Traditional Chinese Culture and Public Diplomacy has been listed as a major course on the corriculum of the Global Engagement Program. As China has entered a new stage on in the internnational community, becoming one of the greatest global players, standing at the very center of the world. To be more specific, China has been now considered as the most important global player by many countries. Therefor, China is supposed to take more responsibilies, and make more contributions to the further development of the world.

It aims to introduce the students some of the basic social research methods which are widely use in mainstream academic world and therefore to teach them how to write academically accepted research paper.

Seminar based on China studies

China's Enterprise Management

This course is from the point of enterprise view, analysis China's macroeconomic development and economic system changes, as business operators should understand the relevant economic theories. This course will be placed in China's macroeconomic development and economic system reform, focus on China's economic reform to explore the opportunities and development in China's economic restructuring and macroeconomic development, also related to how respond to challenges in change?

This course is to learn the basic concept, theoretical basis and the latest research results in the field of Science & Technology management and innovation policy, so that students in the course will get the knowledge of the development,the status and trends of science and technology management and innovation policy, and get to know the theory contribution, the latest research from different perspectives, and could also selcet and apply the corresponding theoretical tools for further analysis and interpretation on the current innovation policies and regulations.

Thepurposeofthis course isto introduce studentstosomeofthemajoraspectsofChinese civilizationfrompre-historyto1990s. Central themesinclude: What isChina? How are the political communities organized? What are the major features of their cultural achievements? Andwhatarethekindsofculturalinteractionswithother regions? The course will be basically chronological combined with thematic, interdisciplinary, and comparative approaches. Active participation—asking questions, making comments, and exchanging ideas based on the assigned readings and other

Chinese Heritage and Leisure Life

This lecture-discussion course will explore the most important topics -Confucianism, Daoism and Buddhism-in Chinese intellectual and cultural history, with particular emphasis on methods, sources, and problems of research, including examination of some broad interpretations of intellectual development of China.

Chinese Language and Culture