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This is the introductory class for the principles of microeconomics. It serves as an introduction of economics to an audience that are not familiar with Calculus. (Those who have took Calculus should consider taking microeconomics instead.) One interesting feature of this class is there will be various classroom experiments throughout the semester, and students are expected to participate actively in them.

This is a course taught in English, and all assignments are in English. If you feel that you would be in a disadvantaged position, please take other principles classes instead.

The Goal of this class is to introduce how economists think (without the math required for microeconomics), and, help you think like an economist! Specifically, we will see how economists observe real world phenomenon, build simplified models of reality, derive theories to provide policy advice, and test implications with empirical or experimental data. College of Social Science Main Campus Joseph Tao-Yi Wang 250 Monday 5 Wednesday 5 Friday 3,4,5 ECON1004 4 Full Department of Economics,
Department of Economics,
Department of Accounting,
Department of Finance,
Department of International Business
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

This course is designed based on the teaching method of “authentic learning” to guide students to learn about the applications of statistics in marine chemistry. Basic statistics will be introduced with real-world marine chemical data sets. This course is complementary to the mandatory course “NTU Fundamentals of Oceanic Statistics” (基礎海洋統計) and to the Marine Chemistry Laboratory (海洋化學實習) for students in the chemical oceanography division.

A variety of data set from analytical methods including spectrophotometry, chromatography, mass spectrometry, chemiluminescent, fluorimeter, optical sensor and pH sensors, commonly used by chemical oceanographers. While the principles of analysis differs significantly among analytical methods, it is important that students be versatile in dealing with various data set. For example, spectrophotometry is a basic method for the analyses of marine micro nutrients, its sensitivity and stability can be directly estimated based on the extinction coefficient—the intensiveness of the color. The limit of detection is a fixed value. While other instruments such as a mass spectrometer, can be tuned in a various ways to provide a better sensitivities, different labs report different limits of detection. While the cost of an analysis using a spectrophotometer is only 1/1000 of the cost using a mass spectrometer, by using statistic tools and the combination of knowledge in analytical chemistry, students will learn to choose the most suitable method for their research.

The course will start by having students to look for problems in a reported data set. For example, a figure of data points without the report of error bars. Students will have to explore possible ways to estimate the errors. We will then discuss how to design experiments to measure the uncertainties. The course will then provide data from spectrophotometry, chromatography, mass spectrometry, chemiluminescent, fluorimeter, optical sensor and pH sensors, for students to report the data in a statistically acceptable way.

A variety of data set from analytical methods including spectrophotometry, chromatography, mass spectrometry, chemiluminescent, fluorimeter, optical sensor and pH sensors, commonly used by chemical oceanographers. While the principles of analysis differs significantly among analytical methods, it is important that students be versatile in dealing with various data set. For example, spectrophotometry is a basic method for the analyses of marine micro nutrients, its sensitivity and stability can be directly estimated based on the extinction coefficientthe intensiveness of the color. The limit of detection is a fixed value. WhWhile other instruments such as a mass spectrometer, can be tuned in a various ways to provide a better sensitivities, different labs report different limits of detection. While the cost of an analysis using a spectrophotometer is only 1/1000 of the cost using a mass spectrometer, by using statistic tools and the combination of knowledge in analytical chemistry, students will learn to choose the most suitable method for their research.

The course will start by having students to look for problems in a reported data set. For example, a figure of data points without the report of error bars. Students will have to explore possible ways to estimate the errors. We will then discuss how to design experiments to measure the uncertainties. The course will then provide data from spectrophotometry, chromatography, mass spectrometry, chemiluminescent, fluorimeter, optical sensor and pH sensors, for students to report the data in a statistically acceptable way.

(1) Students will know about basic statistics for chemical oceanographic data.

– Numbers of replicates

– Limit of detection

– Sensitivity

– Error analysis

– Outliers

– Significance tests

– Distribution patterns

– Principle component analysis

– Factor analysis

(2) Students will be able to identify problems in reported data set.

(3) Students will have the capability to use statistical tools to explore their research data.

College of Science Main Campus *Chinese may be used when no international students sign up for this course. Huei-Ting Lin 10 Friday 1,2 Ocean5106 2 Half Graduate Institute of Oceanography, Chemical Oceanography Division http://www.oc.ntu.edu.tw/?lang=en

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/

This class will discuss various special topics at the interface of chemistry and biology.

