Fudan University

This course consists of three parts. The first part covers the basics of the EU, including major theories of European integration, its core institutions, decision-making procedures, and legal order. In the second part, this course explores the major bilateral relations between the EU and third parties. The last part focuses on selected policy areas critical to the EU’s internal stability and external posture.

Chinese Traditional Archery is a traditional Chinese archery sport. It was developed from archery, one of the six traditional arts, and developed into a tool for cultivating temperament in the Western Zhou Dynasty. The archer uses a traditional Chinese bow to shoot arrows at the target following a specific procedure and movement. The posture, etiquette, heart and cultivation necessary in archery can exercise the archer's body and mind.

Centered on the theme of "Rebuilding the Coordinates," this course explores how China, since the crisis of 1840, has sought to rediscover its place in the modern world through revolution, reform, and innovation. Combining Shanghai's "Walking Classroom" with advanced "AI Academic Dialogue," you will traverse from the late Qing transformations to the digital future. 

This course draws primarily on attitude theories and uses the 5W model to explain and analyze the methods by which persuasive communication achieves its effects. In addition, it introduces several representative theories of persuasion (such as cognitive dissonance, the CD model, and ELM). Finally, the course covers approaches to implementing persuasive communication campaigns. Students are also required to conduct extracurricular research from both the persuader’s and the persuadee’s perspectives, and to present their findings in class.

This course introduces key theories and concepts related to health governance through interdisciplinary perspectives from sociology, political science, and related fields. It covers topics such as global health, infectious disease governance, state capacity, and the role of non-governmental organizations. Substantive issues include traditional Chinese medicine, the governance of infectious diseases in China, and international cooperation in global health.

This course introduces the history and theory of intelligent media, intelligent media practices, and industry fieldwork, which connects students with diverse real-world AI media projects, emphasizing China’s local development and the latest technological trends

Media Psychology examines the relationship between media usage and human psychology/behavior. The course covers the following areas: media use and mental health, media violence and aggressive behavior, media and body image, media and cognitive development, media and addictive behaviors, media and prosocial behavior, media and cross-cultural psychology, media and emotional resonance, etc.

This course examines intelligence through a progressive structure—classic foundations → frontier intersections → societal applications. While preserving core psychometric frameworks (e.g., g and hierarchical models, reliability/validity, standardisation), the course strengthens three frontier strands: cognitive neuroscience, cross-cultural comparison and measurement fairness, and AI in relation to human intelligence. Students will learn to evaluate claims about intelligence using rigourous measurement reasoning and to translate theory into practice across applied settings (education and selection, health/ageing and special populations, and assessment governance in the AI era).

Based on the theory of corporate finance, this course will further elaborate on corporate valuation and financial policies along with practical case studies, building upon students having primary knowledge of financial management theories. The specific content mainly includes: Based on the theory of real options, financial contracts, and behavioral finance, this course provides an in-depth explanation of the framework, content, and examples of modern corporate financial operations, and interprets related theories such as innovative project valuation, project segmental capital injection, manager compensation incentives, and company ownership structure arrangements.

Shakespeare’s plays remain fundamental to an understanding of a vast array of masterpieces of world literature. In this course we will read closely two plays from Shakespeare Hamlet (1600-1) and King Lear (1604-5). Our reading will be structured around a set of main themes.  We will also examine other materials that help our understaning of these plays.