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The Center for Teacher Education The college of Science and Engineering The College of Humanities and Social Sciences The University's Affiliated Kindergarten
The primary missions of Poding Memorial Library are to provide teaching and research resources, to advise students in the use of library information, and to help students acquire good reading habits. Poding Library is user-friendly institute with efficient services intended to provide readers with the most comfortable environment. The library specifically designed to meet readers' needs and habits. The entire library now uses icons as well as writing on its signs; these icons allow readers to make even more effective use of the library's resources. The library also provides music on-line for readers in the multi-media center. Its walls are graced by numerous works by native artists, and there is a concert piano in the library's lobby, bringing the graces of music to students and readers. The library's rich collection is matched by its advanced equipment. In order to meet the needs of on-line and digital teaching and instruction, the library provides many resources, such as a wireless network throughout every area of the library, plug-in ports for the university's network, cable television and music channels, equipment for instruction through a VOD system, an automated system compatible with international standards (Millennium), a collection of dissertations in electronic format, a website in Chinese and English and on-line registration and search services, the largest number of electronic periodicals of any university of science and technology in Taiwan, and over 10,000 e-books. In order to make it as convenient as possible for students and faculty to use the library resources, and also to provide a variety of resources, particularly local resources, Poding Library participates in a number of cooperative consortia, such as the Central Taiwan University Library Cooperative Consortium, the National Interlibrary Cooperative Consortium, the Ariel delivery service, the TABNET Electronic Book Consortium, and National Taiwan University's Mutual Lending Consortium. In addition, the Library also provides students with after class tutorial services; a number of professors spend an hour every week at the Library providing voluntary teaching and advisory services. The Library is also open to members of the local Wufeng township community, and provides borrowing privileges for them. The Library has also undertaking community projects such as a 921 Earthquake Book Donation activity, and earthquake counseling services. In addition, every semester the Library holds a Cultural Exhibit, introducing important works on local culture. Poding Library's goal is to create a convenient, diverse, and modern reading environment through effective services and quality management, giving its readers both a treasury of books and a fast effective academic information network. Thus, we would name Poding Memorial Library as a spiritual and mental SPA center.
The General Education Center is responsible for the planning and instruction of all school-wide required and elective courses. School-wide required courses are divided into the Basic General Education curriculum (Chinese, English, history, government, and physical education) and the systematic general education curriculum, in which students must choose courses from several general areas, including culture, language, law, sociology, natural sciences, arts and philosophy. School-wide electives include foreign language courses such as German and Japanese, and physical education courses such as golf, swimming and tennis. In the R.O.C. educational system, students from the polytechnic system generally do not receive the same quantity or quality of instruction in these areas that students in the general system do. Thus, strengthening instruction in General Education is an established policy of the University. At the same time, the Center emphasizes "whole education" as the overall goal of general education at Chaoyang, with "education in harmony with man, society, and nature" as its curriculum's guiding principle. In realizing its instructional goals, the Center values the awakening of the student's humanistic spirit and attempts to implement "education for life." In this rapidly changing multi-cultural world, the General Education Center's mission is to assist Chaoyang's students in the course of their professional studies, to raise their language abilities, cultivate their self- confidence and self-respect, establish respect for life and the environment, and lay the foundation for a creative and fulfilling life.
To meet the advances in the "learning society" and the era of high technology, Chaoyang established its Evening Division in order to expand the effectiveness of its educational programs. After several years of growth, the Evening Division now has fourteen departments and nine master's degree programs for working students. Total student enrollment is now 5,100. Notable aspects of the Evening Division's programs are as follows.
The
college
of Management Location: Administration Building 4F (Room No.402) TEL: 886-4-2332-3000 Ext. 7541 FAX: 886-4-2374-2369
The College of Management was established in August, 1997, and now has six departments: Finance, Business Administration, Information Management, Leisure, Recreation and Tourism Management, Insurance, and Accounting. In 2001, we also have two more graduate institutes : the graduate institute of Accounting and the graduate institute of Network and Communication. Master's programs are offered by the first four. The College of Management is therefore the largest in the University. College faculty include 4 professors, 43 associate professors, 30 associate professors, and 47 lecturers. Faculty thus numbers 124; of these, 75 hold doctoral degrees, while 49 hold master's degrees. Student enrollment (including the Evening Division) totals over 6,489, while master's level students number 512.
