Course Information
Course title
American Politics 
Semester
104-1 
Designated for
COLLEGE OF SOCIAL SCIENCES  DEPARTMENT OF POLITICAL SCIENCE  
Instructor
CHEN-SHEN YEN 
Curriculum Number
PS4611 
Curriculum Identity Number
302E51200 
Class
 
Credits
Full/Half
Yr.
Half 
Required/
Elective
Elective 
Time
Thursday 3,4(10:20~12:10) 
Remarks
The upper limit of the number of students: 50. 
Ceiba Web Server
http://ceiba.ntu.edu.tw/1041PS4611_ 
Course introduction video
 
Table of Core Capabilities and Curriculum Planning
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Course Syllabus
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Course Description

The course covers the following topics
1. Electromagnetic (EM) fields and Maxwell’s Equations
2. EM Wave Equation – Mathematic and Physical Meanings
3. EM Wave Propagation
4. EM Wave in Layered Media and Complex Waves
5. EM Radiation and Dyadic Green’s Function
6. Some Important EM Theory (Uniqueness, Equivalence, Imaging, Duality, Reciprocity, Babinet’s Principle)
7. EM Scattering with Approximation Techniques
8. EM Research Topics and Term Projects
 

Course Objective
Course Objectives:
Students will be equipped with the following three aspects in the end of this course:
1. Clarify and integrate the EM fundamental concepts
2. Learn the advanced EM theorems and mathematic methods
3. Expand the scope of EM-related knowledge and research/application topics

 
Course Requirement
Prerequisites/Code
1. Prerequisites: Elementary Electromagnetics
2. Class Code: Vibration mode on mobile phones, No Food allowed, Questions/Discussion encouraged
 
Student Workload (expected study time outside of class per week)
 
Office Hours
 
Designated reading
Textbook:
C. A. Balanis, Advanced Engineering Electromagnetics, 2nd Ed, 2012.

 
References
References:
Ref-1 R. F. Harrington, Time-Harmonic Electromagnetic Fields, reprinted by
IEEE, 2001
Ref-2 J. D. Jackson, Classical Electrodynamics, 3rd Ed.,1998.  
Grading
 
No.
Item
%
Explanations for the conditions
1. 
Participation  
10% 
attendings; active discussion in class; slef-motived extra-homework/report 
2. 
Final Project 
30% 
presentation (ppt) and term paper (doc) on selected paper readings 
3. 
Mid-term Exam 
30% 
 
4. 
Homework 
30% 
hand in your HW at the beginning of the class; 30% off applied on late HW  
 
Progress
Week
Date
Topic
Week 1
  Course Introduction