Fudan University

The course focuses on visual art works from the United States, the United Kingdom, Germany, and China. The works are from art museums and art exhibitions. The course mainly studies paintings, but also includes sculptures, photography, video, experimental ink painting, conceptual art, pop art, installation art and performance art. The discussion around the works involves art design, folk art, advertising, movies, graffiti, comics, fashion and more.

This course introduces basic knowledge in child development, especially the essential influence of the environment of family to child development. Course topics include: theory of child development, influence of child development, child social adaptation, psychological problems during child development, treatment, parenting, early-child development in foreign countries, baby care, disadvantaged children and child welfare. 

Students will be required to use theory to analyze relational phenomenon during child development.

This course explores Chinese economic reforms and development since the end of the 1970s, and introduces many of the elements of China's emergence and its potential role in the world economy. It uses China as a case study placing Chinese economic development in a historical and comparative context, exploring the contradiction between the unprecedented economic growth of the past century and the persistence of poverty in rich countries. The course begins with theories of economic growth and poverty and studies economic and social institutions and public policy debates on ways to achieve rising incomes while improving living standards and promoting equality. The first part is on economic development and the most commonly used models of development. The second part covers contracts and development. 

This course examines the basic principles of maritime law and international conventions, including: contract of carriage, maritime collision, salvage, general average, limitations of liabilities and insurance.

The course covers probability and statistics, focusing on how the mathematical ideas of statistics carry over into the world of applications in economics and finance. It examines statistical concepts from economic perspective. For example, why are statistical concepts (e.g., mean and variance) useful in economics? What are economic intuition and interpretation for the probability and statistical relations?

Accounting Principles is an elective course in the innovation and entrepreneurship sector. The course covers basic knowledge, methods and skills of accounting, and lays the foundation for other finance and other economics related courses. It combines both theory and practice, with the goal of introducing the entire accounting process including accounting methods of double-entry bookkeeping to learn how to deal with practical problems.

The course provides an introduction to macro-international trade theory and micro-international trade practice. It explores the history and development of China's foreign trade operations, including its challenges, achievements, and potential business opportunities. The course examines both the theory and practice of foreign trade in order to show the direction the country is moving in terms of its trade operations.

The course presents how the basic theories and methodological tools of marketing fit into the different phrases of business activities, including new product, concept screening, product development, and market introduction. The course covers the management system of new product development from the perspective of marketing. The course provides an introduction to the new product development process; a systematic description of the strategic thinking of new product development; discussion of business activities related to product conception; discussion of theoretical knowledge related to product concept evaluation and methodological tools; discussion of relevant business activities during the product development design phase; and discussion of relevant business activities for new products entering the market.

The course adopts a broad perspective of design art, encompassing dual aspects of appreciation and creation. Grounded in art historical contexts of styles and schools, it traces the origins and underlying trajectories of the Constructive notion, while guiding students to study fundamental visual vocabulary, principles and methods of form-making, perceive the characteristics, techniques and performance of material construction, develop abstract modeling thinking, explore spiritual expression through artistic practice, ultimately experiencing the joy of creation.