1. Nucleic acid structure and synthesis

2. DNA sequencing and mimetics

3. RNA: RNA interference

4. Ribozymes and aptamers

5. Carbohydrates: structure

6. Carbohydrates: biosynthesis and function

7. Carbohydrates: applications

8. Carbohydrates: chemical synthesis

9. Introduction to lipids and membranes

10. Lipid structure

11. Protein synthesis and folding

12. Protein degradation and quality control

13. Protein misfolding and neurodegeneration

14. Producing proteins and peptides

15. Chromatography and electrophoresis

16. Protein extraction, subcellular fractionation, centrifugation

17. Antibody technologies

18. Humanized antibody

19. Structural Biology

20. Labeling with fluorophores and biotin

21. Fluorescent proteins and FRET

22. Basics of Fluorescence Microscopy

23. Super-resolution Optical Microscopy

24. Bioorthogonal chemistry; Active site probe

25. Mass spec: instrumentation

26. Mass spec of proteins

27. Mass spec and protein quantification

28. Post-translational modifications

Understand the chemical principles behind the materials and methods commonly encountered in modern biology labs. Apply chemical thinking to solve biological problems. College of Science Main Campus *Majors-only (including minor and double major students).
*Restrict to graduate students. Hwan-Ching Tai 50 Monday 6,7 Thursday 6,7 Chem7037 4 Half Division of Chemical Biology http://www.ch.ntu.edu.tw/english/en_index.htm

Designed for doctoral and masters students, this seminar focuses on manuscript writing for an international journal. The seminar consists of three components. The goals of this seminar are for each student to (1) understand the process of putting together a manuscript for submission to an international journal and (2) write a draft of a manuscript or sections of a manuscript. College of Science Main Campus Kang-Tsung Chang 15 Thursday 2,3,4 Geog8020 3 Half Graduate Institute of Geography http://www.geog.ntu.edu.tw/index.php?lang=en

This is an introductory course intended for undergraduate and graduate students with knowledge of basic ecology. The focus will be on OCEANOGRAPHY, with investigation on interactive biological, chemical, and physical processes in the ocean. The purposes are to give an overview of biological ocean science (a wide rather than deep view) and to provide basic information and training for graduate research. The discussion will range from physical effects on the biology to biological effects on biogeochemical cycling; the spatial scale will range from individual organisms (e.g. viscosity and turbulences on plankton feeding and nutrient uptake) to ecosystem (e.g. remote sensing and circulation modeling); the organism will range from virus to whales. Students will gain knowledge of biological oceanography College of Science Main Campus Chih-Hao Hsieh 25 Tuesday 2,3,4 Ocean5051 3 Half Graduate Institute of Oceanography, Marine Biology & Fisheries Division,

Earth System Science,

Sustainable Development Resource,

Introductory Course of Marine Science
http://www.oc.ntu.edu.tw/?lang=en

This course examines the history, social significance, and musical style of jazz. It focuses particularly on two of the central periods in the development of jazz: the Swing era (ca. 1930-45), which saw the rise of the “big bands” and the emergence of jazz as a great national popular music of America; and the Bebop era (ca. 1945-60), during which jazz became self-consciously difficult in the manner of so-called art music. We will immerse ourselves in intensive description of the music in order to understand better the extraordinary fusion of spontaneous creativity and careful intellectual structuring that characterizes jazz. We will also give in-depth consideration to socio-cultural dimensions of the music such as racial identity, American identity, and the impact of economic and technological factors. – to gain an appreciation of the richness and variety of jazz through close study of a representative selection of pieces
– to think critically about basic aspects of musical creation and production such as composition, arrangement, improvisation, and the function(s) of notation
– to develop an awareness of the complex interrelationships between the arts and cultural/ideological attitudes concerning society, property, etc. V14 College of Liberal Arts Main Campus Ren-Yan Chen 50 Tuesday 7,8,9 Music3018 3 Half Graduate Institute of Musicology http://www.gim.ntu.edu.tw/default_eng.aspx

This course covers the principles and methods of equilibrium statistical mechanics for applications to chemical physics problems. The lectures will be divided into three parts: a short review of thermodynamics principles, the concepts of ensemble theory and the applications to gas, liquid, solution and solid systems. The final part will introduce the phase transition and the theory of Brownian motion.

Planned topics: laws of thermodynamics, thermal equilibrium and temperature, ensemble theory, entropy, non-interacting systems (gas and solid), chemical equilibrium, imperfect gases, classical liquids, ionic and non-ionic solutions, Ising models. Langevin equation and Brownian motion. This course aims to introduce basic concepts of equilibrium statistical mechanics for physical chemistry in the graduate level. College of Science Main Campus *Majors-only (including minor and double major students). Yuan-Chung Cheng 20 Tuesday 6,7,8 Chem7031 3 Half Division of Chemistry http://www.ch.ntu.edu.tw/english/en_index.htm

Sophocles Antigone is one of the most widely studied, taught, performed and adapted ancient Greek tragedy in the modern world. Unfortunately, most of the approaches have paid more attention to modern theoretical constructs of literature, rather than to the social context within which this play was originally produced. In this course we will try to recover the meaning of the play for its original audience. To do so we will examine fundamental issues of classical Athenian society (like the representation of Thebes as a negative model of Athens; funeral, religious and wedding rituals; and the political ideology of Athenian Democracy). In the final weeks of the course, equipped with an understanding of the original meaning of the play, we will examine some of the most influential interpretations of the play with a view to discover to what extent they illuminate its meaning and to what extent they distort it in an attempt to appropriate its prestige.

