Fudan University

This survey course introduces the field of environmental communication, its core concepts, perspectives, components, contextual theories, and nature of its scholarship. It first covers the major areas that construct an environmental public sphere—the public, environmental groups, media, government, and corporations. Then, relevant Chinese environmental cases in each area are presented to apply the theories.

This course examines the disciplinary history of archaeology, research objects, research methods, interpretive theories, and the ways and techniques of archaeological work.

This course introduces the basic concepts of information system security and the design principles of classic information system security mechanisms, systematically discussing security threats and corresponding system security protection strategies from two aspects: security analysis technology and security protection mechanism. Information system vulnerabilities and malicious behavior analysis techniques, authentication, information protection and isolation mechanisms, access control and other security protection mechanisms are discussed. Using the latest data processing application software as an example, the course analyzes the use of information system security technology, combining case analysis and course experiments, and analyzes the security mechanism design of mainstream information systems and common security detection and security defense technologies.

Research on developing countries has mainly focused on how to achieve economic prosperity and equal distribution of wealth, but politics also has a significant impact on the well-being of people in developing countries. This course will introduce students to the most important theoretical frameworks and empirical findings for the study of politics in developing countries. Firstly, it introduces the main paradigms of studying political development, such as modernization theory and dependency theory. Next, the course will discuss some important topics in political development, such as the influence of colonialism, ethnic conflict, military intervention, individual dictatorship, religion and politics, and political and economic development. 

This course provides an introduction to the theory of the state. After introducing the concept of the state and the state-centered perspective, this course expands on the current theory of the state from both horizontal and vertical perspectives. Vertically, the course answers the following questions: Why did the modern state rise? What are the factors that influence nation-building? What experience does each country offer? Horizontally, the course introduces the relationship between the state and other political and social phenomena, such as the state and political system, the state and economy, the state and identity, and so on. Finally, the focus of this lesson will fall to China.

This course combines economic theory with historical facts and examines the economic and social development of the East and the West. It covers the important historical content of all human economic and social activities from the origin of agricultural civilization to the present day, such as the origin of agricultural civilization, the great Geographical discovery, Columbus exchange, religious Reform, industrial Revolution, modern industrialization, the Great Depression, globalization and other related issues.

This course covers the general ideas and methods of solving problems with computers, to master the basic processes and methods of programming, and to use Python as a tool for analysis and processing large data. This course teaches the current popular Python language. Python is very suitable as the first programming language for non-computer science majors. Learning content includes: Python sequences: lists, tuples, dictionaries, collections, control structures: selection, looping, string common operation methods, string functions, regular expressions, function definition and usage, module definition and usage, file operations, exception handling, etc., and basic understanding of graphical interface and drawing.

The course provides a study of the contemporary Chinese political system. Topics include the people's congress system, electoral system, state administrative system, civil service system, national regional autonomy system, system of special administrative region, communist party's leadership system of multi-party cooperation and political consultation system. It analyzes the systems’ origins, composition, operation, and development.