The College's strong faculty
allows its various departments to offer a diverse curriculum. At the
same time, the College also offers several interdisciplinary programs to
expand learning opportunity and to facilitate developing sub-specialties
for more ambitious students. In addition, in order to further integrate
resources, raise research levels, and promote academic excfange, since 1999
the
College has begun organizing an annual nation-wide
academic conference addressed to management-rclated issues. The College is confident that through the collective
efforts of its faculty and students, it will become a distinctive,
first-rate management talent source for the country. The following is a brief description of the various departments under the College. Department and Graduate Institute of Finance The Curriculum of the department is divided into two main areas: finance and banking, with equal attention to theory and practice. Areas of special attention include training in securities investment, financial planning, trade and currency, futures and options, banking management and operations, accounting operations and management information systems, fiscal report analysis, and so forth.
Department and Graduate Institute of Business Administration
Based on the needs of the industry and commerce, the department has developed a professional curriculum designed to enhance students' capabilities in information management, applied systems, and information technology in the information industry. Students completing their studies are not only familiar with most software and hardware, they also have the ability to develop and manage systems for business and electronic commerce, and they will eventually become indispensable resources in the marketplace of the future. In addition, the department particularly emphasizes practical training. Every year the students' graduation project exhibition attracts attention from many corporations and businesses, and graduates are well appreciated by the information industry.
Of all the service industries, the insurance finance industry has the greatest potential for development in the coming century. Thus, the Department's primary curriculum focuses on insurance, banking, and securities, in order to develop students' professional expertise in the areas of life insurance, property insurance, and securities investment. In order to meet the future needs of the employment market, the Department also requires its students to participate in off-campus internships, and practical project research. It provides counseling and assistance for students who are interested in professional licensing and certification, in order to ensure their competitive edge in the insurance and finance markets.
The department's aim is to strengthen the accounting industry's professional quality by training highly skilled accounting management personnel. In response to the need for those with professional accounting abilities and competence in management as well, the Department has developed a curriculum offering emphases in two major areas: accounting management and accounting information systems. The intent is to produce students familiar not only with accounting, finance, and taxation skills, but also with a thorough grasp of modern management skills. In addition, the department has also established a Taxation and Accounting Consulting Service Center, in order to assist regional industry in building accounting systems, provide consulting services, and provide students with practical experience while serving the community at large.
Department and Graduate Institute of Leisure, Recreation, and Tourism Management The Department's primary educational goal is to develop qualified management personnel for the leisure industry. It therefore places a strong emphasis on training students' leisure development and management abilities. The Department's curriculum is divided into two tracks: investment planning and administrative management. Curriculum focal points include operation effectiveness evaluation, leisure industry market analysis, leisure industry planning, and leisure development strategy, In coordination with active participation in development of recreational areas, restaurants and hotels, the Department seeks to develop a new generation of qualified leisure management personnel with a breadth of vision that can raise the quality and competition of the nation's leisure and tourism industry.(more......)
Courses of Study The Department offers specializations in three areas. Leisure industry investment: This area includes course work and internships in areas such as recreational program development, strategic management of recreational businesses, surveying and research, and recreational investment. Leisure industry management: This area includes course work and internships in areas such as marketing management, human resource management, and restaurant, hotel, casino, and convention management. Environmental planning and assessment: This area includes work in areas such as site analysis and planning, interpretation and guiding, environmental impact assessment in recreational areas, and recreation planning and design.
The
college
of Design Location: Design Building 6F Room No.608 TEL: 886-4-2332-3000 Ext. 7151 FAX: 886-4-23742339
Skillful intervention by a
designer requires knowledge of the interacting social, cultural,
natural, economic and technological factors, and design ability
consisting of the capacity to identify, analyze and solve problems in a
creative way.
In the College of Design the
undergraduate degree is aimed in providing a broad base to give students
the opportunity to specialize in specific aspects of design. The
College is concerned with equipping its graduates to meet social
challenges so that they may help to determine the nature of future
developments. To do this requires graduates with compassion for people,
intelligence, creative ability and dedication. Following is a brief description of the departments under the College
The Department of Architecture was established in 1994, and is the only private architectural institute in central Taiwan's advanced polytechnic educational system. The primary goal of the department is to give students professional training in the related fields of environmental planning, architectural design, and construction management. In order to attain this goal, the department has developed three major instructional and research tracks, these are planning and design, technology and management, environmental control and equipment. This program seeks to ensure that students have basic professional knowledge and skills. In addition to helping them developing the abilities of independent thinking and a strong sense of professional ethics and integrity, it also provides students opportunities to cultivate individual specialized areas according to their own personal interests. Furthermore, the department has set up five specialized laboratories to meet the needs of instructional and research activities, these include an acoustic lab, geographic information system office, a space analysis room, an structure and modeling room, and an equipment and environmental modeling lab, for the purpose of reinforcing the students' background in professional theories and practical skills.
