Since the emergence of the feminist movement in Taiwan by the 1970s, Taiwanese society has seen more than a few women’s issues proposed and discussed in an increasingly broad and extensive manner. Reflecting the changes in socio-politics and cultural conditions, the general perspectives in which the same issue is discussed also changes. In this course we explore Taiwanese women’s conditions of the twentieth century, with an emphasis on the more modern period, that is, the mid-to-late twentieth century. With a brief introduction of what Taiwanese women’s traditions may involve and how Taiwanese women modernize, we explore how the feminist movements unfolded, how they reflect or change Taiwanese women’s social status, the rise of women’s studies and/or feminist scholarship, sexual violence, sex work, and lesbian issues. We also reflect on issues of migration and global human flow, and discuss how the introduction of immigrant spouses as well as migrant workers may compel us to rethink women’s issues in contemporary Taiwan. This is an all-English course of the general education level, in which we engage social studies on women’s issues in Taiwan. On such premises, this course is meant to channel through various topics regarding women in Taiwan with a critical approach; this course is also meant to introduce those topics intellectually to international students who may have arrived in Taiwan, with limited information of the social history and general conditions of Taiwanese women. This course is aimed to help students establish an understanding of fundamental and crucial social issues regarding Taiwanese women within one semester. Through the lecture and film appreciation, this course is meant to inspire the students to apply the knowledge outside of the classroom, to pay more attention to everyday life, and to find more relevance as well as connection in daily experiences. College of Management Main Campus This course expects the student to read the required references on weekly basis. Each week before class, the student needs to prepare with assigned readings for in-class discussions. After class, the student may explore personal thinking practices, further readings, and/or multimedia appreciation. Reading materials may be used as a subject of observations and reflections for the final paper. Kuo Jen-Feng 65 Thursday 3,4 LibEdu1078 (H01E07800) 2 http://cge.ntu.edu.tw/?lang=en

Integrating the 1. communication & negotiation 2. change management 3. personality management 4. emotion management 5. conflict resolution through the classroom 1. lecturing 2. class participation 3. group discussion 4. presentation 5. reports to adjust & rectify the mindset and thinking paradigm to enhance the communicative ability. Learning & practicing to be an independent and in-depth thinking, objective, empathetic, comprehensive, effective communicator College of Management Main Campus Reading, group discussion& negotiation(3 times), presentation(2 times), writing reports( 4 reports wih 500-1000 words each) Shen-Kuo,Hsu 25 Tuesday 2,3,4 LibEdu1081 (H01E08100) 3 http://cge.ntu.edu.tw/?lang=en

Course Description Insects made their first debut on earth 480 million years ago, and have been long interacted with humans. This course will give a general introduction, and clarify common misunderstandings of these six-legged creatures. Field trips to NTU campus, the NTU Insectarium, and Fuyang Ecological Park will be arranged for students to observe insects commonly found in open environments, and learn how to recognize them using field guide/naked eyes. Topics include but are not limited to insect diversity, ecology and behavior will be introduced. Course Objectives The aims of this course are helping you to appreciate the diversity and value of insects and gain practical information on insects of relevance to your daily life. You will be asked to shoot insects with your camera/cellphone during field trips or at your leisure. Using these photo collections, you should come up with a field trip report to introduce the insect diversity in Taipei city. Participation in classroom, and discussion is strongly encouraged. Students will sometimes be asked to work together in groups. Through these activities, you would expect to 1) identify common insects that occurred in Taipei, 2) understand their biology and unique adaptation, and 3) recognize physical features of insects that help them live in different environments. College of Management Main Campus Students are strongly encouraged to carefully reviewing the syllabus and locating the current readings and topics in relation to the course as a whole. Know why you are discussing this particular topic at this juncture in the course. Put down whatever you have found during the filed trips or personal visits to points of interest. Collecting photos, recording time, locations, and surrounding conditions after each trip to make your report. Summarize the final result as your term paper. Shun-Chern Tsaur 20 Friday 6,7,8 LibEdu1067 (H01E06700) 3 http://cge.ntu.edu.tw/?lang=en

