A0281 Historical Methodology (2/2): This course is designed especially for advanced scholarship in history. Stress is placed on practical exercises; the purposes, materials and techniques of historical scholarship; and theory, practice and criticism of historical research methods.
A0282 Introduction to Historiography (2/2): This course offers an introduction to the great historians of the world. Classroom activities include studying and seminar discussion of selected historical documents dealing with major events and trends in historiography.
A1139 History of Taiwan ( 3/3): Fieldwork and seminar of Taiwan history studies are central to this course. This is an advanced course that continues the initial course “Introduction to Taiwan History” and will discuss related topics in more depth.
A1212 World History (3/3): This course surveys Western civilization from antiquity to the modern Period.
T0031 General History of China (3/3): This course offers a survey of Chinese civilization beginning from antiquity to the modern Period.
A0287 Seminar on Taiwan History (2/2): Selected topics (political, economic, social and intellectual history of Taiwan from the 16th to the 21st century) will be discussed in this course.
A2742 History of Pre-Chin, Chin and Han Dynasty (3/3): This course introduces Chinese history before 221 B.C., which includes the archeological Stone Age, mythological Three Sovereigns and Five Emperors and the historical development of the Dynasties of Xia, Shang, Zhou.
A2743 History of the Wei-Jin to Sui-Tang Dynasties (3/3): History of the Six Dynasties is the interface between the Qin-Han dynasties and the Sui-Tang dynasties. This curriculum is composed of the Sui Dynasty, the Tang Dynasty, and the Five Dynasties and Ten Countries period history events.
A2745 History of Sung and Yuan Dynasties (3/3): This course follows the admonition by Yan Fu of the late Ching Dynasty who claimed that the Four Histories should be read as literature. Much of what we today call Chinese was created during the Song and Yuan Dynasties. Thus, the course considers the development of Song and Yuan dynasty and relates these to the great transformation of Chinese politics, economy, society and culture.
A2746 History of Liao, West Xia and Jin (3/3): This course is concerned with the rise and fall of the Kitan, Tangut, and Jurchen clans during the 10th through 13th centuries. It analyzes each clan’s development and evolution. The course also explains the Liao, Xixia, and Jin Dynasties in their attempt to preserve the character of their own clan. These clans created new political, military, social, economic, and cultural developments. Finally, the course analyzes the connections and influences of those dynasties with the developments of Chinese history.
A2747 History of Ming and Ching Dynasties (3/3): To realize the history and culture of Ching Dynasty.
A2748 History of Modern and Contempoary China (3/3): To realize the development of Chinese morden history and able to critical and reflection the process of Chinese morderlization.
T2170 The Modern and Present History of Taiwan (3/3): The course analyses the basic structure of Early Modern Taiwan's economy, culture, thoughts, literature, arts, social transition to explain how different early modern culture in Taiwan were formed.
A0313 The Ancient Western World (2/2): This course focuses on the history of the origins of Western civilization to the fall of Rome.
A0314 Medieval European History (2/2): This course gives an overview of the political, economic, social, and intellectual history of the Middle Ages.
A0325 Modern European History (2/2): This course gives an overview of political, economic, social and intellectual history from the Peace of Westphalia to the fall of Napoleon.
A0326 Early Modern European History (2/2): This course deals with the political, cultural, economic, and social developments in the Western world from the 16th to 18th centuries. It describes how the modern age was shaped.
A1213 Twentieth Century World History (2/2): This course gives an overview of political, economic, social, and intellectual history from the fall of Napoleon to the present.
A1240 History of Modern Japan (2/2): This course offers a general survey of the people, ideas and intellectual forces of 20th-century Japan.
This course offers a close analysis of people, ideas, and intellectual development of China from A0123 Intellectual History of Modern China (2/2):
A0132 History of Chinese Art (2/0): In this course, students will be engaged in historical analyses of selected works of painting, sculpture, temples, majestic palaces from antiquity to the present.
A0335 History of Western Fine Arts (2/2): This course offers a historical survey of selected works of painting, sculpture, and architecture from antiquity to the present, and an introduction to the major artistic movements in Western art.
A1268 Social and Cultural History of Japan (2/2): This course offers a survey of social and cultural history of Japan from the earliest times to the present.
A1379 History of Japanese Diplomacy (2/2): In this course, students will study the history of diplomacy of Japan, and discuss its importance in Japan as well as in the world, especially in East Asia.
A1435 History of Chinese Society (2/2): This course focuses on how Chinese society was formed and shaped.
A1437 History of Chinese Political Systems (2/2): This course offers a close analysis of China’s bureaucracy transformation and how the government system works.
A1496 Women in Chinese History (2/2): This course studies the status of Chinese women in history and the oppression of patriarchy inflicted upon them.
A2501 The Development of Oceans in Taiwan (2/2): The current course introduces a collection of materials related Taiwan’s Oceans and technology. Students will understand Taiwan’s Ocean and technology and then continue to expand on the interesting parts.
A2592 Cultural Tourism and Socioeconomic Development in Taiwan (2/0): This course introduces topics relevant to cultural tourism and socioeconomic development in Taiwan. Students will understand the importance of cultural tourism and socioeconomic development in Taiwan.
A2641 The Guide of Local Culture and History in Taiwan (2/2): The purpose of this course is to help students understand local culture and history in Taiwan, and to advance their ability of organizing and interpreting local historical sources, therefore, increasing opportunities for them to gain related jobs.
A2697 The Industrial Development of Taiwan (2/2): This course discusses The Industrial Development of Taiwan. The course also analyzes the basic structure of Modern Taiwan’s economy, culture, thoughts, literature, arts, social transition to explain how different modern cultures in Taiwan were formed.
