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Our department is unique among Taiwan’s English departments in terms of both the diversity of its specializations and the freedom it gives students to pursue a strong concentration in their area of interest. To this end, our dedicated faculty offer a wide range of undergraduate courses in literature, cultural studies, linguistics, writing, oral training, and other skills-based subjects designed to provide students with the fluency, cultural background and critical wherewithal necessary to excel in today’s rapidly changing world.
As home to the Center for the Study of Sexualities, the Film Studies Center, and the Research Center for Theater and Performance Studies, our graduate program is well-known for its scholarship and teaching in these research areas, making it one of the most innovative graduate programs in East Asia. While many of our seminars are devoted to topics in these areas, we also offer a broad selection of graduate courses in critical theory and literature, both traditional and contemporary, within as well as outside the established canon.
Undergraduate training: developing students basic, essential skills in the close reading of cultural texts in social and historical context, developing students’ language ability and speculative skills, and cultivating their interest and proficiency in language, cultural knowledge, and literary research.
Graduate training: we focus on integrated cross-disciplinary academic thinking and writing. With this focus, students who are interested can prepare for further study at the doctorate level; on the other hand, our focus also provides students with sustained training in humanities -based skills applicable to a range of professions after matriculation.
Defining qualities: enlightened and democratic collegiality, highly networked administrative support, diverse and rich curriculum design, excellent academic research performance, and a lively learning environment.
Our department places great emphasis on preparing students for graduate studies in their specific field of interest. Many of our English majors have gone on to establish careers in education, publishing, public relations, journalism, business, government, and many other professions.
Again, welcome to the NCU Department of English.
Educational Goals and Vision
Language: Cultivating solid English language skills and international perspectives, and developing excellent literary and cultural research skills with English sources.
Debate: Creating a variety of challenging learning and thinking styles, stimulating students’ potential, developing self-knowledge and exploring options.
Dialogue: Providing a diverse and lively learning environment that inspires students to develop their ability to observe, analyze, and think critically and to use knowledge creatively.
Practice: Organizing students Into discussion groups or task groups of community building to explain and analysis from diverse perspectives.
Professional Skills
undergraduate
graduate
English critical reading and analytical writing
具備敏銳的英語閱讀能力，掌握文字及意義的操作，寫出結構清晰且分析具體的論述。
English oral communication and inter-cultural understanding
具備豐富的英文口語能力與國際視野，得以跨越文化疆域與人溝通互動。
Aesthetics, creativity, and cultural literacy
具備美學、藝術與文學文化的審析能力，能夠以靈活而多元的創新思考，解決問題。
Inter-disciplinary humanist vision and social intervention
具備寬廣的歷史與文化脈絡思考，養成人文社會關懷與省思，具體參與弱勢議題，促成社會革新。
Interpersonal, organizational, and collaborative teamwork
能夠進行團隊協調討論，了解情境脈絡並規劃整合，有效分工合作，以達成共同目標。
advanced English critical literacy and analytical writing
具備敏銳的高級英語閱讀能力，掌握文字及意義的操作，寫出結構清晰且論理深入的學術論述。
knowledge of literatures, cultures, and histories
對於文學文化相關議題和學術傳統具備寬廣知識與操作能力。
interdisciplinary textual analysis
對不同歷史、地域、文化、媒介所產出的文本具備跨界參照和分析比較的能力。
literature search, synthesis, and critical analysis
能夠多方而有效的蒐集相關文獻資料，判讀分析後整理分類，形成對特定知識領域的幅員掌握。
humanist vision and social intervention
具備寬廣的歷史與文化脈絡思考，養成人文社會關懷與省思，具體參與弱勢議題，促成社會革新。
