Fudan University

This course enhances knowledge and understanding of new undergraduate students majoring in social work through the teaching of individual and professional growth, participatory discussions, and self-growth group module design, thereby promoting better university adaptation and self-identification. This course will cover the three aspects of "Looking outward, how are you shaped?", "Looking inward, knowing the complete self" and "Using the self in professional practice", and strive to be led by peer groups. The self-recognition growth group supervised and taught by professional teachers travels along the way to accompany the students on the journey of self-understanding, rediscovery, and growth.

Through the teaching of commercial photography related knowledge, as well as a large number of practical photography practice, students can master the basic commercial photography shooting skills, and the ability to carry out and produce creative ideas by means of photography, and finally have the ability and methods to complete the complete commercial visual image production.

This course is guided by commercial photography practice. Based on the study of basic shooting techniques and photographic equipment, three parts of photography training are carried out:

1. Street photography, which mainly trains students' observation ability and capture skills in specific environment, and completes photography works with aesthetic feeling and interest;

2. Advertising photography, mainly carried out in the studio, including shooting scheme planning, visual creativity and placement skills, has the ability to execute a complete set of advertising photography works;

3. Public relations photography, combined with the technique of snapshot and shooting, can fully shoot and present the images of specific commercial activities, marketing events, and characters.The three parts are organically combined to form a relatively integrated commercial photography system.

The course examines the formation process and the basic theory of population economics. It covers the object and characteristics of the discipline's research; the interrelationship between population and economy and research methods; the economic theory of fertility and mortality; the economic influencing factors; the impact of population quantity, quality, migration and investment on economic development from the perspective of population economics; the economic factors of population change and the interrelationship between demographic and economic phenomena; population and investment consumption, China's population economy and world population economy.

This course provides a study of international trade and the effects of various international economic policies on domestic and world welfare, with an empirical focus on China trade and foreign direct investment. The course highlights sources of competitive advantage, gains and losses from trade, the impact of trade on economic growth, and effects of trade policy interventions such as tariffs, quotas, voluntary export restraints, and export subsidies. 

The course examines the relationship between tourism and culture, including how culture influences tourism and how tourism contains culture. Topics include the theory, orientation, basis, and characteristics of tourism culture. It also looks at the traditional culture of tourism, subject culture, consumption culture, aesthetic culture, object culture, landscape culture, regional culture, media culture, and the twenty-first Century China tourism culture.

This course examines Chinese traditional culture. Topics include origin and context, social background, historical influence, core elements, and future developments.

The course introduces the basic concepts of corporate finance both in practice and theory. It focuses on how firm raise money, how to evaluate a firm’s value, and how firms make investment decisions. Specific topics addressed in the course are the valuation of companies, the operating capital of company, the costs of capital, the ways of raising money both equity and bonds, the rules of evaluating investment and liquidity management.

Is Chinese philosophy incommensurable with Western philosophy, or is there a philosophy in general? There are stereotypes (opinions) about Chinese philosophy, and this course examines the truth of Chinese philosophy in particular and the truth of philosophy in general. This course introduces classical (pre-Qin) Confucianism and Legalism; investigates the problems the pre-Qin Confucian and Legalist philosophers try to answer, what their answers are, whether the answers are coherent within one text and how these answers are related to each other; and examines how these philosophical texts address philosophical problems, that is, problems that transcend a particular people, a particular time, and a particular locale. By comparing these philosophers' answers to those by other philosophers (Chinese or non-Chinese), students see the merits and problems of these answers that are still relevant today.

This course covers cross-cultural, intercultural, and international communication. Topics include theories, history, and study of intercultural communication; language and verbal communication across cultures; nonverbal language in international communication; understanding intercultural misunderstandings; culture dimensions: power distance and political system; individualism/collectivism and political system, masculinity/femininity and political system; cultural rules for establishing relationships; communication in intercultural relationships; intercultural negotiation; managing conflict and negotiating face; legal and governmental considerations in intercultural communication; and intercultural encounters: political issues. The course also uses case studies of the US and Japan to discuss how culture affects foreign policy.