Overview
To venture beyond traditional department of foreign languages and literatures, we integrate humanity with technology as our focus. Aside from training students to communicate in foreign languages, we also emphasize on culture, literature and linguistic analysis. With diverse curriculum and dual major mechanism, students are encouraged to cultivate specialties in disciplines outside out of department so as to encompass flexibility in further career.
Spotlights
Our faculties focus on emergent literature, film study, syntax, semantics, phonology and phonetics researches. Our curriculum highlight (1) balance between language ability, literature, and linguistics, (2) minor course to direction students to professional areas, (3) curriculums that are diverse and flexible, (4) self-learning activities, including English Lunchtime, Film English and English drama to enhance English ability.
Programs
The Literature Division emphasizes literary and film studies. We are particularly interested in how literary and visual texts engage cultural phenomena. In addition to Western theory and English and American literature, we also explore new topics in Asian and Taiwanese knowledge production systems, such as Asian American studies in Asia, Asian and Taiwanese cinema, and Japanese studies.
The linguistic track of the Foreign Languages and Literatures department provides training on core research areas including phonetics, phonology, syntax, and semantics. Over the years we have adopted an interdisciplinary approach to conduct research and teaching on Chinese teaching, language acquisition, cognitive science, speech pathology, and the logical aspects of human language. In all the research, we have in particular emphasized the utilization of experimental methods and cross-linguistic evidence to verify theoretical assumptions. We have also focused on the studies of linguistics theories as well as the practice of linguistic analysis in teaching, with the aim that our students will be capable of conducting fieldwork and quantitative experiments independently and will have active investigative minds for linguistics.