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Applied English I |
- To familiarize students with cultural and environmental issues in local Taiwan contexts.
- To enhance students' ability to identify local environmental problems and strengthen students' critical thinking skills in problem-solving.
- To equip students to compare environmental issues in Taiwanese or other target cultures with their native cultures.
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Seminars on Sustainable Development I |
- Enhance students' intercultural competence (keeping an open mind and having knowledge about the social norms in other cultures), and encourage students to cooperate and communicate with people from different cultures.
- Equip students with the ability to develop and implement a social project.
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Sustainable Development for the Environment |
- In 2015, many countries adopted the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and its 17 Sustainable Development (SD) goals. The aims of this course are:
- Understand the backgrounds and current standing of the 17 SD goals.
- Identify the problems of SD in one's own country.
- Reflect on one's own attitude and behavior and find ways to resolve any inconsistencies with the goals.
- Develop the capability to advocate for the SD goals.
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Experiencing
Learning I
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- Learn the ecological, industrial and cultural features of neighborhood communities.
- Know how to protect river environments through participating in river watch activities
- Familiarize the concept of cooperative construction and architecture through participating in the construction projects of the Eco-center.
- Learn the importance of animal conservation through participating in the Roots and shoots animal parade.
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Software Application |
- Students develop appropriate attitudes towards information technology, learn to use office software to promote environmental and humanistic care, and enhance their abilities in cooperative and action learning.
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Introduction to Taiwan |
- This introductory course on Taiwan emphasizes field trips and hands-on experience. Students are taken to visit museums, Taiwanese historical sites, and aboriginal villages. All of the in-depth visits provide opportunities for students to experience interaction between agricultural and environmental change, and understand how social changes affect environmental conditions in Taiwan.
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