ABOUT US
ABOUT US INTRODUCTION
Established in 1989, the NCCU College of Foreign Languages and Literature is the first among all the national universities in Taiwan dedicated to undergraduate and graduate education in foreign languages, cultures, and literary studies. With international instructors and professors making up one-third of the faculty, the College features regularly offering courses on more than 20 languages, which exceeds the other language programs among all the universities nationwide.
The College is constructed by 9 departments, 2 institutes, and 2 centers. They are the Department of English (BA, MA and Ph.D. programs), Department of Arabic Language and Culture (BA program), Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures (BA and MA programs), Department of Japanese (BA and MA programs), Department of Korean Language and Culture (BA and MA programs), Department of Turkish Language and Culture (BA), Department of European Languages and Cultures (BA), and Department of Southeast Asian Languages and Cultures (BA). The Graduate Institute of Linguistics (MA and PhD) and Master’s Program in Middle Eastern and Central Asian Studies (MA) are both graduate-level programs. The College also offers a Master of Arts program in English Teaching (ETMA) under the Department of English for practicing teachers from all levels of public and private educational institutions. In addition, Foreign Language Center offers a variety of campus-wide foreign language courses to the NCCU community, while the Center of Translation and Cross-cultural Studies deepens into teaching and research on the practice of translation and the study of cross-cultural literature.
GOALS
While the College of Foreign Languages and Literature aims at nurturing globally minded individuals with excellent language skills and enriched cultural understanding, it also inspires students with the study of literature, linguistics, language teaching, translation/interpretation, and cross-cultural interaction.
Since language expertise needs to be applied in professional or disciplinary contexts, the College encourages double majors as well as the acquisition of two or more world languages. We support students in becoming professionals with not just strong language proficiency and cultural understanding but also solid academic training and rounded temperament to serve the society. Through the integration of campus-wide teaching and research resources, we nurture foreign language professionals who are with a wide variety of expertise, multidisciplinary specialties, and strong academic training, ready to be a capable member of the domestic or international workforce.
Faculty Research Expertise
GLOBAL COOPERATION
The College actively seeks cooperation with universities globally. We have established formal agreements for academic cooperation with Hanyang University, Sungkyunkwan University, Pusan University in South Korea, Ankara University in Turkey, and many others. These agreements have allowed us to regularly exchange teaching staff and provide students with enriched experience in language learning and studies. We appreciate the Czech and Polish governments’ annually sending one instructor to the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures to support the teaching of Czech and Polish language courses. German courses by the Department of European Languages and Cultures also benefit greatly from the exchange professors sent by Deutscher Akademischer Austausch Dienst (DAAD). In addition, the faculty of BA Program in Southeast Asian Language and Culture enjoys the generous support of VNU University of Social Sciences and Humanities in Vietnam, Mahidol University in Thailand, Gadjah Mada University in Indonesia and other sister schools, who respectively send one instructor each year to our programs. Our professors have also jointly offered courses with many international universities, including most recently drawing on the professional expertise from Hiroshima University in Japan, Korea University in South Korea and Department of Chinese Literature of NCCU. Such cross-national cooperation, with our faculty members working closely with international professors, have allowed us to create the best possible foreign language learning experiences for students in Taiwan.
CURRENT WORK AGENDA
- Our current agendas include:
- Establishing relationships with world-wide universities to provide students with rich learning opportunities, including double-degree programs and overseas internships.
- Setting up a degree program on translation/interpretation studies as well as a research center on cross-cultural studies in order to complete the College’s teaching and research landscape in world-language studies.
- Encouraging the learning of multiple foreign languages as well as the development of multilingual capacity and multicultural understandings. This includes less-commonly taught languages so that students will stand out as strong and unique language professionals in the prevailing trend of globalization.
- Continuously building creative and versatile language learning environments and fine-tuning our existing courses in literature, linguistics, language, translation/interpretation, and cultural studies.
- Drawing on campus-wide resources (e.g., working with the Diplomatic Department, College of Commerce, College of Communication) to offer wide-ranging programs and studies so as to cultivate expertise for international affairs along with professional and disciplinary training.
All in all, we work to establish the College as one of the most important world language teaching and research centers in Asia.
