Fudan University

This course examines the major issues of global urban planning and governance of Chinese global cities such as Shanghai, Hong Kong, and Beijing with reference to New York, London, and Tokyo. It looks at the structure and institutions of urban government; efficiency/democracy/distribution/developmental goals; types of public policy; urban self-governance and its limits; inter-governmental conflict/competition/cooperation; privatization/partnership/governance grid; theories of pluralism/elitism; metropolitan government school/public choice theory/neo-regionalism/zonal restructuring; economic growth; industrial development; infrastructure; spatial planning; growth machines; urban limits; urban mechanisms; neo-Marxism; the historical institutional school; regulation; developmental state; citizenship and civic participation; neighborhoods and communities; urban social movements; social capital; gender and migration; and political parties and interest groups.

Through the training of theatrical performances, the course cultivates sentiments and enhances artistic accomplishment. This course is an art practice class based on the curriculum offered at the Film Director Department, Shanghai Academy of Arts. Combined with the popular performance workshop training model of European and American drama teaching, this course aims to improve the performance and expression skills for students who are interested in performing arts. As a general education course, through the drama art, it provides a new enlightenment for the students' personal cultivation, emotional development, and social manners.

This course examines in-depth and investigative reporting.

This course introduces the general knowledge of emergency rescue and the current pre-hospital first aid and emergency medical system to understand the current status of emergency medical care and master some of the common medical skills of Chinese and Western medicine in daily life. This course includes the current status of domestic emergency rescue and the basic concepts and theories of emergency rescue, on-site emergency medicine (cardiopulmonary resuscitation, Heimlich first aid and trauma emergency dressing, etc.), Chinese medicine emergency (stiff neck, sprain, fever and headache etc.), simple introduction of Chinese herbal medicine knowledge, introduction of various first-aid knowledge in life, learning and application of techniques such as hemostasis and bandages, disaster escape and self-help.

This course introduces operations management concepts and techniques related to the design, planning and control, and improvement of the operations function of a firm. It covers a mix of qualitative and quantitative methods that provide the necessary tools to make intelligent decisions in operations. Topics include process fundamentals, quality management, constraint management, lean systems, waiting line models, inventory management, forecasting, newsvendor model, revenue management, and supply chain strategies.

This course introduces fundamental knowledge of urban and regional economics and examines how economic theory can be used to analyze the benefits of cities, and to diagnose its problems. It discusses theories of the formation of cities, agglomeration economies, and urban growth. The course also examines how economic activities are organized within a city, with particular attention on Shanghai.  

This course examines biological problems using methods of mathematical statistics and computer science. Course topics include comparative genomics and principles of algorithms, transcriptomics and epigenomics, an introduction to probability theory and mathematical statistics, supervised and unsupervised classification methods, computer programming, and data structures. The course provides students with an understanding of the scientific frontier of research and basic skills for big data analysis.

This course covers the second half of standard Japanese (Beginner Level), and the grammatical framework of standard Japanese (Beginner Level). It provides a study of beginning Japanese reading, writing, and oral expression. Students should have taken Japanese as a second language (Part 1) or have some previous knowledge of the language to enroll.