National Taiwan University of Science and Technology (Taiwan Tech)

Taipei, Taiwan

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Through the course, students will learn about characters, vocabulary, phrases, typical and situational sentence patterns, which can be extended to thousands of different sentences with simple but very useful words or characters for daily conversation. This course aims at a fast way to speak and understand Mandarin Chinese.

This course is an elementary Chinese course. In addition to daily life Chinese, word recognition, and basic Chinese grammar, students will learn more content, and will also be able to acquire Chinese pinyin and communicate in Mandarin.

This course is an intermediate Chinese course. In addition to Chinese for daily life, literacy and grammar, students can learn more Multi-cultural aspects of Chinese, such as: campus life terms, cultural differences and other topics. After completing this course, students will be able to understand longer conversations, read short articles, and express your opinion in speaking or writing.

This course is an advanced Chinese language course. Students can learn more cultural aspects of Chinese language, such as science, history, geography, culture and other related topics. After completing this course, students will be able to understand short speeches, write short articles, and read simple texts or chapter quickly.

This is a high-intermediate course. In this course, major global issues are to be analyzed and discussed. Students will be able to read longer articles and essays that are rich in advanced vocabulary, complicated in organization and structure, and can grasp the arguments and perspectives they present. Many concepts and notions in social and cultural studies are also explored alongside with the issues discussed in class. Students are encouraged to exercise critical thinking and to discuss with one another and express their ideas and actively engage in exchange of opinions. Through learning global issues, students can deepen their understanding of the world, of other cultures, and the impacts and chances of these issues, and how they are related to themselves. The ultimate goal of this course is to enable students to develop global citizenship awareness by using English as a common tool of communication to participate in ongoing discussion on important global issues.

This introductory statistics course is tailored specifically for business students, aiming to provide a comprehensive understanding of basic statistical concepts and their applications in the business context. The curriculum differentiates between key statistical terms, types of data, and methods for their visual representation. It delves into measures of central tendency and dispersion, enabling students to identify business trends and patterns. The course explores the principles of probability and associated distributions, such as binomial, Poisson, and normal distributions, which are often applied in business scenarios. Students will learn about sampling techniques, estimation processes, and the interpretation of confidence intervals—skills highly valued in business analytics. A major focus is on hypothesis testing, including understanding of p-values and Type I and II errors, crucial in business decision-making. By the end of the course, students will be able to apply statistical reasoning to solve business problems, make data-driven decisions, interpret statistical analyses, and effectively communicate the results. The goal is to empower students with statistical knowledge that can be pragmatically applied in the business world.

This course provides students how to create profitable brand strategies and the implications for brand managers. Students will gain a unique perspective on corporate marketing and the brand management role by combining theory and practice in marketing. This course will provide students with strategic brand management knowledge and expertise from theories and experts from the industry.

The purpose of this course provides students to understand the content of engineering and the related ethical in majors, and to establish correct Engineering ethical values.

This course focuses on the management of construction and civil projects, which usually are large-scale, long-lived and involve various economic, financial, social and environmental factors. At the end of the seminar, students should be able to: 1.Effectively use basic engineering economics tools to evaluate civil engineering projects.

2.Effectively use appropriate methodologies and tools at five stages in the project’s life cycle.

3.Understand how project performance (in terms of time, cost, quality) can be measured, monitored and controlled.

4.Identify and analyze factors for successful projects, as well as reasons for failure based on specific case studies.

The purpose of this course is to introduce and familiarize students with cultural core values demonstrated in different countries throughout the world. This class will provide students with appropriate language tools, both verbal and non-verbal, to achieve cross-cultural competence. This will include anticipation of meaning, encoding, transmission, decoding, and feedback of communications. We will explore cultural awareness and cultural knowledge of both Taiwan and the outside world in order to build students’ intercultural skills and English ability.

The purpose of this course is to teach students how to read, listen to or watch sports news reports so as to improve their English reading and listening abilities, get familiar with sports terminology and rules, update information about international sports, and bring entertainment into their tedious college life. Since a majority of English-speaking people love sports, sports is an important part of their life, their daily conversations are often centered around sports, and even serious writing in political news, business journals, and other social sciences abound with sports terminology and metaphors, reading or listening to sports news will certainly benefit their learning and help them understand the culture of English speaking countries. If students form a habit to keep themselves updated with sports news and they can talk about sports in English, they will find it very easy to talk to foreigners and make friends with them once they work in global work places or go to international conferences.

Storytelling has become a vital tool in the workplace. It is now considered as an essential skill among professionals. Cognizant of such demand, this course is directed towards producing strategic and competent storytellers across management settings. The course provides theoretical and practical frameworks that aim to instill an advanced understanding of storytelling. It trains students in applying storytelling techniques in management communication. It emphasizes on the strategic use of storytelling in both leadership roles and in various organizational contexts.

Specifically, the course hopes to:
‧ Acquaint students with advanced storytelling techniques;
‧ Equip students with theoretical and practical frameworks of storytelling in management communication;
‧ Cultivate a strong strategic mindset in the use of storytelling in various organizational contexts;
‧ Write stories that are strategically designed for specific purposes; and
‧ Deliver impactful stories that move people.

The purpose of this course is to enrich students’ cultural background knowledge of the English-speaking world today and to improve their critical thinking as well as language skills, with greater focus on oral communication, through line-by-line analysis and discussions of popular novels and frame-by-frame analysis of their film adaptations. The aim is to improve students’ critical thinking ability, analytical, and oral skills by engaging them to discuss social, cultural, psychological, and philosophical issues that are relevant to their understanding and appreciation of the selected literary works and their adaptations through thought-provoking discussions. This course will also serve as an encouragement for students to read these popular novels in English.

This course is to explore the relationship between World Englishes and cultures worldwide, with a focus on the examination of varieties of the English language linguistically and culturally. Drawing insights from the fields of linguistics, sociology, and anthropology, the course begins at an introductory level, looking at key concepts such as social context and cultural authenticity, and move to a more advanced level to consider their linguistic forms and pragmatic usage patterns. It is concluded that effective communication among users of different Englishes is possible by cultivating an awareness of the variations in English and their social, cultural, and economic functions.

This course aims to help students learn the fundamental concepts of creative thinking and its contents and help students understand what creativity is and apply what they have learned in this class to real live issues. In particular, students will observe, experience and put the contents into practice. This course will adopt a business approach to the systematic learning of the creative thinking, so students have to be consciously aware of the social issues and needs. Finally, students have to propose possible solutions to the issues and write an English proposal as a final report. There are four goals in this course.

(a) It provides the concepts and application of creative thinking.
(b) It helps students experience and do creative thinking.
(c) It guides students to write an English proposal.
(d) It conducts interdisciplinary studies and team work.

The main purpose of this course is to promote students’ listening and speaking ability in Chinese, and help them use basic Chinese in daily life.