A2699 Taiwan Forestry History (2/2): This course discusses the study of Taiwan Forestry History. The course also analyzes the historical materials about Taiwan Forestry History, the basic structure of Taiwan’s Forest economy, culture, thoughts, social transition to explain how different cultures in Taiwan Forestry were formed.
A2700 Chinese Jade Culture and Ancient Fine Arts ( 2/0): Through studying the culture connotations of the Chinese Jades, students will be capable of thinking about the historic key points in the artifacts, so that they could realize the significance and cultural value of Chinese Jades, and enhance their capability of appreciating and enjoying the cultural splendor of Chinese Jades.
M0031 Economic History of China (2/2): This course focuses on the origins of the Chinese economy, providing a historical analysis of economic change and growth from the earliest time. Emphasis is placed on the precondition and consequences of industrialization.
A2858 Historical Demography and Application ( 2/2): The main purpose of this course is to provide students with historical demographic theories and examples of quantification. Furthermore, the course integrates social and economic development of local society with the geographic information system (GIS). In this course, we talk about population and family changes in Taiwan. Topics covered include birth, death, marriage and migration.
A2808 Scholarly Publish & Historical Writings (2/0): The course trains students how to understand scholarly publications and how to write historical books. It teaches them to classify the annual style, legend style, report style, and biography style.
A2303 History of the Renaissance (2/2): In this course, students will study the origin and development of famous writers and painters in the Renaissance age.
A2502 History of Modern European Culture (2/2): This course offers an overview of the economic, social, and culture history of modern Europe.
A3065 The Military History in Taiwan (2/2): This course is mainly studied about Taiwan's military history. The content contains the military regime, military facilities as well as the occurrence of major battles to the government's approach. From their observations, students can learn the evolution of Taiwan's military development.
A2971 Historical Geography (2/2): This course is to explore the historical changes of the geographical conditions and geographic distribution of China's historical development, strengthen the thinking and training intertwined in the dimensions of space and time. It is also one of the important fields of humanistic studies today that we approach history from the perspective of historical geography and regional studies.
A2816 Field Investigation and Oral Report (2/2): Students Get guided knowledge and skills. Teach students to perform drama and script creation.
A2973 Tombs and Cultural Relics of Archaeology in China (2/2): Described the life of the human being is limited, the death of the individual or even the ethnic group, the attitude of death, the treatment of the dead, and the arrangement of the following things, not only as a religious significance, but also has a special social significance. At the same time, after the death of a special funeral system, the dead will be able to enter another world. The world constituted by society, life experience, and religion.
A2972 Women History of Western World (2/2): Since the industrialization and globalization, the role of women in the family, society and the state has been greatly improved, and has become a notable academic research issues. The content of the course is based on the introduction of modern women in the West, supplemented by discussions on modern women's issues.
A2504 Taiwan Image Digital Website and Historical Information System (0/2): Leading student to know what is Taiwan Image. Leading student to know what is Historical Information System.
A2744 Summary and Practice of Digitization of History Data (2/0): To enable students to experience the work of history data digitalization, and to understand the role of cultural and creative industries.
A3053 Identification and Collection of Ancient Chinese Jades (2/0): Using some archaeological materials and historical documents to research the characteristics of different dynasty jades, like crafts, shapes, patterns, and specific colors of times. In order to know how to collect ancient jades step by step, the research combined with relevant contemporary science and technology known to counterfeit ancient jades.
A0117 Chinese Historiography (2/2): Students will be engaged in readings of the great historians of China from the earliest times to the beginning of the 20th century. This course also investigates how perception of the past has altered our present.
A0118 Selected Texts from Chinese History (2/2): This course focuses on topics and texts in Chinese history with various approaches adopted by distinguished historians.
F0277 History of Japan (2/2): The past and present history of Japan, from the 7th to the 21st century, will be discussed in this course.
A2195 Overseas Chinese History in Southeast Asia (2/0): The course analyzes and compares the politics, societies, economics, and culture construction of different regions in Southeast Asia. Students learn how to figure out the history of Southeast Asia and make comments with confidence about what kind of contribution and influence was, made by the overseas Chinese who were under multiple complex historic factors and environments of regions in Southeast Asia.
A0321 Western Historiography (2/2): Students will be engaged in readings of the great historians of the Western world, from the earliest time to the beginning of the 20th century. This course also investigates how perception of the past has altered our present times.
A0322 Selected Texts from Western History (2/2): This course focuses on writings and texts of Western history with various approaches adopted by different historians.
A0398 History of Southeastern Asia (2/2): This course focuses on the following topics: blending and modification of cultures, religions and people of island-and-mainland Southeast Asia, cultural contact and the growth of states and peoples.
A0425 History of France (2/2): This course focuses on the major forces and trends in the history of France from Western Roman Empire to the 5th Republic.
A0466 History of Russia (2/2): This course discusses origins and evolution of Russian people and the state, and foreign relations as they affect domestic policy from 862 to 1964.
A0478 American History (2/2): This course focuses on the major forces and trends in the history of the U.S. from the earliest times to the present.
A0518 History of England (2/2): This course focuses on the major forces and trends in the history of England from the early medieval time to the present.
A0830 The Philosophy of History (2/2): This course serves as an in introduction to some of the main issues and problems in Western philosophy of history (including analytical approaches and speculative approaches).
A1432 Selected Texts on Japanese History (2/2): Students will be introduced to writings and texts on Japanese history, with various approaches adopted by distinguished historians.
A2857 The History of Central European Countries (2/2): This course is to offer students with essential understanding of Polish & Hungarian history in English. In the 1st semester, it begins with the ancient settlement of Poland and Hungary to the current independent from communist regime.
