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
Media Studies on Time
Multiple Modes of Existence in Contemporary Literature and Art
Alchemical Thoughts and Imagery in English Literature
Transgender Trouble
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 Digital and Theory Study
Contagion Theory and Outbreak Narratives
Staging Global Encounters in Early Modern England
Reading Roman Historians in Latin
Seminar on James Joyce
Comparative Postcolonial Theory		◎
Postcolonial Studies: Representing Transitions
Men’s Studies and Literature
Gastronomic Writing and Gender Politics
Russian Orientalisms and Discourses of Chechnya				◎
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]
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			◎
Emily Dickinson’s Sense of Place, Travel, and Cultural Encounter
Grotesque Laughter in Postmodern Literature
Artaudian Theatre: Performance of Fear and Cruelty
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]
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
Charles Dickens’s Late Novels and Things Studies
Deterritorialization and Utopia
The Unrepresentable Ethical Resistance in J.M. Coetzee’s Works
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]
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
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
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]
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
Sound Narrative in Marguerite Duras
Identity and Memory in Taiwanese American Novels
A Study on Narcissism
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]
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)				◎
Independent Studies (Ⅱ)				◎
Independent Studies (Ⅲ)				◎
Narrative: Theory and Analysis		◎
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]
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)			◎
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)
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]
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			◎
Classic Spanish Culture (Ⅰ)			◎
Spanish Traditional Culture			◎
Spanish Contemporary Culture (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]
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
German Drama (Ⅰ)
German Drama (Ⅱ)
Selected Readings of Thomas Mann’s Novels (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]
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		◎
Selected Readings on German Romantic Novellas (Ⅰ)
Selected Readings on Italian Literature (Ⅰ)			◎
Selected Readings on Italian 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]
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: 251）	0	10	20	11