Curriculum

The Department of Music
The department's distinguished artist/teacher faculty has extensive credentials and professional experience in performance, music education, and other specialized areas of work in music. The department offers a full-scale humanities-oriented program in the history, theory, and composition
of music.

The Department of Applied Arts
The department offers programs in computer animation, metal product design, graphic design, and interior design. The professional faculties provide courses with a balance between theory and practice. The graduate program is a continuation of the four undergraduate majors and there are two
divisions, theory and practice respectively.

The Department of Landscape Architecture
The department offers students an interdisciplinary setting in which to learn and think critically and creatively in addressing environmental issues. The curriculum coveys a variety of courses in Architecture, Biology, Construction Science, Environmental Arts, Environmental Science, Human Relations, Public Arts, Regional and City Planning, Human Behavioral Science, etc. The feature courses of the Department are Landscape Architecture and Environmental Arts.

Facilities

The Department of Music
In addition to a well-equipped recital hall, the department maintains excellent pianos for
teaching, practice and performance. Both faculty studios and student practice rooms are equipped
with grand pianos.

The Department of Applied Arts
The department offers facilities and well-equipped laboratories for the four major programs.

The Department of Landscape Architecture
The department owns an advanced Environment Simulation Laboratory, a Landscape Architecture Reading
Room, a computer lab and several multimedia classrooms.

Academic Activities

The Department of Music
The Department of Music holds conferences and symposia, faculty and student concerts, keynote speeches and incorporates these activities into teaching and learning.

The Department of Applied Arts
The Graduate Exhibition organized by the Department of Applied Arts is an important annual event that showcases the talent of the final year students and highlights the achievements of Applied Arts education in Taiwan. The faculty members regularly publish their albums and writings in
scholarly journals. The Department of Applied Arts also seeks international institutions for staff and student exchanges and research collaborations.

The Department of Landscape Architecture
Landscape architecture instruction at Fu Jen fosters students' inventiveness and creativity and cultivates the skills required for their future careers. The Department regularly organizes the intercollegiate exhibitions and annual exhibitions of works in Landscape Architecture. Students
are also encouraged to further develop their potentials through active participation in conferences, symposia, and design competitions.

Educational Goals and Mission

Educational Goals and Mission The Department of Music is committed to employ a distinguished and highly-qualified faculty and to provide instruction and curricula designed to develop the musical understandings, performance abilities, and creative and critical skills of all music students.

The Department of Applied Arts aims to help its students develop their aesthetic potential and to prepare creative and effective designers with a high degree of professional competence. The mission of the Department of Landscape Architecture is to help our students integrate knowledge and skills necessary for professional landscape architectural practice and to maintain beneficial relationships between landscape planning and the physical/natural environment.

Career Opportunities

Aside from pursuing a career as professional musicians, students graduated from the Department ofMusic may further study in music, or apply the Preservice Program for teachers and become secondaryor elementary school music teachers.

Students from the Department of Applied Arts may find job opportunities in computer graphic design, advertising, interior design, metal product design, or they may apply the Preservice Program for teachers and become secondary or elementary school art teachers.

The graduates of the Department of Landscape Architecture are well equipped for successful careers as landscape architects. Landscape architects may find employment with the governmental institutions, private firms and agencies, research or teaching units in universities. They may also choose to start their own business or to pursue further study in relevant fields.