Department of Industrial Design The Department's instructional goal is to train qualified personnel in industrial design, with product development and organizational skills. In order to reach this goal, the Department has established a variety of professional workshops, attracted a faculty with high technical skills and experience, and offers a diversity of instructional activities. The Department's basic curriculum covers design, technology, and humanities, in order to lay both theoretical and practical foundations for students' future work. The curriculum combines both current social and technical information and developments to produce aware and critical industrial design personnel.
Department of Visual Communication Design The Department's educational goal is to train qualified design personnel with an international vision, sensitive to the times, and familiar with modern digitalized media and equipment, in an environment where the interactions between students and tutors are lively. The Department's curriculum covers four areas: computer-aided design, professional design, design technology, and design theory. It is an educational environment with both practical and theoretical components, and also meets the needs of global information developments, as well as responding to domestic industry's needs, strengthening localization, and increasing student's competitive edge in the current job market. The Department of Urban Planning and Landscape Architecture is the first of its kind in the polytechnic educational system of this country. The program integrates the rationalism of planning analysis and the subjective sensibilities of landscaping design into a holistic training program. It provides students with both the technical abilities and fine arts background and leads to a degree as well as expertise in the profession. The four-year curriculum combines planning, design, landscaping, and information into a framework with three major fields: urban planning, landscape architecture, and land development real estate management.(more.......)
Graduate
School of Architecture and Urban Design
The Graduate School is the
first such program in the R.O.C. higher education system. Its primary
goal is to train personnel in advanced academic and technical areas of
architecture and urban design, in order to raise standards and
efficiency in the R.O.C.'s urban design. The School also provides
students in the polytechnic educational system with the opportunity to
enter a variety of professional and governmental careers, including
architects, urban planners, technical researchers and public servants,
where their contributions raise the nation's standard of living and
their unique backgrounds give them a more diverse range of views and
experiences.
The School's curriculum is
divided into three tracks: architecture, urban planning, and
architectural design. For the architecture and urban planning tracks, in
addition to required courses such as research methodology, design
practicums, and individual projects, electives include a variety of both
practical and theoretical courses, which are offered based on student
interests and professional backgrounds. The architectural design track
is designed for students who come from a non-architectural professional
background. It is a post-graduate curriculum for students now in the
workforce and its purpose is to provide these students with the
additional professional training required to become architects.
Graduate Institute of Design
To build an institute that educates and empowers students with profound
and comprehensive capacity in the profession of design. We aim to pass
on to students advanced design theories and techniques, basing on the
design knowledge and techniques they have acquired previously. We
provide students with the opportunity to engage in academic debates on
design issues and to undertake some practical design projects. We are to
enable students to recognize and understand the importance and the
contents of those economical, social, cultural, and technical factors
that a design activity should take into account. We want to inspire
students to develop design thinking and creative capability. The
students will then get themselves interested in certain unique and
meaningful design knowledge, technology, or issues, and toward which
they can undertake deep analysis and research and then bring forward
creative solutions or understandings. The College of Humanities and Social Sciences Location: Administration Building (Room 403) TEL: 886-4-2332-3000 ext. 7512 FAX: 886-4-2374-2367
"Technology
improves the conditions of our lives, the humanities improve the quality
of our lives". Based on this belief, Chaoyang University of
Technology established the College of Humanities and Social Sciences in
August, 1997. The College now consists of four departments:
Communication Arts, Applied Foreign Languages, Early Childhood
Development and Education, and Social Work. In 2001, we will Introduce a
graduate institute of Early Childhood Development and Education for
evening school. It is the University's hope
that the College will provide a strong base in humanities, ethics and
skills for life, not just to students in the College, but throughout the
University as well. The College's faculty now consists of 6 full professors, 7 associate professors, 18 assistant professors, and 37 lecturers. Of these, 29 hold doctoral degrees and 39 hold master's degrees. Students in the college now number approximately 2,594.(more....) Following is a brief description of the departments under the College.
