As a continuation of EAS110Y1, this course is designed to help students increase their communication skills in the Korean language. Through an integration of listening, speaking, reading, and writing, this course aims to increase fluency and accuracy in Korean. Particular emphasis will be placed on the ability to use Korean in real-life-like situations/tasks with culturally appropriate and acceptable manners.

As a continuation of EAS210Y1, this course is designed to help students increase their communication skills in the Korean language. Through the integration of listening, speaking, reading, and writing, this course aims to increase fluency and accuracy in Korean. Emphases will be placed on the ability to use Korean in real-life-like situations/tasks with culturally appropriate and acceptable manners.

Covering both EAS110Y1 and EAS210Y1, this course is designed to help students build communication skills in the Korean language. Through an integration of listening, speaking, reading and writing, this course aims to provide a solid foundation in beginning level Korean. Particular emphases will be placed on the ability to use Korean in real-life-like situations/tasks with culturally appropriate and acceptable manners.

Covering EAS210Y1 in a single term, this course is designed to help students build communication skills in the Korean language. Through an integration of listening, speaking, reading, and writing, this course aims to provide a solid foundation in beginning level Korean. Particular emphases will be placed on the ability to use Korean in real-life-like situations/tasks with culturally appropriate and acceptable manners. Students are expected to actively participate in communicative exchanges with the instructor and classmates as well as be well prepared for the content of each class.

This course is designed for students with no prior background in Chinese language and culture. The objectives are to teach students to distinguish by ear, to write and to pronounce all the individual syllables in the phonetic system of modern standard Chinese (Mandarin) and to help students develop competencies in employing actively basic Chinese grammar, words, and expressions contained in Chinese Odyssey, Volumes 1 (lessons 1-10) and volume 2 (lessons 11-17). By the end of the course, students should be able to converse in simple sentences and write a total of 400 simple-form characters.

This course is a continuation of EAS100Y1. It is designed for students who can speak, understand, and write about 300 Chinese words or reach the proficiency level of HSK level 2. The course helps the students further develop their four skills of the language — listening, speaking, reading, and writing. It also aims to develop the students' cultural competency in the Chinese context especially in daily conversational scenarios.

This course is a continuation of the 200 level language courses that the Chinese Language Program at EAS offers. The course is designed to develop students' listening, speaking, reading, and writing skills through various cultural topics, including poetry, proverbs, myth and folklore, social customs, religious practices, geographic attractions, and many more. Students will learn to gather information, initiate a dialogue, read and write short essays on similar or related topics.

This course is designed for students who understand elementary Mandarin or any Chinese dialect because of their cultural or family backgrounds. The course consists of mandatory lectures and tutorials. Students will learn a minimum of 550 characters. Students must go through placement process conducted by the Department. See the departmental website for details.

This course aims to develop students' abilities at an advanced level, with a focus on reading of fictional and/or journalistic writings. Students will improve their reading comprehension, strengthen writing skills, and advance speaking and listening skills through class discussions and oral presentations. Students who do not meet the prerequisite must go through placement process conducted by the Department. See the departmental website for details.

This course is a continuation of EAS300Y1 or EAS301H1. It is designed to further develop students' listening, speaking, reading, and writing skills of Mandarin through discussing contemporary Chinese cultural and social topics. The topics include youth employment, work ethics, heritage preservation, platform economy, and many more. Students will learn to understand different opinions on a topic, analyze lines of argumentation, think critically, and develop arguments in debate and essay writing.

This course serves as a practicum for graduate-level research in East Asian Studies, focusing on various critical approaches and methodological models relevant to contemporary issues in East Asian humanities research. In addition to introducing key topics, the course aims to enhance students' ability to formulate questions and engage in critical thinking. Students are expected to: 1) grasp the core issues and arguments presented by authors, 2) understand how scholars challenge conventional concepts and contribute to new knowledge frontiers, and 3) question, analyze, and interpretate assigned texts. To facilitate this, a set of guiding questions is provided to students weekly. In return, students are encouraged to contribute one written passage per class session, summarizing an author's main argument, posing a question about the reading, or offering a creative interpretation of a primary source assigned for the week. Analytical (critical) reading of scholarly and intellectual works, as well as close examination of primary sources, are the main focus areas of this training and exercise. Other requirements and assignments include critical review essays, close-reading writeups about primary sources, final research essay, as well as participation and presentation.