The movies have long exploited biology as a source of bankable plot material. This trend has been even more intensified recently as biological discoveries and biotechnology advanced. Filmmakers capitalize recent discoveries to produce movies with science-based plots to an increasingly aware public. In view of their mass appeal, such movies play a significant role in society as disseminators of scientific facts and misinformation. They thus serve as a useful starting point for exploring various aspects of the relationship between science and the public perception of science. This course is designed for students to learn about how science is done through group discussions on various biological topics drawn from movies. Students will additionally explore public misconceptions and naiveté about science that are perpetuated by movies, as well as the extent to which such movies borrow from, or in some cases, even predict scientific fact. This course requires weekly screenings of a feature-length movie at NTU multimedia center prior the one-hour lecture in the classroom. Films and topics are organized around biological themes: Discussion of films that feature different biological transformations will focus on distinguishing between science fiction and science fact, understanding the uses of the underlying principles in scientific research, and exploring real world analogies to such fictional concepts as fly-human chimeras and reconstructed dinosaurs. The primary goal of this course is to build a coherent foundation of knowledge in biology through film appreciation. The basic concepts discussed include the scientific methods by which we come to know things in a scientific way. They help you to know and appreciate the precision and complexity of living processes. Upon completing this course, students should be able to develop critical thinking and evaluation skills. College of Management Main Campus Attendance is expected. If you find that you must miss class, do file the leave of absence on Ceiba. You are allowed one free absence in this course. After that, each unauthorized absence will result in a reduction of your final grade by one grade; this policy is cumulative. Homework will be assigned bi-weekly. All writing will account for your total grade. The assignment you turn in should be neat, and legible. Make sure to show sufficient work for each time. Insufficient work or wrong format may result in reduction of credit or zero score. Shun-Chern Tsaur 20 Monday 3,4 LibEdu1069 (H01E06900) 2 http://cge.ntu.edu.tw/?lang=en

The existence of many species depends on the survival of others. Humans are no exception. In the past 14,000 years, many organisms have left indelible marks and exercised on human history. The roles that individual species play in providing food, unique medical compounds, air, and water purification are critical to our health and survival. This course will provide sufficient background of 12 selected organisms and discuss their impacts on our daily life and culture. Field trips to Taipei Zoo and/or Botanical Garden will also be arranged. The goal of this lecture is to introduce you the origin of each organism and its impact on human history. Some of the organisms were domesticated by our ancestors, and thus improving the quality of our life. The aim of this course is to allow students to appreciate the importance of all organisms on earth and to learn how organisms have evolved. College of Management Main Campus Attendance is required. If you find that you must miss class, do file the leave of absence on Ceiba. You are allowed one free absence in this course. Homework will be assigned after each lecture. You will be asked to turn in a one-page feedback to show what you have learned. It is due before the next lecture. The assignment you turn in should be neat, and legible. Make sure to show sufficient work for each time. Each students will be asked to pick one organism of interest, and do a 5-min briefing as the final report which takes up 30% whereas the written essay after each lecture will be worth for 70% of your total grade. Absolutely no late work will be accepted regardless of the reason.. Shun-Chern Tsaur 20 Friday 3,4 LibEdu1070 (H01E07000) 2 http://cge.ntu.edu.tw/?lang=en

In this course we look closely at several Taiwanese films over the past two decades, and through them we intend to understand what prominent phenomena and changes have been taking place in Taiwan’s social culture. As some of the films speak to the current socio-political conditions on this island, some reflect an emerging cultural trend, while others indicate social problems and propose what we can do in response. In any case, those films present themselves as various attempts to make conversations with Taiwanese society and Taiwanese people, and in this course we “read” those films as we also consider and discuss crucial social issues in Taiwan. Through this course we expect to understand the social development vis-a-vis cinema in Taiwan. We look closely at the emergence of Taiwan New Cinema in the 1980s as well as the socio-political and -cultural contexts in which it emerged. This course moves on to discuss various subject matters and social trends in Taiwan from the 1990s on; we also look at the films produced in Taiwan in relation to those matters and trends. College of Management Main Campus Throughout the semester, the students are expected to fulfill a midterm assignment and submit the final paper. Each week the students will be asked to engage the recommended readings or films, most of which will be topics of class discussion. They will be encouraged to pursue readings/films beyond the recommendations. How the students respond to the discussions will be considered their overall performance in this course. The details of those assignment will be announced in class. Kuo Jen-Feng 120 Thursday 8,9 LibEdu1050 (H01E05000) 2 http://cge.ntu.edu.tw/?lang=en

This special consulting-based intensive course is designed for aspiring change leaders who want to create social and environmental impact through impact business models. There are three components of the course: 1) Systems thinking: you will learn the tools of systems thinking and system dynamics to help you map and analyze a company’s business strategy using a systemic approach. 2) Impact business model: you will learn how to develop an impact business model for a company who aspires to become a B Corp. B Corps (Benefit Corporations) are certified for-profit companies that meet rigorous standards of social and environmental performance, accountability, and transparency and aspire to use the power of markets to solve social and environmental problems. 3) Consulting projects: you will apply what you learn to consult for real companies and help them develop their impact business strategies to become B Corps. Class will be held all day in RM 203 (Building 1, College of Management) on the following dates: March 11, 12, 18, 19 April 23 May 21 Application for this class is not required. College of Management Main Campus Joe Chiao-Jen Hsueh 30 Intensive courses GMBA7108 (749EM1300) 3 (College of Management Global Mba
*Registration eligibility: juniors and above of College of Management. http://www.management.ntu.edu.tw/en/GMBA

