Capabilities \ Core Courses	A. Ability to analyze English and American literature. B. Ability to engage with theoretical debates to interpret literary texts and cultural phenomena. C. Ability to construct original interpretations of literary texts and culture. D. Ability to write quality research papers on topics in the humanities.
	[A]	[B]	[C]	[D]
Research Methodology and Academic Writing (Ⅰ)				◎
Research Methodology and Academic Writing (Ⅱ)				◎
Advanced Critical Composition				◎
English Writing				◎
The Modernists' Aesthetics and Politics	◎	◎	◎	◎
Greek Lyrics	◎		◎
Representation and Afro-american Women's Novels	◎	◎	◎	◎
Ecological Poetics : Special Topics	◎		◎
Fashion Theory:from Postmodern to Postcolonial	◎	◎
Seminar on Emily Dickinson	◎		◎
Capabilities \ Core Courses	A. Ability to analyze English and American literature. B. Ability to engage with theoretical debates to interpret literary texts and cultural phenomena. C. Ability to construct original interpretations of literary texts and culture. D. Ability to write quality research papers on topics in the humanities.
	[A]	[B]	[C]	[D]
Body and Objects	◎	◎	◎	◎
Edgar Allan Poe：the Horror and Detective Function	◎		◎
Twentieth-century Women S Fiction	◎		◎
Pre-raphaelite Poetry and Art	◎	◎	◎	◎
Affect Theory	◎	◎	◎	◎
Asian American Critical Discourses		◎	◎	◎
Topics in Contemporary Literary Theory		◎	◎	◎
Speech and Writing		◎	◎	◎
New Materialisms and Novel Studies	◎	◎	◎
Cognitive and Psychological Approaches to Saussure		◎	◎	◎
Capabilities \ Core Courses	A. Ability to analyze English and American literature. B. Ability to engage with theoretical debates to interpret literary texts and cultural phenomena. C. Ability to construct original interpretations of literary texts and culture. D. Ability to write quality research papers on topics in the humanities.
	[A]	[B]	[C]	[D]
Truth and Subject		◎	◎
Love, the Male Lover, Knowledge: Jane Austen and Alice Munro	◎	◎	◎	◎
Medieval Literature: Texts and Debates	◎	◎	◎	◎
Victorian Novel and Medicine	◎	◎	◎	◎
Literary Theory		◎
T. W. Adorno and the Frankfurt School		◎
Theory and Translation		◎	◎	◎
Posthuman Temporality		◎	◎	◎
The Economics of Jouissance		◎	◎	◎
Elizabeth Bishop, Sylvia Plath, and Feminine Sexuality	◎	◎	◎	◎
Capabilities \ Core Courses	A. Ability to analyze English and American literature. B. Ability to engage with theoretical debates to interpret literary texts and cultural phenomena. C. Ability to construct original interpretations of literary texts and culture. D. Ability to write quality research papers on topics in the humanities.
	[A]	[B]	[C]	[D]
The Posthuman Global	◎	◎	◎	◎
Postcolonial Studies: Said, Bhabha, Spivak	◎	◎	◎	◎
Childhood and Unconscious		◎	◎	◎
Problematizing Aesthetics Through Semiotics		◎	◎	◎
Psychoanalysis and Science		◎	◎	◎
Lord Byron and His Contemporaries	◎	◎	◎	◎
Shakespeare, (Hi)story and Adaptation	◎	◎	◎	◎
American Modern Poetry and the City	◎	◎	◎	◎
Gesture and Voice		◎	◎	◎
The Gothic Revival: Literature and Architecture	◎		◎	◎
Capabilities \ Core Courses	A. Ability to analyze English and American literature. B. Ability to engage with theoretical debates to interpret literary texts and cultural phenomena. C. Ability to construct original interpretations of literary texts and culture. D. Ability to write quality research papers on topics in the humanities.
	[A]	[B]	[C]	[D]
Seminar on Agamben		◎	◎	◎
Shakespeare and Reformation Culture	◎	◎	◎	◎
Postcolonial Studies: Reading After Empire		◎	◎	◎
Europe Modern	◎		◎	◎
Space and English and American Women's Novels	◎		◎
Anne Brontë’s Female Bildung and the Credit Market		◎	◎
Coleridge’s Wandering and Self-Analysis	◎		◎	◎
The Aesthetics of Evil		◎
Desire and Gaze		◎	◎
Animal/ity and Unconscious		◎	◎
Capabilities \ Core Courses	A. Ability to analyze English and American literature. B. Ability to engage with theoretical debates to interpret literary texts and cultural phenomena. C. Ability to construct original interpretations of literary texts and culture. D. Ability to write quality research papers on topics in the humanities.
