Fudan University

This course consists of two parts: American politics and American diplomacy. 

American politics: America's political tradition, political system, electoral system, political parties, congress, president, and judiciary system, military system, interest groups and mass media and their roles are explained.

American diplomacy: the US diplomatic decision-making mechanism and tradition, before and during the Cold War.

This course will focus on the short detective fiction of Agatha Christie (1890-1976), the most successful twentieth-century author of detective novels. While Christie developed two well-known sleuths, Hercules Poirot and Miss Jane Marple, who featured in novels and whose cases have frequently been translated into the medium of film as well into more than 100 languages, this course will concentrate on the early short stories that were published in the 1920s and that predate the Miss Marple novels. Students will be introduced to the study of character and narrative, as well as the genre conventions of detective fiction, at the same time that they will be furnished with tools to understand the various techniques used in crime fiction. Particular attention will be devoted to reading Miss Marple as a moral standard against which aberrant behavior is tested by Christie. 

Labor economists study labor supply, labor demand, minimum wages, taxes and transfers, immigration, human capital, education production, inequality, discrimination, unions and strikes, and unemployment. We will focus on applying applied microeconomics theory to the empirical data analysis.

Through the course, students should accomplish the following learning objectives:

 (1) Understand the various sources of financing start-ups can get at different stages of development.
(2) Be able to interpret and analyze three financial statements of start-ups.
(3) Prepare financial plans using appropriate methods;
(4) Use various valuation methods to value assessment of start-ups;
(5) Able to write a business plan.
 

This course teaches students the fundamental principles and methods of modern macroeconomic theory, and to illustrate the usefulness of these principles and methods for studying economic problems in practice. The objective is to help the students develop their own ways of thinking about real life economic issues. For that, both economic intuitions and scientific treatments will be emphasized.

This course teaches Chinese myths and legends. Students will gain insight into the prototypes of myths of various ethnic groups, as well as the historicization and legendization of myths, and thus form an understanding of the national spirit of the Chinese nation.

The course will introduce you to concepts and techniques related to the design, planning, control, and improvement of supply chains and supply chain operations. More specifically, the course attempts to:

• Make you conversant in the language of supply chain management and expand your confidence in these areas.
• Allow you to see the role of supply chain management in the overall strategy and performance of the firm by providing a conceptual, strategic view of supply chain design and operations.
• Analyze the underlying issues and trade-offs between the sourcing of raw materials, manufacturing, storage, transportation of products, and the services required to fulfill customer expectations and the metrics of the firm.
• Provide you with quantitative and qualitative tools to identify, analyze, and manage supply chain operations and issues.

This course aims to explore the components of dissertations and academic papers in economics, guiding students in transitioning from coursework to independent paper writing. Through lectures and discussions, we will cover the basic requirements and examine specific examples of research papers to understand the general rules and best practices for writing. Active participation in on-site discussions is strongly encouraged. Students are encouraged to identify topics of interest and draft several chapters or paragraphs for their potential dissertations.

This course is for international students who already have a certain level of Chinese proficiency but whose grasp of grammar knowledge is relatively vague and confusing. It will systematically sort out the main grammatical key points and difficulties in Chinese, so that students can better master Chinese grammar and use Chinese more accurately; at the same time, it will also serve as a guide for future students. This is a professional courses to lay a certain theoretical foundation of grammar.

This course aims to guide students to understand the core concepts, principles, and technologies of artificial intelligence, experience the cutting-edge applications of artificial intelligence technology in various fields, and cultivate students' thinking and practice of artificial intelligence technology. Through course learning, students can initially grasp the basic knowledge, core technologies, and algorithms of artificial intelligence, understand the current development direction of artificial intelligence technology, and use AI tools and thinking to solve practical problems in their own fields.