This course introduces students to literary and other cultural perspectives from the postcolonial world. In the first semester, we will read and discuss selected texts from postcolonial Africa; in the second semester, we will investigate selected texts from postcolonial Asia. Our course will begin by examining the concept of “decolonization”–that is, the process of questioning colonialism and insisting, as Kwame Nkrumah wrote in 1945, on “the rights of all peoples to govern themselves.” We will then turn to fictional writings and other cultural texts that come out of various decolonization struggles in Nigeria, Algeria, Kenya, and South Africa. We will ask ourselves: why should these texts and ideas matter to us today?

Students are expected to attend regularly, to read with care and curiosity, and to bring an open mind to course assignments and class discussion. Please note that no prior knowledge of postcolonial studies is required for this course. But we will reflect on our previously held commonsense ideas and test them against our course readings. This course introduces students to literary and other cultural perspectives from the postcolonial world. In the first semester, we will read and discuss selected texts from postcolonial Africa; in the second semester, we will investigate selected texts from postcolonial Asia. Our course will begin by examining the concept of “decolonization”–that is, the process of questioning colonialism and insisting, as Kwame Nkrumah wrote in 1945, on “the rights of all peoples to govern themselves.” We will then turn to fictional writings and other cultural texts that come out of various decolonization struggles in Nigeria, Algeria, Kenya, and South Africa. We will ask ourselves: why should these texts and ideas matter to us today?

Students are expected to attend regularly, to read with care and curiosity, and to bring an open mind to course assignments and class discussion. Please note that no prior knowledge of postcolonial studies is required for this course. But we will reflect on our previously held commonsense ideas and test them against our course readings. College of Liberal Arts Main Campus *Majors-only (including minor and double major students). Guy Beauregard 40 Tuesday 8,9,X FL4001 3 Half Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures http://www.forex.ntu.edu.tw/main.php?lang=en

Latin II is somewhat more challenging extension of Latin I. Students who took Latin I in the summer session will have to make themselves very familiar with the first thirty three lessons of Wheelock’s Latin 6th edition revised before starting this course.

Unlike Latin I this course focuses more on unadapted passages from the ancient authors. We will be starting at around Lesson 34 in Wheelock’s Latin and go to Lesson 40. After a short review of the entire text we will be doing a selection of passages from Loci Antiqui and Loci Immutati in the back of Wheelock’s text. We will be doing an intensive examination of the poets Catullus and Horace. The selection of other passages will depend on the interests of the students.

Around March 10 of each year we will move on to Wheelock’s Latin Reader,Selections From Latin Literature(Second Edition) by Frederic M. Wheelock. In this text we will be covering the following: selections from Cicero’s Oration against Verres;a comparison of the Letters of Cicero and Pliny;selections from Livy’s History of Rome,Ovid’s Metamorphoses,Cicero’s Philosophica(either On Moral Responsibilities or ON Friendship),as well as selections in medieval Latin from The Vulgate and medieval hymns and drinking songs. If time permits we will also look at Latin selections from The Venerable Bede,as well as the Story of the Three Caskets in the Gesta Romanorum.

Students will be assessed as follows:

Attendance 20%

Assignments and Homework 40%

Classroom Participation 40%

Unlike Latin I this course focuses more on unadapted passages from the ancient authors. College of Liberal Arts Main Campus *Prerequisite: Latin (Ⅰ)(2) Wells S. Hansen 20 Monday X,A,B,C FL3019 3 Full Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures, European Studies Program http://www.forex.ntu.edu.tw/main.php?lang=en

Students learn the skills of gathering and organising ideas, planning, drafting, revising and rewriting texts. This means plenty of reading and above all writing (mostly as homework), but also a lot of planning, discussion and peer evaluation in class. There will also be error correction and remedial language work as required. A wide a variety of writing genres are covered. Students are also asked to keep a journal, which I read at mid-term and at the end of the semester. This course involved a lot of work out of class, and students unable to carry out all the writing assignments required risk failing the course. *to practice writing full compositions, especially narrative, descriptive and discursive essays.