	[A]	[B]	[C]	[D]
Visual Culture and Textual Politics in Late Medieval England	◎	◎
Psychoanalytic Theory of Art	◎	◎
Walter Benjamin	◎	◎
Exploring Meaningful Games		◎	◎
Fundamentals of Deleuze’s Thought		◎
Comparative Caribbean Studies: Historical, Postcolonial, Theoretical Inquiries	◎	◎	◎
English Literature and Adaptation Studies	◎	◎	◎	◎
Cognitive Bodies		◎	◎	◎
Natural History and Literature in the Nineteenth-century Britain	◎	◎	◎	◎
Serious Fiction: Kafka, Beckett, Coetzee	◎	◎	◎	◎
Capabilities \ Core Courses	A. Ability to analyze English and American literature. B. Ability to engage with theoretical debates to interpret literary texts and cultural phenomena. C. Ability to construct original interpretations of literary texts and culture. D. Ability to write quality research papers on topics in the humanities.
	[A]	[B]	[C]	[D]
Face Theory	◎	◎	◎	◎
Life in Emergent Theories		◎	◎
Milton and Emotion	◎	◎	◎	◎
From Phantasy to Logic		◎	◎
Shakespeare, Identity, and Nation Building	◎	◎	◎
Aspects of In-Betweenness in Nature and Culture	◎	◎	◎	◎
Natural History and Literature in the Nineteenth Century Britain (Ⅱ)	◎	◎	◎	◎
Sophocles' Ajax		◎	◎	◎
War in Contemporary Irish Drama		◎	◎	◎
Orality, Text, Brain	◎	◎
Capabilities \ Core Courses	A. Ability to analyze English and American literature. B. Ability to engage with theoretical debates to interpret literary texts and cultural phenomena. C. Ability to construct original interpretations of literary texts and culture. D. Ability to write quality research papers on topics in the humanities.
	[A]	[B]	[C]	[D]
Shakespeare, History and Culture	◎	◎	◎	◎
Hybrid Creatures: Metamorphosis and Agency	◎	◎	◎	◎
Symptom, Knowledge and Truth		◎	◎	◎
East-West Encounter: Narrative and Material	◎	◎	◎	◎
Sexuality Studies: Special Topics		◎	◎
Contemporary English Novels	◎	◎	◎	◎
Readings in Film Studies		◎	◎	◎
Monster Studies		◎	◎	◎
British Women Writers Since Woolf	◎	◎	◎	◎
Geoffrey Chaucer	◎		◎
Capabilities \ Core Courses	A. Ability to analyze English and American literature. B. Ability to engage with theoretical debates to interpret literary texts and cultural phenomena. C. Ability to construct original interpretations of literary texts and culture. D. Ability to write quality research papers on topics in the humanities.
	[A]	[B]	[C]	[D]
Pleasure and Evidential Semiotics	◎	◎	◎	◎
Open Source Culture and the Future		◎	◎	◎
Translation History in China			◎	◎
Sexuation and Writing		◎	◎	◎
The Collective		◎	◎	◎
Words and Affects: Late Lacan, Munro, Zasetsky	◎	◎	◎	◎
Rhetoric: China and the West in Comparison		◎	◎
Media Theory and Literature		◎	◎
The Sociology of Literature from Marx to Moretti		◎
The Affective Apparatus		◎	◎	◎
Capabilities \ Core Courses	A. Ability to analyze English and American literature. B. Ability to engage with theoretical debates to interpret literary texts and cultural phenomena. C. Ability to construct original interpretations of literary texts and culture. D. Ability to write quality research papers on topics in the humanities.
	[A]	[B]	[C]	[D]
Catastrophe and Technicity in Science Fiction		◎	◎	◎
Posthumanism and the Object	◎	◎	◎
Narrative and Narratology		◎
Memory, Aging and Life Writing	◎	◎	◎	◎
The Face of the Film		◎	◎	◎
Digitality, Imagination, and Experience		◎	◎	◎
New Realism and Materialism		◎	◎	◎
Shakespeare Studies and Critical Theories				◎
Introduction to Lacanian Psychoanalysis		◎	◎	◎
Irish Fiction in the Wake of the Celtic Tiger	◎	◎	◎	◎
Capabilities \ Core Courses	A. Ability to analyze English and American literature. B. Ability to engage with theoretical debates to interpret literary texts and cultural phenomena. C. Ability to construct original interpretations of literary texts and culture. D. Ability to write quality research papers on topics in the humanities.
