Located in Kaohsiung, Taiwan, National Sun Yat-sen University is a top-notch research university that features exceptional programs in Management, Social Sciences, Science, Engineering, Medicine, Marine Sciences, and Liberal Arts. As one of the world’s leading universities, NSYSU provides great facilities and an inspiring environment where faculty and students continue to accomplish remarkable research achievements across various academic fields. As an academic hub in southern Taiwan, NSYSU has also been chosen as a benchmark university by the Ministry of Education to increase its English-based curricula. Beyond its academic excellence, NSYSU is known for a beautiful campus in between mountains and ocean, offering students the opportunity to engage in diverse extracurricular activities, and a vibrant campus community that includes international students from numerous countries.
Academic: GPA of 3.0 or above on their studies to date
English Language:
– IELTS: 6.0
– TOEFL iBT: 78
– Duolingo English Test: not accepted
09 September 2024 – 10 January 2025
Available Courses
The notion of points, lines, and planes can be generalized into affine subspaces in a higher-dimensional space. This course will revisit some vector/matrix algebra, learn the definition of an affine subspace, and use it to describe the solution set of a system of linear equations. Moreover, we will learn how to build a coordinate system (basis) on an affine subspace and determine its dimension. Lastly, we will introduce the linear functions and how to use matrices to represent them.
This course is to introduce the Python programming language and how to apply it to physical problems.
△Basic Python language: Variables and Types, Lists, Basic Operators, String, Conditions, Loops, Functions, Dictionaries, Modules and Packages, Matplotlib
△Physics: Numeric integration, Fourier transformation, Differential equations, Wave equation
The course offers a general introduction to literary works and helps the students increase their knowledge about different forms of literature. It also sets out to explore and critically reflect on some of the ideological, aesthetic and social/political agendas that underpin literary practices. The main questions to be addressed are: What is Literature? What does Literature do? and What are the Genres of Literature?
C++ Basics, Flow of Control, Functions, Overloading, Arrays, References, Pointers, Strings, Vectors, Classes, Constructors.
The purpose of this course is to familiarize and equip students with the global language of engineering graphics to facilitate learning and understanding in the subsequent study.
Graphics and Visualization: Roles of Graphical Sciences
Graphics and Vision, Multi-view Drawings, Projections.
Descriptive Geometry: Lines, Planes, 3D Objects, Intersections and Developments
Engineering Design: Dimensioning
CAD Techniques: SolidWorks-like software.
This course aims to introduce the usage and syntax of C Language, which include Format I/O , Operators , Expressions , Loops, Arrays, Functions, Structure, and others. Students will learn the fundamental coding skills through this course, and increase the logical thinking ability so that they are able to deal with engineering problems in the future.
The global environment is being changed dramatically under the influences of human activities (e.g. global warming), adversely affecting the ecosystems, human health, economic growth, political decisions, as well as the sustainable use of the nature resources. Reflecting the rise of international awareness, this course aims to give a general concept about the global environmental change and its consequence to the students. The subjects to be covered include global warming, acid rain, sea level rise, ocean acidification, eutrophication, coastal hypoxia, deoxygenation and plastic pollution in the oceans.
While the world has been deeply globalized over the past decades, major changes are taking place and the patterns of globalization are in flux. This course aims to review the evolution of modern globalization, examine its development, impact, and the possible future of globalization/deglobalization in the context of geopolitical tension and ideological differences.
This course introduces and explores the pathways, developments, and impacts of globalization. It is divided into five parts:
(1)Overview of Globalization: This section provides an overview of globalization throughout history and delves into the contemporary architecture of globalization.
(2)Globalization’s Evolution: Part Two narrates the story of globalization and examines how it has transformed the world’s landscape.
(3)Critique of Neoliberal Globalization: Part Three critically analyzes the neoliberal nature of globalization from various ideological standpoints.
(4)Geopolitical Shift in the 21st Century: Part Four focuses on the geopolitical changes that have emerged in the 21st century, challenging the established neoliberal trajectory of globalization. Key cases such as the US-China-Taiwan relations and the Ukraine War are used to facilitate discussions.
(5)Exploring Alternatives: The fifth part explores potential alternatives and solutions to the challenges faced by globalization, aiming to address its current predicaments.
Environmental regulations are currently the important motivation that drives new products to sustainability. These regulations raise the bar for practical engineering technology and bring more challenges for designers, especially in finding new ideas. In the process of creating eco-products, TRIZ method can help jump from the framework of personal thinking and systematically guide to solve engineering technical problems. This course will first introduce the concepts and rules of eco-design, then define engineering design problems through corresponding improvement policies, support solutions to practice eco-friendly product by TRIZ in the end. This course will complete all development procedures through case study.
This course aims to provide students with a critical introduction to the cultural history of Taiwan, with the island conceived of as being a “Sino-Island.” This term will provide us with a lens for understanding Taiwan’s cultural history, primarily by attempting to understand the history of Chinese culture on the island of Taiwan, from the earliest Han settlers during the 16th centuries down to the present day. The notion of the “Sino-island” is as at once heuristic frame, cultural orientation, and an historical consciousness. Taiwan is unique in the Chinese world in that, while in civic terms the island is a thriving multi-party democracy, in cultural terms it has passed down, preserved, and richened various dimensions of Chinese culture, from traditional Chinese characters, to Confucianism as philosophical tradition, kinship structure, and ethical mode, to Buddhism as transcendent and secular life practice, to Daoism as de-centered philosophy, to popular temple practices, to the modern sustenance of age old literati practices such as calligraphy and oil painting, and many others. Indeed, “Chinese culture” as humanist epistemology was inculcated within all levels of education in Taiwan after the 1945 period, from elementary school to higher education, an educational mode that remains more or less intact today.
