This class is taught in English. The two semesters are independent and can be taken separately. The first semester deals with early economic history (pre-1900) and focuses primarily on Asia. During this semester we will deal with broad issues concerning how the human race came to dominate the planet using increasingly complex means of cooperation. The second semester covers the 20th-century. The focus will remain primarily on Asia. The second semester will have a more practical orientation. We will primarily discuss what has been causing modern economic growth. Given the broad subject matter, the course will only be able to offer a general overview of the periods and economic regions covered.

The course will meet three hours, one day a week. Generally, the first two hours will be lectures with question & answer periods. Then, the third hour will be devoted to group work. Students will generally be randomly assigned to small groups and required to read one English-language paper or book chapter to prepare for this work. By the end of the class, the group should e-mail me a two page paper. Grades will be based on group work (40%), a midterm quiz (15%) and a final exam (45%). There is no text, but you will be responsible for the weekly readings, lecture material and notes posted on line.

Learn a little about how the world grew more populous and prosperous, and how we investigate this growth. Also, learn to work in small groups with people from other countries. College of Social Science Main Campus Kelly Barton Olds 87 Monday 7,8,9 ECON3007 3 Half Department of Economics http://www.econ.ntu.edu.tw/db/new2011/index.asp?l=english

The goal of this course is to familiarize students with the basic concepts of microeconomics. The target of the course is students majoring in Economics. In the fall semester, our main focus will be theories on producers and consumers in competitive markets. The formal prerequisite is the Principle of Economics. Besides, knowledge of freshman calculus is highly recommended. Professor Elliot Fan will teach the second half of the course in the spring semester to cover topics of the non-competitive market and imperfect markets. College of Social Science Main Campus Patrick Dejarnette 95 Monday 6,7,8 ECON2001 3 Half Department of Economics http://www.econ.ntu.edu.tw/db/new2011/index.asp?l=english

This course is the first of a two-semester sequence in intermediate-level macroeconomics. This course is designed to introduce macroeconomic issues such as growth, inflation, unemployment, interest rates, exchange rates, and budget deficits. This course will provide a unified framework to address these issues and to study the impact of different macroeconomic policies on the aggregate behavior of individuals. The course will provide a unified framework to address macroeconomic issues such as economic growth and business cycles. We also study the impact of different policies, such as monetary and fiscal policies, on the aggregate behavior of individuals. College of Social Science Main Campus Byeonghwa Choi,Yi-Chan Tsai 83 Wednesday 6,7,8 ECON2003 3 Half Department of Economics http://www.econ.ntu.edu.tw/db/new2011/index.asp?l=english

Statistics and Econometrics I and II are designed for Econ major students to fulfill the departmental quantitative analysis requirements, and ECON 2014 Statistics and Econometrics I is the first half of this sequence.

In Statistics and Econometrics I, we will focus on basic probability theory and fundamentals of mathematical statistics, since probability and statistics are important tools to predict economic outcomes under uncertain environments. Some important topics covered in Statistics and Econometrics I are conditional probability, interval estimation, hypothesis testing, and introduction of linear regression. Its objective is to provide students with basic statistical tools and concepts that will help them estimate economic models and do subsequent inferences. College of Social Science Main Campus Sheng-Kai Chang 140 Tuesday 6,7,8 Wednesday 3,4 ECON2014 4 Full Department of Economics http://www.econ.ntu.edu.tw/db/new2011/index.asp?l=english

The subject of this course is to introduce East Asia as an integral whole and its development in various aspects at modern times. For the aforementioned purpose, this course is divided into three parts. The first part covers the region’s geography, ethnicity, and civilization to give students general picture of what East Asia is, has been, and should be. The second part discusses the region’s international relations, economic linkages, as well as political, social, and legal development. The third part proceeds in a round-table format, in which the students, on a group basis, debate on two themes, one being political reconciliation and identity construction, and the other the future direction of socio-economic development and civilization.

