Fudan University

The boundary between art and non-art has become increasingly blurred, and any object or even behavior can become art. Therefore, entering the art scene to observe, think, and understand itself has become a part of the art work. Through a series of service learning activities such as on-site research of art works and presentation of art exhibition links, this course shifts the focus of learning art from the interpretation of second-hand information on artists, creative methods, and work forms to the art world. Lectures and seminars focus on the theoretical analysis of modern and contemporary art, the artist’s creative methods, the morphological characteristics of works and the current art exhibition.

This course aims to explain the importance of various natural processes and human activities that shape the modern Earth and lead to global environmental change based on the interdisciplinary scientific principles of climate, ecosystems, and biogeochemistry. The course uses primary scientific literature, presentations, videos and the discussion on global change prediction, assessment and policy measures to provide a critical understanding of physical climate system and its variability, the carbon cycle and related biogeochemistry and ecosystem processes, land use issues, the interactions among climate, ecosystems and biogeochemistry, and the impact of global change on societally relevant parameters. You should be able to read and interpret a scientific paper and assess a global change-related topic or policy in the context of multiple disciplines.

This course introduces the main theories of career development and consulting and its research (e.g. job matching theory, career development and construction theory, social cognitive theory, theory of career decision-making, etc.), and cultivates professional skills (e.g. professional psychological evaluation, professional information resources, etc.).

Contemporary International Relations refers to the span of time from about 70 years after the end of the Second World War to the present, that is, from 1945 to 2016. From the perspective of the history of international relations, this course introduces the evolution of international relations since World War II through the comprehensive use of a variety of materials, including declassified government archives. This course is divided into two parts, the Cold War and the post-Cold War, marked by the disintegration of the former Soviet Union in 1991. In terms of content, it involves three aspects: the evolution of great power relations characterized by the "Cold War" between the United States and the Soviet Union; the regional integration process with the EU as the main representative; the evolution of international mechanisms with global governance as the main expression.

This course in world literature introduces basic knowledge of literature, basic research methods, appreciation perspectives, and cutting-edge phenomena. Students read literature while considering genre, country, literature type and theme, select some classic works of contemporary world literature to analyze them in different research methods. The course selects representative works for analysis and research including selections from Europe, America, Latin America, and East Asia. Literary types include drama, novel, poem, film text, and genres include romanticism, realism, modernism, and postmodernism; topics include fate, love, war, and gender; other regions, types. Genres and motives of literature are briefly introduced.

This course introduces the background, theory and method of historical anthropology, and its application in historical research. Course topics include culture and tradition, structure and interpretation, meaning and metaphor, state and power, time, space, memory and imagination, and modernity and world system.

This course introduces common visual knowledge to provide a minimum of visual media literacy. Topics: the basic situation of visual communication development; basic theory and knowledge of visual communication; and entry-level visual communication practice skills.

This course examines the basic theoretical knowledge of the legal norms and ethical norms of news dissemination, carries out research on important legal and ethical issues that have emerged in the current practice of news communication in China through a combination of theories and case studies, helps students to learn, use, and obey news laws and ethics, so that they can not only conform to the characteristics of the Internet era, but also use relevant theoretical knowledge to analyze practical problems. Through the course, students will be trained and improve their legal literacy; maintain the right of news dissemination; fulfill the obligation of news dissemination; and observe the professional ethics of journalism.

This course includes the following topics: legal basis and legal thinking; overview of Chinese and foreign news communication laws and regulations; news communication activities and national security; news communication activities and social order; administrative management of news communication; news infringement; news communication activities and reputation protection; news communication activities and privacy protection; advertising message release and management; overview of news ethics; internet rumors and internet governance in China; internet governance and freedom of expression; internet and copyright infringement; Internet and personal information rights protection; Internet industry innovation and compliance research; financial information disclosure misrepresentation and insider trading, etc. ; maintain the authenticity of news; "hidden interviews"; prohibit news sensation, hype, and vulgarity; supervision of public opinion and "news trials"; prohibit "paid news", "paid negligence" and news blackmail.