The interdisciplinary neuroscience lecture course is designed to provide graduate students with an opportunity to broaden their visions by learning the lectures from the World’s top scholars whose works contribute to the emerging field from the life sciences, physical sciences, and applied sciences and to promote their knowledge in multidisciplinary science fields.

Requirement:

1.TIGP-Interdisciplinary Neuroscience Lecture (1 credit per semester; students must complete a total of 2 credits within the first year)

2.Graduate students in the TIGP-INS program have to select at least 8 lectures (per semester) provided by Academia Sinica or NYMU/NCKU/NTU (various Institutes or Departments).

To broaden their visions by learning the lectures from the World’s top scholars whose works contribute to the emerging field from the life sciences, physical sciences, and applied sciences

To promote students’ knowledge in multidisciplinary science fields. College of Life Science Chen Tung Yen 10 TIPGIN8004 1 Half Taiwan International Graduate Program In Interdisciplinary Neuroscience http://ecology.lifescience.ntu.edu.tw/english/index.htm

Daunting and versatile techniques have been developed and employed in neuroscience researches to explore how nerve systems work and, in some cases, get pathogenesis. The prerequisite of working on neuroscience researches then is to understand how these methodologies work.

This lecture introduces the concept, theory and applications of current neuroscience techniques- ranging from basic to advanced- used to address questions covering genes, molecules, cellular pathology, brain function and animal behaviors.
To understand the concept, theory of current neuroscience techniques.

Be able to design experiment using these techniques to address questions covering genes, molecules, cellular pathology, brain function and animal behaviors.

College of Life Science Yun-Ru Chen 20 TIPGIN8005 2 Half Geno and System Biology Degree Program, Taiwan International Graduate Program in Interdisciplinary Neuroscience http://ecology.lifescience.ntu.edu.tw/english/index.htm

The summer training camp is an intensive collaborative lab course held once every year. This year this course will take in about 22 students, mostly incoming graduate students from participating PIs lab, but also highly motivated undergraduates. The course will run from August 5th to Aug 29th, 5 days a week, and >8 hr a day. Final presentation will be held on September 4. By the end of the course, the students not only will know their fellow students very well, they will also lean some of the current neurobiology techniques. In the first week, basic neuroscience techniques, such as perfusion, gross anatomy of the brain, stereotaxic surgery techniques, frozen section, Nissl stain, immunohistochemistry of the brain sections, neuronal culture, and behavior methods will be taught. After this preparatory week, the following weeks will be divided into rotations, in 3-day blocks. There will be 4 rotations. In each station, one or two PI will be in charge. In these stations, there will be labs for calcium and voltage imaging of the culture cell, cellular electrophysiology, field potential recording in the brain slice, extracellular multiple single unit, EMG and EEG recording in free moving rats, and functional brain imaging with animal PET and MRI. Hand-on experiments will be emphasized throughout. The summer training camp is an intensive collaborative lab course held once every year. By the end of the course, the students will know the available neurobiology techniques by heart. College of Life Science Chen Tung Yen 15 LS7025 3 Half Institute of Lifescience, Program of Neurobiology and Cognitive Science http://www.lis.ntu.edu.tw/en

This is an English course designed for docotor students of the Institue of Environmental Health and the Institute of Occupational Medicine and Industrial Hygiene.Students are expected to be familiar with research methodology, data analysis, data interpretation, and the development trends in the field of environmental health, occupational mediicne, and industrial hygiene. Students are required to make presentations to and communicate with people in the audiences. Presentations should be prepared on the basis of their own researches and literature reviews. To train students to be familiar with the research methodology, data analysis, data interpretation, and development trend in the field of environmental health, occupational Medicine, and industrial hygiene. College of Public Health Downtown Campus – College of Public Health Tsun-Jen Cheng 15 Thursday ,6,7 OMIH8030 1 Half Graduate Institute of Occupational Mediene http://omih.ntu.edu.tw/?locale=en

