This course introduces how to select topics, collect information, analyse materials and conduct speeches/debate. Students are expected to develop critical thinking and presentation skills within a specified time frame.

https://pan.zju.edu.cn/share/e82dd0847a0d6acb5e6bb35859

Japanese learning experience of N1 level or higher.

Students will give a presentation in Japanese during class.

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The Pragmatics course is designed to introduce students to more advanced linguistic phenomenon on speech acts and conversations. Crucial frameworks and research methods are addressed. This course aims to equip students for further study and research.

https://pan.zju.edu.cn/share/19ccf372db52738443ac97ee96

This course is designed for students who have exposure to the Japanese language.

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ODE is where you start to see the power of calculus, the ability to make predictions. Yes, with calculus you can predict the future! Well, more precisely, given the physical laws of the universe (or the markets, or your favorite system), differential equations allow us to forecast how it will evolve into the future. They are indispensable in my field of research, where we work with ODEs complicated sibling (partial differential equations, which involve multiple dimensions) to predict the response of the weather and climate systems to external forcing, i.e., our greenhouse gas emissions. They are invaluable across the physical sciences. At the conclusion of the course students should be able to

(1) Understand the concepts of initial value problem and solution;
(2) Solve first-order linear differential equations;
(3) Solve second-order homogeneous and non-homogeneous linear ODEs; 
(4) Solve systems of linear equations and understand basic properties of nonlinear systems;
(5) Derive a basic first-order ODE model from a description of a physical system; 
(6) Use Taylor expansions to solve an ODE near a regular point;
(7) Understand and apply basic numerical methods for solving ODEs.

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Calculus I/II, Linear Algebra.

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This is an introductory course in operations research. You will be introduced to a number of management science techniques that you may need to use at various stages of your career in the industry, sometimes even in your own personal life. As a student of business you will learn to develop appropriate models for different business scenarios, to get answers from these models using various techniques, to analyze and interpret the results, and to use the information to make better business decisions. Materials covered in the course also will be used in upper-level courses in finance, marketing, management, economics, operations management, and computer information systems. Topics will include optimization, decision analysis, and queuing theory. 

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Advanced Mathematics, Management

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Global Climate Change is a change in the statistical distribution of weather patterns when that change lasts for an extended period of time, and its impacts on nature, economy and communities. Climate change may refer to a change in average weather conditions, or in the time variation of weather around longer-term average conditions. This course focuses on global climate changes in marine and coastal environment within recent 100 years. It mainly introduces the changes of coastal environment under the climate changes, and the major challenges in the marine environment and major solutions of environmental protections.

https://pan.zju.edu.cn/share/9cd659ed5b0a32d87722ebcaa8

Students with natural or environmental sciences background.

Exam and coursework.

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