Fudan University

This course is designed for senior international students majoring in Chinese language (for foreign learners) with a focus on language and culture. It aims to help students understand the main characteristics of the Chinese language by comparing the similarities and differences in expression methods and syntactic structures between English and Chinese. Additionally, through practical translation exercises from English to Chinese, the course seeks to reinforce and deepen students' understanding of Chinese and enhance their ability to express themselves more accurately in Chinese. The ultimate goal is to increase students' interest in English-Chinese translation and cultivate their basic translation skills.

The course "AI Marketing" aims to cultivate students' practical business skills by combining cutting-edge marketing theories with the latest industry practices through AI technology. 

This course examines the evolution of Chinese ancient architecture, including the main characteristics of ancient architecture in different historical times. It focuses on the official style buildings in the Song and Yuan dynasties and the Ming and Qing dynasties. 

This course focuses on data analysis and guides students to learn a series of data analysis methods. It covers the use of different data analysis tools for data analysis. It covers data acquisition, data cleaning, data selection, data manipulation, data calculation, data grouping and time series, etc. Based on the theoretical understanding, students will learn to use Excel and Python programming language to process data. 

This course examines basic algorithms and models of artificial intelligence. Starting from the basic concepts of artificial intelligence, it systematically introduces various learning tasks to help students understand and master mainstream AI models and algorithm tools, gradually establish artificial intelligence thinking patterns, and improve their ability to analyze and solve practical problems.

This course illuminates the role of dynamics in climate change and variability through presenting some major climate phenomena in the climate system. These phenomena include monsoons, the El Niño-Southern Oscillation, the Madden-Julian Oscillation, the Pacific Decadal Oscillation, thermohaline circulation, and global warming.

This course aims to equip students with an understanding of the methodology of the philosophy of science, encouraging them to strike a reflective balance between the theoretical perspectives of the philosophy of mind and the empirical evidence of cognitive science. By engaging with original texts in both philosophy and cognitive science, students will enhance their ability to articulate and defend their views clearly while developing strong, disciplined philosophical writing skills.

This seminar course explores the impacts of globalization, with a focus on China. The course will include in-class readings, discussions, and mini-projects. We will together read through the recent economics literature on a set of topics related to the open-up of China in the mid-19th century, impacts of free trade agreements, imports and exports, foreign investment, migration, human capital accumulation, income inequality, etc. 

Through the teaching of this course, students are introduced to the basic ideas and methods of object-oriented programming. Through learning and combining computer practice, students can understand the general methods of computer problem solving, master interface production, program writing and debugging, and enable students to have the ability to write simple application programs. This will lay a solid foundation for further self-study of other programming languages and improve programming skills in the future, while also improving students' logical thinking ability and meticulous thinking ability.

The basic contents include: VB development environment and basic programming steps, basic controls and language basics, basic control structures, arrays, procedures, commonly used controls, menus, multiple forms and files, etc.