This course is an intensive course on leadership that seeks to address some of the challenges of leadership in a changing world. Through four topical blocs (what is leadership?, managing our hungers, authentic leadership, and sustainable leadership), students are invited to reflect more deeply on what constitutes responsible leadership today, by making sense of tensions at the micro, meso and macro levels as well as opportunities to take the lead in a triply constructive (i.e. social, environmental and economic) sense. The sessions are distributed across four weekends, each involving highly interactive sessions through a combination of discussions and other in-class activities. Students are expected to actively participate in all elements of the course, and have prepared readings beforehand. College of Management Main Campus This course follows the MBA format, hence the following classroom policy and etiquette apply: 1. Without special dispensation from the instructor, the use of any sort of personal computer during class is prohibited. 2. Meals and snacks are reserved for break time; please do not bring food to the classroom to consume during the session. 3. Latecomers are expected to enter the classroom discreetly taking care not to disturb the ongoing session. 4. Active participation in class discussion is required. Students are expected to arrive prepared, having read the session materials beforehand. 5. In the event a student is absent from a session, a make-up assignment shall be completed for that particular session. However, more than two absences will affect the grade. Miriam Garvi 30 Intensive courses GMBA7112 (749EM1340) 3 (College of Management Global Mba
*Registration eligibility: juniors and above of College of Management. http://www.management.ntu.edu.tw/en/GMBA

Building strategic alliances has become one of the most widely used strategies in multinational enterprise or domestic firms alike. Firms can share resource, diffuse technologies rapidly, enter a new market easily, and absorb knowledge from the partner firms. However, many firms fail to achieve these competitive advantages, which often results in deteriorating performance. To answer why some firms exploit strategic alliance successfully and others fail, we will examine the ways firms establish and manage their alliance partners using well-known frameworks and cases. Furthermore, we will read some academic papers and discuss their theoretical implications in class to deepen our understanding on strategic alliances and develop own research ideas for master thesis. This is a seminar-course. Students should read assigned papers and cases in advance and prepare for discussion. There is no written exam. Instead, students need to present their group project twice( interim presentation, final presentation) during the semester. To do so, 3-4 students make a group and choose a firm in their interests to examine the evolution of its strategic alliance and suggest strategic directions based on their evaluation. In Session 7-8, students present interim output of their analysis using frameworks and theoretical arguments covered in session 1-6. In session 16-17, students present their final projects, incorporating key concepts and frameworks into their analysis. This course is designed to provide you with frameworks for understanding process involving building and managing strategic alliances and cooperative partnership. Our main objective is to understand how successful firms realize value from strategic alliances and to link it to strategic management in general. This course is of interest to students who are thinking of joining consulting firm or corporate strategy division. Students exploring an option of writing thesis about corporate strategy will also benefit from this course, as this course covers a broad range of topics related to corporate strategy and encourage students to raise own research questions. College of Management Main Campus Jung Yun Han 50 Wednesday 2,3,4 GMBA7113 (749EM1350) 3 (College of Management Global Mba
*Registration eligibility: juniors and above of College of Management. http://www.management.ntu.edu.tw/en/GMBA

Managerial accounting focuses on how accounting and financial information is created and used inside an organization to assist an enterprise in implementing its business strategies to achieve its mission. Management accounting is a complement to financial statement analysis that tends to focus on annual reports, 10-K filings and similar other financial reports that are used primarily outside an enterprise by shareholders and the financial community when making decisions about investing in a company. The course intends to equip students with the ability to apply cost concepts in managerial decision making. At the end of the course, they are expected to have learned the methodology and techniques for application of cost and managerial accounting and information in the formation of policies and in the planning and control of the operations of the organization. College of Management Main Campus Chen, Kun-Chih 60 Wednesday 7,8,9 GMBA7004 (749EM0140) 3 (College of Management Global Mba

*Registration eligibility: students in GMBA program. http://www.management.ntu.edu.tw/en/GMBA

