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Graduate
School
of Taiwanese Culture
BRIEF HISTORY
Our school was established on August 1st, 2002.
It is the first graduate school for Taiwanese
culture among all educational university systems.
During the draft period, we had preparing educators
in Taiwanese literature research and education as
our goal; on August 1st, 2006, we added a master’s
degree program in Taiwanese Culture (all courses
from this program are during nighttime) to push our
regional culture education, and to improve the
qualities of academic educators. On August 1st,
2007, we changed our department name to “Graduate
School of Taiwanese Culture.” The graduate school
was divided into two groups: Taiwanese Literature
and Taiwanese History and Geography. We invited
various cultural professionals to joint our faculty
team and to participate in our research that
attracts international attention.
On August 1st, 2009, the “Taiwanese History and
Geography” group was changed to “Taiwanese History”,
aiming to promote Taiwan literature and history
research, instruction, popularization as our main
developing points, and strive to combine our
teachers’ specialty, the students’ learning
interests and social practice, in order to establish
a historic literary style of study and a social
practice discipline.
FACULTY INTRODUCTION
We currently have six fulltime faculty,
including the Dean: assistant professor Shung-Young
Lin, Assistant professor Wei-Fong Lee, assistant
professor Shung-Von Won, assistant professor
Fen-Wong Ying, assistant professor I-Lin Ho, and
assistant professor. Chin-Chin Feng. All six have
their own different research fields, abundant
achievements and teaching enthusiasm, and contribute
their greatest effort to promote the development of
Taiwanese culture and social reform.
GOALS AND CHARACTERISTICS
According to our goal and mission, the course
design in our literature group is to offer students’
discipline in Taiwanese Literature Theory and
Research Method, to prepare professionals in
Taiwanese literature research, and open the
students’ vision in research, teaching and creation.
For our historical group, we expect students to be
experts in Taiwanese Historical Research and to have
academic research and social practice skills.
Faculty from both groups supports each other and has
their course correlated to provide the students’
learning capacity in crossing fields and inspire
their potentials.
COURSE STRUCTURE
Our course framework is divided into three
areas: Literature, History, and Common Courses for
both Literature and History. Students who choose to
be in the literature group are required to complete
6 credit hours for required courses and 26 credit
hours for elective courses for a total of 32 credit
hours (including one of the two courses: “Topics in
Taiwanese Languages and Literature” and “A General
Survey of Taiwanese Language,” and 9 credit hours
for courses offered from other departments and
universities.) Students from the history group must
complete 3 credit hours for required courses and 29
credit hours for elective courses for a total of 32
credit hours (including: (1)one of the two courses:
“Historical Data and Research Method”, “Theory and
Practice of the Oral History”; (2) two of the
following four courses: “Topics in Maritime History
of Early Taiwan”, “Seminar on Ching Dynasty Taiwan”,
“Topics in Taiwanese History during the Japanese
Rule”, and “Topics in History of Post-War Taiwan”;
and(3) 9 credit hours for courses offered from other
departments and unive ixrsities) prior to their
graduation.
iGraduate Course Structure and Course List
GRADUATION REQUIREMENTS
Students will need to take at lease 4 credit
hours from foreign language courses and to pass
their beginning level foreign language certification
exams before they graduate. If students have
completed this language requirement during their
undergraduate studies, they are excluded from this
requirement. Other than language requirements,
students are also required to complete two of the
following academic activities.
I. Publishing A Thesis
A. Have at least one thesis published in
academic periodicals
B. Participate at least one off-campus or
international thesis presentation or a minimum of
two on-campus thesis presentations
C. Choose either option A or B
II. Participating
Academic Activities
A.Students must participate six one-day or
more academic thesis presentation seminars (students
are allowed to accumulate seminars that are one day
or less.) and submit a 1000 words report afterwards
for every 6 seminars.
B. If the events are held by our department,
students are required to attend three thesis
presentations and three speeches on special topics.
C. Attending two-day history and academic
research camp could cancel out one academic thesis
presentation, for a maximum of four times.
FUTURE CAREER
Our graduates may choose to either take a
higher education or a career
A. Higher Education: entering a Ph.D. domestic
program related to Taiwanese literature or history,
or any other Ph.D. programs in related fields
offered from foreign universities
B. Career:
a. Literature group:
i. Teachers in elementary or junior high
schools, dialect instructors, media reporters,
publishing editors, creative employees in
advertising companies
ii. Community history workers, national or
regional government officials
iii. Literature writers, journalists in
historical literature, and employees in related
cultural art foundations
b. History group:
i. Taiwanese historians, national historians,
regional cultural literature editors, history
teachers in elementary and junior high schools
ii. Community history workers, national or
regional government officials
iii. Tourism and cultural industry workers,
county and city planners, environmental resources
preservationists
CONTACT US
Tel: 886-2-27321104 ext. 2231
Fax: 886-2-23788790
E-mail: ritl@tea.ntue.edu.tw
2008 Elementary and junior teachers in “Literature
and Image”, Taiwanese Literature and History Study
Camp
Lyrics Writer, Ye, Chun-Lin and the Seminar on the
Development of Taiwanese Folk Songs
Full-time Faculty in Our Department
Academic Exchange Agreement signed by our director,
Lin, Chi-Yang and the Graduate School of Asia
Studies, Kyungwon University
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