NCHU Course Outline

Course Name	(中) 網際文化(0436)
Course Name	(Eng.) Cyber-Culture
Offering Dept	General Education Center
Course Type	Required	Credits	2	Teacher	Theodorus Arnoldus Maria Richard
Department	General	Language	English	Semester	2025-FALL
Course Description	Core Literacy: Critical & Innovative Thinking, Self-expression, Teamwork, Local Care, Global Perspective Humanities Domain: Arts, Culture This course offers an exploration of Cyber Punk Culture through the in class viewing of Cyber Punk films and Manga and the subsequent in class discussion of the various aspects of the audiovisual works. This course contains three major aspects: (1) exploring Cyber Punk media; develop communication, teamwork, problem solving, and a willingness to continue professional growth through practice and reflection on global developments and sustainability; (2) identifying the importance and impacts of these works for global change trends and issues to integrate into learning and future work; and (3) self-examination and team review of change capabilities and achievements. The class will be discussion oriented on the basis of the viewed materials. Students are asked to take an active initiative to reflect upon and take action for change in the modern global environment. On the Course Content: Students will be asked to actively participate in the activities and share their findings in the class. The subjects and documents, as well as the class schedule, mentioned in the syllabus are only indicative and can be changed pursuant to the teacher’s ideas on the progress of the class. All required home-works are to be submitted on the relevant dates to the teacher, without late acceptance. Submission of papers is on paper, and midterm presentation and classroom summaries are digital. The students will be expected to form groups, to research and select audiovisual works for viewing in the classroom, to arrange viewing of the respective work, and participate in the discussions actively. A typical class where films are viewed, will run like this: the students of the relevant group present and introduce the work that will be presented (for about 15 – 20 minutes). They then arrange for the viewing by all students (max. 60 – 70 minutes of film). And they will lead the class discussion by preparing 4 to 5 questions to the class about the viewing. This is subject to any changes the teacher deems fit based on the class development. The selection by each group of one audiovisual work to present to the class, will be submitted to the teacher together with a reason for the choice, latest 2 days before the second week class date in writing. The teacher will have the free and decisive call on whether the choice will be approved by the teacher. NOTE: the order of presenting will be decided in reverse order of submitting: the group submitting last, will present first, and so forth. The teacher will announce the subject in class, each week for the following class week to confirm whether or not the activity as preliminarily listed in the syllabus will still be on. The content of such activities will be decided by the teacher based on the progress of the class. If there is no specific announcement by the teacher, then the activity shall be as indicated in the syllabus.
Prerequisites				self-directed learning in the course	Y

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1. To introduce students to diverse disciplinary and cultural perspectives enabling them to frame their own studies of Cyber Culture in changing environments, with a strong emphasis on the core issue of Climate Change and sustainability culture.
2. To familiarize students with some key concepts and materials related to Cyber Culture and global developments.

1.Humanitarian Training

2.Scientific Training

3.Communication Skills

4.Innovation

5.International Perspective

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Week	Course Content
Week 1	Introduction; forming of groups, and preliminary discussion on audiovisual works.
Week 2	General Discussion on the subject, teacher showing clips of an example film (possible Blade Runner 1982), followed by discussion. Finalising selection of audiovisual works
Week 3	Introduction, Viewing of Audiovisual Work, and Discussion. Film in Focus: Tron (1982).
Week 4	Introduction, Viewing of Audiovisual Work, and Discussion. Film in Focus: Terminator 2 (1991).
Week 5	Introduction, Viewing of Audiovisual Work, and Discussion. Film in Focus: Akira (1988).
Week 6	Introduction, Viewing of Audiovisual Work, and Discussion. Film in Focus: Total Recall (1990).
Week 7	Introduction, Viewing of Audiovisual Work, and Discussion. Film in Focus: Ghost in the Shell (1995).
Week 8	Midterm: recorded 5 – 10 minutes talk on your favourite Audiovisual Works and what you have learned so far, submitted via I-learning on the Midterm day, latest by that day midnight.
Week 9	Introduction, Viewing of Audiovisual Work, and Discussion. Film in Focus: Strange Days (1995).
Week 10	Introduction, Viewing of Audiovisual Work, and Discussion. Film in Focus: eXistenZ (1999).
Week 11	Introduction, Viewing of Audiovisual Work, and Discussion. Film in Focus: Hackers (1995).
Week 12	Introduction, Viewing of Audiovisual Work, and Discussion. Film in Focus: Gattaca (1997).
Week 13	Introduction, Viewing of Audiovisual Work, and Discussion. Film in Focus: Minority Report (2002).
Week 14	Introduction, Viewing of Audiovisual Work, and Discussion. Film in Focus: Dredd (2012).
Week 15	Introduction, Viewing of Audiovisual Work, and Discussion. Film in Focus: Upgrade (2018).
Week 16	Endterm: original (not AI) paper on any subject from the class, presenting on how you think the selected presented work could be of importance for the development of the world and Taiwan (1000 words).
self-directed learning	02.Viewing multimedia materials related to industry and academia. 03.Preparing presentations or reports related to industry and academia. Find at least 5 (five) YouTube presentations of at least 15 - 20 minutes length that are directly relevant to the subject of the class. Provide a 500 word written original and not AI-composed summary of the main message of these films.

Evaluation

Evaluation is based on the teacher’s impression of level of participation and overall performance in the class by the students.
Grades are calculated on the following basis:
40% Class participation through (group) discussions and presentations, and assignments.
30% Midterm: 5 – 10 min. presentation.
30% Endterm: 1000 words original paper.

Textbook & other References

Materials are multi-disciplinary.
Further readings depend on the selection of subjects and will be given by the teacher during the course of the class.

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Sustainable Development Goals, SDGs(Link URL)

11.Sustainable Cities and Communities 12.Responsible Consumption 13.Climate Action 16.Peace and Justice

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