National Taiwan University

This course gives a broad understanding of European politics. The course is organized thematically, covering issues such as federalism and devolution, the executive and legislature, political parties, elections and voting systems, the media, civil society, and race and ethnicity. Particular attention is paid to the comparative study of different European countries across these issue areas. The final four weeks of the course are devoted to group presentations on some of the major contemporary issues in European politics, with topics to be agreed between the instructor and students (possible topics may include immigration, the Greece crisis, Brexit, the rise of the far right, other topics may be suggested by the instructor or students).

The course covers the ethics of engineers under different situations and fields. Topics include an introduction to engineering and ethics, business ethics, information ethics, journalistic ethics, architectural ethics, ethics in engineering and construction, environmental ethics, energy sustainability, and planned obsolescence.

The earth’s atmosphere is a wonderfully vibrant environment full of fun scientific stories. The atmosphere shapes the quality of the air we breathe; interacts with other parts of the environment; and is a reservoir of key components of critical earth processes, including photosynthesis and climate change. This course focus on topics of atmospheric composition and structure; energy balance; weather systems; air pollution; greenhouses gases, and climate change. 

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This upper-level course introduces the basics of power electronics through a flipped-learning approach that involves pre-class, in-class, and post-class activities. To solidify the concepts covered in the course, a number of problem sets, online simulation problems, and exams will be assigned to assess students' understanding.  The primary goal of the course is for students to finish the semester with a clear understanding of how various power converters operate and how they relate to real applications. 

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.