Department of Communication Arts The Department was the first of its kind in any university of technology in the R.O.C. It not only possesses an outstanding faculty and first-rate facilities, but also combines teaching methodologies that give equal attention to theory and practice and truly attains the educational goal of both technical and intellectual excellence. Students trained in the Department have both the technical and artistic skills that communications personnel need today. The Department's audio-visual equipment is identical to the equipment used in the industry today, and the Department has established cooperative agreements with a number of well-known media corporations. It provides practical experience and a background in the humanities to its students through class training, summer and winter internships, and through an entire semester in off-campus training. Under these advantageous conditions, students are exceptionally well-prepared for actual industry requirements immediately after they graduate.(more......)
Department of Applied Foreign Languages The Department's primary mission is to produce students with high levels of foreign language skills to meet the needs of the coming era of international information and communication. Currently the Department offers English, Japanese, and German instruction, as well as practical instruction in business and language specializations. The Department thus is able to offer three specialized tracks: business interests, technical translation, and language teaching. These technical tracks allow the Department's students to use their skills to the fullest advantage in the modern language market.(more......)
Department and Graduate Institute of Early Childhood Development and Education The Department was established in 1996. Currently the Department offers a 4-year, 2-year and master program, as well as an Evening School program. The Department now has a well-rounded faculty with a wide variety of early childhood specializations, and provides an ideal academic environment for its students. The Department's instruction in characterized by diligence, care, and love, and actively seeks to promote students' dedication to the ideals of childcare and education. In addition, the Department offers extensive guidance in the methods and materials of Montessori teaching to expand students' professional horizons. The curriculum includes courses in areas such as child development, infant and child care environment and activity design, teaching methods and materials, childcare organization administration and management, development and care of special-needs children, professional ethics for childcare workers, and Montessori instruction methods. It also offers its student the opportunity to obtain certification as kindergarten teachers through the courses of the Center for Teacher Education, allowing them to enter the job market in a prompt and timely fashion. The Department aims to produce the professional social workers who obtain the certifications issued by the government. The courses are focused on the knowledge and skills of direct service based on the philosophy and ethics of social work and supported by knowledge of social policy and social welfare. Considering the trend of specialization in social work education and the demands of the public, private social welfare institutes and the enterprise, the Department’s vision is directed towards the specialization in the fields of family, high-risk juvenile, and industrial social work.(more.....)
The Center for Teacher Education 
The Center for Teacher Education of the University was established in 1998. Its establishment is to realize the Ministry of Education's policy of diversified teacher training, and to integrate the teaching and research resources unique to each of the University's departments and institutes to develop outstanding teachers with profound knowledge and skills in different fields of specialization and with sound educational concepts. Shortly after its establishment, the Center began offering a certification program for kindergarten instructors; and in the 1999 school year, a certification program for instructors at the secondary school level was offered. The aims of these programs are as follows.
■Kindergarten
instructor certification: The goal of the program is to prepare
students to become certified
kindergarten instructors, through course work taught by the University's
faculty and practical application of facilities at the University. The
program is open to all students of the University.
■Secondary
school instructor certification: The goal of the program is to prepare
students to become certified instructors at the secondary school level,
through course work taught by the University's faculty and practical
application of facilities at the University. Both programs are open to students who are sophomores or above, who meet the program's entrance requirements. Both of the programs are two years programs. Students are required to complete a minimal 26 credits of course work (internship included) in order to be certified. Additionally, from the year 2000 on, a new program is at function. The new program grants the kindergarten instructor certifications to graduates who hold a bachelor degree, if they fulfill the requirements of the training program.
The University's Affiliated Kindergarten
The University's affiliated kindergarten was established in 1998 to meet
the internship and practicum needs of both the University's Department of
Early Childhood Development and Education and the Center for
Teacher Education, and to provide the University's staff and faculty
with an excellent childcare and educational facility. The Kindergarten
is also open to children from employees of the University's parent
group, the Ever Fortune Group, and to children from neighboring
communities.
Each class has 30 students, ages three to five; classes are all
mixed-age to allow mutual cooperation, stimulus, and increase beneficial
interaction. Each class has two certified teachers who offer instruction
and guided activities, to meet the full range of individual needs.
The
Kindergarten has adopted the Montessori Open Classroom method, and is
also integrating into its curriculum early childhood English
instruction, computers, and other enrichment activities. It offers a rich
learning environment, diverse instructional materials and methods, and
in addition to stimulating the children's curiosity and desire for
knowledge, attempts to build in them an active, independent,
self-controlled, and self-confident mentality. It seeks to increase
their attention, and cultivate their self-discipline, manners, and
ability to work harmoniously with others in an atmosphere of respect,
freedom, and warmth.
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