Fudan University

This course provides understanding of the post-war political and economic development model in East Asia, the historical background and basic processes of the rise of East Asia, China's Reform and Opening Up policy and socialist modernization, and lays a solid foundation for studying East Asian problems. The course aims to comparatively analyze the political development of East Asian countries and regions, covering roughly the 10 ASEAN countries and China, Japan and Korea. The political development of East Asia is deeply influenced by domestic factors such as the socio-economic changes of various countries and the international factors such as the United State's East Asian policy and globalization. The course content includes the rise of East Asia and its historical and international background, the analysis of the economic and political culture of the East Asian development model, and the analysis of the political development of major countries and regions such as Taiwan, Japan, South Korea and Singapore.

• -  Students will gain a basic structure about quantitative finance, learn the definition and application of various derivatives, and how to apply binomial trees to price financial derivatives.

• -  Students will learn trading strategies involving call and put options.

• -  Students will master how to apply risk measures such as Value at Risk and Expected Shortfall in risk management framework.

This course covers forwards, futures, swaps, and options. In Part I, students will have good knowledge of how forwards, futures and swaps work, how they are used, and how they are priced. In Part II, we will introduce the mechanics of option markets, properties of stock options, options on stock indices and currencies as well as various types of exotic options. In Part III, theories about binomial trees, Wiener processes, Ito’s Lemma, Black-Scholes-Merton Model will be further illustrated, and market risk measures will be covered.

This course introduces the fundamental principles of international finance and its applications. Course topics include the structure, function and operation of Foreign Exchange Market; the concept and theory of balance of payments; models of interest rate parity, purchasing power parity and exchange rate determination to analyze exchange rate changes and forecast exchange rate; the evolution of International Monetary System; Output, exchange rate and macroeconomic policy, and international financial topics.

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.