Fudan University

This course offers a broad introduction to international law and provides a foundation for more specialized course of international law.

This course will cover topics including the key sources, actors and institutions of international law; the application of international law by domestic courts; adjudication by international judicial bodies; extraterritorial application of domestic law; and specific issue areas such as international crimes, international trade, the law of the sea, and the use of force.

This course introduces various aspects of English used in American and British newspapers and magazines. Topics include general features, headlines, idioms, loanwords, polysemy, bias in reporting, cultural factors, advertising, and editorial.

The History of the Chinese Language is a theoretical course focusing on the regular pattern of Chinese language development and changes, requiring certain basic knowledge of ancient Chinese language and modern Chinese language. The purpose of this course is to enable students to learn the basic features of Chinese language pronunciation, vocabulary and grammar in different historical periods, to understand the development and changes of Chinese language in different historical era, to explore the characteristics and causes of these developments, and to reveal the internal laws of Chinese language development.

This course covers research design and ethnographic fieldwork in anthropology. It integrates an understanding of Chinese and North American social and cultural systems through written exercises and ethnographic practices. It places students’ fieldwork experiences within a framework of the Chinese and North American contexts to provide students with conceptual and methodological tools for approaching their field placements.

This course introduces collective action, the main analytical perspectives in analyzing collective actions, the origins and dynamics of collective action and their respective impacts. The course is divided into three parts: major analytical perspectives; the origins and dynamics of collective action; and their respective consequences in politics. 

This course examines the origin and development of political philosophy, from Western to Marxist political philosophy. It covers the concepts of freedom, democracy, equality, justice, etc. as discussed in Western political philosophy. The course includes a critical study of classic Western political philosophy works, and a deep understanding of Marxist political philosophy methodology and modern society. The course is divided into four parts (classical, modern, Marxism, and contemporary frontier), mainly involving the following thinkers: Plato, Aristotle; Hobbes, Machiavelli, Rousseau; Locke, Mill, Smith; Luther, Calvin, Weber; Descartes, Kant; Fichte, Hegel; Marx; Althusser, Negri, Harvey, Wood, Habermas, Rawls, etc.

The course introduces the various forms of communication, including interpersonal communication, organizational communication, mass communication, new media communication, cross-cultural communication, and public communication. It also discusses the relationship between communication and culture, communication and society, communication and politics, and communication and the economy.

This course provides a study of the text and context of Zi Zhi Tong Jian, and covers the historical background of the era and the corresponding ideas and culture of Zi Zhi Tong Jian. The course also provides a more comprehensive and in-depth understanding of the author's ideas. This course combines thought analysis with historical interpretation to analyze and guide the reading of Zi Zhi Tong Jian. It is intended to use the "Zi Zhi Tong Jian" as an entry point to interpret relevant literature so as to trace the changes of ideas and culture concepts during the Tang and Song Dynasties.