	[A]	[B]	[C]	[D]
Special Topics in the 21st-Century Novel	◎	◎	◎
Just Kids? Literature and Childhood Studies	◎	◎	◎	◎
Psychoanalysis, Literature and Writing		◎	◎	◎
Transpacific Studies		◎	◎	◎
Psychoanalytic Theory of Art		◎	◎	◎
Border Crossing in Japanese Anime and Manga		◎	◎	◎
Psychoanalysis and Deconstruction		◎	◎
Every Body: An Introduction to Literary Disability Studies	◎	◎	◎	◎
Arthurian Romance	◎	◎	◎	◎
Introduction to Comparative Literature		◎	◎	◎
Capabilities \ Core Courses	A. Ability to analyze English and American literature. B. Ability to engage with theoretical debates to interpret literary texts and cultural phenomena. C. Ability to construct original interpretations of literary texts and culture. D. Ability to write quality research papers on topics in the humanities.
	[A]	[B]	[C]	[D]
Seminar on Utopia	◎		◎	◎
Virginia Woolf	◎		◎
Late Nineteenth Century American Fiction	◎	◎	◎	◎
Politics of Friendship	◎		◎
Study on Narcissism	◎	◎
Vision, Power and Desire	◎	◎
Globalization and Transnationalism	◎	◎
Victorian Literature and Art: Nostalgia, Women, Material Culture	◎	◎	◎	◎
Consumption, Spectacle, and Enjoyment		◎	◎	◎
Post-millennial Asian North American Writing	◎	◎	◎	◎
Capabilities \ Core Courses	A. Ability to analyze English and American literature. B. Ability to engage with theoretical debates to interpret literary texts and cultural phenomena. C. Ability to construct original interpretations of literary texts and culture. D. Ability to write quality research papers on topics in the humanities.
	[A]	[B]	[C]	[D]
Shakespeare and the Bible			◎
Pli-philosophy	◎	◎	◎	◎
British Novel and Capitalism	◎		◎
Badiou and Literature		◎	◎	◎
Occupy Theory		◎	◎
Troy in Literature: Trauma, Affect, Identity	◎	◎	◎	◎
Romantic Literature and Empire	◎	◎	◎	◎
Twentieth-Century Women’s Fiction	◎	◎	◎	◎
Issues of Contemporary Fiction Studies	◎		◎	◎
AI in Science Fiction	◎		◎	◎
Capabilities \ Core Courses	A. Ability to analyze English and American literature. B. Ability to engage with theoretical debates to interpret literary texts and cultural phenomena. C. Ability to construct original interpretations of literary texts and culture. D. Ability to write quality research papers on topics in the humanities.
	[A]	[B]	[C]	[D]
Cinematic Modernisms			◎	◎
Eileen Chang Studies: Text, Translation, Contemporaneity		◎	◎
Affectionate Male Friendship in English Literature and Culture, 1600-1800	◎		◎	◎
Victorian Novels and Material Culture	◎	◎
Postcolonial Theory and Its Discontents	◎	◎	◎	◎
Sophocles’ Antigone			◎
Topics in Shakespeare: Intercultural Approaches	◎	◎	◎	◎
Theatre, Nationhood, and Globalization in Ireland	◎	◎	◎	◎
Studies of Medicine and Literature	◎	◎	◎
Democracy and American Literature: Form and Fantasy	◎	◎	◎	◎
Capabilities \ Core Courses	A. Ability to analyze English and American literature. B. Ability to engage with theoretical debates to interpret literary texts and cultural phenomena. C. Ability to construct original interpretations of literary texts and culture. D. Ability to write quality research papers on topics in the humanities.
	[A]	[B]	[C]	[D]
Queer Theory		◎	◎	◎
Extraterrestrial Life and Sci-fi	◎	◎	◎	◎
Gothic Corporealities	◎	◎	◎	◎
Studies of Contagions: Violence, Politics and Culture	◎	◎	◎	◎
Classical Reception: Responses to the Odyssey	◎	◎	◎	◎
New Ontologies		◎	◎	◎
Contagion Theory and Outbreak Narratives		◎	◎
Seminar on James Joyce	◎	◎	◎	◎
Comparative Postcolonial Theory		◎
Postcolonial Studies: Representing Transitions		◎	◎	◎
Capabilities \ Core Courses	A. Ability to analyze English and American literature. B. Ability to engage with theoretical debates to interpret literary texts and cultural phenomena. C. Ability to construct original interpretations of literary texts and culture. D. Ability to write quality research papers on topics in the humanities.
