Continuation of the survey of European literature from the cusp of Romanticism through Modernism, focusing on key literary texts, supplemented with other cultural material (from philosophy, the sister arts, and so forth…)

To familiarize DFLL students with key non-Anglophone European literary texts from the “long” 19th century as crucial to an understanding of the contemporary British and American texts in their other courses, and as recent prehistory of the present.

The objective of this course is to familiarize students with major authors and trends in Continental European literature after 1800. College of Liberal Arts Main Campus *Majors-only (including minor and double major students). Duncan Chesney 40 Friday 2,3,4 FL2006 3 Half Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures, European Studies Program http://www.forex.ntu.edu.tw/main.php?lang=en

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

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

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This course is designed primarily for first-year foreign students although it also opens to interested local students to experience Taiwanese culture together. This lecture opens with a self-introduction and group assignment. Students then will be divided into a group of five, one local plus four foreign, to visit different locations every other week starting March 14. The point of interests may include but not limited to night markets, temples, memorial halls, NTU museums, handcraft and cultural centers, ecoparks, and historic relicts in Daan district. Each group needs to send their reports to the instructor three days prior to the five-minute presentation in the next meeting. The instructor will then summarize and conclude the reports in the second-hour lecture.
1. Help international students to mix and mingle with local students through the collaborate projects.

2. Guide international students how to utilize all available resources to enrich their college lives.

3. Encourage students to freely explore themselves, developing critical thinking, time management skills, and expressing abilities.

Center for General Education Main Campus *Restrict to freshmen and international students. Shun-Chern Tsaur 17 Monday A,B GenEdu1000 2 Half Common Education Section http://cge.ntu.edu.tw/?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