Fudan University

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.

This course examines the modern analysis of economic growth, productivity increment and innovations. Topics include three categories: (1) theoretical part: neoclassical growth model, models of endogenous technological change, misallocation, basic network analysis; (2) dataset part: Chinese annual firm-level surveys, Chinese administrative registration records, patent registration data (EP, US, CN), patent citation data, patent transaction data; (3) software part: stata, matlab, gephi, latex.

The course introduces the principles of international law with a focus on basic theory of the contemporary international legal system including the relation between international and domestic laws, international legal personality, territorial sovereignty, law of sea, and international organization. The course requires prior- knowledge of the law and politics. It explores the sources of international law and its general principles, jurisdictions, subjects, and objects, as well as the laws of treaty, diplomatic relation, international organization, state responsibility, and peaceful settlement of international disputes. The course includes several international moot courts. 

The course is comprised of a research-based curriculum designed to introduce the latest academic research achievements of women's studies, gender studies, and women's history. The course focuses on the theoretical framework and research methods and encourages an understanding of the relationship between knowledge production and historical and cultural background.

The course introduces the basic theories and methods of stochastic analysis and its application in Finance. It discusses how to apply the basic theories and methods in stochastic analysis to financial pricing and derives the famous Black-Scholes formula. Other topics include Brownian motion, stochastic integral, and Ito formula. This course is taught in both English and Chinese.

The course studies the basic theory of stochastic processes and research methods through and economics and management perspective. Topics include financial engineering theory, conditional mathematical expectation, martingale, Poisson process, update process, Markov chain, Brownian motion, stochastic integral, and stochastic financial model.