How was space — broadly defined — accounted for, depicted, formulated and imagined in imperial China? How did shifting cultural logic and/or aesthetic norms affect the production and interpretation of space? To achieve a historically grounded understanding of these questions, this seminar explores selected literary representations, geographic treatises, cartographic image/texts, and religious cosmographies — mostly from early China to the mid-imperial era.

Special topics offered by graduate units in area of Energy Systems. Content of courses may change each time they are offered and are developed to cover emergeing issues or specialized content

General aspects of high voltage ac/dc systems, principles of HVdc systems, HVdc control, harmonics, and filters. Small-signal dynamics of HVdc/ac systems and eigen analysis, subsynchronous oscillations, interarea oscillations, harmonic instability. Large-signal dynamics in HVdc/ac systems. Introduction to the EMTP and the EMTDC software packages for the analysis and design of HVdc/ac systems. Introduction to multi-terminal HVdc systems.

Special topics offered by graduate units in area of Energy Systems. Content of courses may change each time they are offered and are developed to cover emerging issues or specialized content.

Explore techniques for the optimization of power system operations, including the following topics: state estimation, power system security, economic dispatch, power markets, and unit commitment.

The course presents case studies of old and new Smart Grid applications in overhead electric power networks. Each case study has components that include a history of the technology, a simplified treatment of the specific threat or opportunity, and the implementation issues in communications and sensor installation and maintenance. The treatment makes use of relevant industrial standards including IEEE and IEC.

The course organizes the voltage stresses that appear in high voltage systems in terms of amplitude, duration, and occurrence. Suitable models for electrical breakdown and withstand are developed, with specific emphasis on outdoor insulation in adverse weather conditions. The functions of surge protective devices, grounding and other overvoltage control measures will be discussed. The treatment makes use of empirical models typical of relevant IEEE and IEC industrial standards.

This course covers modern developments in power systems from a mathematical perspective. The content includes: convex relaxations of optimal power flow; renewable variability and aggregation; duality, pricing, and transmission rights; game theoretic modeling of market abuse; optimal control of energy storage; scheduling techniques for demand response.

The course introduces the objectives, components and principles of grounding systems. Empirical models for risk of electrocution and perception are identified, using relevant IEEE and IEC industrial standards. Methods for characterizing soil resistivity are demonstrated and then related to electrical characteristics of typical service entrance, line and station ground grid electrodes. Much of the course focus is on 60-Hz analysis but the scope will include considerations for dc and lightning impulse performance, including testing of transfer impedance from lightning protection systems to victim circuits and components.

This course is intended to benefit graduate students with interest in Electromagnetics and Photonics. It revisits and expands some of the more fundamental electromagnetic laws and theories. The course provides the students with the necessary foundation and specific knowledge of electromagnetic theory and the dynamics of wave propagation and interaction with materials and structures.

Topics covered in the course: Maxwell equations in differential and integral forms; constitutive relations; electric field and electrostatic potential, electric and magnetic polarization; boundary conditions, energy and power, material dispersion (electric response), material dispersion (magnetic response), conductors and conductivity, Multipole expansion, Maxwell-Helmholtz wave equations, solutions to Maxwell-Helmholtz wave equations, plane waves, polarization, reflection and transmission at interfaces, beam optics (time permitting), the other wave equation (Schrödinger wave equation), electron-photon analogies, waveguides, optical multilayers and transfer matrix method, dynamics of wave propagation (phase velocity, group velocity, energy velocity, forerunners), dispersive effects, introduction to waves in periodic structures, wave equation as operator, operator calculus and bases, anisotropic and bi-anisotropic medium, electromagnetic principles and theorems (duality, uniqueness, reciprocity theorem), and if time permits Green functions and Hamilton-Jacobi canonical equations.