This is an English course designed for docotor students of the Institue of Environmental Health and the Institute of Occupational Medicine and Industrial Hygiene.Students are expected to be familiar with research methodology, data analysis, data interpretation, and the development trends in the field of environmental health, occupational mediicne, and industrial hygiene. Students are required to make presentations to and communicate with people in the audiences. Presentations should be prepared on the basis of their own researches and literature reviews. To train students to be familiar with the research methodology, data analysis, data interpretation, and development trend in the field of environmental health, occupational Medicine, and industrial hygiene. College of Public Health Downtown Campus – College of Public Health Chih-Chieh Chen 25 Thursday ,6,7 OMIH8031 1 Half Graduate Institute of Occupational Mediene http://omih.ntu.edu.tw/?locale=en

This course provides an introduction to health policies and management. The primary objective of the course is to provide students with the tools and historical context to critically assess a wide variety of policies—past, current, and future. This course is designed for students to understand health care system, health insurance, health policy making and health care organizations management in global view and focus on Taiwan for example. This course includes three parts: The first part is “principles of health policy and evaluation”, which gives an introduction of the concepts and principles of health policy and evaluation. The second part is “health care system and health insurance”, which introduces infrastructure of health care system and its operations. Health insurance and related topics will be covered here. The third part is “health care organization management”, which gives an introduction on management theories and issues in hospitals and long-term care facilities. The readings draw on public health and health services research, economics, medical sociology and public health law:

1. To understand the main components and issues in health care systems

2. To discuss the policy process for improving the health status of populations.

3. To understand principles of management, program planning, development, budgeting, and evaluation in organizational initiatives.

4. To understand the role that insurance plays in the health care delivery system

College of Public Health Downtown Campus – College of Public Health Kuo-Piao Chung 12 Wednesday 2,3,4 HPM8014 3 Half Institute of Health Policy and Management http://ntuhpm.ntu.edu.tw/?locale=en

Modeling the bioenvironmental system is designed for students with an interest in systems and the bio-environment. It introduces the use of system dynamics models to understand and manage bioenvironmental systems. This course offers students with an overview of dynamic systems modeling including introductions on systems terminology, the uses of systems models, modeling constructs, positive and negative feedback, and sensitivity analysis. Then, this course provides applications that illustrate the use of dynamic models for exploring a variety of bioenvironmental problems. However, the course is an indispensable guide for students interested in state-of-the-art system dynamics modeling, its background and its application. The related software will be introduced in this course. Additional exercises and assignments help students to critically assess the potential of these instruments. This course is an indispensable guide for students interested in state-of-the-art system dynamics modeling, its background and its application. Additional exercises and assignments help students to critically assess the potential of these instruments. College of Bio-Resources & Agriculture Main Campus Yu-Pin Lin 30 Wednesday 6,7,8 BSE5130 3 Half Department of Bioenvironmental Systems Engineering,
Graduate Institute of Bioenviromental Systems Engineering http://www.bse.ntu.edu.tw/english/super_pages.php?ID=english

Therefore, this course will start with the introduction of the concept of rehabilitative ecology and cooperate with a comprehensive discussion on the ecological theories at different levels from community, ethnic group, ecosystem and topographical ecology, and their applicability in practicing ecological remediation. This course will take a series of lectures to explore examples of countries in the world to help students understand the practice of ecological restoration from the planning design, implementation and management stages to identify the threats and limitations and to understand the success or failure of the rehabilitation s reason. At the end of this course students should be able to:

Understand the science of restoration ecology and the practical skills of ecological restoration;

Develop ability to integrate ecological theories and information across levels of ecological organization and across tmeporal and spatial scales when planning and implementing ecological restoration as well as managing and analyzing restored systems;

Convince other people that ecological restoration is a worthwhile activity and that it is essential tool for mitigating human-induced threats to ecosystems and achieving sustainable environments.

College of Bio-Resources & Agriculture Main Campus Rita S. W. Yam 15 Monday 7,8,9 BSE5140 3 Half Department of Bioenvironmental Systems Engineering,
Graduate Institute of Bioenviromental Systems Engineering,
Ecological Engineering
http://www.bse.ntu.edu.tw/english/super_pages.php?ID=english