Syllabus

Week 1 Introduction: Antigone and Antigones, Context, Meaning and Literature

Week2 Anti-Athens: Thebes in Athenian Myth-making

Week3 Prologue (Antigone 1-99)

Week4 Women in Athens, Ismene and Antigone as types of Athenian Women

Week5 Chorus Entrance and First Episode (Antigone 100-331)

Week6 Funeral Rites, Women and Athenian State Interference

Week7 First Choral Song and Second Episode (Antigone 332-581)

Week8 Religion, Prophecy and Omens in Athenian Society

Week9 Second Choral Song and Third Episode (Antigone 582-780)

Week10 Citizen Duties in Athenian Democracy

Week11 Third Choral Song and Fourth Episode (Antigone 781-943)

Week12 Wedding Rites in Athens

Week13 Fourth Choral Song and Fifth Episode (Antigone 944-1114)

Week14Public Advice and Collective Decisions in Athenian Democracy

Week15Fifth Choral Song and Finale (Antigone 1115-1352)

Week16 Hegel, Dialectics and Antigone

Week17 Lacan, Psychoanalysis and Antigone

Week18 Feminist Criticism and Antigone

It is expected that the course will help students

build a methodology for understanding and interpreting other cultures;

enable them realize the importance of social context in literary criticism;

foster a critical attitude towards theories and interpretations. College of Liberal Arts Main Campus *Restrict to graduate students.
Vasileios Vagios 12 Thursday 2,3,4 FL7140 3 Half Graduate Institute of Foreign Languages and Literatures
http://www.forex.ntu.edu.tw/main.php?lang=en

This course is the fourth (in fact, the last) of the series of tutorial based courses on fundamental topics in the philosophy of language and logic. As I have remarked in the introduction to the series, I have chosen as the starting point the course ‘Theories of Reference’, and then two courses The Concept of Existence and Theories of Truth follow. I would then expect that the interested student may have already had a nodding acquaintance with the philosophical concepts of reference, truth, and existence, and related issues. In particular, the student should have some brief ideas about what a theory of reference/truth/existence is intended to do and may have some background knowledge of the main theses of and disputes between different philosophers/schools with regard to the philosophical issues related to these concepts. The main concern of this course is to pay further attention to the most fundamental issue: Granted that a sentence is true, what does the sentence mean when it is stated, or asserted? From a philosophical point of view, to answer a question of this kind, we need to have clear picture of what the concept of meaning is. It is the main burden of this course to give a brief introduction to a variety of conceptions of meaning and to various different approaches to a theory of meaning. College of Liberal Arts Shuiyuan Campus Chin Mu Yang 15 Thursday 7,8,9 Phl7711 3 Half Graduate Institute of Philosophy http://www.philo.ntu.edu.tw/en/ann/

In the course Elementary Logic, we have already studied that a deductive system in general consists of three main parts: (i) a suitable formalized language, (ii) an appropriate semantics for the given language, and (iii) a formal system of derivations. The formal language in use consists of two components (i) a class of primitive symbols, known as alphabet, and a finite set of formation rules which tells us how to construct the basic units of linguistic expressions in use, referred to as formulae/sentences (or well-formed formula, wff). The intended semantics for the given language will give interpretations for the expressions of the language so that the truth values of formulae/sentences can be evaluated. Accordingly, the notion of validity and the entailment relations can be defined. While the main concern of a formal system is to reduce reasoningor at least a sizeable part of mathematical reasoningto a finite number of rules of inference which should be in principle mechanical.

It is striking that formal logic has flourished since 1879, and by now a great number of important and significant results (in particular, those referred to as meta-theorems, such as the compactness theorem, the soundness theorem and the completeness theorem) have been discovered and proved. In the meantime, several different ways, or styles, of constructing a formal system for a certain subject matter have been proposed. That is to say, based on a given language and the same semantics, a variety of different formal systems can be constructed, each of which is equivalent to the others. and each one has its own advantages and disadvantages. One can find that, though a particular style of formal system may serve admirably for one of the uses which a logical system may be supposed to serve, none can be at all suitable for all of the uses to which logical systems have been put.

The primary concern of this course is firstly to study, in details, formal proofs of these meta-theorems; and secondly, to study the various types of th
The aim of this course is (i) to study, in details, formal proofs of the fundamental meta-theorems for propositional logic and predicate logic; and (ii) to study a variety of types of the formulation of logic systems. College of Liberal Arts Shuiyuan Campus Chin Mu Yang 15 Friday 7,8,9 Phl7714 3 Half Graduate Institute of Philosophy http://www.philo.ntu.edu.tw/en/ann/