Taiwan.

This is the Physics Lab which follows the curriculum for the General Physics Course for first year students. There are nine labs total including Hysteresis Curve, Fundamental Optics, Slide-Wire potentiometer, Hall effect, Basic Circuit of RC/RL, Simple Michelson Interferometer, Properties of Microwave, Spectral Analysis, and Basic Circuit of RLC. You will be required to complete two lab reports and one presentation. 

This course focuses on the establishment of the post-war democratic system, explaining the type of authoritarian rule in Taiwan, the struggles of democratic movements in various periods, the characteristics and achievements of Taiwan's democratic transition, how to deal with the legacy of authoritarianism, and the current challenges and solutions for Taiwan's democratic system. The course is divided into six themes and each unit takes approximately two to three weeks: (1) Political conflict in Taiwan in the early postwar period;(2) White terror and Taiwanese society; (3) The characteristics of the party-state authoritarian system; (4) Early democratic movements and goals; (5) Taiwan's democratic transition, and (6) Democratic Defense, Transitional Justice and Taiwan.