This core course on Organizational Behavior addresses some of the complexities facing individuals and groups in the organizational context. As such, it draws upon an extensive and interdisciplinary body of knowledge (OB) to provide perspectives and insights into structures, processes and dynamics that are inherent to life in organizations. By focusing both on the individual & group levels, as well as the organization system as whole, students are invited to reflect on how to stimulate desired behavior and avoid dynamics that are not productive/constructive. Students are also invited to consider structural and cultural aspects, and to what extent these can be influenced in view of achieving flourishing organizations, much in line with a Positive Organizational Behavior (POB) perspective. Topics covered include sensemaking and emotions, group dynamics and teamwork, leadership, conflict, culture, organizational politics, knowledge management, innovation and change, corporate responsibility and ethical commitment, as well as organizational design. The course is designed so as to encourage a deeper understanding of OB dynamics by stimulating students’ own reflections. As such it is a reflective course, with the course instructor serving as a guide as we jointly navigate through various landscapes of practice involving complexities at both strategic and ethical levels. The teaching format is interactive, and students are expected to actively participate in all elements of the course, including interactive lectures, classroom or small-group discussions, case work and workshops. Expected student commitment and classroom etiquette (please read this carefully): 1. Just like the instructor, students are expected to leave work and other social issues outside of the classroom during class time. The use of a laptop/pad in class requires special dispensation from the instructor, and is contingent on usage being learning-related. 2. Meals and snacks are reserved for break time; please do not bring food to the classroom to consume during the session. 3. Latecomers are expected to enter the classroom discreetly taking care not to disturb the ongoing session. 4. Active participation in class discussion is required. Students are expected to arrive prepared, having read the session materials beforehand. 5. Committed efforts are expected of all group members in group work. 6. Full attendance is required for successful completion of this course, see grading policy. College of Management Main Campus Classroom sessions: ‘the good conversation’ Active participation in the sessions is required and will be graded. This means that students are expected to come to class having read the assigned readings as well as the cases that apply to each session. The sessions will take the form of guided classroom conversations between students and instructor based on these materials, with the aim of sharing experiences and knowledge and generating a deeper understanding of the topic. Group Project/Poster Session: a reflective and creative contribution to the class During the course, students will form a total of 8 small groups and prepare a poster (5 students in each group) for the final seminar on June 15th. Groups must be registered with TA by March 16th. Each group will select an OB-related topic of their choice to investigate further. (An example of a topic might be to explore the importance of humility vs. confidence for leadership; or extrinsic vs. intrinsic motivation for various roles/organizational contexts.) The choice of topic must be approved by Instructor by March 23rd. The project involves two parts: A. A literature review of the topic in question, that includes a minimum of 5 scientific articles on the topic (media articles and other data can be added additionally). The students’ task is to compile the important ideas in these articles, in terms of what they tell us about the topic. This should lead to a set of 1-3 questions that students will investigate empirically in stage B. Students shall prepare an interview guide in order to conduct interviews of 30 min 1 hour in order to investigate the selected questions. Students shall also explain their selection of interviewees. The conclusions from the literature review, the question(s) to investigate and the interview guide shall be submitted to Instructor by April 18th, 10AM, and will be discussed during the small group session on April 20th. All group members are expected to attend the session and to be knowledgeable about the topic. NB! Students must use the template provided for the literature review conclusions. B. An empirical study, where 5 individuals are interviewed about the topic based on the interview guide. Students will then analyze the material, using both the previous literature and relevant concepts from the course. The study will be presented as a poster to the class in the poster session on June 15th. The poster must include the rationale for the study (why is this topic important?), what the literature tells us about this topic, what we can learn from the interviews, how this relates to concepts discussed during the course, and finally what are the key learning points to be retained from your project. Clarity, depth of analysis and quality of reflection, as well as creativity will be rewarded. NB! All required elements of the course (incl. assignments, workshops and attendance) must be fulfilled in timely fashion for successful completion of the course. Miriam Garvi 66 Wednesday A,B,C GMBA7005 (749EM0150) 3 (College of Management Global Mba
*Registration eligibility: students in GMBA program. http://www.management.ntu.edu.tw/en/GMBA

This course is designed to provide a framework for understanding the theories and practices of financial management. The emphasis will be on applying fundamental financial problem solving techniques toward achieving solutions to basic, real world, practical situations. The focus of this class will be on discussing firm’s investment, financing, and dividend policies, along with subjects related to corporate valuation. This course is designed to provide a framework for understanding the theories and practices of financial management. The emphasis will be on applying fundamental financial problem solving techniques toward achieving solutions to basic, real world, practical situations. The focus of this class will be on discussing firm’s investment, financing, and dividend policies, along with subjects related to corporate valuation. College of Management Main Campus The grading of this course will depend on class participation (20%), case report (30%), and mid-term/final exams (25% each). The case report is group-based. Each group has three to four people. Please submit your group member list on the CEIBA Group Discussion Forum by 2/29. There are four cases (extra fees required). For each case, there will be questions provided beforehand. Each group has to write a maximum two-page text and submit it at the assignment area of the CEIBA website according to the deadline posted. You can also choose to supplement your grades by pre-committing homework (MINICASE on Ch. 6, 8, and 10) submitted on CEIBA. Yen-Cheng Chang 66 Monday 7,8,9 GMBA7006 (749EM0170) 3 (College of Management Global Mba *Registration eligibility: students in GMBA program. http://www.management.ntu.edu.tw/en/GMBA