*to improve writing skills by writing as much as possible.

*to learn to gather ideas and organise them, then draft, redraft and edit a piece of writing.

*to learn how to appreciate and criticise one own and others?writing.

*to use writing to communicate.

*to write in a variety of genres, e.g. letters (formal & informal), reviews, reports, journals.

College of Liberal Arts Main Campus *Prerequisite: English Composition (Ⅰ)(2)
*Majors-only (including minor and double major students). Davies Witton 15 Monday 2,3,4 FL2009 2 Full Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures http://www.forex.ntu.edu.tw/main.php?lang=en

English Composition III trains students to summarize, report, criticize, and conduct research. During the first term, students are trained to summarize and paraphrase as they learn to incorporate outside sources into their papers. They learn to use reported material without plagiarizing and to incorporate ideas from outside sources to support and prove a thesis. Students are also given the opportunity to do critical writing with an emphasis on general principles of logic and argumentation. They are encouraged to investigate the soundness of a conclusion, the validity of a judgment, the value of a short story. Four papers of around 3-5 pages constitute the main substance of the first semester, culminating in 10-page mini-research piece. The goal of the course is for students to achieve high-level competence in writing English prose and critical assessments of academic and other material.

The specific goal of this section of Composition 3, as a year-long course, is to prepare students for applications to (and performance in) master’s programs in humanities and social science fields as regards English language proficiency, logical argumentation, and research skills.
College of Liberal Arts Main Campus *Prerequisite: English Composition (Ⅱ)(2)
*Majors-only (including minor and double major students). Duncan Chesney 13 Thursday 2,3,4 FL3009 2 Full Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures http://www.forex.ntu.edu.tw/main.php?lang=en

This is a new course for undergraduates only, who want to learn the basics of good oral presentation for their future academic and professional careers. Students will learn how to structure and communicate in different presentation modes: Making Introductions, Describing Phenomena, Comparing Phenomena, Demonstrating, Persuading, Recommending, Concluding.

You will be required to prepare and deliver FOUR English presentations during this course. Academic Writing Education Center Main Campus Marc Anthony 80 Friday 3,4,5 Write5020 3 Half Ntu Academic Writing Education Center http://www.awec.ntu.edu.tw/eng/eng_index.html ; ntuawec@ntu.edu.tw

This course firstly introduces the Hebrew Bible to explore the ancient Hebrew culture and the relationship between man and God. Then we enter the world of the Greek Mythology by reading Homer’s epics: Iliad and Odyssey. Following the Trojan legend, we read Virgil’s Aeneid to explore how the Romans created their national epic based on the story of Troy. Each of these works will be read closely, analyzed carefully, and discussed with its own cultural and historical context. We will proceed mainly in two forms: lectures and small group discussions. Every week, students are expected to finish reading materials and post response on the forum in the class website. In the beginning of each class, we will have a 5-minute quiz. Finally, students are required to make a short oral group presentation (10 minutes) in class. This course is designed as a survey course which encompasses major prose and poetry of western writers from the Hebrew Bible to Virgil’s Aeneid. By focusing on these canonical works, this course aims to lead students to explore the beginning of human civilization, ancient cultures, and important classical legends. At the end of the course, students will be able to:
1. Understand important ideas in ancient, classical, and medieval literatures and cultures.
2. Analyze important themes and motives in these literary works.
3. Get familiar with the Hebrew, Greek, and Roman traditions.
College of Liberal Arts Main Campus *Majors-only (including minor and double major students). Michael Mcglynn 70 Thursday 2,3,4 FL1015 3 Half Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures http://www.forex.ntu.edu.tw/main.php?lang=en

This is the AWEC writing course you want if you want to learn how to write a professional scientific or academic journal article.