	[A]	[B]	[C]	[D]
Men’s Studies and Literature		◎	◎	◎
Gastronomic Writing and Gender Politics		◎	◎
Russian Orientalisms and Discourses of Chechnya				◎
History, Memory, and Southern Novels		◎	◎
Ulysses and Maternal Abjection		◎	◎
Asian American Critical Discourses	◎	◎	◎	◎
Horace Walpole, Strawberry Hill House and the Aesthetics of Architecture	◎	◎	◎	◎
Jazz Age and Racial Politics in American Novels	◎		◎
The Aesthetics and Politics of Ruins: from the Late 17th Century to Romanticism	◎	◎	◎	◎
Female Cross-Dressing in Chinese Opera Shakespeare			◎
Capabilities \ Core Courses	A. Ability to analyze English and American literature. B. Ability to engage with theoretical debates to interpret literary texts and cultural phenomena. C. Ability to construct original interpretations of literary texts and culture. D. Ability to write quality research papers on topics in the humanities.
	[A]	[B]	[C]	[D]
Emily Dickinson’s Sense of Place, Travel, and Cultural Encounter	◎	◎	◎	◎
Grotesque Laughter in Postmodern Literature	◎	◎	◎	◎
Artaudian Theatre: Performance of Fear and Cruelty	◎	◎	◎	◎
John Ruskin and Women’s Education	◎	◎	◎	◎
Beckett’s The Unnamable and the Voice of Witness		◎		◎
The Personal Poetics of Frank O’Hara	◎	◎		◎
John Clare’s Natural Historical Aesthetics of Otherness	◎	◎	◎	◎
The Disciplined Body and Construction of the Self			◎
Adaptation	◎	◎	◎	◎
Readings in Western Philosophical Ethics		◎	◎
Capabilities \ Core Courses	A. Ability to analyze English and American literature. B. Ability to engage with theoretical debates to interpret literary texts and cultural phenomena. C. Ability to construct original interpretations of literary texts and culture. D. Ability to write quality research papers on topics in the humanities.
	[A]	[B]	[C]	[D]
Charles Dickens’s Late Novels and Things Studies		◎		◎
Deterritorialization and Utopia	◎	◎	◎	◎
The Unrepresentable Ethical Resistance in J.M. Coetzee’s Works		◎	◎	◎
Language and Being in The Unnamable	◎	◎	◎	◎
Time-Image and Literary Practice		◎	◎	◎
Charlotte Smith and the search for woman’s voice	◎	◎	◎	◎
King Lear in the Chinese Diaspora	◎	◎	◎	◎
Food and Women in Modern Women’s Novels	◎	◎	◎	◎
Love, Identification and Feminine Subjectivity	◎	◎	◎	◎
Development of Racism in Three South African Novels		◎	◎	◎
Capabilities \ Core Courses	A. Ability to analyze English and American literature. B. Ability to engage with theoretical debates to interpret literary texts and cultural phenomena. C. Ability to construct original interpretations of literary texts and culture. D. Ability to write quality research papers on topics in the humanities.
	[A]	[B]	[C]	[D]
Aesthetics and Science in Keats	◎	◎	◎	◎
The Eighteenth-Century Black Atlantic: Slaves, Sailors and Merchants	◎	◎	◎
The Intersection of Aesthetics and Ethics: Celan and Poetry after Auschwitz		◎	◎	◎
Ursula K. Le Guin and Utopianism: Theory and Texts	◎	◎	◎	◎
Woolf’s Folding: The Micro-Material History of Imperialism	◎	◎	◎	◎
The Politics of Aesthetics: Jacques Ranciére Seminar		◎	◎
Shakespeare, Time and Space	◎	◎	◎	◎
The Logic of Desire		◎	◎	◎
Symbiosis of Our Mind and Environment	◎	◎	◎	◎
Japanese ‘Otaku culture’ and Globalisation		◎	◎	◎
Capabilities \ Core Courses	A. Ability to analyze English and American literature. B. Ability to engage with theoretical debates to interpret literary texts and cultural phenomena. C. Ability to construct original interpretations of literary texts and culture. D. Ability to write quality research papers on topics in the humanities.
	[A]	[B]	[C]	[D]
Sound Narrative in Marguerite Duras		◎	◎	◎
Identity and Memory in Taiwanese American Novels	◎	◎	◎	◎
A Study on Narcissism		◎		◎
Transpacific Studies	◎	◎	◎	◎
Dwelling Cinema and the Media City				◎
The Posthuman and Documentary		◎	◎	◎
The Palimpsestuous Neo-Victorian Cultural Icons in Japanese ACG		◎	◎
Biopolitics and Necropolitics of Queer Subjects		◎		◎
Independent Study				◎
Independent Studies (Ⅰ)				◎
Capabilities \ Core Courses	A. Ability to analyze English and American literature. B. Ability to engage with theoretical debates to interpret literary texts and cultural phenomena. C. Ability to construct original interpretations of literary texts and culture. D. Ability to write quality research papers on topics in the humanities.
