Introduction to the Department

The Department was created in 1995, the first of its kind in polytechnic system in the R.O.C. The Department was named “Television and Film” and provided the most current curriculum of its time in television and films.

The Department was successful and quickly expanded, so by August of 1997 it was renamed with its current title: “Communication Arts” to reflect its growing diversity. It now provides four tracks: Journalism; Advertising; Television and Film Production; and Computer Animation.

Communication Arts now provides two programs, a full-time 4-year daytime course and a 3-year evening course. The 4-year course is aimed at high school graduates, while the evening course is open to experienced professionals with a desire to continue their professional education and improve their awareness of cutting edge technologies and methods in the market.

The Department currently has around 600 students (including several foreign exchange students from southeast Asia) and13 faculty members and 3 staffs. The Department has state-of-the-art facilities, including advanced studio equipment and two comfortable screening rooms, each built to accommodate 150 people.

The Department 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 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.