This course trains students to get acquainted with principle of political economy. Students are expected to develop knowledge about the history and development of political economy of East Asia with the aim to build up macro perspective on the future of the regions integration.

Course Schedule

Week 1 Introduction (Instructor: Prof.Chen-Dong Tso)

Week 2 Scope of East Asia (Instructor: Prof. Yu-Ting Lee)

John Fairbank et al., East Asia: Tradition & Transformation, Revised Edition (Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1989), Ch. 1

Week 3 East Asian Civilization (Instructor: Prof. Yu-Ting Lee): Confucianism, spread, and shock

Charles Holcombe, A History of East Asia: From the Origins of Civilization to the Twenty-First Century (New York : Cambridge University Press, 2011), Ch. 1 – 3

Week 4 Chinas and Japans response to the West(Instructor: Prof.Chen-Dong Tso)

M. C. Bergère, , J. K. Fairbank, , E. O. Reischauer, , & A. M. Craig, East Asia. The modern transformation, 1967, Ch. 3 & 5

Week 5 Sino-Japanese Rivalry: From 1st Sino-Japanese War to Pacific War (Instructor: Prof.Chen-Dong Tso)

M. C. Bergère, , J. K. Fairbank, , E. O. Reischauer, , & A. M. Craig, East Asia. The modern transformation, 1967, Ch. 7 – 8

Week 6 Sino-Japanese Rivalry: Battle over the Peripheral Areas (Instructor: Prof.Chen-Dong Tso)

M. C. Bergère, , J. K. Fairbank, , E. O. Reischauer, , & A. M. Craig, East Asia. The modern transformation, 1967, Ch. 9 – 10

Week 7 Economic Issues East Asia (Instructor: Prof. Kuo-Chun Yeh): Why Euro, Why Not Asian Monetary Union? Theory and Current Development of Asian Economic Integration

De Grauwe, P. (2016) Economics of Monetary Union, Oxford University Press.

Yeh, K.C. and C. Tso (2015) Policy configurations of PRC and East Asian emerging economies after the global financial crisis era: An analysis of tri-lemma indexes, China: An International Journal 13 (1), 139-154.

Week 8 Economic Issues in East Asia (Instructor: Prof. Kuo-Chun Yeh): the Economic Consequences of FTAs: The Case of South Korea and Its Implications to Taiwan

Yeh, K.C. (2016) South Koreas Trade and Industry Policies after the EU-Korea FTA, Bureau of Foreign Trade, mimeo.

Week 9 Mid-Term Report

Week 10 Social Issues in East Asia (Instructor: Prof. Pei-Chia Lan) : Migration in East Asia

Lan, Pei-Chia. 2016. Deferential Surrogates and Professional Others: Recruitment and Training of Migrant Care Workers in Taiwan and Japan. Positions: Asia Critique 24(1): 253-279.

Week 11 Social Issues in East Asia (Instructor: Prof. Ming-Sho Ho): Students Movement in Taiwan and Hong Kong

Ho, Ming-Sho. 2015. Occupy Congress in Taiwan: Political Opportunity, Threat, and the Sunflower Movement. Journal of East Asian Studies 15: 69-97.

Francis L. F., Lee. 2015. Social Movement as Civic Education: Communication Activities and Understanding of Civic Disobedience in the Umbrella Movement. Chinese Journal of Communication 8(4): 393-411.

Week 12 Legal Issues in East Asia (Instructor: Prof. Ying-Chieh Wu): Civil Code in Taiwan and China

Tsung-Fu Chen, Transplant of Civil Code in Japan, Taiwan, and China: With the Focus of Legal Evolution,�h National Taiwan University Law Review, Vol. 6, Iss 1, 2011, pp. 389 _ 432

Week 13 Legal Issues in East Asia (Instructor: Prof. Ying-Chieh Wu): Legal Systems of Japan and Korea Compared

Hiroshi Oda, Japanese Law, Oxford University Press, 2011

Korean Legislation Research Institute, Introduction To Korean Law, Springer Publishing, 2013