	[A]	[B]	[C]	[D]
Independent Studies (Ⅱ)				◎
Independent Studies (Ⅲ)				◎
Narrative: Theory and Analysis		◎
Literary Theory		◎
Selected Readings on Spanish Literature (Ⅰ)		◎	◎	◎
Selected Readings on Spanish Literature (Ⅱ)		◎	◎	◎
Selected Readings on French Literature (Ⅰ)			◎
Selected Readings on French Literature (Ⅱ)			◎
Selected Reading on German Literature (Ⅰ)			◎
Selected Readings on German Literature (Ⅱ)			◎
Capabilities \ Core Courses	A. Ability to analyze English and American literature. B. Ability to engage with theoretical debates to interpret literary texts and cultural phenomena. C. Ability to construct original interpretations of literary texts and culture. D. Ability to write quality research papers on topics in the humanities.
	[A]	[B]	[C]	[D]
German Nobel Prize Winners and Their Works (Ⅰ)			◎
Introduction of German Nobel Laureates in Literature and Their Works (Ⅱ)			◎
Thomas Mann and His Works (Ⅰ)	◎		◎
Thomas Mann and His Works (Ⅱ)	◎		◎
Selected Reading on German Literature (Ⅲ)		◎	◎
Selected Readings on German Literature (Ⅳ)		◎	◎
Introduction to Translation Studies			◎
Sci-fi Texts: Translation and Critical Evaluation	◎	◎	◎	◎
Visual Culture	◎	◎	◎	◎
Spanish Pop Culture			◎
Capabilities \ Core Courses	A. Ability to analyze English and American literature. B. Ability to engage with theoretical debates to interpret literary texts and cultural phenomena. C. Ability to construct original interpretations of literary texts and culture. D. Ability to write quality research papers on topics in the humanities.
	[A]	[B]	[C]	[D]
Classic Spanish Culture (Ⅰ)			◎
Spanish Traditional Culture			◎
Spanish Contemporary Culture (Ⅰ)			◎
Classic Spanish Culture (Ⅱ)			◎
Spanish Contemporary Culture (Ⅱ)			◎
Renaissance Bible and Renaissance Text	◎	◎	◎	◎
The Bible on Film	◎	◎	◎	◎
Shakespeare and Biblical Adaptation	◎	◎	◎	◎
Reading Screenplays	◎	◎	◎
Compilation and Analysis of News			◎	◎
Capabilities \ Core Courses	A. Ability to analyze English and American literature. B. Ability to engage with theoretical debates to interpret literary texts and cultural phenomena. C. Ability to construct original interpretations of literary texts and culture. D. Ability to write quality research papers on topics in the humanities.
	[A]	[B]	[C]	[D]
German Drama (Ⅰ)		◎	◎
German Drama (Ⅱ)		◎	◎
Selected Readings of Thomas Mann’s Novels (Ⅰ)	◎		◎
Selected Readings of Thomas Mann’s Novels (Ⅱ)	◎		◎
Selected Readings of German Literature from Nineteenth Century Novels (Ⅰ)	◎		◎
Old English (I)	◎			◎
Modern American Poetry to Mid-20th Century	◎		◎
Solos & Choruses: American Poetry, Postwar to Late 20th Century	◎		◎
Creative Writing Translation Workshop: Contemporary Taiwan Poetry			◎
The Languages of Advertising		◎
Capabilities \ Core Courses	A. Ability to analyze English and American literature. B. Ability to engage with theoretical debates to interpret literary texts and cultural phenomena. C. Ability to construct original interpretations of literary texts and culture. D. Ability to write quality research papers on topics in the humanities.
	[A]	[B]	[C]	[D]
Selected Readings on German Romantic Novellas (Ⅰ)		◎	◎
Selected Readings on Italian Literature (Ⅰ)			◎
Selected Readings on Italian Literature (Ⅱ)			◎
Taiwanese Fiction and Cultural Studies	◎		◎
Core Capabilities	A Ability to analyze English and American literature.	B Ability to engage with theoretical debates to interpret literary texts and cultural phenomena.	C Ability to construct original interpretations of literary texts and culture.	D Ability to write quality research papers on topics in the humanities.
Number of Core Courses （Number of All Courses: 244）	122	183	208	153