National Taiwan University

This course studies the physical and mental characteristics of gifted students and their learning needs. It discusses the methods to identify gifted students and analyzes the timing of using assessment tools, as well as the development trends of gifted education. It also explores the ways to cultivate giftedness among people.  

To enhance global awareness and employ practical and innovative approaches to solve global problems, Taiwan added “global competence” through international mobility as a criterion in the Program for International Student Assessment (PISA) for the first time in 2018. However, due to the unpredictable development of COVID-19, "local internationalization" has become an alternative to international mobility. This course features three NTU professors and administrators specializing in international affairs and higher education, as well as foreign national representatives and ambassadors, sharing insights on their countries’ unique issues and addressing global learning in times of uncertainty. The course covers topics such as education, diplomacy, economy, ecological and environmental protection, democracy, etc., and aims to advance professional and global competence in international and multicultural fields. 

This is a beginners' course in the Sanskrit language. It introduces the most important Sanskrit grammar in one year by using M. Deshpande's Samskrta-Subodhini's A Sanskrit Primer as the textbook. The course also begins by reading Sanskrit verses from the story of Nala and Damayant in Charles Lanman's A Sanskrit Reader. The course then reviews major Indian religions and philosophical texts in Chinese translations to know the basics about Indian culture. 

The course focuses on the major aspects of the basic physiological functions and the factors in relation to plant growth and development. The course provides a background in plant biology to gain a deeper understanding of processes that are important for agriculture, horticulture and industry, as well as further tools to further study plant biology. The course discusses plant hormones in detail, as well as how plants respond to changes in their environment, for instance to light, or to stress.  

This course requires a background in botany, plant biology or nutrition.  

Drawing is the most important part of the design process. The purpose of drawing is threefold:  

1. The process of drawing itself establishes the creative process of the design. The thoughts are constantly transformed along with the drawing and thinking. 
2. After the drawing is completed, it becomes a tool for communication with other people. Through the explanation of pictures, people can better understand one’s design concept. 
3. The goal of drawing is nothing more than to get all the details of the design that the designer wants. The drawing communicates to engineers how to perform production work. 

This course introduces the basic theories of developmental psychology and existing empirical research results, then focuses on the integration of various development themes in adolescence and the correlation between them. 

This course introduces the basic concepts, analysis methods and related economic issues of individual economics. The scope of individual economics is mainly the consumption and production behavior of consumers and manufacturers in the market. In other words, it discusses the operation of demand and supply in the market and the determination of market prices. This course also explores the role of government departments in the market. For example, in the face of rising international crude oil prices, does the government need to control the rising prices of domestic oil products? Does the government charge tuition fees for college students, or regulate or subsidize it?

Through the analysis tools of individual economics, the course explores many issues of concern to the public, including public health, public health, poverty, unemployment, crime, education, marriage, childbearing, population aging, regulation, environmental protection, and international trade. 

This course introduces some basic logical methods used in symbolic artificial intelligence and their philosophical foundations. It looks at some of the techniques that have been used to represent and reason about knowledge, belief, time, and agency.  The course also analyzes some of the ways logical tools can be used to study games, strategies, and planning, as well as the basics of formalizing concepts and commonsense reasoning.  

This course establishes a basic understanding and experience of Chu Bamboo Calligraphy. Since the Chu silk scrolls were unearthed from Changsha Tsukuro in 1942, and the Japanese calligrapher Imai Reisetsu devoted himself to it, Chu bamboo slips of the Warring States Period have been unearthed one after another at Baoshan, Guodian, Shangbo, and Tsinghua. The study of Chu bamboo slips has flourished, starting from the history of calligraphy. From the perspective of calligraphy, its glyphs are novel, its ink marks are bright, and its research and copying are unprecedented. It is full of a free and casual atmosphere, and it has finally become an independent and important new field in calligraphy learning and research. 

This course features different guest lecturers speaking on various topics in genome and systems biology.