The course is open to all disciplines: Applied Sciences, Engineering, Social Sciences, and the Humanities. Using structural and linguistic approaches, you will explore how to write a published article for a journal.

The course provides you with the essential knowledge of the STYLES of academic articles.

The goal of the course is to make you the MASTER of your writing.

Academic Writing Education Center Main Campus *Restrict to graduate students. Marc Anthony 17 Thursday 5,6,7 Write7010 3 Half Ntu Academic Writing Education Center http://www.awec.ntu.edu.tw/eng/eng_index.html ; ntuawec@ntu.edu.tw

This is the AWEC course you need if you want to improve your academic or professional presentation skills. Whether you are a beginner or experienced in presenting, this course helps you accumulate a “tool box” of strategies, techniques and language devices that can enhance your ability to be a “conspicuous” presenter. This course is appropriate for all disciplines: Applied and Social Sciences, Humanities, Engineering, Medicine and other academic disciplines, as well as people preparing for or working in professional areas.

This course emphasizes how to deliver a memorable, professional presentation to meet your audience’s needs and purposes. The course is conducted in English, in a semi-workshop style, with lots of small group feedback and learner-centered activities. As presenters, you will create and deliver three presentations during the course. Academic Writing Education Center Main Campus *Restrict to graduate students. Marc Anthony 20 Monday 3,4,5 Write7011 3 Half Ntu Academic Writing Education Center http://www.awec.ntu.edu.tw/eng/eng_index.html ; ntuawec@ntu.edu.tw

This course intends to equip graduate students with fundamental skills of writing English for academic purposes. Topics to be covered include basic English sentence structures, common rhetorical patterns, paragraph/essay development, and some essential vocabulary and grammar in academic English.

By the end of the course, students will

1. Understand common rhetoric modes in academic writing.

2. Apply their knowledge of grammar function to their own writing.

3. Demonstrate familiarity with vocabulary frequently used in academic

writing.

4. Edit and proofread their own and their peers’ writing.

College of Social Engineering Main Campus *Restrict to international students. Chien-Ta Hsu 14 Monday 7,8,9 CIE7110 3 Half Graduate Institute of Civil Engineering, Structural Engineering Division,

Graduate Institute of Civil Engineering, Construction Engineering and Management Division
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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 graduate course has no written tests and no fixed textbook. Much of the written work will be collective in nature.

The literary material for this course is ancient, medieval, and modern oral poems, including Beowulf, English and Scottish ballads, Middle and Modern English sayings, contemporary US spoken word poets (poetry slam poets), and translations from the worlds greatest oral poems and laws. Each student will construct his or her own virtual (oral) book of poetry.

The methodology of this course is partly performative: each class meeting will consist of an operational discussion of orality–learning and jamming oral poemsas well as a theoretical discussion of orality. In other words, we will read theories of orality and ethnopoetics for the sake of putting them into practice and testing them as performance, and we will perform as a way to understand the ahistorical processes of orality, so often misrecognized in modernity. Guest speakers from other faculties will be invited to educate us on the brain and memory; the relationship of music, voice, and text; and performance. Individually and as a group we shall build a repertoire, a living corpus of intangible culture. We will also watch and describe performances of oral poetry from around the world, including the South African ibongi, the Argentine payador, and American poetry slams.

The theoretical foundations of this course include cognitive approaches to literature, oral theory, and ethnopoetics. Subthemes include memory and participatory knowledge.
1. Learn about and master pre-modern texts, especially English-language ballads, Middle English poetry.
2. Learn oral theory, and see how orality is part of even hyper-literate societies.
3. Develop a more sophisticated understanding of history and historical change.
4. Apply oral theory and performance theory not only to texts but to the study process.

5. Write publishable, collaborative essays or prepare collaborative conference presentations.
College of Liberal Arts Main Campus Michael Mcglynn 12 Monday 6,7,8 FL7270 3 Half Graduate Institute of Foreign Languages and Literatures http://www.forex.ntu.edu.tw/main.php?lang=en

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
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