This course is aim to present the principles of mineral nutrition in the light of current advances. This course will inform you in two parts: nutritional physiology and soil-plant relationships. In Part I, more emphasis have been placed on root-shoot interactions, stress physiology, water relations, and functions of micronutrients. In view of the worldwide increasing interest in plant-soil interactions, Part II has been considerably altered and extended, particularly on the effects of external and internal factors on root growth. An understanding of the mineral nutrition of plants is of fundamental importance in agriculture. The overall aim of the course is to equip students with a solid foundation in new approaches that integrate crop physiology, molecular biology, and mineral uptake/transport and to answer biological questions in the uptake, distribution, and utilization of mineral nutrition in plants. College of Bio-Resources & Agriculture Main Campus *Restrict to 3rd-year and above. Chwan-Yang Hong 100 Monday X,A,B Tuesday X,A,B Wednesday X,A,B Thursday X,A,B Friday X,A,B AC5084 1 Half Graduate Institute of Agricultural Chemistry http://www.ac.ntu.edu.tw/?locale=en

1. INTRODUCTION

1. Introduction

2. Some Informal Definitions

3. Overview of Methods

4. Outline of Chapters

5. What is Your Economics Background?

The purpose of this course is to introduce four major methods and their applications in the measurement of efficiency and productivity growth. The four major methods are: least-squares econometric production models, index numbers, data envelopment analysis (DEA), and stochastic frontiers analysis. The basic concepts, characteristics and limitations of each methodology will be elaborated. Numeric exercises and case studies will be provided.

Specifically, major items includes:

1) Basic concepts of production theory and their applications.

2) Production function, cost function, profit function and duality.

3) Empirical applications of Production function, cost function, profit function.

4) Introduction and applications of index numbers and total factor productivity

5) Introduction and applications of Data Envelopment Analysis

6) Introduction and applications of Stochastic Frontier Analysis

7) Introduction and applications of GAMS、SHAZAM、SAS and related softwares in the measurement of efficiency and productivity growth

College of Bio-Resources & Agriculture Main Campus *Restrict to international students. Shih Hsun Hsu 20 Wednesday 7,8,9 AGEC7072 3 Half Graduate Institute of Agricultural Economics http://www.agec.ntu.edu.tw/main.php?lang=en&Trad2Simp=n

The forest covers Taiwan from the coast to the top of mountains of nearly 4,000 m elevations. The environment influencing the floristic composition is highly heterogeneous, and at the same time, two floristic kingdoms are coexisting on this island. These and other factors result in a high diversity of forest communities in Taiwan, which we are going to observe and interpret.
This course will be composed of theoretical lectures and field excursions. In the lectures, instructors will introduce important factors influencing the distribution and floristic differentiation of forest in Taiwan and the other regions. There will be three field excursions; instructors would guide the first two, and students the third as a part of practice and the final exam. In the first two excursions, instructors will help students to explore the forest diversity and its relevant environmental factors. Students will lead the third trip and prepare it in advance. It’s necessary for students to read relevant literature about the region, and if possible even visit the region before the excursion. Students, in turn, will take independent leads, to give them an opportunity to show what they know in general about forest ecology and specifically about the vegetation in a particular region, and how able they are to explain this knowledge to the others. The goal of this course is to train the student as professional English-speaking guides for introducing the forest of Taiwan. Students will learn how to discover the diversity of forest in Taiwan, observe the characters of different forest vegetation types and their distribution, and practice how to explain the observed pattern to the public. College of Bio-Resources & Agriculture Main Campus *There will be several excursions during the semester. Casualty insurance is strictly required for each trip. Students themselves should pay all personal expenses including personal equipment, traffic, food, accommodation and insurance. Ching-Feng Li 20 Thursday 6,7,8 Forest5051 3 Half School of Forestry and Resource Conservation,
Program in Taiwan Studies http://www.fo.ntu.edu.tw/main.php?lang=en&Trad2Simp=n

This course is consist of three sections. First section provides basic information on meteorology such as temperature, humidity, radiations on earth surface. Second section shows theoretical background of water and CO2 exchange processes between atmosphere and forests. Third section shows field measurement techniques for the water and CO2 exchange processes. Finally, the impacts of the water and CO2 exchange processes on climate system and water resources are also examined. This course aim to develop basic ability to conduct a research for forest meteorology, hydrology and ecology through the course, and also to motivate to understand environmental issues such as human induced land-use changes and climate change based on biophysical background. College of Bio-Resources & Agriculture Main Campus Tomonori Kume 20 Monday 1,2,3,4,5 Forest3017 3 Half School of Forestry and Resource Conservation http://www.fo.ntu.edu.tw/main.php?lang=en&Trad2Simp=n