(1) Introduction to C
(2) Elements of C
(3) Selection Constructs
(4) Functions and Program Design
(5) Looping Constructs
(6) Arrays, Vectors,and Matrices
(7) String Processing
(8) Structs and Classes
(9) Pointers and Dynamic Memory
This course will focus on practical experience using ChatGPT to write programs. Some of the in-class time will also be devoted to hands-on programming. There will also be lectures, however. These lectures will cover how ChatGPT and other tools were created, how prompt engineering works, how they reason about writing code, how they can be used as part of a programmer’s workflow, and the ethical and future ramifications of these tools.
The goal of this course is to help prepare students for the new AI-focused job market. It is expected that software companies will more-and-more want to hire programmers who are adapt at using AI tools to help them to program more efficiently, and who also understand how to compensate for the various limitations of these AI tools.
This course will provide students with a balanced overview of Integrated Marketing Communication (IMC) and execution. To understand the foundations of successful IMC and execution the course draws upon both theory and practice. Specifically, the course unfolds into a set of topics that are ordered in a manner similar to the stages of a marketing campaign. The course focuses heavily on selecting a target for advertising, developing an effective brand position, and stressing the importance of consumer insight. The course also examines how to execute strategy and to evaluate communication effectiveness.
The goal of this course is to help students develop general skills and understanding in independently developing web applications. Over the past 30 years, web programming technologies have been rapidly moving from static to dynamic, desktop to mobile, and synchronous to asynchronous. Learning web technologies can be a daunting task as the industrial standard webpage today involves the use of multiple languages, frameworks, and databases. To ease students into this field, the course will be driven by lots of examples and provide many hands-on practice opportunities. By the end of the course, each student should have a website made that they can be proud of.
People from different cultures face similar problems but approach them in different ways. Understanding how cultures differ is the first step to becoming an effective manager or expatriate specialist in a multicultural context. Organizations that tend to have employees from different cultural backgrounds include multinational corporations, international non-governmental organizations, and research universities. This course explores differences between supranational, national, and subnational cultures, as reflected in cross-cultural empirical studies of values and organizational structures. Relevant business applications include cross-cultural negotiation, collaboration, and leadership strategies. There will be a special focus on a key source of intercultural communication difficulties: individualistic vs. collectivist cultures and associated values and behaviors.
Upon completion of this course students will be able to:
1. Identify and recognize the main components of cultural variability
2. Understand how individual behavior partly reflects culture-specific socialization
3. Discuss the relationship between culture-specific values and economic performance
4. Reflect on how one’s own culture influences decisions, behaviors, and work practices
5. Better adapt to a multicultural or culturally challenging workplace
6. Manage groups and organizations in a way that promotes cross-cultural synergies
This course is designed to study the managerial and practical knowledge of foreign direct investment and multinational enterprises. By increasing the awareness of political, social, and cultural differences that businesses encounter, it also develops students the ability to develop frameworks for anticipating, analyzing, and reconciling these differences. By reviewing the current patterns, trends, and behaviors of foreign direct investment and multinational enterprises, students can understand the main challenges and social responsibility in the international contexts.Through this course, students can learn frameworks and develop analytic skills by incorporating the present and future trends of cross-border value-added activities into theories of international business.
This course focuses on the function of molecules or cells (e.g., Cell Structure, Macro-molecules, Cell function), on the integration or the interaction of organisms with each other and their environment (e.g. Animal Behavior, Plant Ecology, Population Ecology), as well as on the basis of genetics (e.g., Principles of genetics, Central Dogma).
Why are some countries wealthy while others are poor? Why do some countries develop rapidly while others develop slowly? Why do some countries attract a large number of immigrants while others experience significant emigration? This course aims to explain the process of national economic development, the various factors involved, and the policies that governments can use.
2019 saw the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic and the ensuing global humanitarian disaster, and the political situation in the Asia Pacific saw unprecedented developments. This course will cover the region’s recent political and economic changes, and use the lens of international relations to sharpen their analytical skills while cultivating their interest in the region. This course holds practical application of knowledge as its core, and will discuss US, Chinese, Taiwanese, Northeast Asia, Southwest Asia, New Zealand and Australia, India and Central Asia. It is designed to cultivate students’ analytical and research skills, as well as interest in Asia Pacific and international affairs.
The approach of this course is to provide students with necessary guidance and inspiration to further comprehend and appreciate the interlinking of relationship between film and literature. Discussion and lecture on the narrative and studying the process of transposition from novel, non-fiction, graphic novel, film script, and drama, etc., into film will be the main design of the course. Discussion on the adaptation and rendition from these texts or scripts will be part of the studies, too. Several significant novelists and dramatists from both the East and West will be examined to uncover the art of filmmaking and narration of such literary masterpieces. Comparative studies of these adaptations from the different genres of literature of distinctive cultures will be conducted as well.