Week 14 American Hegemony in East Asia (Instructor: Prof.Chen-Dong Tso)

Warren Cohen, The Asian American Century, Cambridge: Harvard University, 2002, Ch. 1

Week 15 Asia�fs Americanization and America�fs Asianization (Instructor: Prof.Chen-Dong Tso)

Warren Cohen, The Asian American Century, Cambridge: Harvard University, 2002, Ch. 2 – 3

Week 16 Group Report I

Week 17 Group Report II

Week 18 Final Examination

College of Social Science Main Campus *Restrict to 2nd-year and above.
*Required course of Program for East Asian Studies.
Chen Dang Tso 30 Wednesday 6,7 COSS1001 2 Half College of Social Sciences, Program for East Asian Studies http://www.coss.ntu.edu.tw/

English Oral Training I (1) aims to develop studentss’ speaking accuracy and fluency on a range of discussion topics/ issues. Students will learn to be effective leaders and participants through various speaking activities. Specifically, students will engage in forms of communicative activities, such as interviews, games, Q & A session, presentation, and role-play. By the end of the course, students will be able to (1) employ effective discussion principles in a given setting; (2) develop practical discussion strategies on a certain topic; (3) lead and participate in classroom discussions; (4) give and discuss their opinions, and (5) express themselves confidently in their academic/professional communities.

College of Liberal Arts Main Campus *Majors-only (including minor and double major students). Chi-Chih Tseng,Mou-Lan Wong,Davies Witton,Ruey-Szu Wang 20 Monday 6,7 Thursday 6 FL1021 2 Full Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures http://www.forex.ntu.edu.tw/main.php?lang=en

This course is designed to offer an environment favorable for developing studentss’ communicative competence in the target language, viz., English. Towards this end, it provides various communicative activities in which students would need to speak strategically to achieve different purposes in realistic situations; additionally, it offers optimal opportunities for students to plan and deliver individual presentations as well as to organize and participate in formal debates. Three objectives are established for this yearlong course. Upon completion, students can expect to have developed the skills necessary:

(1) to interact with ease with interlocutors, listeners, and audiences, change elements of their presentation (such as the level of formality or abstraction) if those elements seem to be pitched wrongly, and deal with questions and other forms of feedback from their listeners,

(2) to give accounts of complex issues of current societal and academic importance, and

(3) to verbalize well-informed opinions on such issues, sustained by arguments and evidence that are the results of thoughtful engagement and relevant research.

College of Liberal Arts Main Campus *Prerequisite: English Oral Training (Ⅰ)(2)
*Majors-only (including minor and double major students). Heng-Tsung Danny Huang,Judy Wai-Kei Kwong,Chi-Chih Tseng,Davies Witton,Chi-Chih Tseng,Ann-Marie Hadzima,Heng-Tsung Danny Huang,Shao-Ting Alan Hung 18 Tuesday 6,7 FL2011 2 Full Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures http://www.forex.ntu.edu.tw/main.php?lang=en

This Business English course gives students an insight of the business world by exposing them to knowledge of the English language skills necessary to succeed. With English being the language of international communication, students will be trained to communicate in English, both written and oral, effectively to be globally competitive. In order for students to benefit from this course, they should have at least an intermediate level of English in listening, speaking, reading, and writing. Materials are carefully designed to present English language usage in a variety of contexts, including conducting meetings, negotiations, presentations, and work abroad. Practicing simulated business situations through role-play and discussions, students will gain a comprehensive business vocabulary by interacting with their co-workers, bosses, clients, or other business acquaintances. Business knowledge is not explicitly taught but is introduced along the way allowing students to learn by doing.

This course does not provide business education but aims to share tacit knowledge that allows students to develop their English skills for use in a business context. In other words, this course introduces business etiquette that helps students to survive well and ultimately succeed in the real working world regardless of their current major and intended future career.

In addition, students will be learning written and spoken business idioms through peer teaching. The purpose of this kind of activity is to allow students to realize for themselves that they do not only learn from authority figures. In todays flat world, knowledge can be gained through peers or even subordinates.

