9/13 Week 1: Course overview: an interdisciplinary approach for the globe 

• Prof. Tzu-Chi Ou 歐子綺, International College of Innovation

(GNA event promotion at 3 pm)

9/20 Week 2: Globalization: Process or project?

• Prof. Hungying Chen 陳虹穎, International College of Innovation

Faulconbridge, J., & Beaverstock, J. (2009). Globalization : interconnected worlds. In S. Holloway, S. P. Rice, G. Valentine, & N. Clifford (Eds.), Key concepts in Geography (2nd edition) (pp. 331-343). Sage.

9/27 Week 3: Trans-disciplinary Research for Sustainable Development: the case of Climate Change and Taiwan's Net-Zero Transition 

•  Dr. Yi-Cheng (Ethan) Wu 吳奕辰, Taiwan Sustainability Hub (TSH)

1.  [Required] A: Introduction, in “IPCC AR6 WG II Summary for Policymakers”. URL: https://www.ipcc.ch/report/ar6/wg2/chapter/summary-for-policymakers/


2.  [Required] Roles of CDR in mitigation strategies, in “Chapter 12 of IPCC AR6 WGIII Full Report (p. 1262-1263)”. URL: https://www.ipcc.ch/report/ar6/wg3/downloads/report/IPCC_AR6_WGIII_FullReport.pdf


3.  [Required] 5. Hypothetical Timeline, in “Hanamatsu, Y., Fujiwara, T., Onda, N., Sato, T., Yamashita, T., Yokota, F. (2021). How Can We Develop a Co-design, Co-production, and Co-delivery Process Toward a Sustainable Local Society? Comparative Study on Transdisciplinary Research Projects. In: Yahara, T. (eds) Decision Science for Future Earth. Springer, Singapore”. URL: https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-981-15-8632-3_2


4. [Supplemental] Taiwan’s Pathway to Net-Zero Emissions in 2050. URL: https://issuu.com/lucyting/docs/taiwan_s_pathway_to_net-zero_emissions_in_2050


5. [Supplemental] The TSH Net-Zero with Social Science Forum. 

• Agenda https://www.taiwansustainabilityhub.org/2023netzeroforum


• YouTube https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLjrEEbkdwksEQuL4RQJghJ2K2Yh4JajCY

10/4 Week 4: Introduction to Data Analytics (DA)

• Prof. Chungpei Pien 卞中佩, International College of Innovation

10/11 Week 5: A.I., Power, and Publics

•  Prof. Po-Liang Chen 陳柏良, International College of Innovation

10/18 Week 6: Roundtable I: Why does globalization matter in the post-COVID era?

• Prof. Tzu-Chi Ou 歐子綺, International College of Innovation

10/25 Week 7: International Human Rights Norms & Global Governance

• Prof. Vivianne Weng 翁燕菁, Department of Political Science, NCCU 

11/1 Week 8: Whose globalization? Indigenity, environments, and other species

• Prof. Dana Powell 

(11/1 Prof. Dana Powell plans to bring her graduate students from the Institute of Humanities at Taipei Medical University to participate in our class. )

(11/4 Public event:  Negotiation thearter, Professor Chih-Yuan Yang)

11/8 Week 9: AI generator and ESG (DA/SS)

• Prof. Owen Lu 呂欣澤, International College of Innovation

11/17 Week 10: “The law court for future generations and other species”—an event from 思辨之夜 La Nuit des Idées at the Taipei 228 Peace Park 

• The French Office in Taipei

(11/15 class will take place on 11/17 instead.)

11/22 Week 11: Marriage Equality Movement in Taiwan and Beyond (SS/GG)

• Joyce Teng 鄧筑媛,  執行長 Executive Director, 彩虹平權大平台  Taiwan Equality Campaign

11/29 Week 12: Round Table II: How do we bring change to the ‘global’?

• Prof. Tzu-Chi Ou 歐子綺, International College of Innovation

12/6 Week 13: Spokesperson: Climate Change Reality Game 「未來發言人」氣候變遷實境遊戲

• Annie Huang 黃尚卿, Greenpeace East Asia Regional Project Leader

12/13 Week 14: Anthropocene and geopolitics

• Prof. Chih-Yuan Yang 楊智元, International College of Innovation 

12/20 Week 15: Taiwan politics 

• Prof. Lev Nachman 南樂, College of Social Sciences

12/27 Week 16: Sovereignty, conflicts, and (in)securities

• TBD

1/3 Week 17: Round Table III: (Re)thinking Asia and the Global

• Prof. Tzu-Chi Ou 歐子綺, International College of Innovation

1/10 Week 18: Reflection and wrap up

• Prof. Tzu-Chi Ou 歐子綺, International College of Innovation

Yun-An Chu 109zu1002@g.nccu.edu.tw

Ethan Liu  109zu1008@g.nccu.edu.tw 

1. Participation: 30%

Weekly discussion questions, reflective learning journal, participation, and attendance. Submit a discussion question each week by 5 p.m. on Tuesday on Moodle before the class.

2. Roundtable: 45% (15% for each round table) 

Collective work and performance in each round table session. Each group member shares equally the responsibility of their collective work. Peer assessment is included in the grading.  

3. Field trip report: 10% 

On week 10, students visit designated field sites and finish a brief report.

4. Reflection: 15% 

A reflective essay on the course. The length of the essay should not exceed 1,000 words. The essay should be able to reflect and conclude what you have learned from this course. It could be 1) selective and specific, on what question intrigued you, and how you find particular sets of lectures and teamwork processes helped you (un)answer the questions. 2) It could also be a synthesis and comprehensive one that outlines the connection that you see emerge between reading assignments, lectures, and teamwork. Submitting the essay by Sunday, the 7th January, 2024.

TBD