Much class time will be devoted to student-led activities allowing students to speak up in a controlled, business-like yet relaxed atmosphere. Materials will first be introduced for the general context before being framed for business situations. In and outside of class, students will have the opportunity to work individually; they will also work in groups to develop the concept of teamwork and justify the significance of team spirit to boosting productivity. College of Liberal Arts Main Campus Judy Wai-Kei Kwong 16 Tuesday 5,6 FL3030 2 Half Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures http://www.forex.ntu.edu.tw/main.php?lang=en

Bertand Russell (1872-1970) was one of the most influential philosophers of the 20th century and an excellent writer. He wrote on philosophy of mathematics as well as on political and social issues. His book The Problems of Philosophy is a short and introductory book to problems of philosophy of knowledge, mainly from British empiricist points of view. It appeared in 1912 and became a bestseller. It is still in print today. On about 160 pages, Russell discusses the nature of appearance and reality, matter, idealism, induction, a priori knowledge, universals, intuition, truth and falsehood, opinion, and the limits and value of philosophy in general. As the book consists of 15 short chapters of about ten pages each, we will more or less follow this division, covering about ten pages per week. This course does not only provide a chance to learn something in philosophy but also to learn and enjoy good English. Bertrand Russell was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1950. The course objective is to learn how to read a classical philosophical text in English, how to summarize the main points, and how to discuss them in writing and in speech. College of Liberal Arts Shuiyuan Campus Christian Helmut Wenzel 40 Monday 3,4,5 Phl2059 3 Half Department of Philosophy http://www.philo.ntu.edu.tw/en/ann/

To discuss matters related to equine reproduction, not available in the regular courses offered by the Graduate Program in Animal Reproduction, with the participation of professors, researchers and professionals from other national and international institutions. To address current and relevant subjects in the field of equine reproduction, offering student the opportunity to engage in discussions and establish collaborations with professors, researchers and invited professionals. School of Veterinary Medicine and Animal Science (FMVZ) São Paulo main campus Program content addresses the field of equine reproduction, including reproductive physiology, management, pathology, biotechnology and obstetrics. This will more precisely defined by the visitor professor, researcher and professional expertise. Claudia Barbosa Fernandes 25 VRA5752 1 Participation concepts. http://ccint.fmvz.usp.br/index.php/en/

Riemannian Geometry is a basic course for any graduate student in Mathematics who wants to study Geometry, Topology or Dynamic Systems, and is also a relevant course for students of Analysis and Applied Mathematics. Provide to the student the basic tools and some fundamental results of Riemannian Geometry. Institute of Mathematical and Computer Sciences (ICMC) São Carlos campus Program: Riemannian metrics; Connections; Completeness; Curvature; Isometric immersions; Variational calculus; Applications. Detailed program: (1) Riemannian metrics; Examples of Riemannian manifolds: the Euclidean space R^n, the sphere S^n, the real hyperbolic space H^n, product of Riemannian manifolds, conformal metrics, Riemannian coverings, flat tori, the Klein bottle, Riemannian submersions, the Hopf fibration and the complex projective space, quotient manifolds, Lie groups. (2) Connections; Parallel transport along a curve; Geodesics; Isometries and Killings vector fields; Induced connections. (3) Completeness; The Hopf-Rinow theorem; Cut locus, Examples. (4) The Riemann-Christoffel curvature tensor; The Ricci tensor and scalar curvature; Covariant derivative of tensors; Examples. (5) Isometric immersions; The second fundamental form; The fundamental equations. (6) Variational calculus; The energy functional; Jacobi vector fields; Conjugate points; Examples. (7) Space forms; The Synge theorem; The Bonnet-Myers theorem; Nonpositively curved manifolds. Fernando Manfio, Irene Ignazia Onnis 35 SMA5947 8 Two written tests. http://conteudo.icmc.usp.br/Portal/conteudo/1079/538/foreign-scholars